This guy is a genius. From the music to the comedy and his great acting, he does it all so well. I always get excited when he shows up in small parts on shows like Curb Your Enthusiasm. Great work as Chuck in BCS.

@darranedmundson1505

9 ай бұрын

Yes, that's it. I couldn't remember where I saw him "recently". Thank you.

@SuperScar03

9 ай бұрын

Also great in Coneheads!!! (still one of the great comedies, even after all these years)

@tommyz9910

9 ай бұрын

Oh man, BCS. Chuck hit the feels hard.

@DebNKY

3 ай бұрын

The X Files. ❤

Interview Rule number one- let your guest speak.

Everybody in the UK thought Spinal Tap was real. And then we wondered why we'd never heard of them. And THEN, still not figuring it out, we kept on trying to buy their albums. For years. AND THEN, when we finally found out they were a spoof, we wanted them to be real - with real albums - and lo, it came to pass.

@herzeliedstein573

3 жыл бұрын

Me seeing the Blair Witch Project when it was in only a few cities Such a great experience

@Ingens_Scherz

3 жыл бұрын

@@herzeliedstein573 Ah, the pre-internet world - when fake was novel and fun!

@mrb4761

3 жыл бұрын

The POWER OF UK 🇬🇧 😄😄

@davidames1746

Жыл бұрын

Spinal Tap isn'r real?? And who is the guy on this interview?

@hibob418

Жыл бұрын

I’ll sell you my well-worn copy of Shark Sandwich for 100 pounds.

I loved the bit when they talk about Christopher Guest and retaining the rights to play Lenny that gave him diarrhea

@Ozziemints

3 жыл бұрын

Hysterical. 🙄🙄🙄

@toddsmith5172

3 жыл бұрын

Still holds up.

@blujay9191

10 ай бұрын

Yep. I am a big Spinal Tap fan and I never knew any of that.

@michaelelliott3209

10 ай бұрын

​@@blujay9191I still don't know any of that.

@Telstar62a

10 ай бұрын

Yeah, obviously they had to hurry that part and eventually cut it off, but I'm told Michael made it okay

To me, he was immortal comedicaly before Spinal Tap. He was Lenny, of Lenny and Squiggy fame.

@soeffingwhat

9 ай бұрын

True but Spinal Tap are known all over the World, Lenny and Squiggy might not be.

@bradyguy7701

9 ай бұрын

WAIT...WHAT??? THAT WAS LENNY???

@clark9992

9 ай бұрын

@@bradyguy7701 eeeyup.

@bradyguy7701

9 ай бұрын

@@clark9992 LOL. Or quietly to myself...or maybe with you. But probably not...

@davedavid7061

9 ай бұрын

theres a video of Lenny and the Sqigtones on Dick Clark show that when the band introduced themselves, The guitar player introduced himself as Nigel Tufnel. this was from 1978

Doesn't anybody remember how brilliant he was in Better Call Saul???

@coppulor6500

9 ай бұрын

I think anyone who watched it is well aware.

@lisetravis

9 ай бұрын

It was an amazing performance!

@musicformonsters

5 ай бұрын

Yes- but he is basically brilliant in everything he does

His scene on the witness stand in BCS (when he was on the stand and Jimmy "tricked" him with the phone battery) was utterly amazing and 100 percent believable. One of the best acting displays I have ever seen. RIP, Chuck. And, GFY. ;)

100% agree, he is a comedic genius.

I can’t believe he got diarrhea because Christopher Guest retaining the rights to Lenny!! I’ve never heard that story before. *and I STILL haven’t.

@12babyapes59

2 ай бұрын

That's why I clicked to hear.

Best in Show is another favorite.

@blujay9191

10 ай бұрын

That whole troop is great.

I still think Michael's BEST performance was when he played fear manifested as a clown on an episode of Star Trek Voyager (The Thaw)! Very underrated and outstanding!!!

@albinrose418

9 ай бұрын

Was this before or after "IT" by Stephen King was released?

@marks.3303

9 ай бұрын

That was a great and disturbing episode.

@michiganspencer6920

9 ай бұрын

@@marks.3303 To quote Captain Janeway..."I KNOOOOOOW!!!"

I love the bits where McKean is allowed to talk and it isn't the interviewer giving his own anecdotes about the college he went to that he expects everyone to be familiar with.

@tech-nomadic5218

2 ай бұрын

I always get pissed with Colbert for turning everything back on himself, glad to see someone else calling it out

@mikestevenson576

Ай бұрын

It's definitely a problem when we're interested in the subject. I think CBS viewers skew very old and most don't know what Spinal Tap is, so it does kind of behoove Colbert to take the reins.

@tech-nomadic5218

Ай бұрын

@@mikestevenson576 skew very old? people who were 20 when spinal tap came out are in their 60s now...

@mikestevenson576

Ай бұрын

@@tech-nomadic5218 They would be exactly 60. I think the median age for Colbert is significantly higher than that. It was 58 when Dave signed off a decade ago and broadcast TV audiences have aged hugely since then, and CBS tends to be the oldest in that group. Colbert frequently finishes first in total viewers but last in 'the demo'. Then add in that Spinal Tap was a cult phenomenon even among 20 year olds, and the bread is getting sliced paper thin. It's not Back To The Future.

@tech-nomadic5218

Ай бұрын

@@mikestevenson576 no matter what age, it's terrible interviewing skills and shows why his character was so good... that's actually how narcissistic he is and the character allowed him to let it out. honestly, it's a me thing but I really don't like the real colbert. he doesn't live the moment, he's always trying to create it.

I loved Spinal Tap and saw it at a College theatre in '84 but long before the Tap there was the "Rutles".

McKean is stellar. Lots of talent.

Some of his best work- on Better Call Saul -

The Credibility Gap was a great act. Sharp political satire.

A lot of influential comics and comic actors have come out of comedy/improv groups like the Credibility Gap, The Committee (Howard Hesseman and Peter Bonerz), The Groundlings (Paul Reubens and Phil Hartman), and, of course, Second City.

@jamesedwards2237

9 ай бұрын

And don't forget Cassandra Peterson and Pat Morita from the Groundlings.

2:29 Don't forget Lenny and the Squigtones.

Loved him as Mr. Green in CLUE.

Little-known fact about Spinal Tap: Nigel Tufnel also played with a band called Lenny and the Squigtones back in the day.

He should do a one-man show as Vincent Price.

I love Michael McKean: legend.

Buffoon Corbet didn't even know enough to mention Lenny and the Squigtones. "Night After Night" is one of the greatest love songs ever written. SMH

@RockoJerome

9 ай бұрын

Agreed. Lenny and Squiggy were secretly one of the funniest duos of the 20th century

@PuddlesMagoo

9 ай бұрын

Its about two nights in a row

Just saw him in a Law and Order repeat. Serious role. Outstanding. I'm a fan.

@mechanic6682

9 ай бұрын

What about in Better Call Saul? He played a great character in that.

@bigdaddystinkeye

9 ай бұрын

@@mechanic6682 Indeed. I mentioned the Law and Order role only because it was fresh in my memory. Just saw it a few days ago.

@marks.3303

9 ай бұрын

He's one of those comic actors who's able to effortlessly do drama. Not all of them can.

@bigdaddystinkeye

9 ай бұрын

Definitely a talented fellow@@marks.3303

Marvelous fellow. He's on my list of celebreties I'd love to get the chance to hang out with or invite as a guest to the perfect party. Have followed his career since his days as Lenny. Just love when I get to explain to people that yes, the guys in Spinal Tap are genuine musitians, BUT....

I know this is probably zoomed and cropped to avoid a copyright claim by CBS, but it makes me feel like I'm invading these guys' personal space.

LOVED Spinal Tap! My psycho first girlfriend made me erase the Hell Hole video that opened the VHS version. He's such a good actor. I totally forgot David St. Hubbins and loathed his character in Better Call Saul

I'm always fascinated, that he's a descendant of Col. Thomas McKean, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

@coppulor6500

9 ай бұрын

Wow! Very cool

@zebediahgammack5108

9 ай бұрын

But not the singer😂

I met Michael McKean twice in my life. The first time he was a lovely person that I used to say he was the nicest celebrity person I ever met. The second time not so much, very exacting and biting, quite insulting.

There is an interesting clip of Lenny & Squiggy playing in a 50's band on American Bandstand (1979) that is a hoot! And yes Harry & Chris are there.

@TheEWFX29

9 ай бұрын

They put out a album called Lenny and the Squigtones back in the 70s while they were on Laverne & Shirley.

@musicformonsters

5 ай бұрын

yes the flower people or something- fabulous

"There's no diarrhea story here?"

@7000fps

9 ай бұрын

Just corlbets failure at humor

For years, I had no idea this was a "fake" band! I first heard of Spinal Tap when they were interviewed in Guitar Player or some other guitarist oriented magazine back in the day before the internet and they even had some of their songs transcribed in that issue along side of other songs from actual bands (I have the issue somewhere in a box but I'm too lazy to dig through 15 or so boxes to find it but they were on the cover). I sought out the movie when I was in Germany and turned it off after the whole Shank Hall scene because I couldn't believe these guys were that dumb as a band. Fast forward two years and I moved to Milwaukee after leaving Germany and while on my way to work, a radio ad came on for Shank Hall and it triggered a thought about the band Spinal Tap. I watched the movie again and mentioned it to a guy at work and he told me that the Shank Hall here in MKE was named after the movie came out. It was then the lightbulb went off and I realized I had been bamboozled for those couple of years and it finally hit me! Yes. I will take to my grave the fact I thought Spinal Tap was an actual world famous band and not a parody. I admit it. Needless to say, the guys can play and are legit musicians. I also love This is Spinal Tap to pieces!

Video title is misleading. They don't talk about any if those things.

@maryirvine8153

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, there was no mention of Lenny at all, just about spinal tap, not that I wasn't interested.

@FerdinandCesarano

4 жыл бұрын

@@maryirvine8153 - Right. Spinal Tap is legendary, and rightfully so. But I know all about them. I don't know anything about any conflict involved in McKean retaining the rights to play Lenny.

@SkippyDipper

4 жыл бұрын

I was waiting for the diarrhea part.

@johndean4727

3 жыл бұрын

@@SkippyDipper we all do skipper.

Thanks Michael for saying it; Politics ruin everything! I just wish more stars would say it!

@SonnyGTA

9 ай бұрын

Steven did NOT like that!

@BrunetteOnTheCouch

5 ай бұрын

So sorry that fighting a fascist takeover is ruining your good time. RME

Great line, "Hey, I play the guitar!".

Michael Mckean is so cute in This is Spinal Tap

"Politics ruins everything."

@BrunetteOnTheCouch

5 ай бұрын

Fascism ruins more. But do go on.

Mc Mean's voice and English pronunciation is very good

@JeddorianJalapeno

9 ай бұрын

He's an American of course he speaks English and this accent is 100% authentic

I guess no one remembers that Michael was in Star Trek Voyager ep The Thaw.

Lol the bit about his arthritis is such a Spinal Tap line. Just imagine it in the accent.

I really wanted to hear about diarrhea.

Lenny & the SquigTones

Comic-effing-genius. Right there. On the left.

Key statement here "Politics ruins everything" pass it on!

Spinal Tap really just has a few great jokes that make the movie. Most is dull. Like “to 11” which is amazing.

Christopher Guest, Michael McKean duo went on giving my favorite type of comedy too many to count. The wife doesn't like it as she says it pokes fun at people. I feel there are troves of comedy in everyday life. Life itself is a walking contradiction. People are natural clowns weather meaning to or not. Its why everyone loves the meek and humble.

@demonmonsterdave

9 ай бұрын

The people being teased by it love it more than others do. Metal fans love it and respect it even while it intelligently mocks things we love. Your wife is emotionally immature.

@natestakely1478

9 ай бұрын

naaa, she just yearns for 50s decorum which is gone, buried and irretrievable.@@demonmonsterdave

@Barnaclebeard

9 ай бұрын

The humour they use is the sweetest, gentlest, most respectful humour you can find in American culture.

Today I learned that Laverne and Shirley was still on television in the 1980s

Didn’t hear him talk about retaining the rights to play Lenny.

Caption clearly says he was going to talk about Christopher Guest LOL well that never happened

@johndean4727

3 жыл бұрын

was it chopped off at the end.

@TheEWFX29

9 ай бұрын

Read the channel name.

Whats with the zoom after the conversion? It's your own video there shouldn't be any copyright issues. That normally happens on videos that aren't supposed to be uploarded.

@audibletapehiss3764

10 ай бұрын

They don't own doodly squat. Notice this is the Stephen "Corlbet" channel. Lol. The video is zoomed in and has no relation to what the title says!

And at the end of it: p.

I detested him on Better Call Saul. Acting job done perfectly!!!

Did I fall asleep? I didn’t catch the Lenny + Squiggy bit.

great in "dream on"

Noobs. He was immortal for Lenny and Squiggy before there was ever a Spinal Tap....

Mike going for the Chinaski look.

A legend and a derpy grifter. McKean is very talented.

Michael in "Used Cars", along with Squiggy.

Belzer was involved with Spinal Tap?

McKean has a great role in X-Files.

@leegarza3605

9 ай бұрын

I was just about to say that...one of my favourite episodes in fact.

Genius.

Well, he's also immortal for his role in The Princess Bride..... and Good Omens......

Where did he talk about Lenny? All I heard was stuff about Spinal Tap and Better Call Saul, then the video ended.

Why is it zoomed in and grainy?

Why is this cropped so badly?

Yeah Lenny and the Squigtones, too

No mention of Christopher Guest!

Who writes these titles?

'e was in Spinal Tap?

He and I have the same kind of arthritis.

Thumbs! It's so true! Aieeeeeeee!

Do talk show hosts go to school to learn how to continually interrupt their guests so they can't get more than 60 seconds of speaking in?

@presto709

4 жыл бұрын

You should get a talk show and show them how it's done.

@TruthSurge

4 жыл бұрын

@@presto709 I just TOLD you how it's done. Can you not read English?

@TruthSurge

3 жыл бұрын

@Jim McCracken At least Fallon seems to be very cordial and excited. What's that other non-funny host..... oh godz.... Jimmy Kimmel. He is constantly interrupting and seems to love hearing himself talk. At least Carson let the people talk till they were done with a sentence.

@Vichedges

3 жыл бұрын

@@presto709 I know how it’s done, they do a pre-interview so they’ll know what to say, they have cards to remind them what to say and they ask the same mindless questions we’ve all heard a million times before. It’s why nobody with a brain watches these late night shows anymore. I used to when I had 5 channels and it was Letterman or stare at the wall but why would you watch this crap now? I was just watching Tap videos and this showed up in my feed. The title made it sound possibly interesting but....spoiler alert....it wasn’t. First I’ve ever seen Colbert do an interview. He sucks.

@Vichedges

3 жыл бұрын

@@TruthSurge Fallon’s while a shtick is everything is awesome. Everything. He was horrible on SNL, always broke up laughed at everything.

Cousin Louie 🐧🎀

Your not supposed to be as confused as Nigel.

I didn't hear any of this stuff: "Michael McKean on Christopher Guest, retaining the rights to play Lenny, that gave him diarrhea." please explain.

Lenny & The Sqigtones .... everything after that was just chasing your tail

@pippishortstocking7913

9 ай бұрын

🤣

Steve did NOT want to acknowledge Michael’s comment “Politics ruin everything”. Stevens whole GIG is asinine whacko politics.

Who exactly is Steven Corlbet?

You're misleading with video title and channel name.

Lenny.

Title is misleading - nothing about Lenny

WTF is up with the title/headline? absolutely none of that is in the clip.

Clickbait. He didn’t talk about Christopher Guest. And the name of this channel misspells Colbert. 🙄

Michael McKean didn't talk about any of these things in this video.

It figures. The interview had nothing to do with the headline for the video. Typical of Stephen Colbert.

American talk show hosts don't seem to understand its all about the guests.... not them.

Belzer😢

What da heck with the image cropping?

Corlbet?

Long Live Joe Franklin.

@skeeterbodeen8326

10 ай бұрын

LOL, I think only NYC Tri-state area "Boomers" know about the Joe Franklin show....

funny guy

Not even with that part of the interview was about

Don’t you love the way every host on these shows nowadays fawns over every guest, telling them how “amazing” and “legendary” they are?

@joker_3517

3 жыл бұрын

We don't do this as much on UK chat shows , I personally hate all that stuff and I think the guests do .

@michaelelliott3209

10 ай бұрын

To be fair, they only fawn over the amazing and legendary ones

@JeddorianJalapeno

9 ай бұрын

Don't you just love how people with no claim to fame or body of work to stand-on crap on other famous talented people with Fame and well-earned admiration of their fans

how many kimono's do you need?

So where's the rest of the video where he talks about "retaining the rights to play Lenny, that gave him diarrhea"? 😡

Hey, I play guitar!

Watched for Micheal...love him but Click bait title 👎👎

Who the HECK Is Stephen CORLbet?

The Rutles were first

hahah, you bastards