If you’ve ever watched ANY documentary on the early days of punk rock, this video will make perfect sense. As a parody, it’s almost too spot-on. The only overt hint that it’s “taking the piss,” so to speak, is the very end where the typical talking head gives an absurd list of musicians’ names who attended the Sex Pistols Manchester Lesser Free Trade Hall gig.
The boisterous nostalgia merchant in this clip is Nigel Buxton, a.k.a. BaaadDad, father of Adam Buxton from the BBC Channel 4 comedy series The Adam and Joe Show. Sadly, Mr. Buxton passed away last November.
Ladies and Gentlemen: here we have EVERY clichéd punk documentary ever made in one two minute video.
“You can do this. You don’t have to take this bullshit anymore.”
British comic Adam Buxton does deadpan readings of YouTube comments on his Adam Buxton’s BUG TV series. He shows videos—some really good ones, too—-but the real draw of the show is the hilarity Buxton wrings from ordinarily mundane YouTube comments, especially when anonymous people with ridiculous web handles start arguing and insulting each other. He’s really funny. It’s a low budget program with some of the deepest laughs belly-laughs of anything currently on television. I highly recommend it.
But comedy renaissance man Adam Buxton does a lot of things beyond merely making me laugh so hard I cry, he’s also a musician, and a bit of a mimic. Here’s his imagined version of Scott Walker singing Will.i.am’s “Scream and Shout” featuring Britney Spears:
Someone called soudofjura quipped:
“The only thing that would improve this is if it were actually Scott himself.”
Close your eyes and it is!
Standing ovation!
Below, an episode of Adam Buxton’s BUG. The YouTube comments start at about 7:00 in:
When you work on a blog, you have to deal with the occupational hazard of Internet trolls on a daily, even hourly, basis. Being told how fat, old, ugly, ignorant, that you’re “on Obama’s payroll” and stupid shit like that throughout the day gets old really fast. Moderating the Disqus thread in the morning means you take your coffee with a nice slice of invective, even for the most innocuous things (like the idiot I banned who reacted to me posting a Neil Sedaka video—Neil fucking Sedaka!—as if I was the biggest fool on the planet, that my shitty taste in music had made me the goat boy laughingstock of the entire Internet, etc., etc. Why all the hate for Neil Sedaka, buddy? Forget your meds that day?).
What do any of these comments have to do Atomic Rooster? Nothing, not a blessed thing:
These comments reminded me of Brit wit Adam Buxton’s recent series on Sky HD in the UK, Adam Buxton’s Bug. Bug is ostensibly a show about music videos, but the music videos themselves are really just an excuse to give Buxton a reason to do his hilariously droll comic readings of YouTube comment threads. Here he is reading the thread for Die Antwoord’s “Enter the Ninja” video:
After the jump, the Atomic Rooster clip for “Devil’s Answer” that begat all this silliness…
British comedian Adam Buxton is one funny dude with a genuine sense of social obligation. In this instructional video, Buxton has provided us with a method to distinguish Moby from Moby look-a-like Michael Stipe, among others. This is an invaluable tool for those of you who would rather have your sex organs torn to shreds than encounter the real Moby in real life. I’ve downloaded this to my cell phone so that it’s available in case of emergency.