Norway Embarrasses Every American Celebrity They Can Get Their Hands On

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The above video is some sort of promotion for the Norwegian television show “Gylne Tider,” that’s set during the 1980s.

Whatever.

Just when we were sure VH1 celebrity reality shows were the bottom of the fame barrel along comes this — something so stupefyingly awful and embarrassing we actually said, “Poor Tonya Harding.”

Mickey Rourke? Glenn Close? They still have careers. Okay, they’re 80s icons in a way but Jason Alexander is all over this thing and “Seinfeld” was a 90’s phenomenon. And what’s Peter Falk doing there? Last we heard he was suffering from a serious case of dementia. Did some mercenary relative hustle him out there for Norway’s daily rate?

Most heartbreaking is David Faustino; the Mighty Bud Bundy — and Kathleen Turner, who just stands there as though she’s no longer capable of even a lip sync. They were giants! It is always nice to see Leslie Nielsen, though.

Five, ten years ago an American star could grab a quick overseas payday and get away with something like this without anyone stateside becoming the wiser. It’s fairly common for a movie star to do commercials in a foreign country, something they wouldn’t do here for fear of the effect it might have on their image. With YouTube and the Internet, those days are now over and whatever the celebs in this particular video got paid can’t be worth it (Tonya Harding excepted) now that the end product’s gone viral.

And what about the end product. Could any of them possibly have walked into this imagining the project would turn out so breathtakingly amateurish? Obviously the producers had enough money for “Let It Be,” and Beatles’ tunes are among the most expensive songs to acquire the rights to. We can only assume that left zero money for production quality.

The whole production probably went like this: Buy a $5 map of celebrity homes from some lunatic on Hollywood Boulevard, find the willing celeb, plop them in front of a green screen, turn on the boom box, hand them the check, and move on to the next one.

Our guess is that a lot of agents and managers are receiving some very angry calls tonight.

P.S. Would someone please give David Faustino his own sitcom already? He has more talent and audience goodwill than the entire cast of “Friends.”