Chutzpah, You Have a New King

Ladies and gentlemen, a new leader has been crowned in the land of chutzpah. All hail Laszlo Szarka who brazenly butchered Haddaway’s hit “What Is Love” on a Hungarian television program in front of none other than the Trinidadian-American singer himself.

The 40-year-old former security guard has not let the fact that he has never studied English stand in the way. In fact, his erratic performances are so much in demand throughout Hungary, that, according to some reports, he is asking between $500 and $750 per appearance.

Szarka had shot to instant Internet fame this spring when a video emerged of him similarly tearing to pieces Alphaville’s 1980’s hit “Big in Japan” on a televised talent search show in Hungary.

Szarka’s rendition at that time was so incomprehensible that it not only earned him the name Mr. Bikicsunaj (the way he pronounces “Big in Japan”) from the Hungarian media.