In this round-up we’ll be focussing on a spontaneous cultural event that has finally provided pastiche artists around the globe with both a fresh target and an excuse to finally stop humiliating poor old Bruno Ganz in Downfall. Yes, I’m talking about Kanye West’s bizarre intervention at this year’s Video Music Awards. For those of you who haven’t seen it, or just want to know how sizeable a twazzock Kanye West really is, feast your eyes on this:

For those of you on iPhones who can’t play Flash media, Kanye has just climbed on stage, snatched the microphone from Taylor Swift’s hand, and announced that Beyonce is the true winner of Taylor’s award. The arsehead. This led to catcalls from all corners of the webverse, and also, inevitably, a deluge of parodies, with Kanye interrupting Neil Armstrong…

 …and Mario…

…and Patrick Swayze…

…and the American Declaration of Independence.

There was even one about, for some reason, Aretha Franklin’s inauguration hat.

Lordy, even Obama got in on the act:

But then Obama actually did called Kanye a jackass off-air before a CNBC interview (check it out here). To be fair to Kanye, he did post an apology on his blog the minute he realised he was in the wrong. It’s just a shame it made him sound even more CAPS LOCK bonkers than before:

Fortunately, Kanye went on to display true contrition on Jay Leno’s new primetime show:

But you know what gets me about that story? Beyonce, after winning the best video award, giving up her moment to let Taylor thank everyone she never had a chance to thank, proving that Kanye was at least right about one thing: Beyonce is a class act.

Taylor Swift has since accepted Kanye’s ‘sincere’ personal apology over the phone, and so their story would appear to be at an end, except for this final parody from the Meme that refuses to die:

Auf wiedersehen!

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