Friends in London have alerted me to the fact that the popular UK singing competition The X Factor recently featured a contestant named Wagner—a Brazilian-born karate teacher whose name is pronounced Vahg-ner, just like you-know-who. An Internet jokester created the video above, incorporating footage from the documentary Stephen Fry on Wagner. Mr. Fry has taken the silliness in stride, noticing that obtuse YouTube comments make the whole thing even funnier. For example: "Amazing that Fry likes Wagner. I thought he'd be really stuffy and only like classical stuff."
