There was a time when embarrassing talents were a purely private matter. If you could sing "The Star Spangled Banner" in the voice of Daffy Duck, no one but your friends and family would ever have to ...

Gary Brolsma and the Numa Numa Dance show how a 2004 lip sync clip shaped viral culture long before YouTube, TikTok, and modern influencers ...

It was a time before YouTube and during the nascent days of the internet when New Jersey web designer Gary Brolsma fired up his webcam and hit record. He'd just experienced the audio-visual assault of ...

Have you heard the one about the Web comics? You've heard of The Comedy Festival, to be presented Nov. 14-18 in Las Vegas. You know who Chris Rock and Dane Cook are. But Judson Laipply and Gary ...

With the Internet, humiliation -- like everything else -- has now gone public. Upload a video of yourself playing flute with your nose or dancing in your underwear and people from Toledo to ...

The second installment of the Comedy Festival, to be presented Nov. 15-18 in Las Vegas by HBO and AEG Live, will feature such comedic icons as Chris Rock, Judson Laipply and Gary Brolsma. By Georg ...

WASHINGTON—Gary Brolsma, the star of the Web's first big video hit, a lip-sync of a Romanian pop song, emerged from seclusion this week to make a full-throttle run at celebrity. You may or may not ...

We’ve all seen it. In fact, many of us have secretly danced to it in our rooms. Yes, I’m talking about the Numa Numa song, appropriately lip-synched to by a chubby 19-year-old named Gary Brolsma from ...

A long time ago, in an Internet land far, far away, an unintentionally hilarious star was born: The "Numa Numa Guy." The self-inflicted humiliation of Gary Brolsma made him "Internet famous" thanks to ...