C.J.: 3 Minnesota comedians go over the top

Three Minnesota comedians have done an over-the-top version of Burger King's "Whopper Freakout" commercials.

The language used by K jay, Kevin Craft and filmmaker Asa Thibodaux, in a co-starring role, is not for children.

However, Thibodaux said, the 3-week-old spoof has already attracted more than half a million Web hits. When asked if there was a version that's not as naughty, Thibodaux laughed and said, "That's funny. Not yet. We have people who say, You actually made me want to go get a Whopper. You know the crazy part, people in corporate America [have tuned into it]. My fiancée, Stacey, and I Googled it the other day. We sat there for an hour and, if you type in 'Whopper freakout ghetto,' there were 20 something pages and people were leaving comments saying, I had my entire floor laughing. It's not for the work environment but we were playing it anyway."

And then Thibodaux apologetically noted: "There's a lot of cursing on it." Yes, that's hard to miss.

Thibodaux said he curses "a little bit but I wrote [my lines] beforehand." K jay and Craft were not afforded that option. "I said, 'Hey, I'm doing this now, if you want to be a part of it, come on.' So they were rushing," said Thibodaux.

Craft, "Hey, I'm the guy with the braids, the whiney one," said he had "no idea" how Burger King feels about the spoof. "They haven't contacted Youtube.com and said take it down or anything. People [commenting on it] say Burger King's got to be happy."

Probably because it's "free publicity," said K jay, who's in the baseball cap: "It was improvised. I came up with the idea of releasing hostility [through] comedy. We are not into the stereotypes; we just thought it would be fun to do a ghetto version."

Presidential stress? One of my medical sources called to give a little shout-out to the media traveling with President George W. Bush.

Is W. feeling OK? Is he looking thinner and more pasty in person or just in the images being sent back from his Mideast trip?

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