'a mans relationship with the devil is his own private affair' brilliant.

Michael McKean's blank "dumb" facial expressions are killing me. Then he spits some knowledge that's Satanically brilliant.

This is the reason why Spinal Tap became such a cult movie, this is brilliant comedy. How can they not crack each other up.

@danielishere734

5 жыл бұрын

Michael McKean looks like he's going to laugh a few times

@kdonoghue

3 жыл бұрын

Agreed, but also have to include the camera operator who knows just when to zoom in on Derek Smalls when he is picking his nose.

@productwholeslave2122

2 жыл бұрын

Wtf is that sneeze lmao

@highlanderlj

2 жыл бұрын

Tell me about it. They crack me.up continually 🤣😆🤣😆😂😂😂😂

@matthewotooleis

2 жыл бұрын

I think they are trying to crack each other up.

„Some guitarists have style and technique. I got volume“ (Nigel Tufnel) 😁

Love it. "Mozart! Mozart! Don't play loud! But he would."

I've followed the Tap since the time I was just a sprog in Chiswick, and I have appreciated their intellect and philosophy as much as their music. They are the thinking person's heavy metal band.

@robstimson4234

3 жыл бұрын

Plus they have feelings. Remember graveside at Elvis' grave? "Well, this is depressing.."

@productwholeslave2122

2 жыл бұрын

@@robstimson4234 and They have a notable sense of humor... Remember, Nigel says, maybe they should have done it in bobly

@productwholeslave2122

2 жыл бұрын

And in this, again, Nigel says, no no it's too late for you....

@richterscalemedia7790

2 жыл бұрын

True poets those three. Fire, ice and luke-warm water.

@nobugsinak

Жыл бұрын

Before Spinal Tap, no other heavy metal band thought an amp could go to 11. That's because no other heavy metal bands were thinking. They're not just the thinking person's heavy metal band. They're the thinking heavy metal band.

"It's a thin line between clever and stupid". Nigel Tuffnell

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

2 жыл бұрын

If you're been in bands, you lived every bit of that movie, irl

@ourcorrectopinions6824

2 жыл бұрын

David St. Hubbins said "it's a thin line between clever and..." Derek Smalls said "stupid". Not a Nige quote.

@AndyDavis39

Ай бұрын

🧿❤💙🚗🚙❣🦋🧿

These are probably the best English accents done by any American.

@jrb1802uk

3 жыл бұрын

Lake Bell in Man Up. Best English accent ever by an American.

@DarkDeath-yg7nv

3 жыл бұрын

so not dick van dyke in mary poppins?

@NxDoyle

3 жыл бұрын

Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger. They're bang on. Chris Guest is the only one of the three who has it 100% right all the time, but he's half-English.

@jrb1802uk

3 жыл бұрын

@@NxDoyle Not 100% of the time. More 90% .. but yes hes better than McKean and Shearer

@davidbull7210

3 жыл бұрын

@@jrb1802uk Guest then Shearer then McKean

I love it when Nigel does this little chewing action while he's waffling on about Mozart :D The subtleties like this are what makes them fkn hilarious :D

Go to any Oasis interview after watching this. 😂

@kurakura281

3 жыл бұрын

Legend has it that Liam watched the whole of Spinal Tap without realising it was a spoof.

@terrimcghee6922

3 ай бұрын

@@kurakura281apparently there were others back in the 80’s who thought it was a real “Rocumentary” and some one said they should have featured a well known band!

Amazing how they kept a straight face during interview

@Moluccan56

9 ай бұрын

They were the best at that! I wonder if they were having a quiet competition to see who would break first. They never did by the look of it.

"Satan....sure it's great stuff" Now that's the Xmas message that we can all relate to.

@theultimatereductionist7592

3 жыл бұрын

"An evening's fun". LOL!

I'm 59 and still the funniest movie of my Lifetime !

@danielciocilteu3545

4 ай бұрын

I hope you also heard the DVD commentary in which they do a raw comment over the entire movie in character. It's like watching the movie's sequel.

"MOZART! MOZART! DON'T PLAY LOUD!"

@peggyporter2135

3 жыл бұрын

That's my favorite line of all time!!!

@andreasstam7411

2 жыл бұрын

As he cranks it up to 11

These guys are pure gold

I got to see Spinal Tap in Milwaukee. These guys are great musicians, it was a fun show. The Stone Henge monument was so huge they couldn't get it to come down out of rafters 😅

@jamegumm

3 жыл бұрын

I tried to see them in Cleveland... they never hit the stage😥

@davefieramosca6974

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamegumm mabey they couldn't find the stage 🤣

@mikesinur1992

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamegumm Yes they did. They played Nautica and instead of pods, they came out of giant eggs. It was a great show.

@bonniemiller274

2 жыл бұрын

I saw them in 1992 at the Tower Theater near Philadelphia. They were amazing! At the end of the show they played "Big Bottom" brought girls up on stage and gave each one a foil wrapped zucchini!

@cyrannodb

Жыл бұрын

@@bonniemiller274 I saw them in 1992 at Great Woods in Massachusetts. They did "Big Bottom" as the final encore and they were joined onstage by about a half-dozen girls in g-strings and nothing else. I was *not* expecting that! 😮😁👍

Super professional to not just crack up every time. I sure do.

For those who don't know: that's not a laugh track, that's the Saturday Night Live audience reacting to what they're watching. SNL has always left in the audience laughter when they show pre-taped pieces (except for a few episodes in the first season, when they were finding their footing). It sure would feel funnier without the laughter, but I can't blame the audience for reacting the way anyone would when watching this. Side note, I've seen every episode of Spin City and yet it completely slipped past me that that's Barry Bostwick interviewing them! He played the Mayor!

@alextirrellRI

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not sure about this example, but I know that nowadays NBC does add more laughter in post. Recently I had to check something between the DVR and when it went up on Hulu and there were more laughs added on the Hulu version. That said, yes, SNL has always left in the live studio reactions to video shorts like this.

@Khronogi

3 жыл бұрын

@@alextirrellRI They tape two times a night if I remember, could be that as well.

@vanhiyakumoto5857

10 ай бұрын

I thought that was Peter Weller

@rexrexford

9 ай бұрын

too handsome for Peter Weller@@vanhiyakumoto5857

@matthewwelch4305

9 ай бұрын

Ohhhhh, Braddddd! Oh, dammit! 😁

Absolutely uncanny. Jeff Beck, Rick Parfitt and Geezer Butler. Spinal Tap was brilliant on so many levels.

I have the albums ‘The Gospel According to Spinal Tap’ and ‘Shark Sandwich’ both are masterpieces of rock music. I play them regularly and loud (my stereo goes to 11).

@benpawlett9336

6 ай бұрын

More like Shit sandwich 🥪

@stephenjwarnecki2438

5 ай бұрын

You got one that goes to 11! Mine only goes to 10. I'm jealous! Tap dosent sound as good on 10 as 11!!

@michaeljohnson-li5nn

5 ай бұрын

@@stephenjwarnecki2438 ‘well, it’s one louder isn’t it’.

@JimmyNasium

5 ай бұрын

You mean “shit sandwich”?

"...and they go 'yeah'..." Hilarious :D

Anytime im feeling down, I put on "This Is Spinal Tap" ... Cheers me right up ! Funniest movie EVER !

@jonstern7511

3 жыл бұрын

It's great. Have you seen Withnail and I, though? It's also a classic!

Michael McKean looks like a mermaid with the wig and his aqua teal outfit 🧜‍♀️

@ourcorrectopinions6824

2 жыл бұрын

That can only be a compliment.

@JoannaSternbergYoutube

2 жыл бұрын

@@ourcorrectopinions6824 it is a compliment!

@cindye5285

2 жыл бұрын

To this day I my brain just keeps screaming...It's Lenny Kosnowski!

@bradconway6111

10 ай бұрын

It’s “ Mer-mam”!

"14 yo white boys" spot on

@AllenFreemanMediaGuru

3 жыл бұрын

I thought they said 40 yr old.

@Fritha71

2 жыл бұрын

And 14 year old white girls as well - at least if you happened to live in Finland in the mid 80s like me! I was one of them =D

And this is entirely improvised. The guy just asks questions and they run with whatever.

@Moluccan56

9 ай бұрын

To have the confidence to be able to do this is commendable.

Nigel reminds me of a not-so-bright version of Bruce Dickinson

@gregorymoore2877

2 жыл бұрын

I hear Bruce Dickinson has a fever. And the only prescription... is more cowbell.

@kurtkish6970

9 ай бұрын

Yup. But he’s fashioned after Jeff Beck (not the -stupid- part).

These guys seem like they have a good time, all the time

@kurtkish6970

9 ай бұрын

I got the reference. Keyboard player with the archetypal bad Engish teeth.

"A scientific study........of the bun."--Nigel Tufnel

This interview goes to 11!

The even funnier thing is much of the movie was improvised, and they are probably improvising all of this.

I’m pissing myself. Have been since the movie came out years ago. Now I’m crying. These guys were fucking amazing.

I was lucky enough to see Spinal Tap live on the Break Like The Wind tour, and they were, in fact, the loudest band I ever saw live.

@danielciocilteu3545

4 ай бұрын

What, they actually did live performances in concerts? Or was that like a comedy show?

@probotanimation

4 ай бұрын

@@danielciocilteu3545 it was a real tour in 1992!

I have been waiting for this clip most of my life.

These dudes are the bestest. I love Spinal Tap.

Too right. My relationship with the Devil is no one's damn business.

"Hello Laverne"

Chris Guest is in reality the 5th Baron of Hagen-Guest. A British nobleman. Thank goodness he doesnt give off those vibes. Interesting trivia.

In the history of film and television, these are the best 'English' accents, without exception. It's not science fiction, it's science fact.

"Why do you play so loud? "What?" How'd they miss that one?

@gardenlover9663

2 жыл бұрын

What?

@Fongolitus

4 ай бұрын

might be a takeoff on the famous 1967 Pink Floyd Performance/Interview with Hans Keller on the BBC's 'Look of the Week' program where the first question Hans asks Roger and Syd "Why does it all have to be so terribly loud?"

Every time I play Tap at the bar I play at least 3 in row. Love the Tap

@mhrgall

5 ай бұрын

Tap into America as well

Michael McKean almost loses it at 3:30. So tough to straight face with these riffs.

@Churro_Flaminguez

Жыл бұрын

Who is this Michael McKean person you're referencing?

@waynej2608

10 ай бұрын

​@@Churro_Flaminguez He's the David St. Hubins guy, the lead singer. He's brilliant. They all are!

@kurtkish6970

9 ай бұрын

Brother of Saul Goodman from “Better Call Saul”!!!!

Christopher Guest was just on another level, lol...

@eyeseer1

8 ай бұрын

I can’t believe he’s married to Jamie Lee Curtis. Seriously.

@mhrgall

5 ай бұрын

they are both very lucky :-)@@eyeseer1

I don't know how many times Spinal Tap broke up, but there was a period of the 1970s when Nigel played guitar for Lenny and the Squigtones. Even played on Dick Clark with them.

"How could Ieave this behind..."

Still crazy after all these years!

laughter totally kills it. whole point is what they're saying isn't acknowledged funny.

@gotcarter536

3 жыл бұрын

@@michaelprovost6066 Wow, have no memory of ever watching this, let alone commenting. However, having just had a little reminder I have to say I still agree with myself Michael. Putting the live laughter over the recorded piece kills the actual humour.

@CousinCreepy

3 жыл бұрын

I think you'll find that these short films were shown to a live audience during the actual broadcast of Saturday Night Live. This is genuine and spontaneous laughter.

@jw7073

3 жыл бұрын

@@CousinCreepy still kinda ruins the clip tho

@enbbug1

3 жыл бұрын

It’s still kinda from an old episode of snl

@NxDoyle

3 жыл бұрын

Laughter is involuntary, and the people laughing are sitting in the audience of Studio 8H during a live taping of SNL.

“It’s not about a woman at all...it’s about a woman’s pair of cheeks”!

I remember when Täp was to perform their song, “Sausage Sally” on the John Denver show in ‘75. I waited outside the studio for their autographs for three days before realizing they’d been cancelled from the show entirely.

I like that Mozart's mother would call him by his last name.

Brilliant, simply brilliant.

These guys just ad lib it. Gold.

Sure wish this included their performance.

I heard they officially changed their name to Lumbar Puncture.

@daneenmurf1043

10 ай бұрын

They wanted to follow the fad of spelling their name wrongly ( like Led Zeppelin ) but they accidentally spelt it right !

On IMDB their film is rated on a scale of 1 to 11

@djbloodshot

4 ай бұрын

I can't believe that's true hilarious

Can't wait for the sequel!

it's chuck!

Seen the movie for the first time when I was like 8 - fell in love with Nigel, can’t watch anything where he isn’t Nigel - best band ever!

This was in May, 1984. Barry Bostwick had recently starred in the "George Washington" network miniseries on CBS. I'm surprised that didn't come up in this bit.

Christopher Guest totally made this!!!

@Kasino80

Жыл бұрын

Guest seems like the one who could riff the most and longest to throw the others off.

so Mozart’s mother would call him “Mozart.” …and not Wolfgang.

Nigel not only should teach history, he should teach religion. lol David, BRILLIANT!

Such a fine line.

Love the Tap

Wow, he sneezed a cigarette, that's impressive

Brilliant!

I always heard about them in the 80"s but never saw them. I would have loved them. I must admit their feigned Bri-ish accents seemed spot-on. The faux-blonde guy is a babe!

@mem1701movies

3 жыл бұрын

He plays CHUCK on BETTER CALL SAUL

@gardenlover9663

2 жыл бұрын

And he was Lenny on Laverne and Shirley.

How cool. Never saw this one.

How they kept straight faces when Christopher Guest said things, I’ll never know. They had no idea what the other was going to say. Just handed it to each other.

Professionals! Hahaha

Chuck McGill wasn't always a stuck up attorney, apparently.

@allsystemsgo8678

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't recognize him without his Lone wolf jacket

This must've been such inspiration for Fred Armisen, and subsequently Documentary Now with Bill Hader

bloody classic! =))))))

Brilliant! This interview is all about intellect. It's like interviewing three Einsein's.

@einundsiebenziger5488

7 ай бұрын

... three Einsteins* (plural, no apostrophe)

Long live Spinal Tap

Great !

A scientific study... of the bun.

Those tight pants 😳😂

@Cynthia_Cantrell

3 жыл бұрын

I highlights a whole 'nother pair of problems with "manspreading." I hope no musician's grapes were harmed in the making of this film.

@sandywhat2429

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cynthia_Cantrell 😂

@MsJellyBellyLove

8 ай бұрын

Only Robert Plant wore tighter pants.

No drummer here because they kept dying.

@gardenlover9663

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

priceless!

Brilliant.

David at 0:55 is what Steve Coogan based his Mick Jagger on.

@omegajrz1269

8 ай бұрын

In Percy Jackson?

They are comical. 😄

Audience laughter, whether warranted, always sounds weird when it’s in response to a Tap interview.

Brilliant! 🤣

Nigel's tonal register has gotten lower over the years and I love a mature Nigel.

Omfg its been years since i saw the movie but ive NEVER seen this and I love it.

Comedy this sharp will never date.

@gardenlover9663

2 жыл бұрын

But it will marry.

Mozart did play as loud as he could.

Great est band eva!

Brad!

I wonder why Nigel never talks his time playing guitar for Lenny and the Squigtones. American Bandstand 1979- Interview Lenny and the Squigtones

@susangordon3794

3 жыл бұрын

My favorite appearance of his!

@gardenlover9663

2 жыл бұрын

LOL

they studied some well known singers and players

The laughs feel so out of place

Harry Shearer (Derek Smalls) is great in these interviews. He is, in his words, "the luke-warm water" of the group

That guy is Lenny from Lenny and squiggly.

Thanks for this gem! ❤ Jamie Lee Curtis is a lucky lady 😊

This is sooo Led Zep

@windsofmarchjourneyperrytr2823

2 жыл бұрын

Watch Some Kind of Monster. It's a lot like Metallica. Unintentionally funny movie.

Goodnight Springton, there will be no encore!

Saw them on tour too...they were great

This episode of SNL goes to 11