Comedy Killed the Video Star

This week someone I thought was my friend, comedian Kitty Speed (Creator of Self Isolation Bear), brought me three music videos that I had been avoiding featuring Fergie. First is her debut with the Black Eyed Peas: Shut Up. Which leads us to a discussion about the pros and cons of immersive theatre. Next we talk about the vacant video for the vacant song My Humps. Finally, after a brief aside about London Bridge, we end with Ferga...

This week comedian Alex Green brings us not three but six videos from The Weeknd! Yes this epic Sextrology (not sure if that’s right) follows The Weeknd’s decent into madness in a booze and frog fuelled romp through a casino in Heartless; then a return to LA and serious beatdown in Blinding Lights; onto a performance on Jimmy Kimmel live in the short film After Hours that made him so sad that he left the studio with no craft servic...

Talk about folklore! Actually we don’t talk about Folklore, but we due get deep into some much of the lore of pop-music’s most mysterious cryptid, Taylor Swift, with the hilarious Sarah Kennedy (Taydar Podcast). We examine thee of her videos that span her career from country to icon. We start with You Belong With Me, a video that might only be improved by the addition of a third Taylor Swift. Next we examine Blank Space, is it a sa...

This week it’s a special episode where we bring on two amazing guests to talk about one extraordinary video. The video is, of course, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP and the guests are Kaytlin Bailey and Dr Charlene J. Fletcherof The Oldest Profession Podcast. Together they get into the symbolism, the meaning, the controversy and so much more incredible insight all the while Matthew tries to keep up like the idiotic clown he ...

Blake AJ stops by to discuss three videos with totally normal, predictable endings. They start with (and probably spend way too much time on) Carly Rae Jepson’s 2011 summer jam Call Me Maybe getting deep into the tattoos of the love interest and his aunt’s midlife crisis. Then they have a split opinion on Alt J’s Breezeblocks while trying to unpack it’s complicated backwards narrative and decide how hard is too hard to throw your k...

Comedian Kirsten Brown brings us three videos from artists who decided not to be musicians any more (or maybe had it decided for them) and to become series regulars on the UK soap opera Coronation Street. We start with the first X-Factor winner Shayne Ward’s debut single That’s My Goal a video that’s blandness is only exceeded by its singer’s. Following on that is Hear’Say’s Pure and Simple possibly the greatest video shot in in a ...

Canada’s Sweetheart, Simone Belshaw, brings us three amazing boyband videos from the Great White North that blew her her mind and awakened her sexuality when she was a preteen. We start our journey at a house party in Soul Decision’s Faded, getting into her crush on lead singer Trevor and why they may not have been the Maroon 5 of their time. Then we head into the old west (possibly, it’s unclear) with Prozzak’s Sucks to Be You whi...

Comedian and world-class Sisqó expert, Graeme Hunter discusses three videos based on movies. First we talk about the “classic” 80’s earworm Ghostbusters and whether Ray Parker jr is a ghost, a buster, or both(?), then move onto Dream Warriors by Dokken where we lean some insane news about how they got their name, and finally get to the main course with the madness of Will Smith’s Wild, Wild West, the definitive evidence that Carlto...

In this episode comedian and button certified hero, Kathryn Mather joins Matthew to talk about the video career of viral sensations OK GO and how the band has gone from literal treadmills to an endless treadmill of higher expectations. From the simple lo-fi fun of Here We Go Again, through the Rube Goldberg craziness of This Too Shall Pass and Needing/Getting, and finally onto the late-stage capitalism excesses of I Won’t Let you D...

Comedian/academic Tyler Sonnichsen drops in to talk about three videos where bands throw (big) hands with murderous rednecks and obnoxious fans. We get deep into the mythology of ZZ Top with their Sleeping Bag video, try to understand the dream logic of Foo Fighter’s Everlong, and fall in love with Ludacris’ Get Back. So Come on, come on and get swung on, swung on…with comedy.

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The thing we can all agree on is that none of them make any sense. Every other week on Comedy Killed the Video Star, host Matthew Chadourne will talk to his comedian friends about a handful of music videos that they love, hate, love to hate, or just baffle them for a short history ...