Vic Sotto's "Sing"

All Filipinos know Eat Bulaga. Not everyone may love it, but everybody knows it.

Eat Bulaga has a comedy sketch called "Bulagaan." The sketch goes something like this: One of them plays the teacher (usually it's Joey de Leon or Tito Sotto), while the rest of them play students. The teacher calls on the student and asks a question, like "What is the capital of Jamaica?" The answer is of course Kingston, and the student who answers it should also deliver a knock-knock joke with Kingston as the punchline.

Whereas the American knock-knock joke would only use Kingston in a sentence, the Pinoy knock-knock joke will deliver it in song.

On December 12, 2005, Vic Sotto delivered his knock-knock joke to the tune of The Carpenters's "Sing". He of course replaced the words "sing a song" with whatever the punchline was.

And he did this everyday for a little over a year. So even if the punchline had more than three syllables, he would still squeeze it in.

The longest word I ever heard him use was "Cagayan de Oro", which was six syllables. The more syllables the punchline has, the more it would sound stupid when sung. And that is where the humor lies. What makes it even funnier is that they blend their voices together when singing it. By "them," I mean Vic Sotto and his sidekick Jose.

Several people think I'm too shallow for buying this. Some call Vic Sotto the king of corny jokes. But I beg to disagree. I think this "Sing" phenomenon is a testament to Vic Sotto's comic genius. And he doesn't care if you find it funny or not. He doesn't give a damn at all. After all, he was able to snag Pia Guanio, wasn't he?

Anyway, the point of all this is that I would have posted a video of this here, but strangely, I can't find any video of it on the net. And I thought you could find everything on the net.

Therefore, if anyone of you knows Bossing personally, please ask him if he has any plans of releasing a DVD compilation of all the "Sing" gags. That's around three hundred sixty-five versions of "Sing". And if he has no plans, then he better start making plans, because if he doesn't, I'm heading off to the Eat Bulaga video archives and compiling them myself.


*Note: Joe Raposo, who was a staff songwriter for Sesame Street, was the one who actually wrote "Sing". It was only popularized by The Carpenters.