This Is Your Music Video: Crispin Glover's "Clowny Clown Clown"
For the record, I like Crispin Glover. A lot. I really like River's Edge, and there's this movie called Twister that is not the storm-chasing movie, but is a really weird "comedy" from 1989 with Dylan McDermott, and Hary Dean Stanton, and William S. Burroughs that is certainly an imperfect and maybe even terrible movie--which might be one of the reasons they've never released it on DVD--but features a really funny performance by Glover that is worth the price of an ancient VHS player (they sell those at the .99 cent store now, right?) and a trip to the eBay outlet mall. He was good in Back to the Future, and he was terrible in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, but everything was terrible in Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle so you can't really lay that at his Frankenstein feet. I'm looking forward to seeing him in Alice in Wonderland, and I am also looking forward to seeing him in Hot Tub Time Machine.
But part of Crispin Glover's pre-meditated weirdness is making things that are literally unbearable. Like those books he put out in the '90s? Woof. And What Is It? (link NSFW)? Yikes. More power to him, but maybe less power to him sometimes, you know?
Anyway, this video for a song called "Clowny Clown Clown" is your video for your song.
Crispin Hellion Glover: the thinking man's Brokencyde. (Thanks for the tip, Drew.)
Posted by Gabe at 3:00 PM in Music Related Content
Tags: Crispin Glover
Why you gotta bring up old shit?
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I think Gabe should add a "classic" tag for occasions like this. It warrants a post, but we must acknowledge that this is a well seasoned video.
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What did he have a clown for breakfast this morning?
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Still better than Charlie's Angels.
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crispin glover seems like the type who would have a saw basement.
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He's probably got a whole Saw kitchen and living room!
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I wish after I contemplated how much I hated something that I would just go smoke a cigar. It would get me far. Up to a star. With Johnny Marr.
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Hey! I like that record. I have it on my iPod and listen to it, you know, because I like it. I have to say, this is a rare Videogum misstep.
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First off, I apologize to Videogum, Stereogum, America and Earth for suggesting this was a misstep. Sorry.
But, Second: Really, this is great. Also, the whole record is great. Let me cast my mind back to a time when I was a young man and would stay up late and watch Night Flight or strange things on Public Television. I'm just saying, the world was a better place when New York was clogged with Zombie Punks and thrilling danger. It was possible for there to be mystery and oddity and danger.
I feel the same way about Java Script Babies.
So, no, CG did not record the world's best song, but he did do something that was great, at least to the younger self that I once was, once.
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I'm with you Puff (or is it Pudd?). This is great, as is the movie CG made with the cast of mainly people with Down Syndrome. I completely understand why some people would dislike this, but don't let them win. You keep on liking whatever you want!
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If I was hungover, this would definitely make my head swirl and then I would vomit.
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Yeah. This is really old. I saw this video on youtube like 3 years ago. GET WITH THE TIMES VIDEOGUM!
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So what if it's old, it's still funny and there is a definite clown theme today. Also, you are aware that the IRA are an Irish terrorist group? Ira shmira.
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From @tedleo:
First night in while I don't have to stay up past...now. So do watch Crispin Glover on YouTube, or hit the sack & check it out on Videogum tomorrow?
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that crashed my brain. need to reboot.
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best ever
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kadooz to you for posting this, Gabe! my friends and I were obsessed with this video in high school. bring it back!
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I want my screen name to be "Mr. Far" now.
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I want my screen name to be "Mr. Far" now.
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I only clicked submit once.
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Did he have a 4th grader write his 'sick rhymes' for this song?
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Stephen King's inspiration.
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I never noticed this before, but he has that rarest of rare facial features: A "BUTT NOSE"
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Pretty Horrible.
Deplorable.
I think Crispin is Unstable.
Non Ignorable for the ignoble and disabled.
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Or assholes like me
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I respect his mad rhyming skills
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I respect his mad rhyming skills
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But I don't respect myself
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Peyote's a hell of a drug.
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I saw "What Is It?" like a year ago. I was pretty sure it meant I was going to die in seven days.
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My friend was an assistant editor for Glover. C.G. runs the whole operation from his home, so my friend had to work at the editing suite that had "a giant oil painting of Shirley Temple masturbating with a riding crop". My friend only lasted about two weeks before leaving.
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Oh man, I've always wondered who submitted that last-minute bid on ebay. I can let it go now; I'm glad it went to a good home, I guess.
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In a video where every lyric is acted out, he gets it wrong when he says that the clown has a frown on a mound when clearly the clown is smiling. If, of course, he is talking about the actress frowning on the inside that this will go down as the highlight of her career, then yes, you are correct, Crispin Glover.
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Crispin Glover - always hatin on the juggalos.
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Crispin Glover brings us the best in underground music, primarily THE WICKED SHIT.
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Will Mr. Glover be attending this year's "Gathering"?
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Oh man this is amazing.
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When is Gabe going to comment about Seth MacFarlane's BRAVE battle to get his "envelope-pushing" abortion episode aired by Fox? I'm on pins and ugh over here.
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Gabe, you neglected to mention his greatest cinematic achievement, maybe THE greatest cinematic achievement, Rubin and Ed.
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While I like Glover, every time I see him I think of the time Dennis Miller (Professor Analogy, Emeritus) said, "...it is as unbalanced as Crispin Glover pushing a three-wheeled shopping cart". It still makes me laugh. As does this video.
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Deep down, I hate that clown. And all clowns.
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Hearts.
Did anyone hear about the time a jilted crush of his posted his cell phone number on his wikipedia page? It was something like :
“Crispin Hellion Glover is an American film actor and self-published author. His phone number is XXXXXXX"
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Mister Far doesn't seem to hate the clown as much as Crispin. Wait! It is Crispin! Aw, now I get it!
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The Other Twister (as i like to call it) is like my snuffleupagus--nobody believes me that it exists. but i think the best line ever uttered by anyone in a movie is when crispin glover says "My cat can eat a whole watermelon" in Rubin and Ed. Is that one on DVD?
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Sorry Gift of Gab(e), "Clowny Clown Clown" isn't my video. It's the video for the amoebas and pterodactyls who were around with this thing first came out. BURN (NOTICE STARRING JEFFREY DONOVAN)!!!
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But wait, nothing can get better than his interviews from the 80s. Am I right?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALapHYNSmoA
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this sounds like King Missile of "Detachable Penis" fame. i mean "fame"
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The Big Problem ≠The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be is a great album.
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The Big Problem ≠The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be is a great album.
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Twister IS available on DVD, even Netflix: http://www.netflix.com/Movie/Twister/60032308?lnkce=seBsLn&trkid=222336&strkid=2099150110_3_0&strackid=589631e57cbb78a0_3_srl
I rented it. I'm a huge Crispin fan. That movie is ... not one I'd recommend to most.
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*sigh* Sorry about the jacked-up posts. I wasn't trying to say THIS was old, I think it's hilarious. I was speaking to Gabe as my avitar, Crispen Glover. My bad. We all god's children though. Care for a grape soda?
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Haha, Mr. Far.
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Rubin and Ed is my favourite Crispin Glover flick.
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Crispin Goober
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Well now I'm definately not going to sleep tonight.
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*definitely* And I did not fall sleep until 6am. So I didn't sleep at all. Was it entirely Crispin Glover's fault? Probably not. Maybe. Yes.
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It's so awful that it somehow becomes compelling, kinda like a pug dog. It's so ugly it's adorable.
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You know what I love about Crispin Glover? He's not pretending to be weird. He's not weird in a 'cool' way. He's actually fucking weird.
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Apparently this song is about David Letterman or something.
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at 1:43 you'll recognize the pants (and maybe shoes) he wore on the letterman freakout
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You are pretty misinformed about the IRA, a paramilitary organization working to free Ireland from English rule. And Crispin Glover is a misanthropic turd, who has no problem using blackface, Nazi imagery, and overtly white supremacist songs. What he lacks in talent, he tries to make up for with imagery intended to make his audience uncomfortable.
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