About

Celery Man, also known as Inside Paul Rudd's Computer, is a comedy sketch from the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! in which actor Paul Rudd interacts with an artificial intelligence who displays various animations of Rudd dancing on his computer screen.

Origin

On May 2nd, 2010, Season 5 Episode 10 of the Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! aired on the Adult Swim network. During a sketch in the episode, actor Paul Rudd approaches his computer in a what appears to be a virtual reality environment and orders the machine to display various animations of himself dancing, including programs named "Celery Man," "Oyster," "Tayne" and "Mozza-Rell." On August 23rd, 2012, YouTuber storiedvirus8's channel uploaded the sketch (shown below).

Precursor

The sketch is rumored to have been inspired by the music video for the 1995 eurodance track "1100101" by Das Modul, which features a computer screen displaying animations of various dancers (shown below).

Spread

On August 12th, 2013, the video was reuploaded by YouTuber Twinfold11, garnering upwards of 1.4 million views and 880 comments in the next three years. On August 15th, Redditor Krantastik submitted the video to /r/videos,^[6] where it received more than 2,500 votes (81% upvoted) and 150 comments prior to being archived. In September, the web app Cinco 2.5 was launched, which allows users to interact with a simulated version of the computer interface from the Celery Man video (shown below).

On May 3rd, 2015, Redditor psjoe96 submitted a photo of an Apple Watch with the Celery Man video playing on the screen to /r/TimeAndEric^[5] (shown below). On July 17th, The Telegraph^[2] listed Celery Man in an article titled "Paul Rudd's computer: his 9 funniest Internet moments." On July 24th, Redditor Panzer_Kavalier submitted the sketch to the /r/videos^[4] subreddit, where it gained over 5,700 votes (87% upvoted) and 600 comments in the first four months.