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Comedy Killed the Video Star
by QED Comedy Lab
Love music videos? This is the podcast for you! Hate music videos? This might also be the podcast for you. 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 based around a theme of their choosing. Join them for a rollicking conversation abot the music videos that they love, hate, love to hate, or just baffle them for a short history and examination of these strange remnants of pop culture.
Episodes
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Ep.11 - A Whole Nü World (w/Dustin Meadows)
This week our old pal Dustin Meadows (co-host of the Nü-Metal Who Dis? podcast) to introduce Matthew to the world of Nü-Metal staring with Killswitch Engage’s Holy Diver, a cover video of a cover song that id mutton chomping good. Then the high octane, danceable Push It from Static X where we try...
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EP.10 - UnFergivable (W/ Kitty Speed)
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...
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Ep.09 A Long Weeknd In Vegas (W/Alex Green)
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…
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Ep.08 - Three Short Films by Taylor Swift (W/Sarah Kennedy)
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…
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Ep.07 - The WAP Episode (W/ Kaytlin Bailey & Dr Charlene J. Fletcher)
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...
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Ep.06 - Music Videos With Totally Regular Endings (W/ Blake AJ)
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...
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Ep.05 - Takin’ it to the (Coronation) Street (W/ Kirsten Brown)
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...
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Ep.04 - Bro, Canada (W/Simone Belshaw)
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…
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Ep.03 - The Song's Got the Same Name as the Movie (W/Graeme Hunter)
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…
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Ep.02 - OK, You Can Stop Now (W/ Kathryn Mather)
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…
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Ep.01 - Throwing Hands (with Tyler Sonnichsen)
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…
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Comedy Killed the Video Star - Trailer
First Episode on 10 Jauary 2021 Subsribe now! Love music videos? This is the podcast for you! Hate music videos? This might also be the podcast for you. 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...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Love music videos? This is the podcast for you! Hate music videos? This might also be the podcast for you. 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 based around a theme of their choosing. Join them for a rollicking conversation abot the music videos that they love, hate, love to hate, or just baffle them for a short history and examination of these strange remnants of pop culture.
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QED Comedy Lab
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Love music videos? This is the podcast for you! Hate music videos? This might also be the podcast for you. 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...
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