I’ve done it. You’ve done it. Your friends have done it. Why, we whine doesn’t MTV play music videos anymore? And it’s true! They don’t. It’s just a big seething crap reality tv show pile-on. But you know what? As the (not really) head of MTV programming tells you himself, it’s your own damn fault.
And, uh, to be honest? He’s got a point.
The rest of this week’s top comedy videos, including a dinner party, a lost Bond film, and the history of the internet can be found over at Splitsider.
Other highlights from the week in comedy:
- - Michael Cera is writing for the new season of Arrested Development.
- - Standup Jake Weisman invited a heckler onstage who accidentally dropped a bag of cocaine.
- - Judd Apatow says HBO is making a third season of Girls.
- - Scott Aukerman is ending the Comedy Bang Bang live show after an impressive 10 year run.
- - We interviewed John Lurie, Charlie Murphy, and Eric Idle.
- - We dug up Louis C.K.’s first HBO special Shameless.
- - We examined the legacy of Beverly Hills Cop and the Beverly Hills Cop/Crocodile Dundee crossover that almost happened.
- - We pondered NBC’s choice not to pick up the Munsters reboot Mockingbird Lane.
- - We revisited Rob Schneider’s copy-makin’ stint on SNL.
- - We watched Women Aren’t Funny and the last Steve Allen Show.
- - We tried to get you to watch ABC’s The Middle.
- - We heard a levelheaded, sensible argument from a reasonable man.
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It's funny and there is truth to it... and also distortion and untruth to make it funnier.
The other side is that MTV pioneered the reality TV format before it was even a thing. They more than anyone else killed that part of the music industry themselves, deliberately so they could manipulate the market to suit themselves. Their own programming only featured certain limited genres and pushed away the music listening audience to other places, brining in reality TV programming and other things to replace it.
Also the fact that people with kids and older all still consume pop culture just as avidly, now more than ever before, things like MTV routinely ignore that demographic because they're focussed on 50 year old 1960s thinking patterns were youth culture is driving things. but it hasn't been that way for a loooong time.
Oh man it's The Law from VGHS, I loved that series
The LAW!!!
This video is accurate.
Now I remember who he was!
Just wanna punch him in his douchey face. Thank you, Freddie Wong.