Gordon sings, dances with comic duo on YouTube

MANILA, Philippines - Bagumbayan presidential candidate Sen. Richard Gordon can be seen dancing and lip-synching with comic duo Moymoy Palaboy on popular video-sharing site YouTube.

The YouTube clip titled “In The Jungle Version 2,” uploaded last Sunday, has 37,499 hits as of yesterday morning and has drawn 516 mixed reviews. The video runs two minutes and 43 seconds.

The video clip shows Moymoy and his brother Roadfill performing their 2009 lip-synch video “In the Jungle “ featuring the song “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” by The Tokens. Gordon joins them in the middle of the song. The video opens with “Moymoy Palaboy for Sen. Dick Gordon” and ends with “To be continued.” 

Moymoy Palaboy is a local comic duo that rose to fame in 2007 by uploading dance and lip synch videos of popular pop songs on YouTube. It is composed of the Pasay-based Obeso brothers James Ronald as “Moymoy” and Rodfil as “Roadfill” who are now GMA-7 contract artists. 

Most of their earlier videos were shot at home using laptop and mobile phone cameras. Their aunt, Benny Obeso who they call Mama Auntie, sometimes appears in the videos.