{"id":163229,"date":"2018-05-09T11:43:29","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163229"},"modified":"2018-05-09T11:43:29","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:43:29","slug":"mike-myers-pulls-out-austin-powers-song-on-l-a-stage-with-mac-demarco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/09\/mike-myers-pulls-out-austin-powers-song-on-l-a-stage-with-mac-demarco\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Myers pulls out Austin Powers song on L.A. stage with Mac DeMarco"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_163230\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-163230\" style=\"width: 696px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/696px-Mike_Myers_David_Shankbone_2010_NYC.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-163230\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/696px-Mike_Myers_David_Shankbone_2010_NYC.jpg\" alt=\"Myers, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with \u201cCanada,\u201d performed a rendition of \u201cBBC,\u201d a song made famous in his 1997 film \u201cAustin Powers: International Man of Mystery.\u201d  (Photo By David Shankbone - Shankbone, CC BY 3.0)\" width=\"696\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/696px-Mike_Myers_David_Shankbone_2010_NYC.jpg 696w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/696px-Mike_Myers_David_Shankbone_2010_NYC-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-163230\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Myers, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with \u201cCanada,\u201d performed a rendition of \u201cBBC,\u201d a song made famous in his 1997 film \u201cAustin Powers: International Man of Mystery.\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=11607699\">Photo By David Shankbone &#8211; Shankbone, CC BY 3.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>TORONTO \u2014 \u00a0It was a veritable smorgasbord of Canadiana as comedian Mike Myers surprised Los Angeles concertgoers by slipping into his Austin Powers persona.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarborough, Ont.-native jumped onto stage on Sunday night during a set by Crowded House frontman Neil Finn and his son Liam. The backing band included British Columbia native Mac DeMarco.<\/p>\n<p>Myers, wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with \u201cCanada,\u201d performed a rendition of \u201cBBC,\u201d a song made famous in his 1997 film \u201cAustin Powers: International Man of Mystery.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Clips were posted on the Instagram page for Largo, the club which hosted the concert, with a message saying the performance \u201cbrought the house down.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Myers has been stepping back into his comedy persona more frequently in recent months.<\/p>\n<p>He played Austin Powers&#8217; arch nemesis Dr. Evil on Jimmy Fallon&#8217;s late-night talk show, and showed up on Jimmy Kimmel as Donald Trump&#8217;s personal physician Harold Bornstein.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TORONTO \u2014 \u00a0It was a veritable smorgasbord of Canadiana as comedian Mike Myers surprised Los Angeles concertgoers by slipping into &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":163230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[50748,50746,50747,9763],"class_list":["post-163229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-austin-powers","tag-austin-powers-persona","tag-mac-demarco","tag-mike-myers","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}