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David Bowie (Jimmy Fallon) Covers “Pumped Up Kicks”

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Here's something we missed on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon the night before last. Fallon and guest Joseph Gordon-Levitt, apparently friends in real life, got together to sing karaoke and do impressions of other singers. Fallon, as David Bowie, sang Foster The People's "Pumped Up Kicks." JGL, as Axl Rose, sang Kelly Clarkson's "Since U Been Gone." And then the two of them, as Bowie and Axl, sang Lady Gaga's "The Edge Of Glory." And there's no nice way to say this, but these two impressions are ... well, they are trying. Observe:

Give them this: Between the two of them, Fallon and JGL are the tag-team champions of wanting us to like them.

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