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Posted on Aug 16, 2008 by billsimmon in Video, funny | 3 Comments

Back in the 80s my friends and I used to occasionally fight our teen boredom by prank calling the live Robert Tilton religious telecast, Success-N-Life.  Tilton was such an obviously craven mountebank that our disdain for him provided a quick laugh now and then.  He would even speak “in tongues” by basically spouting gibberish when he’d get really worked up. IIRC, a favorite syllabic string of his was “ba-soya ba-sohn.”

When the 90s came, Tilton got in big trouble for fraud and slid off the map for a while, but this little gem of a video popped up and became a very early internet viral video.  We used to play this on our now-defunct cable access TV show.  It’s the most basic, lowest common denominator sort of humor, and it cracks me up every single time I see it…

It’s been quite a while since I’ve seen it. According to Wikipedia, Tilton is doing his bilking on BET now, so maybe this video is relevant again.

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  1. bata taba soyen a tee to na fa lolo la nee yabba.

  2. On August 17, 2008, MarkS said:

    POOT!

  3. On August 18, 2008, bigbadbrad said:

    LOL…. My brother used to send me letters plastered with his guys puss. I mean deep, deep in prayer. Yeah, this guy is a laugh riot.

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