The Norwegian duo of Vegard and Baard Ylisaaker was surprised when their popular joke video “The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?) garnered more than 135 million hits on YouTube despite the fact that they live a country with just 5 million inhabitants.
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The video which was set partly at an animal costume party and partly in a forest, is in the top 10 of the U.S. Billboard Streaming Songs chart. The video starts with a question: “Dog goes woof, cat goes meow, bird goes tweet and mouse goes squeak…but there’s one sound that no one knows: what does the fox say?”
According to records, the video which was first posted on September 3, 2013 garnered more than 100 million views on YouTube, quicker than it took Korean singer PSY’s Gangnam Style, the current record holder with a total of 1.8 billion hits on YouTube.
The brothers, Vegard and Baard Vlisaaker, are well-known host on a Norwegian television station, they have just returned home from doing the rounds of U.S. talk shows, including “Today,” “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” and “The Ellen DeGeneres Show.”
The 34-year-old Vegard Vlisaaker is the older brother of the 31-year-old Baard Ylvisaaker. During an interview with Reuters, Baard joked that they may take over the world, or the International Space Station. They were also planning a tour of Antartica.
“The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)” is just one of the several videos that the brothers make each year to promote their show “Tonight with Ylvis” on TV Norge which features routines like pranking hotel guests with a voice-activated elevator that sings and jokes or a song in homage to Norway’s top peacemaker.
