Musician Yan Yuzon parodies Ben Tulfo with #TulfoTwang videos

Photo: Yan Yuzon’s Facebook page.
Photo: Yan Yuzon’s Facebook page.

Musician and acting coach Yan Yuzon gave netizens a crash course yesterday on what he described as the “Tulfo Twang”– or the unique accent that broadcaster Ben Tulfo uses whenever he speaks English.

The clips come with the caption “The Tulfo twang is honestly my guiltiest pleasure.”

Shared more than 1,300 times, the video posts show Yuzon lying in bed, as he mouths off random stuff just to show off his Tulfo-inspired accent.

In one clip, he says: “So I played basketball last night and I’m trying to stretch my lower back because it hurts. This is my Tulfo twang video and please feel free to make your own.”

In another clip, he talks directly to the camera and says: “What? You’re not experiencing body aches? Liar. You’re an a**hole. You’re really an a**hole. You’re lying to people. You should be taught a lesson.”

Ben is known for using harsh words on his radio show, titled Unfiltered.

The first video clips became such a hit that Yuzon posted several new videos today.

In one he says: “Apparently there’s this insistent public demand for more Tulfo twang videos. But this is what I can say: you make your own. If it’s still just me, and there are a lot, it’s no longer funny, you a**holes.”

Netizens were amused by Yuzon’s antics. Wrote An Monreal: “Hahahaha made my day!!!”

Chel Inumerable said Yuzon “nailed it.”

Jopie Sanchez didn’t get what it was all about at first. “I wasn’t sure what the Tulfo Twang is. Now I know. HAHAHAHA,” she wrote.

Ben’s accent was on full display this week as he and his brother Erwin are currently facing a senate investigation for receiving millions of pesos from the Department of Tourism (DOT), which their sister Wanda Teo used to lead.

In April, the Commission on Audit (COA) found that the DOT had placed PHP60 million (US$1.2 million) worth of ads on the PTV-4 television show Kilos Pronto without a memorandum of agreement.

Kilos Pronto is produced by Ben, who also hosts the show with Erwin. They, along with their brother Ramon, are staunch Duterte supporters. According to The Philippine Star, Teo said that she wasn’t aware that Ben was the show’s producer.

For their involvement in the anomalous deal, Senator Antonio Trillanes has decided to file plunder charges against all three of the siblings, as reported by The Philippine Daily Inquirer.

The Tulfo siblings have said that they will not return the money in question, ABS-CBN News reported.



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