MHV #255: INLAND EMPIRE: THE FAN EDIT
Jul
29

MHV #255: INLAND EMPIRE: THE FAN EDIT

Perhaps the most controversial Museum episode yet? Before the existence of Museum of Home Video…and before Bret was even a film programmer…he impulsively created an 80-minute fan edit of David Lynch’s most mercurial work. Now, almost 20 years later, Bret’s returned to the scene of the crime and made a completely new fan edit of INLAND EMPIRE for today’s Museum audience.

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MHV #256: CREAM OF TALK SOUP '93
Aug
5

MHV #256: CREAM OF TALK SOUP '93

 E! Entertainment Television’s “Talk Soup” was one of the many early inspirations for Museum of Home Video’s format, and a wild time capsule of ‘90s daytime talk nonsense to boot. Tonight we celebrate both “Talk Soup” and daytime talk itself with the show’s extended 1993 best-of episode. Here, OG host Greg Kinnear operates at peak insouciance while ducking and covering from Richard Bey, Vicki, Jerry, Downey, Joan, Ricki, Sally Jesse, Maury, Larry King, and special guest star Phil Hartman.

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MHV #257: SWEDISH CHEF MEGAMIX
Aug
12

MHV #257: SWEDISH CHEF MEGAMIX

What happens to the human brain when you watch every Swedish Chef segment from “The Muppet Show” in a row? We’ll find out tonight, as we stroll through thirty nonstop minutes of mush-mouthed mumbly comedy classics like “Chocolate Moose”, “Chicken In The Basket”, and “Turtle Soup” while dodging flying utensils. Børk!  Børk! Maybe we’ll tackle Lew Zealand next…

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MHV #258: Fasterpiece Theater - THE DOORS
Aug
19

MHV #258: Fasterpiece Theater - THE DOORS

guest-presented by Major Label Debut

The ultimate in cinematic hero worship, and the most expensive rock ‘n roll biopic ever filmed. Drunk on power and unlimited budget after multiple Oscar wins in the Eighties, Oliver Stone kicked off his Nineties with the utterly ridiculous THE DOORS, starring Val Kilmer in the role of a lifetime as everyone’s fave Boomer narcissist d-bag/poet extraordinaire Jim Morrison.  Tonight’s Fasterpiece treatment is presented by “Major Label Debut”: the podcast hosted by Tokyo Police Club’s Graham Wright, all about iconic rock major label debuts!

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MHV #259: JUDY GEMSTONE, ESQ.
Aug
26

MHV #259: JUDY GEMSTONE, ESQ.

We like our TV comedy divas uncouth and unhinged! It’s hard to pick a favorite character where “The Righteous Gemstones” is concerned, but Judy Gemstone has off-the-charts evil charisma. Here’s a tightly-edited platter of our favorite Judy moments. In Edi Patterson’s own words, “I just kind of figured that no filter, plus entitlement, plus truly feeling like you're being chosen by God would lead to some wild shit.”

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MUSICVIDEODROME #84
Aug
29

MUSICVIDEODROME #84

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A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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MHV #260: JONES, BUSEY, WELLES on DINAH! 1979
Sep
2

MHV #260: JONES, BUSEY, WELLES on DINAH! 1979

A star-studded celebration of daytime talk banality, with a murderer’s row of iconic, wide-ranging personalities muttering word salad while the world watched. Here, Southern belle Dinah Shore (gently) lays down the law with her marshmallow demeanor. She’s the perfect breezy foil to the loose-cannon brusqueness of Orson Welles, the loose-cannon gruffness of Gary Busey, and the loose-cannon vocal fireworks of Grace Jones (who practically whips the audience into submission.)

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MHV #261: MST3K: “MITCHELL”
Sep
9

MHV #261: MST3K: “MITCHELL”

Perhaps the funniest episode MST3K ever produced? Joel & Co. were firing on all cylinders against this incomprehensible Seventies cop jaunt starring slob extraordinaire Joe Don Baker and our beloved beady-eyed John Saxon. This is also the key episode in which Joel Hodgson taps out as host, with Mike Nelson swapping in for the remainder of the series’ original run. Keep circulating the tapes!

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MHV #263: CAMP HOLLYWOOD
Sep
23

MHV #263: CAMP HOLLYWOOD

Wanna-be stars in a no-star hotel! In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle came to Los Angeles with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream. Instead of making it big in stand-up comedy, Markle crafted this utterly fascinating, haunting, and sad feature doc about the chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts, and industry-adjacent aspirants he met during his two-month stay at the Highland Gardens Hotel.

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MUSICVIDEODROME #83
Jul
25

MUSICVIDEODROME #83

FRIDAY NIGHT! SABBATH! GINA X! FUNKADELIC! LUDACRIS IS SHAGADELIC! WE GO TO A BELGIAN RAVE! SPOTLITE on an amazing episode of THE MIDNIGHT SPECIAL with BILLY PRESTON, LABELLE, RUFUS ft. CHAKA KHAN & MORE!

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About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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MHV #254: RICHARD SIMMONS SPEAKS!
Jul
22

MHV #254: RICHARD SIMMONS SPEAKS!

Unapologetically himself from beginning to end, Richard Simmons was a singular force, a geyser of kindness, a genuine force for change (rather than just a proto-wellness influencer), and a collector of the shortest shorts. Richard’s tireless work ethic helped him blaze a path through 40+ years of American television and radio, and we’re stoked to summarize that tonight. See Richard ride the wave through daytime talk, nighttime talk, syndicated talk, his half-hour series, infomercials, and even “American Bandstand”.

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NY Nites #15
Jul
20

NY Nites #15

The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

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MHV #253: THE SHINING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS
Jul
15

MHV #253: THE SHINING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS

Tonight we get very conceptual! A “Dark Side of the Rainbow” for the 21st century, THE SHINING FORWARDS AND BACKWARDS is a hallucinatory, palindromic brainbomb resulting from musician John Fell Ryan’s literal interpretation of a fellow obsessive’s statement that “THE SHINING is a film meant to be watched both forwards and backwards.” This structural found-footage epic riffs on Kubrick use of doubles, symmetrical compositions and enigmatic suggestions of non-linear time, creating unexpectedly profound moments at nearly every turn.

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IRL EVENT: CAMP HOLLYWOOD
Jul
10

IRL EVENT: CAMP HOLLYWOOD

LIVE EVENT @ WHAMMY! - GET TIX HERE

WANNA-BE STARS IN A NO-STAR HOTEL

Required viewing for every Angeleno, whether you’ve been here just a few months or your entire lifetime!  In the early Aughts, aspiring Canadian comic Steve Markle comes to Hollywood with little more than a MiniDV camera and a dream.  He rents a room at the fabled Highland Gardens, a grubby residential hotel where optimists like himself land at what they hope to be a temporary crash pad on their way to the top (fun note: the hotel still exists!).  Previous residents like Errol Flynn, L. Ron Hubbard, Brad Pitt and Janis Joplin give the dusty place its enduring mystery and luster, while its current occupants – some of whom viewers will recognize after recovering from a double-take – seem enamored with its history, hoping that Golden Age magic will transfer onto them.

Here, just a few blocks away from the Walk of Fame, Markle starts recording this off-kilter collection of chain-smoking creatives, ex-cons, outcasts, poets, addicts and industry-adjacent aspirants during his two-month stay at the Gardens.  First broadcast on Canadian television two decades ago, CAMP HOLLYWOOD is a heartbreaking, continuously fascinating snapshot of a community and what one resident dubs “the myth of people who have the guts to live their dreams.”

‍Co-presented by Museum of Home Video (a weekly broadcast of found footage for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers) & L.A. Daze, an occasional stream on MoHV’s network offering transmissions from the city of fallen angels.

dir. Steve Markle, 2004
Canada, digital projection,
72 min

7:30 DOORS
8:00 SCREENING

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MHV #252: TOO LEGIT - THE M.C. HAMMER STORY
Jul
8

MHV #252: TOO LEGIT - THE M.C. HAMMER STORY

The best and most entertaining of VH1’s Aughties-era celebrity biopics! This cautionary Hammertale features money earned, money lost, joyous dancing and more mishegoss. Along the way, we find out MC Hammer (played pretty well by Romany Malco, THE 40-YEAR OLD VIRGIN) was a batboy for the Oakland A’s, sold thousands of self-financed ‘80s LPs from the trunk of his car and even spent some quality time with Tupac Shakur while in a Death Row Records poseur phase.

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MHV #251: MISS PIGGY’S HOLLYWOOD
Jul
1

MHV #251: MISS PIGGY’S HOLLYWOOD

One of the most consistently funny Muppet artifacts of Jim Henson’s post-LABYRINTH phase, featuring an absolutely on-fire Frank Oz in dual starring roles as Miss Piggy and Fozzie. Written and directed by some key lifers from the Muppet creative team, this is one to remember. Piggy roams around L.A. meeting Bob Hope, Dudley Moore, and George Wendt. Fozzie has a disastrous stint onstage at the Comedy Store.

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MUSICVIDEODROME #82
Jun
27

MUSICVIDEODROME #82

A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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MHV #250: BIZARRO JESSICA FLETCHER
Jun
24

MHV #250: BIZARRO JESSICA FLETCHER

For the momentous occasion of our 250th episode, we explore a rarely-seen episode of a total fan favorite. Did you know that, in the middle of the 4th season of “Murder, She Wrote”, Angela Lansbury played her British cousin solving a murder in the UK, and that the guy who played Mr. Belvedere was her sidekick?! This out-of-body viewing experience will make you reignite your Angela obsession once more.

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NY Nites #14
Jun
22

NY Nites #14

The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

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MHV #249: EARTHA KITT SPEAKS
Jun
17

MHV #249: EARTHA KITT SPEAKS

She was one of a kind. She styled her songs in a way that can never be done by anyone else. She came from poverty and abuse to International fame and wealth. She did it on her own. She created a new life for herself and her daughter. Eartha Kitt’s story is just incredible…hear it from her own words, in news and talk show clips.

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MHV #248: CAROL BURNETT DOUBLE FEATURE
Jun
10

MHV #248: CAROL BURNETT DOUBLE FEATURE

Carol always deserves celebrating, regardless of the time of year. Her scenes in ANNIE are so good that we’ve made a fan edit of just her scenes only (some of which have Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters.) We’ve also included a heaping helping of the breathless theater farce NOISES OFF, where Carol trades barbs with Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, John Ritter, Marilu Henner, Denholm Elliott, and Julie Hagerty!

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MHV #247: DRACULA’S ANGEL
Jun
3

MHV #247: DRACULA’S ANGEL

Even the most diehard fans of aesthetically unpleasant CGI have never seen anything like DRACULA’S ANGEL, a galaxy-brained 2010s backyard D.I.Y. CGI looksmaxxed vampire tale that one Reddit user describes as “seemingly scripted from a ‘90s chatroom exchange based on the idea of erotic fanfic”.

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MUSICVIDEODROME #81
May
30

MUSICVIDEODROME #81

Babushkas break bad! Get spanked by MADONNA and PATRIARCHY! BRITTANY MURPHY is a speedy feline! SPOTLITE on the cathartic, hypnotic & futuristic Ugandan drum & electronic group NIHILOXICA!

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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MHV #246: DAVID LYNCH SAYS
May
27

MHV #246: DAVID LYNCH SAYS

In tribute, lots of words from David himself. Part of the appeal of Lynch’s work was his accompanying personality, that of the surreal statesman. Tonight we go gaga for Lynch’s specific conversational TONE. "I love mysteries, to fall into a mystery and its danger...everything becomes so intense in those moments. So I want things to feel solved up to a point, but there's got to be a certain percentage left over to keep the dream going. You understand it, but you don't understand it, and it keeps that mystery alive. That's the most beautiful thing." - David Lynch

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MHV #245: KIDS IN THE HALL S.3
May
20

MHV #245: KIDS IN THE HALL S.3

Chicken Lady, “Girl Drink Drunk”, Buddy Cole and Tammy, oh my! KITH’s first two seasons bore lots of interesting sketch comedy fruit, but Season 3 is where our Canadian Kids turn on the burn…Mark, Bruce, Dave, Scott, and Kevin explode with a high batting average and very, very few duds. When cutting this piece, we found so much great material that we’ll save the rest for a Season 3, Part 2 to emerge soon.

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NY Nites #13
May
18

NY Nites #13

The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

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MHV #244: TONIGHT SHOW ‘79 hosted by KERMIT THE FROG
May
13

MHV #244: TONIGHT SHOW ‘79 hosted by KERMIT THE FROG

Yes, this really happened!  To promote their first film THE MUPPET MOVIE, Jim Henson & Co. took over The Tonight Show for one evening (w/ guests like Vincent Price, Bernadette Peters and Leo Sayer). Kermit and Fozzie find out the hard way that hosting nighttime talk is harder than it looks! A lot of awkward improv and some genuinely interesting moments abound. As well, Bernadette and Leo do Muppet musical numbers.

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MHV #243: THE QUESTOR TAPES
May
6

MHV #243: THE QUESTOR TAPES

Part ‘70s sci-fi buddy comedy and part stealth queer romance(?!), THE QUESTOR TAPES (‘74) is one of several TV pilots from Gene Roddenbery that never went to series. Tonight we look at QUESTOR through the Fasterpiece lens…lots of bleeps, lots of bloops, tons of OG computers, and a robot getting randy.

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MHV #242: LAURIE ANDERSON MIXTAPE
Apr
29

MHV #242: LAURIE ANDERSON MIXTAPE

LaurIe Anderson just rocks. She’s one of America’s most renowned and daring creative pioneers in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Known for her multimedia work, she has cast herself in the roles of visual artist, composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker, electronics whiz, vocalist, and instrumentalist. Tonight we dip our toes into her career and hear her in her own words.

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MUSICVIDEODROME #80
Apr
25

MUSICVIDEODROME #80

MUSICVIDEODROME: A joyous and frenetic stumble through the archives of music television, coming at you monthly! Forgotten live performances, modern and classic music videos, outrageous interviews & more. Hosted by the International Voice of Reason.

About IVOR: IVOR, a 20-year veteran of weirdo free-form radio, is survived by his two tuxedo cats and a giant pile of rug yarn.

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MHV #241: ALL FOUR AIRPORT MOVIES
Apr
22

MHV #241: ALL FOUR AIRPORT MOVIES

This seemed like a hilarious high-concept idea to execute, so here we go!  The iconic yet stuffy AIRPORT quadrology—those creaky ‘70s disaster films crammed full of celebrity bit parts and increasingly incredulous mid-air premises—starts to look real fun when run through the Fasterpiece Theater filter. George Kennedy, Karen Black, Linda Blair, Erik Estrada, Christopher Lee, Charo, oh my!

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NY Nites #12
Apr
20

NY Nites #12

Host Adam Baran brings us another slice of NY nightlife across the decades. Adam pitched us the headliner thusly (and really, how could we possibly say no to this): "If you don't mind, Bret, I’ll screen a 90-minute "conversation" between delusional icon Sharon Stone and delusional art critic Jerry Saltz that took place at the 92Y as the majority of the episode, and I can put some videos and commercials or something up top…”

The wildest city in the world gets even wilder at NITE! Filmmaker and nightlife guru Adam Baran (TRADE CENTER, CIRCUS OF BOOKS) curates an after-hours examination of the brilliance and beauty of New York, New York.

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IRL EVENT: 5 MINUTES GAME
Apr
17

IRL EVENT: 5 MINUTES GAME

LIVE EVENT @ VIDIOTS IN EAGLE ROCK - GET TIX HERE

Vidiots welcomes back our found footage besties Museum of Home Video with an event they like to call “the Super Bowl for moviegoers”.  *Every* movie is fascinating for its first five minutes: that brief moment before it either hooks you or loses you.  For the 5 Minutes Game, we’ve lined up ten unpredictable movies you’ve never seen or heard of.  We’ll watch the first five minutes of each — and then you, the audience votes on what we’ll watch in full.  If you think you’ve uncovered all the strange videos left to discover, think again!

This event is co-hosted / co-curated by Josh Miller (co-screenwriter of Violent Night and the Sonic The Hedgehog movie franchise!)

Museum of Home Video is a found footage livestream for stoners, seekers, archivists, and drinkers. Each week at museumofhomevideo.com, VJs Bret Berg, Jenny Nixon and IVOR mix the best and wildest bits of late-night talk, game shows, local programming, movie wowzers, and commercial breaks. Like Weird Al’s UHF with a college radio vibe, the site’s other dazing and amazing streams include Musicvideodrome and the kids-themed Playtime.

TIX AVAILABLE NOW: Thursday, APRIL 17 at 7:30pm

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MHV #239: THE WEIRD YEAR
Apr
8

MHV #239: THE WEIRD YEAR

On this program we’ve tackled the bewilderment of SNL’s infamous Season 6 (1980, post-OG cast) and Season 10 (all-timer ‘84 cast w/ Martin Short, Chris Guest, Harry Shearer). The specter of 1985’s Season 11 has next loomed large…the weird transition period when Lorne Michaels returned to bring in what he hoped was a cohesive ensemble: Robert Downey Jr, Joan Cusack, Randy Quaid, Danitra Vance, queer icon Terry Sweeny, Jon Lovitz, Nora Dunn, Damon Wayans, Dennis Miller. So we’ll watch a truly excellent doc on the subject which (trust us) covers it all better than we ever could with a sketch edit.

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