![]() ![]() He started messing around with it on his guitar, and noticed that people would always want to join in. “It was just a two-note thing,” Douglas says of the initial premise. … a shark with a righteous soul and a hefty amount of cheeba-infused cartilage. ![]() Naturally, Douglas broke into an ad-libbed song about Reggae Shark. A perfect musical storm struck when someone spotted a shark in the water, the boat stopped and “Get Up, Stand Up” hummed through the speakers. “Any place tropical, Bob Marley’s Legend is going to be playing on that boat,” Douglas explains. It’s the brainchild of writer Mark Douglas and animator Kieran Michael O’Hare, and their simple animation and playful lyrics are absurdly whimsical enough to make you believe in the novelty song again.ĭouglas, one of the driving forces behind YouTube’s Barely Political channel as well as the “magical musical comedy show” The Key of Awesome, came up with Reggae Shark while on a snorkeling trip with his wife in Hawaii. If incongruity is at the heart of why we laugh, what could be more amusing than a ganja-smoking, mostly nonviolent, bass-playing Rastafarian shark? With nearly 8 million YouTube views, “Reggae Shark” recounts the tale of an affable carnivorous fish, fashionably outfitted with dreadlocks, a beanie and half-lidded eyes. ![]()
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