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Funny moments involving U2.

• SOME SPANISH LESSON WITH AN IRISH ACCENT!!!
• Top 10 things U2 has learned over the years.
  • Particularly
  Larry: Sometimes when we shout, "Are you ready to rock?" I don't care if you're ready to rock.
• May I remind you that the Dalton Brothers play both kinds of music — country AND western!
• Godfather. More Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping than the Dalton Brothers! Babyface Mullen! The violin!
• Bono's count-off at the beginning of "Vertigo": "1... 2... 3... 14!" Made even funnier on live video when he preceded the bad Spanish by telling the audience he was going to "teach [them] some Gaelic."
  • Listen closer. That first word is unos. Spanish for "some".
    • Another way to hear it: "11^note "onze," French, 2, 3^note both in Spanish, 14^note back to French!"
• Quite a few of MacPhisto's Zoo TV phone calls, especially in the Dublin gig, where he actually phoned home to find the four years old Jordan Hewson answering.
  Daddy, if that's you, we're not coming home until you take your horns off! Bye-byyye!
• A Day in the Life of The Edge. A documentary on a day in the life of The Edge shot by Bono, which starts with Bono breaking into Edge's hotel room and finding out the Edge falls asleep to the Sci-Fi channel.
• Their appearance during The Simpsons episode "Trash of the Titans":
  Bono: Hold on, people. He's talking about waste management, that affects the whole damn planet!
  The Edge: Aw, here we go... (to Larry) What do you say we slip out to Moe's for a pint?
  Adam: Can I come?
  (Beat)
  The Edge: No.
  Adam: Wankers...
• A couple of times during the PopMart tour, the band got stuck inside the lemon, Spinal Tap-style.
  • It's become slightly memetic how much The Edge in particular fears becoming Spinal Tap. "I saw that film and didn't laugh so much as I wept."
• The Edge Corpsing in the Numb music video while being batted at by a kid, and poked, prodded, tied up, and footsied.
• Bono telling stories during the band's Hall of Fame induction, including one time when he and Edge got into a fist-fight onstage and The Edge won. And that's why you don't pick a fight with the guitar player.
  "Do not pick a fight who lives off of hand-to-eye co-ordination!"