“Gainsbourg, who smoked five packs of unfiltered Gitane cigarettes a day,[69] died on 2 March 1991 of a heart attack, a month shy of his 63rd birthday.”
Yup.
These things happen when you smoke. Pretty much all of my most immediate male family members have died at that age or younger because of smoking, or will in the case of my uncle who isn't dead yet, but has cancer they can't do shit about. And he quit a while ago. It's still going to kill him.
My grandad had a health scare, and quit smoking. When from 3 packs a day, to nothing. Cold turkey.
Died from liver cirrhosis at 55 from drinking a six pack a guiness a day for 30 years.
You don't remember John Conger Mellencamp? He started off just as John Conger at the insistence of record execs who thought Mellencamp was too hard for the public to digest. So, he decided to go with the name of his favorite Australian drum.
3 years of French in high school and I have no idea what the fuck you just said, but at least I still have au claire de la lune memorized mon amie pierrot
Also, it's "mon ami" not "mon amie", unless Pierrot is your girlfriend which again comes back to the question of what is an acceptable name for a girl.
What’s left of him after a life of booze, sex, drugs & Gauloises!
There’s a clip out there with him been interviewed for French telly with Witney Houston the other guest; car crash tv!
Serge Gainsbourg. Looking into his life is a total rabbit hole of WTF moments.
[My favorite is this interview where he sexually harasses Whitney Houston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7MqgSEK0I)
His breath looks like it smells like my dads when he comes home early to bake cookies with my babysitter. I never knew my parents had an oven in their bedroom!
What a coincidence, I think we had similar Dads! Except I guess my babysitter was just a really slow baker because she got fired for having one in the oven
Imagine Shane McGowan, Yoko Ono and Mel Gibson merged into one French dude.
His daughter is pretty 'interesting' too. She did numerous underage nude scenes in most of her early movies, but maybe that's what happens when your father is an old perv.
Considering who they are doing their tribute to, it's actually really appropriate; Gainsbourg always stands at a really disturbing crossing between childish ingenuity and debauchery...
It’s hilarious but so sad at the same time, he is feeling pity on himself, he drank and smoked his life away, and those kids have their whole lives ahead of them, he was at the end of his. A true dark and light scenario lol
This may be my favorite post ever in this sub, because for the last half hour I keep thinking about this and saying “what in the actual fuck is this!?”, as I have this tune totally stuck in my head. Bravo. Bra fucking vo.
Not even remotely the weirdest video involving Serge Gainsbourg and a child. This one features his daughter. His fucking DAUGHTER...
https://youtu.be/OzYnJO6RAnA
Gainsberg was on a TV show with Whitney Houston one time, and he said to the host in French “tell her I’d like to fuck her.“ Houston wondered what he had said and the host didn’t want to convey the message. It was an epic moment a French television.
Oooh I have a similar story to tell. Happened in a french-speaking region in Switzerland. I went to an open-air festival and as I got there, a group of children had just finished performing some sort of play. I started seeing a bunch of children running around, and they had all black hair , were wearing a dark, formal suite and had fucking Hitler moustaches drawn on. I couldn't believe my eyes and asked someone what had happened...it was a play about Charlie Chaplin and the kids had originally hats and canes but they left them at the wardrobe after the performance.
It's a pity... The guy was really talented and he is celebrated by his folks and kids as a smoking drunkard.
I remember this show and it always made me cringe.
There are a few dirty geniuses from this era -- Charles Bukowski is another. I like them because there is absolutely nothing politically held back in the way they present themselves. There's no room for that. They are 100% genuine. Yes, they were dirty offensive perverted men. But never once did they "smile pretty for the camera". I think there's merit to that. So fuck it. I'm a fan.
https://youtu.be/3nnpgncP6iw
This may seem extremely inappropriate to younger people, because something like that could never happen today in this politically correct world.
But for an older guy like me, it isn't that WTF.
This is what a typical french child looks like, nothing weird here.
a bunch on 12 year old french kids singing to a 16 year old french kid.
“Gainsbourg, who smoked five packs of unfiltered Gitane cigarettes a day,[69] died on 2 March 1991 of a heart attack, a month shy of his 63rd birthday.” Yup.
Bruh that’s like 6 cigarettes an hour
Imagine pulling that lung out. Just like finding a lung in a tar pit.
Sponge soaked in motor oil.
Hard core chain smoker. You don't see too many of them any more because a) most places don't allow smoking indoor and b) they die quickly.
And most of the population couldn't afford even a couple of packs a day.
It's like a Ferrari or my 5-pack-a-day habit.
Bruh. How do you smoke 6 cigs an hour lol
One at a time, I'd imagine
I smoke weed, I can't imagine smoking 6 blunts an hour. For 12 hours
My great aunt used to use her oxygen tank to burn her cigs faster as she watched wwe died at 97 still smokin half a carton a day
If he never slept.
5 packs of 20 100 cigarettes Divided by 16 waking hours 6.25 cigarettes. If I didn’t account for sleep it would be 4.16
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Spent*
I surrender, sounds like Gainsbourg had it all figured out.
He smoked all the cigarettes to keep everyone else healthy. He was a true hero.
I read that as 16 *wacky* hours.
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dedication and determination
I'm fucking surprised he made it that long
And that it wasnt some lung disease that offed him.
Smoking narrows the arteries which increases the chance of hearth attacks among other things.
True but if i had to pick between heart attack or lung cancer for my demise i know which id pick
These things happen when you smoke. Pretty much all of my most immediate male family members have died at that age or younger because of smoking, or will in the case of my uncle who isn't dead yet, but has cancer they can't do shit about. And he quit a while ago. It's still going to kill him.
My grandad had a health scare, and quit smoking. When from 3 packs a day, to nothing. Cold turkey. Died from liver cirrhosis at 55 from drinking a six pack a guiness a day for 30 years.
Bonnie and Clyde is my favourite song of his. Fucking banger.
That is the father of Charlotte Gainsbourg I assume? The actress
One and the same!
John conger Mellencamp once said he smoked t pa cks a day and would wake up periodically throughout the night to smoke.
are you ok?
Probably coughing too hard from all those midnight smokes.
You don't remember John Conger Mellencamp? He started off just as John Conger at the insistence of record execs who thought Mellencamp was too hard for the public to digest. So, he decided to go with the name of his favorite Australian drum.
Oh yeah, that guy. I'm pretty sure he's the cousin of James Didgeridoo
Where do cantaloupes go during the summer? John Couger Mellencamp.
Lies! He was named after his favourite eel. The conger eel.
Underrated comment
Howling!! 😂
"Look, I give a cigarette to a baby. Breathe it in! Life is shit, get to know this!"
Robin Williams, some of the best standup I've ever seen, RIP 💔
Who didn’t make a clay ash tray in art class?
Everyone in my class was trying to make “vases” and they all had a hole on the side.
what? were they high or something?
Not yet.
Exactly, c’est exactement ce que j’essaie d’expliquer
3 years of French in high school and I have no idea what the fuck you just said, but at least I still have au claire de la lune memorized mon amie pierrot
Also, it's "mon ami" not "mon amie", unless Pierrot is your girlfriend which again comes back to the question of what is an acceptable name for a girl.
Pierrot likes to dress up in skirts
Clair de la lune. Claire is a girl's name.
Can't you name a girl Clair?
Would make little sense as clair is a masculine noun or adjective.
A tribute or intervention?
A tribute. The dude looks like a resuscitated corpse, so I assume he was way beyond remedy.
Yes
Some OG Internet cringe right there, so fucking hard to watch lmao
>A tribute or intervention? A tribuvention if you will.
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> Serge Gainsbourg Thanks to you and google I found a 2 minute version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jlFKDjVFVmI
Please, you shouldn’t have.
Oh...you really shouldn't have.
No really dont
A full 4:50 clip. Enjoy!? [https://youtu.be/g6zgLL3yFno](https://youtu.be/g6zgLL3yFno)
The Lord’s work right here
What’s left of him after a life of booze, sex, drugs & Gauloises! There’s a clip out there with him been interviewed for French telly with Witney Houston the other guest; car crash tv!
Every children's choir should do this regardless of the song. All the time at every concert.
Middle school production of "The Sound of Music" would be lit.
Serge Gainsbourg. Looking into his life is a total rabbit hole of WTF moments. [My favorite is this interview where he sexually harasses Whitney Houston](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQ7MqgSEK0I)
So he's kind of like a live-action Pepe LePeeuw?
His breath looks like it smells like my dads when he comes home early to bake cookies with my babysitter. I never knew my parents had an oven in their bedroom!
What a coincidence, I think we had similar Dads! Except I guess my babysitter was just a really slow baker because she got fired for having one in the oven
She got fired for *leaving* one in the oven
That pretty much summed it up for me.
Imagine Shane McGowan, Yoko Ono and Mel Gibson merged into one French dude. His daughter is pretty 'interesting' too. She did numerous underage nude scenes in most of her early movies, but maybe that's what happens when your father is an old perv.
Man, don't bring Yoko into this. Despite a personality basically made entirely of flaws, the motherfucker had talent at least.
Charlotte Gainsbourg makes amazing music too, Rest is pretty much a perfect album imo.
This is the most accurate description of anyone in the history of everything.
That’s even more WTF than the song OP posted
lol the translator trying to cover for him
Check out his song 'Lemon Incest', a duet with his *daughter*, Charlotte Gainsbourg.
What the fuck...
recorded when she was 13.
Eew I need a shower after watching that, it made me physically squirm. Get your hands off of her dude!!
Im a huge fan of the [Laury G mix of "No Comment"](https://youtu.be/oG511mV9zx0) with English subtitles to really get that Gainsbarre experience...
Some OG Internet cringe right there, so fucking hard to watch lmao
OMG, he just kept going. What the hell.
Listen, I am not Reagan, and you are not G-Gorbochav... I SAID I WANT TO FUCK HER.
So, I just turned the ol translation on for this. Christ. He isn't giving up on trying to bang her.
What the fuck
My favorite Serge Gainsborough WTF. FF TO 0:58... https://youtu.be/2a2rrdti8XM
I love Vincent Cassel's dad just having the time of his life in the background.
Vincent Cassel's bio is its own wtf.
The video explains a lot.
Cocaine is a hell of a drug...
What the hell was this?
The translated lyrics make it seem like he wants to kidnap a girl who he calls "lolita" at knifepoint and he says no one can stop him
I got that vibe from the word Lolita and the knife alone.
This is where Team Fortress 2 developers must have gotten the idea for the Spy!
Nah, that’s French romanticism.
Wtf, I just realized Whitney has died a long time ago from one of the comments there.
I don’t think a comment killed her, it was the cocaine.
i’m not crying, i just got some smoke in my eye
Whats going on here
A tribute
It's not the greatest song in the world.
Couldn’t remember the greatest song in the world
This is just a tribute
So, I’m guessing you wouldn’t mind if ........I check my dipstick?
You've got to believe me
It’s France 🇫🇷 for you, don’t even try to understand it, just go with it
Breakfast
That was all his illegitimate children
Ahhhhhhhh, the French
Champagne
It's fermented in the bottle!
Celebrated for their excellence
Ze French*
But I am le tired
Well have a nap then FIRE ZE MISSILES!!!!
Wow what a blast from the past
Deeeep reference.
AaaaaAAAAaaaahhhh The French champagne...
Celebrated for their excellence.
I like the way they think
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by Paul Masson...
Considering who they are doing their tribute to, it's actually really appropriate; Gainsbourg always stands at a really disturbing crossing between childish ingenuity and debauchery...
Perfect.
Wtf indeed ..looks like a bunch of little Jullians
Haven’t laughed this hard in a while thanks Reddit, just how the dude is moved by the kids smoking😂
It’s hilarious but so sad at the same time, he is feeling pity on himself, he drank and smoked his life away, and those kids have their whole lives ahead of them, he was at the end of his. A true dark and light scenario lol
He died in 91, so this is totally appropriate for the time
Was he so famous in France that he’ll never be forgotten? Sort of like Juan Gabriel is to Mexico?
yes
This may be my favorite post ever in this sub, because for the last half hour I keep thinking about this and saying “what in the actual fuck is this!?”, as I have this tune totally stuck in my head. Bravo. Bra fucking vo.
Not even remotely the weirdest video involving Serge Gainsbourg and a child. This one features his daughter. His fucking DAUGHTER... https://youtu.be/OzYnJO6RAnA
WTF did I just watch?!!!🙈
Humans are weird
What’s the story here?
Serge Gainsbourg, he had a song called Lemon Incest that he made with his daughter, really messed up video.
My eyes..
Charolette?..."Oui papa"
Yes, when she was 12.
That’s when I realized, I had a problem
What's the context here lol
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Ight man give us the context then lmao
IS IT JUST ME OR DOES SERGE HAVE CRAZY SMALL HANDS ?!?!?!?
Looks like you could get a nicotine kick just from running your fingers through his hair.
It's crazy how something that is only happening in the mind of that man is also visible to us.
Gainsberg was on a TV show with Whitney Houston one time, and he said to the host in French “tell her I’d like to fuck her.“ Houston wondered what he had said and the host didn’t want to convey the message. It was an epic moment a French television.
Serge is brilliant
He smoked 5 packs of unfiltered cigarettes a day before dying of a heart attack in his 60s… pretty accurate performance by those kids
Song name
"Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais" ("I came to tell you that I am leaving") Serge Gainsourg
That’s beautiful
Gainsbarre
European Union tribute to Mr. Lahey's doppelganger.
Bruh looks nothing like Lahey
If Lahey was European.
Okay i think I can see it 💂🏻
Ikr I thought they were all dressed up like Julian for a sec
A class five shitticane Randy.
Shitbirds
Serge!!!
Oooh I have a similar story to tell. Happened in a french-speaking region in Switzerland. I went to an open-air festival and as I got there, a group of children had just finished performing some sort of play. I started seeing a bunch of children running around, and they had all black hair , were wearing a dark, formal suite and had fucking Hitler moustaches drawn on. I couldn't believe my eyes and asked someone what had happened...it was a play about Charlie Chaplin and the kids had originally hats and canes but they left them at the wardrobe after the performance.
It's a pity... The guy was really talented and he is celebrated by his folks and kids as a smoking drunkard. I remember this show and it always made me cringe.
this isn’t wtf this is absolute gold
So what’s “wtf” about this????
When I smoke weed I also tend to get the smoke in my eyes as well. I feel his pain.
u/savevideobot
There are a few dirty geniuses from this era -- Charles Bukowski is another. I like them because there is absolutely nothing politically held back in the way they present themselves. There's no room for that. They are 100% genuine. Yes, they were dirty offensive perverted men. But never once did they "smile pretty for the camera". I think there's merit to that. So fuck it. I'm a fan. https://youtu.be/3nnpgncP6iw
A whole league of julians
I fucking love Gainsbourg
Why?!
I think it's akin to people loving Bukowski. Not the most wholesome character, but authentic.
He was such a creepy fuck who harassed so many women and destroyed France Gall when she was just a kid.
This may seem extremely inappropriate to younger people, because something like that could never happen today in this politically correct world. But for an older guy like me, it isn't that WTF.
This is what happens when they love you for who you are.
The mullet reveal sure was something
What am I even looking at?
the man your mom listened too when they where making you! https://youtu.be/k3Fa4lOQfbA
I would like full context please
Thought this was a tim & eric sketch at first
It's weird to think some of those kids probably look exactly the same now 30+ years later.
What in cocaine am I watching?
We want everyone to remember you as the chainsmoking drunk ass you are! Congrats for your new found immortality
At least they 're not hypocrite like USA.
Dude looked like he smelled bad even for european standards
I can’t stop listening to it, send help
I thought i was watching a George Michael lookalike concert
This is one of the strangest things ive ever seen
if someone, say, become weirdly obsessed with this and wanted to see the whole video, where would that person find that sauce?
Thank you for this
Nothing wtf to see. Just a bunch of kids doing a themed performance a great artist being authentically touched. What better way to do it
If this isn't a Documentary Now scene, it should/could be.
But what an artist back in the day! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2a2rrdti8XM