Videoclip Evolves Into Internet Hit

"Evolution of Dance" Turns Comedian Into Internet "It Boy"

(AP) 

In the video, Laipply — sporting a bright "Orange Crush" T-shirt tucked into blue jeans — gyrates to Elvis' "Hound Dog," dusts off the stiff-limbed robot routine for Styx's "Mr. Roboto" and shimmies to MC Hammer's "U Can't Touch This." He shakes his rump to Sir Mix-A-Lot's "Baby Got Back" and snakes his neck to the Bangles' "Walk Like an Egyptian."

He also channels John Travolta in "Grease," does the "Y.M.C.A," kung fu fights and break dances. And that's only part of the act.

Laipply, whose only formal dance training was a one-year stint in his high school's show choir, has received much feedback from fans, some wanting to book him for weddings and a few even proposing marriage. ("Yes I am single, I am straight and I will not marry anyone who asks over e-mail," he jokes on his Web site.)

For now, he's enjoying all the adulation, but said he has "zero expectations" for his career and doesn't count on overnight becoming a celebrity speaker — say, like self-help guru Tony Robbins.

"Anything that comes out of this to me is a bonus, and I will appreciate it and take it for all that's it's worth," he said. "I'm not saying I won't try to use it to my advantage, but I don't have the expectation that I'm going to turn it into something else."

He is, however, working on a new video, "Evolution of Dance Revisited," which he plans to release in the next few months. "The Hustle will be in there, the Cha-Cha Slide, the Electric Slide, perhaps a few more (music-video) dances like, 'Hey Mickey,' 'Maniac' or Men Without Hats' '(The) Safety Dance,'" he said.

Laipply's shtick not only has attracted a cross-generational audience, it has reconnected him with buddies from his past.

"The neatest thing is that a lot of long-lost friends have appeared because they're watching this video, and they're going, 'Oh my God, this is Jud! I went to high school with him!"