This video went to be used in a similar manner as the previous Keyboard Cat video. Schmidt announced the new Keyboard Cat with a new video of Bento "performing" as Fatso had done, called "Keyboard Cat REINCARNATED!" in March 2010. With the popularity of Keyboard Cat, Schmidt adopted a male cat Bento, which was similar in appearance to Fatso and became "Keyboard Cat 2.0".
The Nintendo DS game Scribblenauts was unveiled at E3 2009 the game has the player write out objects to summon to solve puzzles, one such being "Keyboard Cat", which helped to draw attention to the title due to the timeliness of the meme. During Weezer's 2009 summer tour with Blink-182, Keyboard Cat would play the band off every night at the end of their set.
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Kato Kaelin also spoofed Keyboard Cat in a segment of Tosh.0 entitled "Keyboard Kato" in the series first episode.
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At the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Andy Samberg's opening monologue suggested that award winners whose speech went on too long would be played off by Keyboard Cat. Keyboard Cat references grew in the media throughout 2009, fully establishing it as a meme. The meme received boosts from media attention in May 2009 which included coverage in press outlets like the Associated Press, a tweet made by Ashton Kutcher to his one million followers, and by a reference on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart during a "toss" with Stephen Colbert. By May 2009, at least 200 videos had been created. O'Farrell used his connections on YouTube to help promote the video to be featured on the front page of YouTube, which caused other users to create similar videos based on " epic fail" videos already posted on YouTube, all appended with the Fatso footage and typically named in the same fashion. O'Farrell had posted his video in February 2009, though this video had been removed from YouTube due to reported copyright violations. O'Farrell used the footage by appending it to the end of a video of a person in a wheelchair falling awkwardly off an escalator, with the appended Fatso footage appearing to "play" that person offstage in a similar manner as getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. O'Farrell both secured Schmidt's permission to use footage and asked Schmidt to allow anyone to use the footage with or without permission. The first such "Keyboard Cat" video, entitled "Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat", was created by Brad O'Farrell, the syndication manager of the video website My Damn Channel.
2 on Current TV's list of 50 Greatest Viral Videos. The appending of Schmidt's video to other blooper and other viral videos became popular, with such videos usually accompanied with the title Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat or a variant. īrad O'Farrell, who was the syndication manager of the video website My Damn Channel, obtained Schmidt's permission to reuse the footage, appending it to the end of a blooper video to "play" that person offstage after the mistake or gaffe in a similar manner as getting the hook in the days of vaudeville. By 2018, this video had received over 50 million views. Schmidt later changed the title to "Charlie Schmidt's Keyboard Cat! - THE ORIGINAL!" as the meme began to spread. Well after Fatso's death, Schmidt digitized and posted the video to YouTube under the title "charlie schmidt's "cool cat"" in June 2007. Schmidt had only made the video out of boredom. Off-screen, Schmidt was manipulating Fatso's paws as to appear to be playing the piano, with the shirt used to cover his hands doing this. Schmidt had made the VHS video from 1984 of Fatso wearing an infant's blue tee-shirt and "playing" an upbeat rhythm on an electronic keyboard. The first Keyboard Cat video, created by Schmidt in 1984, featured Fatso, a female cat that lived from 1978 to 1987. The various Keyboard Cats have been owned by Charlie Schmidt of Spokane, Washington, United States.
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