User:Shawn à Montréal/William Shatner Sings O Canada

William Shatner Sings O Canada is an internet and mobile content video featuring William Shatner discussing and performing a humorous spoken rendition of O Canada. It created on the occasion of his 2011 Governor General's Performing Arts Awards for Lifetime Artistic Achievement by the National Film Board of Canada (NFB), which annually creates short works honoring the achievements of all the award laureates. However, Shatner refused a seriouus retrospective an indtead

. The 5-minute 28-second short was produced by the ,

In accepting the award, Shatner

The result is hilarious, as Shatner pokes fun at his own garrulous public persona while offering a nod to his famous spoken-word treatments of songs like the Beatles’ Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds and Elton John’s Rocket Man.