Huh?! Julian Assange Makes Bizarre Cameo in Australian Parody Rap Video

You may be familiar with the YouTube sensation Auto-Tune the News, where . The group behind the videos has welcomed on a number of guest stars (including this great episode featuring Joseph Gordon-Levitt), but could you imagine any serious political candidate making a cameo? No? Well, the Australian comedy YouTube channel Juice Rap News (they rap the news, in case that wasn’t clear) somehow managed to score infamous WikiLeaker Julian Assange, who is currently a candidate in the Australian election, to join in the raptastic fun with them. The result might make your brain explode.

The Game of Thrones-themed installment introduces Assange sitting inside the Ecuadorian embassy in London in normal attire, before undergoing a quick change of clothing. Assange looks… strange, to say the least, but even rapping about Australian politics wearing a bandana and t-shirt, he still comes across as a lot more dignified than, say, Miley Cyrus.

Assange sings lyrics like, “We’re all being wiretapped now, we’re all being fed lies!” There are really no words to encapsulate just how insanely awesome (or awesomely insane, depending on how you look at it) this video is.

Also, this happened:

Watch Assange’s brief foray into the arts here:

h/t HuffPo

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