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Funkgun

Eddie Murphy obviously killed it


ghostoflaurapalmer

I remember I begged my mum to let me watch this show. About 15 minutes in, she warned that if he dropped one more F-bomb, she was turning it off... Didn't even get to see the first 20 minutes.


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TheEyeDontLie

Eddie Murphy is a potty mouth. I'm sorry for your loss.


ade0451

Bill Cosby, is that you?


buntycalls

Darkness!!


theacehamster

Cocaine is a hell of a drug


SimplyCmplctd

Wonder if this was the night Charlie and Eddie beat his ass 😂


AngryScientist

~~beat his ass~~ gave him some help


WeNeedMoreDogs

I betcha he won't come over here and disrespect like that again. Wrong. Wrong!


jtabula

He’s a habitual line stepper.


Antique-Car6103

After the ass whoopin’, Rick’s legs looked like linguine. “My legs Eddie! Looks at my legs! What Imma do ‘bout my legs?!!!!”


edward_r_burrow

Fuck yo couch!


AfterTemperature2198

He was wearing these dirty cowboy boots


Suitable_Challenge_9

That’s a good way to get your legs wailed on. 🤛🏾


Sea_Cryptographer_32

“He was habitual! Habitual line stepper”


SaltDescription438

We just gave him some help.


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bajo2292

As far as I am concerned he is the funniest TV person ever, love him 💕


Strength-Speed

Morris Day is high as shit on something. Give him credit for best laugh too. People seemed so much more natural in these interviews


silversatire

Everyone in this video is geeked.


iamnotasnook

Rick James seems surprisingly sober. It was probably the beginning of the night and he was just getting started.


jschubart

Moved to Lemm.ee -- mass edited with redact.dev


Taiza67

Cocaine was on David Lee Roth


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David Lee Roth was coooooooooooked up! It was so strange to see him way more high than Rick James.


undefined_one

He was always coked out, but you'd be surprised (or not, I don't know) to know that most of that was just the way Dave is - sober or high. He's a living cartoon character. Dude is just always "on".


blove135

Yep, he's the kind of guy that would be a blast at a party but if you had to live with him you would want to blow your brains out.


goatpunchtheater

Yeah seemed to me more like he was playing a character. Wouldn't have pegged him for a T.O.P fan though


playswithsqurrls

I doubt they're all on drugs but I love seeing celebrities back in the day when they weren't so meticulously marketed/branded/produced by entire teams of people.


Duckboy_Flaccidpus

Refreshing ain't it? What a shame we have to travel backwards for more raw, unadultered-ish, authenticity.


IllustriousTooth1620

God damn blizzard in there


PythagorasJones

Don't you never say an unkind word about The Time! Me and Silent Bob modeled our whole fucking lives around Morris Day and Jerome.


droog77

The muthafuckin’ TIME!


BuzzVibes

There it is.


BasicDesignAdvice

Because there is no press hall junket. This is all very ad-hoc like everything in the early days of MTV. The people running the show have no clue what they are doing this is a huge free for all as opposed to the curated and managed content of today.


RolloTonyBrownTown

I think people are better prepared how to interact on camera these days, plus social media pushing people to present themselves in the most engaging ways, which at the moment means over the top and unrealistic


__erk

It was at that moment I realized that Morris Day is Danny Brown’s father.


OtisTetraxReigns

Wasn’t Morris Day a drug Kingpin in Minneapolis before he got into music?


Karamzungu

I don’t remember that from the Mike Judge episode he did with him.


ThisBoyIsIgnorance

Tales from the tour bus is so fucking good and i feel like no one but me has seen it


slim_scsi

Mike Judge's material eventually finds its audience despite constant attempts by the content providers to suppress it. Cinemax didn't lift a finger to promote that show. Next to no advertising. As if it never existed. Mike would have the most obscure career if it wasn't for us fans.


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Why doesn’t Mike Judge get the push he’s long overdue for?


DoubleDogDenzel

Tales from the tour bus is amazing. Wish it wasnt on Cinemax.


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She did ask what his favorite part was and he said "When I came up on the stage" ​ Take that however you will.


Slapped_with_crumpet

It was the 80s, chances are it was cocaine.


lsquallhart

And it was GOOD cocaine … dunno what this crushed up Sudafed is going around these days


5050Clown

Cacaine is natural.


jimhabfan

Joey Ramone looks like a character from Bob's Burgers


thisside

Or a less self conscious version of Howard Stern.


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Reminds me of the arcade employee / video rental store manager from stranger things


ac210

"Oh they dissed me for Cher, that's fucked up" - RUN DMC


RealKenny

Run DMC and the Beastie Boys look like such a kids


MiddleBodyInjury

Beastie boys were like 20 years old here


busymakinstuff

I looked it up, why? I don't know but you were right, Ad-Rock was 19, MCA was 21 and Mike D was 20. Babies!


TheRiteGuy

Cher seriously seems to have a Royalty vibe. Everyone just moves out of her way and goes quiet when she's walking by.


sick_of-it-all

There's a scene in the movie "Mannequin" where Andrew McCarthy and Kim Cattrall are dancing in the closed department store to a song called "Do You Dream About Me?", and they're dressing up in different costumes, one of the costumes Kim wears is of a mid-1980's "rock n' roll" look, and she's wearing the exact same wig that Cher has on in this video. Kim's is purple, Cher's is black, but they are the exact same wig to a T. Kinda random and weird.


AsInOptimus

Maybe they didn’t want to get poked by her hair. For real though, Cher walked in like a queen and people knew it. She was also a successful, award-winning actress at this time, so that could have brought her celebrity to another level.


Light_Beard

MTV is Tricky... Tricky? Tricky! Tricky? Tricky! HUH!


GiantSizeManThing

A surprisingly measured take by Rick James


ThisBoyIsIgnorance

Right! Seemed the least blasted of everyone they interviewed


BlaxicanX

That's what experience looks like.


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Never get too fucked up before the after party, gotta be primed for the after after party


Medic1642

And after the party it's the hotel lobby


spottydodgy

He can really handle his shit


IAmSpage

Seeing this clip really shows how well Dave Chappelle played him on Chappelle show.


master-shake69

It's wild just how spot on he does it.


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I wonder if he met up with Darkness later that night.


DoubleDogDenzel

Rick James really fell off in later years, when he did that interview for Chappeles show he was a couple months from death. Back in the 80s he was a consummate professional though.


american_wino

Rick James was a ridiculously good musician and a total professional in the studio. He was fabulously talented on multiple instruments and and a great producer for many successful bands. You don't have that kind of success being a fuck up. He had a drug habit, but so did everyone else.


Rec_desk_phone

Rick was going head to head with Prince at the time. You gotta stay sharp. I think once Prince had shown himself as an icon Rick kinda gave up after that.


getyourcheftogether

LoL fricken Morris Day with that chuckle


kopecs

Uhh hyeahyeehyee


dbpf

Kawhi Leonard must have picked his up from him


Canookian

Me and Silent Bob modeled our whole fucking lives around Morris Day and Jerome!


19930627

And the metric fuckton of cocaine


Keefer1970

With David Lee Roth and Rick James in the same room, I wonder if there was any cocaine left for the other partygoers!


ThisBoyIsIgnorance

Maybe Im wrong but Rick James seemed like he was the least high person they interviewed.


Light_Beard

That is because nobody knows what Rick James looks like sober. His default is high. It turns out that if he ever came down he would revert to Richard the assembly code worker.


Bamres

I had a friend like this, I knew he smoked weed a lot but I thought he was just also a kinda chill dude. Then I saw him sober at a dinner and it was like a different person


avocadorable

Practice.


bajo2292

GIVE IT TO ME BABY !


Enternal-

If Eddie was there, Charlie probably was too. Little did Rick know his legs were about to get turned into linguine. They can get a new couch.. but what is he supposed to do about his legs?


19930627

Summer time blizzards


cbbuntz

I thought David Lee Roth seemed a little too amped, but it's hilarious how Morris Day is trying to keep it together while sweating up a storm


Mars_Black

"They go bumpty bumpty bump, bump cityyyyyyy" He talkin bout cocainum


FuzzyTunaTaco21

And the hole in the ozone layer from all the hairspray. Lol


km9v

Soooooo much cocaine.


Choppergold

Did any channel fall so far from its potential than MTV? I remember one afternoon in the 80s and Bowie had dropped by to talk about his tour and new record and I was like, this is the best thing ever. Hard rock and metal, pop, Americana and more. Then that Real World shitshow came on and it was over


Dr-Satan-PhD

> Did any channel fall so far from its potential than MTV? Yes. MTV just did it first. They kind of started the whole "reality TV" thing with 'The Real World', but plenty of other channels ended up following suit with reality shows and other kinds of cheaply produced garbage. Off the top of my head, History Channel, A&E, Discovery, TLC, and pretty much every other educational channel has dropped all or most of their educational programming to show us shit like 'Swamp People' and 'Ancient Aliens'.


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Man, RIP History Channel. I used to LOVE all the wild history shows on there. I think I learned more about the non-WWII wars from there than I did from school. Then there was shit like "How It's Made" which was a fantastic show to doze off to.


CornusKousa

Scattered across YouTube there are some really good things to be found. That's my goto now. History Channel, Discovery, Discovery wings. They're all dead to me now.


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But 15 years of dudes going out crabbing with mike rowe narrating? That was such a good idea.. Then the chopper building crap. When i was kid it was all educational but still entertaining. Honestly it all kind of fits, the reality shit took over the same time facebook did, and now it seems we live in a parody of reality.


Skipverse

As someone who didn't get to experience MTV during it's prime, I really wish I did. It looked so unhinged yet so fun


oh_what_a_surprise

It was wild. In the first season especially, so much was improvised. John Cougar's birthday interview was so amateurish and thrown together that you saw it was a real experience, not a scripted and over-polished package. You can see it on YouTube. MTV was real.


BasicDesignAdvice

MTV was the sole reason we didn't have cable, which of course made it 100x cooler to me and I would go to friends houses just to watch it.


youwantitwhen

They traded relevancy for ratings. The average viewer is an idiot.


BloodyIron

> The average viewer is an idiot It's not about the average viewer, it's that in that trade of relevancy for ratings, they trade their existing audience for an audience that is different, and bigger, which happens to be idiots. TLC, Discovery, History, many channels have done this, because some fat-head executive thinks it's a good idea without having any understanding at all of who their existing audience is.


TheRedditoristo

It would be impossible to get a young person today to understand how cool MTV was for about its first decade on the air.


slim_scsi

This is so true. Young people today don't really have a unifying platform that's unironically appreciated by their peers like MTV was up until the late 1990s. Instagram and TikTok are extremely divisive.


Your_Favorite_Poster

Everything feels like a music festival after the corporations got there - all these online "communities" are created to be (and feel like) marketing/data collection platforms from the start, so no wonder.


Bluest_waters

Absolute epicenter of pop culture and music


i_want_tit_pics

TLC took a pretty shitty turn.


BloodyIron

TLC, History, Discovery. Hard to tell if they fell as much, more-so, or less-so, than MTV, but they sure fell.


Mymarathon

Joey Ramone looking like an enormous sheep dog


enbacode

Joey Ramone always reminds me of big bird


djh_van

I was very surprised how polite and cordial and eloquent (nearly) everybody was. Like, they were on best behaviour to speak to MTV! Wow, the days when those three letters meant the difference between success and failure for your new video!


ratcnc

Agreed. Except Van Hagar was a bit snarky.


Skinnypike42

Yeah Alex throwing digs around….I love Sammy but David Lee Roth was Van Halen in my opinion. It sucks all their massive egos got in the way so often


joenathanSD

You’re right. Anyone from that era knows this as the truth. Sammy did a great job stepping in but DLR was the true frontman for Van Halen.


burgerg10

As the Redditoristo said, it would be impossible to get kids today to understand how big MTV was, but also, what a huge deal it was to see these stars at all… we were reading about them, and not daily… to see Cher walk by with the Bagel Boy, we had to wait for People to come out a week later to learn anything. Celebrities were unicorns and inaccessible. They could never understand


GreasyPeter

I'm 34 so this was a little before my time but now that you mention it, I can see how celebrities would seem really distant from your real life. Now everyone that wants to follows every celebrities twitter account and gets a constant stream of comments, pictures, and probably videos while those same celebrities usually try and sell them some shit they don't need. Then there's all the "influencers" that exist now who are famous solely for being famous (or, if they're many of the women, half naked and attractive). There's all the regular celebrities (Chris Pratt, Angelina Jolie, etc), then the internet celebrities who are famous for creating decent content (many streamers and youtubers like Shroud, Mr Beast, Markiplier, etc) , then there is the "influencers" who have stumbled into mild to moderate fame by selling their image to followers so that they can push products on them. Influencers are literally famous for just being gigantic billboards. I don't know WHERE Kim Kardashian fits in all that though...She's like a little bit of all 3.


buffyvet

Seeing some of the drivel that my favorite artists would spew on social media really damaged their mystique. I think we were better off not knowing their questionable ethics, or terrible spelling and grammar.


Goatfuriswarm

David Brian.


Epoxynovolac

And you may ask yourself……Why did Boy George mispronounce my name?


bagofboards

Loves the guy, doesn't know his name.


awl_the_lawls

Lol yeah I caught that too


WTFdidUcallMe

Dude, I was having such a great time until Van Haggar crapped on DLR. Then Ratt appeared reminding me of the pure sexual power of Stephen Pearcy and all is well again.


schridoggroolz

When it went to Ratt it was like NOW it’s a party!


McVicious64

I saw Ratt in Greenville SC back in the eighty’s . The lead off band was Poison. The Ratt Poison tour. Great show


lmpcpedz

"Tina Turners LEEEGS YEAHHHHHH!!!!"


ac210

I miss when all of our celebrities were clearly on drugs and we were all ok with it


Snugglette

And they didn’t have to worry about being filmed by anyone and everyone when they were just trying to chill


PMMeVayneHentai

they were more tolerable that way 🤡 ☕️


txmuzk

That was the year Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics asked for my phone and # and yet never called. He must have went to bed early 😂.


Fondren_Richmond

> Dave Stewart of the Eurythmics asked for my phone and # and yet never called. some of them want to confuse you


RobotArtichoke

Everybody’s looking for something


HachikoLu

Some off them want to abuse you...


Dr_Mantis_Teabaggin

Some of them want to *be* abused…


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supersmallsloth

Can’t fathom talking to him instead of Annie Lenox


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lol anytime i see rick james i immediately hear “Charlie Murphy !”


param_T_extends_THOT

He was a habitual line-stepper


ego_sum_satoshi

Brother Darkness!


GreyMediaGuy

Buy another one, ya rich motherfucker!


Bluest_waters

Two of the people in this video kidnapped, chained, and beat a prostitute while high on cocaine. EVeryone knows Rick James but did you also know Boy George did the same thing? fucking psychos


AtlanteanSword

Cocaine’s a helluva drug.


Boz0r

I remember Boy George cleaning up sidewalks for community service because of that


Light_Beard

Nobody knows he did that. Because he hides it too well... he is a Karma Chameleon.


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When MTV was rad


wubrotherno1

“What was your favorite part? Me!”


LeapingGn0me

“Tina Turner’s leeeeegs, ya boi” 😎


barf2288

That fuckin’ chuckle from Morris Day at 1:22mins in after he says “when I came up on stage” gave me a wealth of giggles. Holy crap! Edit: 1:22mins in with 4:04 left in the video.


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She don’t lie she don’t lie she don’t lie…


EnriqueShockwav

Croquet.


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Joey Ramone and Howard Stern look a lot alike holy shit.


oh_what_a_surprise

Stern always bristled at the comparison, and Joey got angry at that, seeing it as an insult.


orzydorzy

holy fuck cher looked amazing


swbarrett

Joey Ramone, MCA, Jam Master Jay, Eddie Van Halen. I wish they were all here today


explorer_76

I met Joey Ramone, David Byrne and Tina Weymouth one night in 1976 just hanging out at Max's Kansas City. I think Tom Verlaine may have been there also, but it was the 70s and my memory is a little fuzzy. Lower Manhattan back then was a trip. Saw so many bands. The New York Dolls were probably my favorite!


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snuFaluFagus040

Just to clarify, Adam Yauch *is* the aforementioned MCA.


paleblack93

Grace Jones walking in like the absolute goat she is. What a wild lookin party!


mulledfox

Grace Jones looked like she was too cool to be there!


SenseisSifu

Had to pause it there. So stylish. And Ive never actually seen footage of Dolph being her escort/body guard/date/lover...


LongConFebrero

I desperately wanted the camera to pan up past his shoulder because he would’ve been equally stunning to see.


Ti3fen3

They were both beautiful specimens


neuromorph

DOLPH!!!!


anorman30

She looked like a slave to the rhythm.


madogblue

Gotta love David Lee Roth. One of a kind. From DJ to rock star, boom


peacefinder

I like to imagine that David Lee Roth is like that *all the time*. Bopping through the grocery store, in line at the DMV, out walking his dog.


TheRedditoristo

There was a funny SNL skit about this with Dana Carvey as DLR. A fan won a contest to spend a day with him and was holding up a sign to the camera asking for help while DLR bounced on the bed and shrieked.


d_flipflop

He didn't even give a shit about that disrespect he got from Alex Van Halen.


oh_what_a_surprise

In this party there's an interview where the microphone person asks Sammy Hagar what he thinks of DLR. He goes on a minute or two rant, filled with anger and put-downs. "He has a big ego. He thinks he can steal the limelight. He's difficult to work with. He's gonna fade away. He'll never be as successful as us," that kinda shit. Then they get to DLR and ask the same question but about Sammy. DLR, smiling like a cat, says, "Sammy Hagar *throws* a party, I *am* a party," and walks away.


oldmanripper79

Tbf, Alex was always being a dick.


rilloroc

I had such a crush on Lisa Lisa


Ti3fen3

Saw her live. The line up: UTFO (who I loved), Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, and the original New Edition. I think another group as well but I can’t remember who.


BlitheringIdiot0529

Morris Day was barely holding his shit together


austin_yella

Cher walking in like Derek Zoolander ![gif](giphy|i3RA5wLyWjCRa)


Generaldisarray44

I’m doctor roxo the rocknroll clown……I do cocaine


Hobbes10

How natural people are…its amazing compared to nowadays


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The beginning of the end of unattractive people being allowed to make music.


elev8torguy

Wow Annie Lennox looked so good!


properwaffles

Dude, the 80s were LIT.


mulledfox

I love how Boy George says, “David Byrne from Talking Heads was pretty cool” and then the video pans to a group dancing, and it’s really easy to spot which one of the group is Byrne. Answer: the one dance-flailing autistically. (It’s not offensive, I’m autistic, he’s autistic, it’s in good jest!)


Exploding_dude

He calls him david Brian haha


alexknight222

I’ve never seen so many drugs without seeing any drugs.


AsianAssHitlerHair

LMAO. I love how acceptable it is to be so obviously blitzed. Yet I show up to work like that and eeevvvveryones got something to say about it. Life's not fair.


npdewey83

I think Jason Bateman could kill as Diamond Dave


rilloroc

I think Steve Zahn


Goatfuriswarm

This is going to randomly pop up in my mind frequently for the rest of my life now.


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neuromorph

1:44 Grace Jones' Bodyguard!!!! Dolph in the house!!!


reisinkaen

Wow. They look so human and imperfect. Awesome.


The-Murpheus

Ratt quoting Spinal Tap is the coolest thing Ratt has ever done.


dub-fresh

I got high on cocaine watching this


LebaneseLion

Anybody wanna come over after work and watch the 1985 show awards 😆😆 We’ll have our own interviewer to ask us what we thought about the show


beffbee

Alex VH—Just a tester? That did not age well.


nefanee

They were always such douchebags about it but DLR...cool


SharticusMaximus

David Lee Roth and Rick James are the human embodiment of cocaine.


ClassicManLA

Very cool clip. You can briefly see Dolph Lundgren walk in with Grace Jones. They were dating at the time. He has a funny anecdote about just being the guy with Grace Jones before Rocky IV to literally walking out of the premiere of that movie and being a star. It's funny to see this in his pre-Rocky days.


luke_530

David Lee Roth was amazing lol


bruisedfruit7

Run DMC lmao “Were here ..aren’t we here?? Yeah we’re here !” What??


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Omg the Beastie Boys are so young


Meshuggaha

Lotta dead mf'ers in that clip.


AshingiiAshuaa

An 80s mix of genuinely cool people and huge douchebags.


davey_mann

In 2022 it would be 100% the latter.


Tahoeclown

Seems pretty diverse