Meet Gerry Phillips, The King Of The Hand-Fart Cover Song
Gerry Phillips is a 54-year-old from Troy, Michigan. He's spent 45 of those years teaching himself "manualism," a skill he claims to have accidentally learned from a party photographer and which most of us know better as "making fart noises with your hands."
He uses his talent to cover classic rock songs.
…and disco
…and '80s pop
…and hard rock
…and straight-up metal.
However, Gerry is far from the world's first manualist, as this remarkably creepy newsreel from 1933 proves.
Nor is he the only one. John Twomey1 made manualist history by performing "Stars And Stripes Forever" on the Johnny Carson Show in 1974. Following in his footsteps, Gerry's talent got him featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live back in 2007.
Gerry's channel hasn't been updated in four years, and the Manualist Page — created by hand-fart duo The Four Squeezins — is in similar disrepair.
Before his channel went dark, Gerry left us two gems among his 170+ videos: a tutorial explaining how to master the art of manualism for those who want to follow in his fartsteps, and perhaps the best troll video of all time.
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