Funniest music video ever?

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Intentionally: "Witness (1 Hope)" - Roots Manuva

Unintentionally: "Eye of the Tiger" - Survivor. "Wired For Sound" - Cliff Richard -TIE

― Wooden, Monday, 26 July 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Jeapordy, Greg Khin

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The Creed one where the world is flooding

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 26 July 2004 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I seriously thought that the Evanescance video from "Daredevil" was some sort of goth parody until I discovered otherwise.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Chavez "Break Up Your Band"
Cibo Matto "Know Your Chicken"
JSBX "Dang" & "Wail"(directed by Weird Al Yankovic)
Paul Simon "You Can Call Me Al"
Dresden Dolls "Girl Anachronism"
New Pornographers "The Laws Have Changed"
Fatboy Slim "Weapon of Choice"
Nirvana "In Bloom" (dresses and Variety Show versions)

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Know Your Chicken seconded. I didn't realise "The Laws Have Changed" was funny.

Sheryl Crow's "A Change" video was funny to me and precisely three other people, but anyway...

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:32 (twenty-one years ago)

It's a Bunuel thing. Maybe it's less funny if you haven't seen "Simon of the Desert". They basically condensed a 75 min. film to 3 min.

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Either Madness' "Our House" (can't stand the song tho!) or a Killer Dwarfs one, in which they can't get a record deal, so they literally press their own LPs, with help from an ironing board, a clothesline, lotsa melted down vinyl, a Tesla Coil (you know: that electrical sparking thing found in every mad-scientist movie), Saran Wrap, cardboard and a microwave. Lotsa fun! Can't remember if I liked the song or not - I don't even know the title...
Actually, I mostly choose to remain blissfully ignorant of video after '85 or so, but there ARE ones that I wouldn't mind seeing after friends & family make 'em sound entertaining, like that Bjork-pursued-by-teddybear one.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

A video from a Romanian surf-rock band called the Night Losers... I forget the song name, I caught it on a worldwide-music-videos show on my local public access channel. Hilarious stuff, these guys could be huge.

― Flatland, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 05:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Pavement "Painted Soldiers"

― f ath, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:19 (twenty-one years ago)

devo "whip it" always cracks me up

― gem (trisk), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot"

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Black Flag, "TV Party," especially for HR's absurd overacting.

― daria g (daria g), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Their are some hilariously inept videos by Jesus Rock bands on the God Channel.

― Wooden (Wooden), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Chavez "Break Up Your Band"

Wow, I was coming in here to post that. My favorite video of all time. Matt Sweeney's deadpan expression is the icing on the injured male stripper cake.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Metallica's "Frantic" is a classic OMG-they're-not-kidding video.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Chavez's "Unreal Is Here" is pretty classic too.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Yup. And Donal Logue is in it.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

If I'm not mistaken the bass player directed those and also did some stuff for the Upright Citizens Brigade. The guitarist co-wrote the Paul Walker vehicle Slow Ride.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Meanwhile the singer was third banana for Billy Corgan

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

loverboy-working for the weekend

― kephm, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Fall - "Eat Y'Self Fitter"

― sexyDancer (sexyDancer), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

fave camp ones:

Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonight
Rolling Stones - She Was Hot
Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
Journey - Separate Ways
John Hall Band - Crazy

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Leonard Nimoy's video for "The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins" is the funniest video I've ever seen. It's him dancing around with kids on a set that looks like it was once used for a Star Trek episode. You know, the one where Kirk fights that Lizard Guy.

― Charlie Rose (Charlie Rose), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

A second vote for "Painted Soldiers".

Oates & Hall - "Jingle Bell Rock". And yes, for this video, it was apparently Oates & Hall.

When I was a kid, I always enjoyed a good David Lee Roth video. However, those have somehow made the transition from intentionally funny to unintentionally funny. From "HAHAHA, it's a Michael Jackson imitator" to "They actually went ahead and cast a Michael Jackson imitator for this shit?"

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

David Lee Roth's "Yankee Rose" features him high-kicking a giant balloon, which pops and reveals lots of little balloons. The whole band is trying WAY too hard.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

'The Weeping Song' - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
(it's Nick and Blixa in a rowboat dressed as priests, rowing over what seems to be binliners)

― Joe Kay (feethurt), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Intentionally: "Witness (1 Hope)" - Roots Manuva

otm

― the neurotic awakening of s (blueski), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

The whole band is trying WAY too hard.

Surely you're not implying that Steve Vai making his double-necked, heart-shaped guitar TALK to DLR is a failed strained attempt for teh rok?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:42 (twenty-one years ago)

steve vai! went! to my! high school!

― amateur!st (amateurist), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:43 (twenty-one years ago)

If memory serves, the song is called "Dragosteya". I snagged a copy of it off of World Link TV.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The clear winner of this thread is Davoli's "Space Twist"

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I just saw the video for Primal Scream's "Movin' On Up" and I couldn't stop laughing. Bobby's moves!

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Bonnie Tyler: Total Eclipse of the Heart

probably the most ridiculous coked-up video ever.

― drew, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

steve vai! went! to my! high school!

Is that the same school featured in the video from the first single off of Passion and Warfare where an eight-year old Vai tells the teacher to "Ah, shut up!"?

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I second "Separate Ways." They sure look all pissed off swaying into the camera in those muscle shirts.

― Chris O., Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

There was a pretty funny special on MTV with Janeane Garofalo, Jon Stewart, Chris Kattan and Denis Leary where they made countless great riffs on "Separate Ways." Hell, it was just funny to hear the scream in horror when the band turned to the camera in profile.

― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Unintentionally: 'Don't Worry, Be Happy'.

― R.I.M.A. (Barima), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: Don't Worry, Be Happy: I don't know, a video that aims to be funny in one way but ends up being funny in another will never be as hilarious as a video that aims for seriousness or rockinuity but ends up being funny.

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 19:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I remember at the time when "Wooha! Got You All In Check", before fish-eye lense work and such had become hip-hop video cliches, being extremely entertained. By that video, I mean.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(Nickalicious, you need to find that Chavez video for "Break Up Your Band" right now...)

― St. Nicholas (Nick A.), Tuesday, 27 July 2004 20:05 (twenty-one years ago)

For intentionally, I always liked "Sugarcube" by Yo La Tengo featuring the Mr Show gang.

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 27 July 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

For intentionally, I always liked "Sugarcube" by Yo La Tengo featuring the Mr Show gang.

OTM

Unintentional: Dio - "Holy Diver"

― wetmink (wetmink), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 01:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I enjoy that new Beastie Boys video with the red carpet fashion walk and Sassquatch.

― theodore fogelsanger (herbert hebert), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 06:43 (twenty-one years ago)

'Hello' by Lionel Richie.

It has to be.

― Kate Jane Connolly (fixitgirl), Wednesday, 28 July 2004 09:45 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

Ballad of Bilbo Baggins
Hobbits of the world unite and take over.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars Themed New Wave from Eastern Europe

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Parody of European New Wave

― Red Panda Sanskrit (ex machina), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Motorhead: Killed by Death
Twisted Sister: the one where the guy goes "I wanna rock"
Rolling Stones: Waiting on a Friend; not particularly funny, but great in a "literal" video sense

― Keith Watson (kmw), Tuesday, 17 August 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Jon W. otm

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Tuesday, 17 August 2004 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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Tron, er, Deric, is "I Alone" the one of which Beavis once said: "This video is supposed to be freaking me out, but I'm totally unfreaked"?

― Rickey Wright (Rrrickey), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 02:41 (twenty years ago)

Ed Kowalzyck's tiny yet still pendulous man-boobs totally freaked me out

― Morley Timmons (Donna Brown), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:14 (twenty years ago)

You know, I think the "In the Ghetto" video was actually filmed in my friend Kara's garage. Really! He was just hanging around LA for a couple of weeks and he needed to film the video so they set up a backdrop and filmed it there. I haven't talked to Kara in years, I should call her to confirm this.

― Love at the Pier (Arthur), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:34 (twenty years ago)

"Devoured By Verman" - Cannibal Corpse

― billstevejim, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 04:47 (twenty years ago)

Haha, that Eastern European Star Wars video is great! I love how it's supposed to be in a spaceship, yet it clearly is someone's living room with some extra TV sets and disco lights added. And that guy has wicked energy!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 07:20 (twenty years ago)

This thread was over when "Hello" was mentioned.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

actually, Laibach "Life is Life" is up there (and Montgomery Gentry "You Do Your Thing," for pretty much the same reasons.) Though for both, I don't know if fascism counts as "funny," or just "scary."

― xhuxk, Tuesday, 12 April 2005 15:49 (twenty years ago)

I can't stand the band, but the new Jet single has a hysterical video. The band is playing in the woods and there are happy cartoon critters frolicking about, and then the cartoon critters turn EVIL and start EATING EACH OTHER.

It's pretty great.

― Lyra Jane (Lyra Jane), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:19 (twenty years ago)

Intentionally hilarious: "Cut Your Hair" - Pavement
Unintentionally hilarious: "See You in Hell" - Grim Reaper

― Yngwie AlmsteenMay (sgertz), Tuesday, 12 April 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

You know, I think the "In the Ghetto" video was actually filmed in my friend Kara's garage. Too cool!! I found this:

"23/24-Jun-84 US CA,West Hollywood,garage of house on Melrose Avenue: Evan English & John Hillcoat shoot the "In The Ghetto" promo video with Nick Cave."

According to Nick's comments on the DVD video collection, the only reason the video ended up so crappy was because some twit gave all the money for the video to Nick, who promptly spent it all on smack. Yay!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:48 (twenty years ago)

Spike Jonze did one for Daft Punk that was pretty awesome -- I forget the song but it involved a Man-Dog walking around NYC.

― Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:50 (twenty years ago)

Devo - Girl U Want. Just for the unveiling of the guy drinking a milkshake on the exercise machine.

― Brian Turner (btwfmu), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 01:59 (twenty years ago)

What's the Cradle Of Filth video where the keyboardist uses mallets to play them?

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:36 (twenty years ago)

Not the funniest, but still pretty funny: Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube." Hey everybody, it's Bob and David!

― ng, Wednesday, 13 April 2005 03:52 (twenty years ago)

Rush - "Time Stands Still"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

Lyra Jane OTM. That video almost made me like Jet. But it’s more scary than funny.

How is it that the Darkness, Spinal Tap, Ludicris, Soundgarden, Ja Rule, Warren G, Foo Fighters, and Limp Bizkit haven’t been mentioned on this thread yet?

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 13:09 (twenty years ago)

I still remember laughing so hard when I first saw Dinosaur Jr's "Feel The Pain".

― Johnny Badlees (crispssssss), Wednesday, 13 April 2005 23:12 (twenty years ago)

any italo disco music video to thread!

― joseph (joseph), Thursday, 14 April 2005 00:58 (twenty years ago)

Ebenezer Goode, perhaps.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Thursday, 14 April 2005 03:38 (twenty years ago)

In the series of unintentionally goofy videos, I give you Finnish disco schlager from the seventies:

Armi & Danny: "I Wanna Love You Tender"

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Sunday, 17 April 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

The funniest video I've seen was a Celine Dion one involving billowing white curtains and a motorbike. I can't remember what song it was - can anyone help?

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 April 2005 12:02 (twenty years ago)

I have a winner and it's name is 'I didn't mean to turn you on' by Cherelle. Great Jam & Lewis song, but good god what the fuck were they thinking with the video:

It's all in black & white. Opens with Cherelle in a jungle (partly-animated). A 7 foot gorilla (ie. a guy in a dirt cheap costume) wanders up to her, scaring Cherelle - she shrieks and runs off. Cut to shot of gorilla's face gurning and looking a bit sad. Then the gorilla trips over a cartoon tree and falls, hurting himself. Cherelle bandages up his sore hand. Cherelle leaves on a little sailboat and gorilla wipes a tear from his eye and waves her off.

Now we're in Cherelle's fancy penthouse apartment. She dances about on her balcony with skyscrapers in the background, looks very nice. But then oh no! Gorilla has come to town. Cherelle is sat on her bed, preeing herself in a hand mirror when the gorilla's head appears in the window behind her - note that the gorilla is now around 80ft tall and is upside down in the window frame (he is on the top of the building, leaning over). Gorilla stands back up and does some body-popping and flips on the top of Cherelle's building. But in his excitement he bumps his head and little cartoon stars flutter about his skull.

Then gorilla smashes through Cherelle's window and grabs her in his hand. Cherelle lies sexily in his big paw, cooing 'I didn't mean to turn you on' at him. It ends with Cherelle seeming to wake up from a dream (the video turns colour) and looks at a copy of a King Kong comic next to her.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 17 April 2005 13:33 (twenty years ago)

I haven't seen it yet, but the new Geri video dissected at Pop Justice looks a cracker.

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 April 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

alba, i'm pretty sure that's "it's all coming back to me now" - very meatloaf-esque, no?

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:14 (twenty years ago)

Yes, I think that's it. Thank you!

― Alba (Alba), Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

i still maintain that this website has the BEST VIDEOS EVER

especially THIS

i guess this is more intentionally goofy than anything but still omgwtf

― joseph (joseph), Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

Joseph, that's incredible.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:36 (twenty years ago)

haha, when the girl opens the fridge and the two guys are sat there in deckchairs, waving happily, without a care in the world.

― Affectian (Affectian), Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

They Might Be Giants - Don't Let's Start

― zeus, Sunday, 17 April 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

Unintentionally : THIS, HOLY FUCKING SHIT

OWIE OWIE OWIE MY SIDES MY SIDES

― Gino-Vanellyville (Mackro Mackro), Saturday, 6 December 2008 07:48 (seventeen years ago)

ChrisDanePwens more like

― Kerm, Saturday, 6 December 2008 08:23 (seventeen years ago)

The Chris Dane Owens Experience forever! I love this song!!!

― Kevin John Bozelka, Saturday, 6 December 2008 08:44 (seventeen years ago)

kerm: i didn't now ann coulter even was a singing knight-pirate

― THE KRAMPUS (The Reverend), Saturday, 6 December 2008 08:49 (seventeen years ago)

Unintentional: Philip Michael Thomas - "Just the Way I Planned It"

― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:32 (seventeen years ago)

Touched By The Hand of God - New Order

― brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 7 December 2008 03:33 (seventeen years ago)

I have always and will always say Oizo'z "Flat Beat"

― our work is never over, Sunday, 7 December 2008 07:30 (seventeen years ago)

Ahh, I'll retract the second part.

― our work is never over, Sunday, 7 December 2008 07:38 (seventeen years ago)

The unintentionally funniest would be Stevie Wonder's "I Just Called To Say I Love You", which isn't even on Youtube.

― Geir Hongro, Sunday, 7 December 2008 11:52 (seventeen years ago)

one year passes...

Ted Leo & The Pharmacists - Bottled In Cork

― Hatch, Monday, 23 August 2010 18:31 (fifteen years ago)

ha pretty funny, kind of like pt. II of Yo La Tengo's "Sugarcube" video, even including a Mr. Show alumnus

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 23 August 2010 18:41 (fifteen years ago)

for comparison:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDgpQBaziy0

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 23 August 2010 18:43 (fifteen years ago)

sugarcube is kinda near-unbeatable tbh

― acoleuthic, Monday, 23 August 2010 18:46 (fifteen years ago)

ok the ted leo one is pretty good, last line especially

― acoleuthic, Monday, 23 August 2010 21:01 (fifteen years ago)

Thought the Leo video was kind of a letdown.

― no gut busting joke can change history (polyphonic), Monday, 23 August 2010 21:16 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVEdYYMlOJ4

― iago g., Monday, 23 August 2010 21:26 (fifteen years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku5sdcnQO4I

― Count Scrofula (corey), Monday, 23 August 2010 22:19 (fifteen years ago)

I saw ya!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bk04H-NdcY&feature=search

― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Monday, 23 August 2010 22:28 (fifteen years ago)

http://a.yfrog.com/img230/6450/pft3.gif

― Hatch, Monday, 23 August 2010 22:36 (fifteen years ago)

Holy shit @ that video for "Are You Ready for the Sex Girls?"

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:02 (fifteen years ago)

Also, the pie they make actually looks really good.

― Count Scrofula (corey), Tuesday, 24 August 2010 00:10 (fifteen years ago)

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