X Addresses Congress

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Christopher Walken Addresses Congress

X Addresses Congress is a series of YTMND sites showing exploitable cutouts of well-known characters and celebrities superimposed over a stock photograph of U.S. congressional address given sometime during the George W. Bush presidency, as former vice president Dick Cheney and majority leader Tom DeLay can be seen in the background of the image. The resulting images are accompanied by a soundbite featuring the speaker’s voice and audience reactions like boos and laughter. An example site can be seen here (this site has more than 16,000 views).

Origin

In 2005, the YTMND site “Chunk Addresses Congress” was created by user KingCrimson. However, the site was taken down later when KingCrimson’s account was deleted. Nevertheless, user BTape re-uploaded the site on January 7, 2007 and can be seen here.

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The site’s main character, Chunk from the Goonies, was also the main feature of another popular YTMND fad, Chunk is Indestructible. Other characters from fads are used in many of the sites. The revived site has gathered more than 30,000 views.

Spread

The fad has become very popular, as shown by the fact that site results for “addresses congress” on YTMND produce 14 pages of sites. Popular examples include Willy Wonka Addresses Congress (one of the more popular sites, with 110,000 views) by cowpatch5, and Steve Carell Addresses Congress (nearly 16,000 views) by mmcxii. Many more of these YTMNDs were made since, with viewcounts ranging from 100 to 100,000. The peak time for the fad was from late 2005 through 2007.

Derivatives

Other examples include:

1. Beavis and Butthead Address Congress (66,000 views)
2. Al Gore Addresses Congress About Manbearpig (35,000 views)
3. Milton Waddams Addresses Congress (47,000 views)
4. Leonidas Addresses Congress (reference: http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/this-is-sparta-300) (97,000 views)
5. Canadian Addresses Congress (21,000 views)
6. Ghostbusters Addresses Congress (28,000 views)
7. Samuel L. Jackson Addresses Congress (35,000 views)
8. I Address Congress [fixed sound] (20,000 views)
9. Scientology Addresses Congress (50,000 views)
10. Ms. S. Carolina Addresses Congress (21,000 views)
11. N*gg* Addresses Congress (14,000 views)
12. Sanka Addresses Jamaican Congress (14,000 views)
13. Cartman Addresses Congress (18,000 views)
14. Murloc Addresses Congress (13,000 views)
15. Peter Griffin Addresses Congress, Musically! (14,000 views)