Those annoying foreign salespeople in the Kamppi Center
You know those annoying foreigners who try to sell shit to strangers at the Kamppi Center in Helsinki? Well comedian Louis Zezeran and I decided to go annoy them… (turns out they’re actually very nice people)
Do they not have man on the street interviews in Sweden? You have to move the mic (back and forth) so you can hear the people you’re supposedly taking the piss out of.
But I did like their expressions when approached by the camera. I wish all of those guys as well as the Greenpeace and Unicef and other professional beggars would just jump in a hole.
This is Finland, and we’re not used to being approached. At all.
Comment by Dave The Revelator — Thu, Nov 26th, 2009 @ 4:06 pm
Yeah we’ve never done interviews like that before, afterwards we were like “ooops, gotta move the mic back and forth”
Comment by Phil — Thu, Nov 26th, 2009 @ 5:15 pm
Also you might look into what kind of mic you’re using. It sounded like it needs to be powered or find a handheld mic that doesn’t need phantom power.
Comment by Dave The Revelator — Thu, Nov 26th, 2009 @ 5:25 pm
Haha, nice Borat imitation!
Comment by Fanman but I'm really a girl — Thu, Nov 26th, 2009 @ 9:15 pm
It sounded like it needs to be powered or find a handheld mic that doesn’t need phantom power.
I thought Phantom Power mics wouldn’t work at all if they didn’t get phantom power? But they’re work, they’ll just be weaker?
Comment by Phil — Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 12:35 am
Well done, those sellers can be soooooo annoying at times. And nice Borat impersonation as well, I like dat.
Comment by nana — Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 1:25 am
funny guy but not a funny comedian. these sellers are annoying and should be ashamed of themselves.
Comment by ... — Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 9:39 am
No they work but very poorly.
Comment by Dave The Revelator — Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 1:01 pm
Umm by “very poorly” you should mean “not at all”. You absolutely wouldn’t get this kind of sound from a phantom powered mic without the power.
The mic seems fine, but all the audio is panned hard left, which is kind of annoying.
Thanks for a funny video though.
Comment by Sound guy — Fri, Nov 27th, 2009 @ 4:34 pm
do more, that was funny
Comment by Winter (Go Protons, Cancer in remission, will soon be removed from "Dead Man Walking" video.) — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 12:44 am
Phil, I heard your buddy Esa (you know, the famous one) talk about maybe trying out stand-up some day. Surely you’ve booked him for Manala already.
winter, they really still haven’t removed you from that “Dead Man Walking” video?
Comment by Pave — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 2:19 am
Thank god this kind of marketing has not yet found itself in Turku. Ok, there’s some gals selling “put this cream on yearself or wither&die” in Hansa but other than that we’re pretty commercial asshole free (sorry for this image but heck, they are a pain in the ass).
Do have those arrogant hippies wandering around Yliopistonkatu though “Yeah yea know about the global warming” “couldn’t care less” “you eat babies”; “Want to help the children because the globe is warming?” “no. leave me alone”. “no, I won’t, I wanna harass you” “cheers.”; “See, I’m a hippie, and you are wrong. Eat my shit. Eat Soya, f*cker”; ” etc etc.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEiLgbBGKVk
Lovely “älä osta mitään päivää” for everyone (though it’s over a couple of hours ago, evvk) I guess I’ll choose local ho’s instead of foreign ones? wtf…?
Comment by Kez0nat0r — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 2:20 am
If this guy is a comedian then I pity the state of comedy. Has he tried to copy the Chaser’s War on and failed miserably..
Comment by Fisk — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 10:42 am
Phil, I heard your buddy Esa (you know, the famous one) talk about maybe trying out stand-up some day. Surely you’ve booked him for Manala already.
Sure! It’ll cost him 50,000e to get on stage though.
Comment by Phil — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 1:29 pm
#12 god, the arrogant bad terrorist hippies harassing and bullying the poor bush-men and palin-grannies out of their atomic suvies.
Just let’s all put more gas and acid burning crap in the nature, carelessly, anyway it swings!!!
Ban science too.
Global warming = communist’s strategy blablablah: tell it to the chinese politicians.
Comment by x — Sat, Nov 28th, 2009 @ 6:37 pm
this is moronic and that’s being nice.
Comment by Anonymous — Wed, Dec 2nd, 2009 @ 8:39 am
Phil, please consider to quit this blog. Start all over again with your new comedy career blog and only re-start FfT when you have enough time, dedication and contributors again. As it is now, it is not worth visiting.
Comment by majava — Sat, Dec 5th, 2009 @ 2:54 pm
Hey! Cool stuff about helsinki. i wouldnt have found it without you guys. I thank you.
Comment by Windy — Mon, Dec 28th, 2009 @ 12:07 am