100,000 Subscriber Celebration - The Long-Lost Christopher Lee Episode

[@davidhughes6796]

RIP Christopher Lee 27th May 1922 to 7th June 2015 (aged 93) :'(

[@ravm_music]

Symphonic metal has turned into a more genuine genre now that they have Christopher Lee's voice. It almost feels like he's not wearing costumes for those music videos, just his casual tuesday night PJ's. Also, that's a killer Celtic Frost shirt. Keep it up.

[@thisexists]

Rayner Valera Big laugh at "casual tuesday night PJ's."

[@soportetecnicohigoversomas3451]

tenacious d is another example of an actor who can sing and act, also their music videos are awesome

[@MrLael]

Rest In Peace Metal Lord, White Mage and Lord Tyranus, we will miss you, for real :'(

[@TrashHeapCustodian]

I can't think of anything more awesome than Christopher Lee Power Metal.

[@uncleblunts5]

RIP Christopher Lee...... But seriously, was that Christopher Lee + Dragonforce?

[@RadicalShiba1917]

uncleblunts5 No, it was Rhapsody of Fire, they're like Dragonforce but actually good

[@RadicalShiba1917]

***** Or they're both power metal. Dream Theater is prog metal, not Dragonforce (although there are similarities)

[@femoman]

+The Talking Wolf-Cat Nope. Dragonforce is Speed power metal while Rhapsody are Symphonic power metal. And they're both pretty awesome.

[@BEEEELEEEE]

Not Dragonforce, there'd be a lot more guitar showboating if it was.

[@import3dguest]

+The Talking Wolf-Cat Dragonforce is not even close to progressive metal.

[@ZombieDragQueen]

Congratulations and here's to 100 000 more! Fun fact: the coat of arms Lee uses in his metal albums is his actual family's. He can trace back his lineage several centuries. Also he was a damn fine RAF Flight Lieutenant during WW2 and tasked with hunting down and interrogating Nazi war criminals. Lee is officially the most bad ass man still alive in the world. Teachers and parents should tell kids to be like Christopher Lee instead of being themselves. I think the world would become a better place for it. Here are a couple of actors that don't suck as musicians: Hugh Laurie's "Let Them Talk" album and Harry Dean Stanton's "Partly Fiction". Also Zooey Deschanel in the She & Him duo with M. Ward of which I was pleasantly surprised and let's see, Juliette (Lewis) & The Licks?

[@thisexists]

I really should have talked more about how he's also a HERO NAZI HUNTER. And Juliette Lewis is legit pretty great, agreed.

[@ZombieDragQueen]

This Exists Out of all his works I think I love his reading of "The Exorcist" novell the most. I found his approach to it as a mix between a regular audiobook reading and radio theatre. He gave each character their own identity, reading the passages for the German housekeepers with flawless English-German accents, a typical cadence in speech and feel for the American lieutenant Kinderman and so on. It's one of the best audiobooks I've ever heard. Maybe one could also ad Jared Leto to the list and his 30 Seconds To Mars. I find their work having consistently high quality in today's shaky pop/rock scene.

[@patrickrestieri4892]

well hugh laurie is a musician who became an actor and not the other way round i think^^ Don't get me wrong, he is a GREAT actor and Doctor House is still my favorite TV-Show but he isn't really, what they searched for here^^ Oh and Lee is also one of the last living persons who watched a real execution by guillotine in france

[@ZombieDragQueen]

Patrick Restieri Yepp forgot about the guillotine part, and a fun (?) fact: The capital punishment was abolished in France in 1981, the last execution though was in 1977. The French were a bit late there with all that human rights thing.

[@BlueSpiritFire1]

Holy shit! Imagine the terror of having Christopher Lee interrogating you O_O

[@achanwahn]

RIP Sir Lee. :'(

[@crystaldragonjesus2195]

I love you for mentioning Captain Invincible

[@thisexists]

What a strange, strange film.

[@ILoveXXRussellcXX]

Sad day today, the legend known as Sir Christopher Lee has passed. Rest in peace.

[@benracer]

Yeah. I never knew about his metal thing untill his passing. The local college station's metal program played a few of his songs in his honor

[@ealtamirano90]

Heard the news today...may he R.I.P.

[@TheGeoshark]

Looks like Bruce Willis' musical career died hard. ... ... ... I'll see myself out.

[@shotarojoestar5349]

No, come back. I need to hug you.

[@TheGeoshark]

I think this is my highest rated comment. I don't want to be remembered for a shitty Bruce Willis pun.

[@GetToDaChoppa-k5r]

TheGeoshark just delete it dude!

[@TheGeoshark]

no hassle And lose this high? I think not.

[@gunguy100]

Was it on a good day?

[@zxjacko]

Came here as soon as I found out Christopher Lee passed, R.I.P, metal and acting god

[@egpmh2891]

+zxjacko you see the lowest prices for the cds on amazon, it proves your point; saw one for 1000 and another for 892

[@zxjacko]

wtf are you saying

[@egpmh2891]

zxjacko talking about the albums he and his band have look up prices on amazon and see what I mean

[@WatchdogGoon]

That Italian Metal Artist bears some similarities to Weird Al.

[@metalandhorror]

*David lynch* he's mostly a director but he's also a visual artist, musician, occasional actor, and author. He is what most artists want to be but aren't capable off. Congrats on the 100,000 subs btw !

[@beatall3]

I would love a subreddit for this channel. It would be more accessible than good reads and you'd gain some more, well deserved, viewers. The only issue I could see arising is it might devolve into a place to link weird shit rather than a place to discuss odd topics.

[@thisexists]

Love weird shit.

[@j.yossarian6852]

>Weird shit /r/enlightenedbirdmen KRAAAAAAAAW!

[@YuuzahnDragon]

RIP to one of the greatest actors in Cinema history.

[@tgproductions97]

The only example I disagree with is Johnny Depp. I saw him play with Aerosmith, he's a decent guitarist, also the Marilyn Manson performance was cool. But you're right, he's definitely a better actor

[@acullen113]

How is it that all these old dude actors are so much cooler than the younger actors? I mean there's no denying that people like Christopher Lee, Ian McKellen, and Patrick Stewart are badass! You have to be crazy not to think so. However, all more youthful actors badassatude is debatable. Who could not love them?

[@dubbingsync]

Maybe because badassittude can also be seen as douchbaggery? And most celebs this days are a little douchbaggy... Insert name here.

[@acullen113]

They are douchebaggy. They should take a lesson from their older counter parts and just learn how to be awesome without being an ass.

[@Tw1stedMoogle]

rockergrrl113 Perfectly said. :)

[@thelastcarnival]

The idea of how "badass" something or someone is is completely subjective, and the badass=good mentality has started to slip in popularity on the internet recently. Nowadays, people trying to fit the hazily defined archetype of "badass" just come off as insecure and are usually met with a response along the lines of "3edgy5me, m8".

[@rbresett1]

Awesome about 100,000 subscribers. I think you called it. Sir Christopher Lee is one of the only cool actors who was able to crossover into music. He also sung 'Treebeard's Song' with the Tolkien Ensemble. You really don't have peers for a knight who had Norwegian goth band Two Witches singing tributes to him, not realizing how prophetic they were with the line, "We need fairy tales. We need horror stories. We need to be like Christopher Lee." The only peer I can think of is possibly Björk. As far as I know, the only music she had done prior to the film The Juniper Tree was some Icelandic disco as a little girl. Unfortunately, I've heard some of it. She may or may not have been an actress before being a serious musician. She went on to do Spit and Snot, Tappi Tikkarrass, KUKL, the Sugarcubes and then her solo career. She was cool enough to tell Madonna she wasn't interested when Madonna wanted to work with her. When Björk acted in another movie: Dancer in the Dark, all my cool kid friends were obsessed with her performance. The soundtrack was an industrial sort of musical and remains totally unique. Not too many people get unfettered access to a country's national choir like she did with Iceland's on the Medulla album...and she was recently given her own island by Iceland.

[@venidici4816]

You deserve so much more than 100,000 subs because you care a lot about this channel. There is rarely a comment that goes unanswered and you attempt to connect with you're channel way more than any other channel i've ever seen.

[@loltacopwnd]

We definitely need the subreddit as a hub of sorts for all of the stuff going on like the book club, the music recommendations, comment discussions, etc.

[@ThatOneGuy0006]

Christopher Lee also played DiZ/Ansem The Wise in Kingdom Hearts 2. Making him the oldest video game voice actor!

[@AguyinaRPG]

I literally just searched for Christopher Lee today and came across this video, even though I was here two days ago. Damn you, This Exists!

[@joeroche6807]

Congrats on the 100,000 man, that`s pretty cool :) Christopher Lee is a legend, had the same birthday as Vincent Price (just a random fact), I miss video shops as well it`s crazy to think a technology which was such a whole part of peoples lives is basically obsolete. Cool tshirt btw :)

[@kurtisnimmert7555]

this... this right here is why I watch your show. Love it guys, never stop.

[@GameTaffy]

I think Mos Def is an excellent musician/actor. As a musician, his lyrics are clever and unique, and as an actor, he always tries to take on a new character. When you read "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," Ford Precept is described as the alien version of Cosmo Kramer, yet when you watch the most recent movie, you can't picture anyone in that role besides Mos Def. I want Mos Def to appear in a Dave Chappelle movie while supplying the soundtrack with help of producer Mark Ronson. Woah.... I just blew my own mind...

[@breezy4852]

I heard that he wanted to be a actor first but ended up rapping

[@adrienpiette6746]

Wicked episode! Keep it up! Also, Keanu Reeves was the bassist of Dog Star with his brother. Since we're sharing.

[@IvanAmentisBratoev]

Christopher Lee deserves the world to create a new price especially for him being the biggest badass known to humanity, and forbid future candidates for it

[@bextermonkey246]

Thank You!!This is a Gift! Do it again! Love this!!!

[@slowralious3446]

metal.

[@ComputerDude2600]

I subscribed to you when you had 11,000, which, if I remember correctly, wasn't even that long ago! Congrats on 100,000 subs man!

[@thisexists]

Thanks for hanging out!

[@ComputerDude2600]

This Exists No problem :)

[@emperorpalpatine9841]

Vampire, Sith Lord, Willy Wonka's father, now punk? Whoa.

[@phantasmalWordsmith]

I think that our respect for Christopher Lee, being as old as he is, might be contributing to how cool he is. He's like this really cool grandpa that we're terrified of but we also admire him. There's probably some psychology stuff I didn't study that could explain it. And there's something I really admire about the fact he went with the musical genre that suited his voice, rather than one he wanted to do, or pop or classical? Though for all I know, he could actually have wanted to do heavy metal. Whereas these other artists all went with popular genres like Bruce Willis tried something in the hip hop rap area, and Hasslehoff + Murphy were straight into the pop music because thats what all the kids are/were listening to. I will be getting myself a copy of charlemagne and hopefully his christmas album because sweet lord I need this in my collection. Also, not a reddit user myself but having a subreddit sounds like a logical means of opening up discussion, I'd say do it.

[@Gillmojo]

This explains exactly where most of the world's awesome went! Sir Lee had it, as did Vincent Price and they don't make 'em like that any more. Congrats on winning the numbers game too ;)

[@TheDragonWalrus]

Happy to see the channel doing well, it caught my attention from the very first video I saw and I am yet to be disappointed. Keep up the good work!

[@thisexists]

Thanks!

[@RikSolo]

gotta admit, he has the perfect voice for singing the thing at 2:50 , that sounds absoluteley amazing...

[@whitehelm1]

I am surprised you did not mention the fact that Christopher Lee was in his youth approached to be a opera singer. He has done at least one interview about it.

[@Jf2jf2jf2]

100,000 Wow congrats dude I've been with you for a while (as you should know) and you definitely deserved all this. Here's to the next 900,000

[@thisexists]

joshgaming2012 Thanks!

[@nickraffa6935]

RIP Mr. Lee, were all going to miss you dearly (I a huge fan of his work)

[@corygraham8130]

Love it! Great work Sam and congrats on 100k!

[@Castlefortress]

I noticed that you mentioned e-books, like the ones on the kindle, which leads me to state my opinions about them. 1.) I just (for some reason unknown to me) can't read a book off of a screen, tablet or whatever, without feeling intense amounts of drowsiness. This just baffles me because I can play video games on my desk top for over 5 hours without a single break. 2.) It just doesn't feel right to me to not be able to feel the paper in my hands, and physically flip the page myself. I do realize that e-books are a very environmentally friendly and green alternative to regular paper books, as well as being more easily accessible, but I digress. Yes, I do realize that I went off on a tangent about this... but hey, at the end of the day that's what I am good at and like to do. Also gratz on 100k subs! :D *Internet Brohoof* (you can consider it a brofist if you wish, but I just call it that because reasons)

[@thisexists]

I get it. I only bought an e reader this year, but it's helped me almost double the number of books I read (increased portability, light, etc). Still prefer paper at home, though. And thanks!

[@Castlefortress]

This Exists Eventually paper books are going to become obsolete, and that has two sides to it for me... 1.) I will be sad when paper books become obsolete, because of my current intolerance for them... (I won't go into too much detail about this, because I've already touched upon it *Please read above comment*)... In a nutshell, I'll miss the feel of the paper to the touch, and also miss the libraries that will inevitably be shut down. 2.) In a way, however, I will be glad that they are obsolete because that means that forests will be safe, and the paper usage will go down by metric ass-tons. I will have to find a way to tolerate the e-books however... I might as well try to get used to reading e-books now, because you never know when they might become obsolete... You're welcome! :3

[@Castlefortress]

The Gr8 CastleFrt128 On an unrelated topic, would you consider doing a follow-up episode to the one you did on bronys and their music? I don't know if there is any more to cover, but I just kindof feel like it was missing a few small things...

[@kienesel7]

Rest in metal and awesome Sir Lee, you gave us more than we deserved.

[@thomasdayhoag6652]

Gratz! So glad I found this channel through the Game Theorists :P. You guys are easily one of my favorite channels, can't wait to see you guys hit 1 mil! Keep up the great work :)

[@thisexists]

Thanks!

[@ApparentlyShane]

RIP, you amazing human being. there will never be anyone like you again. :'(

[@GanjaCoyote]

HELLZ YEAH!!! Sweet t-shirt this week Sam... I could watch like 5 more episodes about Christopher Lee. What a guy! Also thanks for putting my comment at the start of the video, that totally made my day. When I rewound it and saw my avatar I probably freaked out my roommate 'cause I yelled kind of loud 8P

[@thisexists]

I exist to freak out roommates.

[@iheartjackieyes]

Congratulations on the big 100,000! :D

[@ZeSnark]

Subreddit sounds rad to me! Let's get on that.

[@99killmaster]

Awesome video, I love your stuff! As a side note, there was an article published in a canadian newspaper, about two weeks ago, that explained that 10 000 hours of practice does not always make somebody a master of any skill. In fact, participants in the study have shown a maximum of 30% increase in performance. The researchers looked in many fields, e.g. playing a violon or playing chess. Also, as an example, chess players that obtained the "master" title had had about 641 to more than 60 000 hours of practice time. That said, continue to make great content!

[@thisexists]

I don't really take anything Malcolm Gladwell says seriously. But it did seem like a quick way to make a point.

[@chrisk.784]

There a lot more amazing facts about Christopher Lee that weren't brought up in this video that might require a second video ( such as his role in WWII as secret agent for Britain's Special Operations Executive, or the fact that he sings about Charlemagne so much is because he is a direct descendant of him). Also your mentioning Toxie makes me want to see you do a video on Troma.

[@C0LDW4RK1D]

Now it's 250k, congrats man!

[@upyr1]

My only complaint about Christopher Lee's metal albums is there aren't more of them

[@Gronmin]

a subreddit for the show sounds like a good idea. I think most people use reddit anyways and it's easily adaptable to whatever you want to use it for. Also does that mean that a Canadian politics episode is coming?

[@thisexists]

If I can make it interesting... Yes.

[@karnyowns]

Rest in peace Sir Christopher Lee, you were truly badass.

[@Zeydarchist]

congrats on the 100,000!!!!!!!

[@rustykim1327]

How did I not discover this sooner??? TY! Christopher Lee=genius

[@themarkhay]

Christopher Lee is my favourite actor and I always loved his singing, when I discovered Charlemagne By The Sword And The Cross a couple years back I was quite enthused, all the more reason to love such a great man. Also you pronounced Dooku wrong.

[@laurakirwan999]

Christopher Lee was the absolute and utter best.

[@chrisanabirdsall2399]

Sir Christopher Lee is the most awesome, period!

[@phar0ahad3]

i actually liked eddy murphys party all the time......................

[@brunoquaresma8024]

Your not alone :)

[@bomccravy4298]

it's definitely not as bad as hasslehoff or bruce willis. its just a little cheesy

[@breezy4852]

That's my jam

[@ZILOGz80VIDEOS]

I even liked it without context when I heard it the first time in GTA V.

[@TheGallirallus]

Yeah I've heard it a lot of times and I don't really know what is supposed to be so bad about it. At best it's catchy and at worst it's just another 80s pop song. I guess some people would see a problem in that itself, but what makes it worse than anything else? Just because Eddie Murphy is singing it?

[@aboutsoundandvision]

RIP Christopher Lee 1922-2015

[@QuinnRiley360]

Dude holy crap. Grats. Just a few weeks ago when game theory promod you i think you were at like 10k.

[@thisexists]

It's been a wild ride!

[@displacerkatsidhe]

Rewatching because I just found out he passed away on Sunday night. His family wanted to grieve privately and let other family know first. A great man all around. Actor, Metal night, nazi hunter in World War Ii ... I just realized his thing about killing saxons.

[@zagStygian]

Lee just released a new Christmas LP ...This dude is the greatest human being ever.

[@morphman86]

Where most actors put their 10 000 hours into acting, Lee put his 10 000 hours into his deep voice, which is why he seems to be able to do so many different things. If you pay attention to everything he does, it's really just deep voice, with other people doing other things around him.

[@lukethoennes440]

It's pronounced "dew-coo" not "doh-coo"

[@MattLeebody]

Thank you. That bugged me too lol.

[@nicholase4850]

When I first found your videos, I thought your channel picture was the guy from veritisium (spelt that wrong) until I watched your videos. Keep up the good work!

[@DissectingThoughts]

I feel Tom Green deserves an honourable mention. Granted, he's not an actor who succeeded at music, and he isn't even a good actor. He is, however, a good (depending on personal preference) comedian, who is also surprisingly good at rapping. There is a video floating around where Xzibit is a guest on his show and he asks Xzibit if he wants to hear him rap. That video is worth watching for Xzibit's facial expressions alone. Reading his expressions he starts out thinking "oh, no. This is going to be terrible." Then Tom starts rapping and his expressions first turns to "oh, he's not as bad as I thought" and then to "wait, he's actually good. That can't be right" and at last ends up at "how could I not know Tom's this good of a rapper?" I'm telling you, Xzibit's face is an amazing rollercoaster ride.

[@spiderjerusalem100]

Congrats!! This is a great channel.

[@SamanthaPortUkulele]

Congrats on 100k! Quick poll: how many of you found This Exists because of The Game Theorists? Also, you better still do an episode on skyquakes. I love the whole Christopher Lee doing metal thing, but I already knew about it. I wanna learn about skyquakes! WAAAAAHHH! /pounds fists/

[@MaxwellTornado]

3:00 I am literally crying right now.

[@giveluminacat10nobles21]

I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL!

[@RJ4002]

Jack Black is probably the best example of an actor musician who's made it big in both worlds. He's got the voice of a fallen angel, and the scatting ability of one too.

[@dlvnmedia]

That Rhapsody of Fire song is still fire 🔥 I was obsessed with it for awhile.

[@NatetheNerdy]

True to my word, the second I saw this video I subscribed.

[@bearscookies9645]

Congratulations, man! :D

[@Mars08111]

It'd be a reason to get the reddit app again. I think it'd be awesome to have a subreddit!

[@UFODave69]

Subreddit would be dope. Comment system works a lot better and you'd have more control over the moderation.

[@DimiKaye]

I believe that art is for everyone and if they express themselves sincerely then it is ok. Though if someone wants to do it professionaly then they need to train hard in every aspect. Many actors tried to do music but if you don't know basic theory, how to compose a chord or have your ear trained enough to understand if you are on key, then forget it. That works with musicians who tried to make it as actors. For example, KISS made a movie at some point and it was awful. They said it themselves that they tried to act without knowing how. Anyway, very nice video, thumbs up for The Wickerman (one of my top 10 movies ever), Hammer Films (definition of cult), Celtic Frost and of course the great Christopher Lee. (At some point in the future I expect reference to Jose Mohica Marins, I see references to your videos that I do not expect, which is amazing)

[@silvas6991]

yea make a subreddit.. maybe perhaps every once in while have like fan submitted stuff and do a video on that, or like a mash up of things the community has found

[@PeterVsLife]

Christopher Lee is just unfathomably, and effortlessly cool, he was the first person to enter the Vatican Museum after the end of WW2 and was a witness at the execution of Eugen Weidman, the last man to be publicly executed by guillotine in France when Lee was 17. He's just done so many interesting things in his life.

[@thisexists]

I didn't know about Weidman. Amazing.

[@PeterVsLife]

Yeah it's pretty bizarre, I heard about it on a Podcast from the researchers behind Qi (which I'm a huge fan of, just FYI).

[@connorjackson5718]

You forgot to mention Zooey Deschanel. Her voice is amazing plus the band that she's in, She and Him are a great indie rock band.

[@KaoJurayu]

This is quality, keep going

[@thisexists]

kaojirayu Okay.

[@peterbelliveau5895]

This exists should deserve 1,000,000 subs

[@MrUrielLocke]

Christopher Lee is amazing he has played so many amazing roles in his career as an actor. He has even voiced some video game characters. From being Knighted, and being a classiclly trained actor. You can't get much better than Lee himself. In my personal opinoin yes there are a few actors who are on par with Lee. Patrick Stewart, and Ian McKellen are two of these. Yet they are all up there in age as well. Some modern actors come close. Yet they are still reaching in my opinion. ( Hugh Jackman) It seems to me that actors now aren't what they use to be. The older generations of actors had a form of respect about thier trade. You respect them for what they have done throughout their career. Mordern actors you just watch act next to a blue or green screen and watch things blow up with cg effects. Back then it was blowing up and things could get out of hand. Also Lee fought in WW2. He was a part of a secret group in the military. How much more bad ass can you get...

[@AnthroKnowledgey]

Christopher Lee...a legend.

[@TheWingrider92]

I always love the mix modern and traditional instrument in a song, I recommend find Metalcore Traditional on youtube if you wanna hear traditional japanese instruments and metal

[@orpheusstain3153]

... ok yeah,, that shirt is pure epic bad ass awesome. and so is Christopher Lee.

[@lordfateweaver1851]

Christopher Lee you rock! RIP

[@mindseyemelodies]

Interesting channel. Ever thought of doing an episode on eefing (hillbilly beatboxing) ?

[@thisexists]

Mike Moore Great idea. May steal it!

[@yungwhye]

WOW, CHRISTOPHER LEE WAS THE MAN, I NEED TO GET MY GRIND ON

[@GeonamicWarrior]

Congrats on the 100K subs! I'm sorry, but I had no idea who Christopher Lee was before this video. I usually comment on videos later in the night, so I'm not 100% sure, but I don't remember you telling the year that Christopher Lee started his first career.

[@thisexists]

I didn't! First movie was in 1947.

[@GeonamicWarrior]

This Exists Thanks! Sorry if my mentioning of LP was confusing in my initial comment. Apparently, I had forgotten that this wasn't one of the many LP videos in my daily inbox update.

[@theguru210]

Rest in Peace, Sir Lee

[@dougelick8397]

R.I.P., Christopher Lee

[@BVILLE92]

It was painful to watch after Christopher lees clip ended after that it went downhill for me. Love Christopher lee and horror classic movies :)

[@mathieuleader8601]

Did you know Christopher Lee who played Scaramanga in the James Bond Movie the Man With The Golden Gun was the step-cousin to James Bond author Ian Flemming

[@Rokios]

Yay, Christopher Lee. now you need a part two that talks about him being a spy and such.

[@thisexists]

Episode II: Killin' nazis is Christopher Lee's business, and business is good.

[@oiman5733]

This Exists We're swaying to the Symphony ... of Destruction.

[@JCavLP]

Too bad Lee can't watch this anymore r.i.p.

[@plaguedoctormasque8089]

I adore Chris Lee, hes my Dracula. He's Lord Summerisle, he's Frankenstiens Monster. He's Saruman. Love you Sir Christopher!!!

[@jspinac1]

In Lord of the Rings Trilogy 2001-2003, He played as the wizard of woe, the conjurer of carnage the magician of malice, the man that has a heart as black as a thousand dark lords, the one the only: Christopher Lee, a.k.a SARUMAN! >:)