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In 1987, 31-year-old Tom Hanks starred in a promotional clip for his upcoming film Dragnet with co-star Dan Akroyd. A couple of years before iconic dramas like Philadelphia and Forrest Gump, the role was fairly early on in his career — a fact made particularly clear by the nature of the promo clip. It involved him rapping about crime to some ’80s punk tribesmen and doing Richard Simmons-style thrusts in what appeared to be a Vegas-style stripper cage.

In 2015, 59-year-old Tom Hanks reprised this role for an appearance on The Graham Norton Show. Sitting alongside a completely bewildered Peter Capaldi and David Walliams, the two-time Academy Award-winning actor happily launched in to a word-perfect rendition of the first half of the song. No one asked him to do this.

In case the moral wasn’t already clear, it is this: Tom Hanks is, and always will be, the best.

Importantly, this wasn’t the only thing that happened during the interview which aired this week. Hanks also revealed that Toy Story 4 is currently in production and he’s already started voice work for the character of Woody — a promising development on what’s possibly the most beloved film franchise in the world.

But you don’t care about that right now.

Here’s the full ‘City of Crime’ music video you were going to Google anyway:

And here’s the incredibly detailed Grantland breakdown it so rightfully deserves.

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