A Criminal History: Lazlow

[@WaynemartMG]

Lazlow don’t get the credit he deserves for being as funny as he is. Everything he wrote was gold.

[@eyeballjay]

Pretty sure he also wrote Arthur's journal in RDR2 or at least co-wrote. parts of that journal almost brought me to tears playing that game. A real sad loss of personality and talent for the company for sure

[@Deathgrips_fan]

Fr. He was always there when we needed a laugh.

[@WittyCorvian]

Tbh he wasn't that funny, at least not in gta 5, he was more whiney than anything, also it isn't like they won't add the same type of stations without him

[@Dook-t4y]

The OG Loc interview has me dying till this day😂

[@grimreaper6060]

Sad to know that Lazlow left Rockstar. We probably won't see him and his comical persona in GTA VI.

[@MJH129]

GTA 6's script definitely finished before he left. So he'll likely still appear in GTA 6 through radio or physical appearance. Only GTA content afterwards won't feature him again

[@grimreaper6060]

@@MJH129 I hope your right. GTA needs characters like Lazlow: Funny and memorable at the same time. Not to mention the fact that Lazlow has been on the franchise since GTA III.

[@colmlambe4068]

Why am I only hearing about this now. That really sucks I loved lazlow for all the great job he has done with GTA franchise. Well I hope he is happy though.

[@Miss_Cherry]

Awww man no more Lazlow?

[@warneverchanges1114]

Also Lazlow wrote all the radio shows on gta as well with him being gone a lot of that will probably change

[@biggboycaro]

Lazlow is the only character that has transcended through the GTA Universes he exist both in 3d and Hd universes he’s is the real main character!!!!!

[@greedgod5827]

2d is the top down while 3d is gta 3 to vcs. HD is gta 4 to current. He started with gta 3 and hes not the only one that's existed in both universes Fernando also has a segment in multiple games

[@lucasathirson77]

What about phil collins?

[@biggboycaro]

@@greedgod5827 and i did forget about Fernando. yes you are correct

[@randomguy5561]

Jock Cranley too.

[@Lucky2000Zx]

I'll do you one better, El Burro is in all three universes: 2D, 3D, & HD (more specially GTA 1, III, and Chinatown Wars)

[@KingGta15]

I truly believe Fernando Martinez is one of the best characters in the GTA franchise. His segments with Lazlow were my favourite.

[@adamkc0]

"What, So you act like a pimp?" "Not a pimp, lil man, A SAVIOUR".

[@flockawaka1017]

The voice actor was so bad he was excellent

[@ashvsthedeadite6091]

I havnt heard that name since I was 14

[@ShadowMonkey69]

I hope he comes back for GTA VI

[@GenGamesUniverse]

Its the way Lazlow literally accuses him of being "a pimp from upstate" in gta 3 that gets me laughing XD

[@TheSuckoShow]

I like how Lazlow is almost the main character of GTA in that the series seems to follow him around the country to wherever he can find work in any era

[@tylertheguy3160]

I have a lot of concerns over GTA 6 and one of the major ones is the lack of Lazlow.

[@Operater_Jad3d]

A few years ago if you told me gta 6 was available for pre-order wouldn't be able to finish the sentence before I pre-ordered it but now I don't think I will buy it till months after releasing it

[@Operater_Jad3d]

A lot of this does with the increasing monetization and then them abandoning rdo

[@br9663]

they started development around 2015 and he left 5 years later so the writing should be done

[@RT-qd8yl]

@@Operater_Jad3d Yeah, I've just considered GTA dead for a while. I'll stick with SA and 5 and my SAMP and Five M.

[@Operater_Jad3d]

@@RT-qd8yl yep

[@RacingHeartMedia]

That conversation with that hotdog vendor 😂😂😂

[@jarydm87]

I think it’s Feed Armisen

[@Chicken_Wing91]

😂 my favorite part “I’m stupefied” “You stupid?” 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Spookymulder9396]

@@jarydm87that’s because it is

[@andrewhaywood1262]

The hotdog guy was having none of Lazlow's nonsense, I appreciate that. He'd probably make a good friend to Floyd.

[@garyfrombrooklyn]

I remember when Lazlow was a frequent guest on Opie and Anthony and promoted GTA, so much so that Opie, Jim Norton and even Bill Burr (the Lost DLC) got voice roles in GTA IV

[@dudewelcome]

I loved Laz's O&A appearances! Lil' Jimmy playing GTA IV and V was amazing listening haha

[@Somethingelseentirelydifferent]

That horrible degenerate Anthony sang the beer commercial song in GTA 4 or 5. “Pisswausssssseer!”

[@metazare]

Patrice too, he's in 4 on the radio. So much of what made GTA great can be attributed to Laz and his friends. Without him, the games will only get worse.

[@dudewelcome]

@@metazare RIP Patrice ❤️

[@LongLiveRockAnRoll]

The divorce part around 29 minutes sounds like Anthony Cumia and the interviewing people on the streets sounds like a mix of the walkover and post-firing Opie.

[@Cactus_bud]

I used to put Laslows radio show on gta 3 and just leave the game idle and listen for hours when i was a kid. Thought it was hilarious

[@GenGamesUniverse]

Caller: Hello lazlow, did that person say she was a nanny? Cos Freddie needs a nanny and hes been a very naughty boy! Lazlow: NO NANNIES!!!

[@dreadn0ught_k]

Next up we have Matt "Hi the name is Matt" Yeah I got that, stupid 😂

[@jamesbellew1253]

@@Cactus_bud i still do 20 years later

[@jailcatjones3250]

I became a fan of talk radio at a young age thanks to Lazlow and the GTA series.

[@HighCoupDeTat]

Find Art Bell's Midnight In the Desert....spooky stuff

[@dimitrih58d]

Deadass

[@NONYA44423]

Warmode

[@DillonGarnette]

Integrity 2.0 is one of the best things in media history, I use to turn that on and listen to it for hours while cleaning my room and doing homework in highschool

[@stevenmiranda7927]

I thought Lazlow was bald. In gta iv his co host makes fun of him by saying he has “a helicopter landing pad” on his head

[@LunchMoneyy]

Probably talking about his forehead

[@Elguapodelfuego]

"Whos your favorite radio personality??", martin sirius(howard Stern)

[@russellpuff1996]

I’d like to think Lazlow was able to record some stuff for the next GTA before he left the company and will have a canonical farewell to the airwaves that’s not a death.

[@ZyroShadowPony]

​@@stellviahohenheimlets have some optimism

[@tachometer-flac]

Hopefully. I mean it's possible. Development for GTA 6 started in 2014. Lazlow left Rockstar in 2020. That's 6 years he spent working on the game.

[@FPoP1911]

Lazlow's altercation with pastor richards on radio is forever seared to my brain.

[@evilrollo]

That was the other talk radio dj

[@Flk0217]

​@@evilrolloguess it wasn't seared in that much

[@dreadn0ught_k]

That was Maurice Chavez

[@jiovanysoltero923]

Him Bullying a Hot dog vendor in 4, to try and prove his superiority still lives in my head rent free.

[@wallybonejengles5595]

Lazlow really curated my entire taste in music. God bless him.

[@BigDaddy-vk6rv]

I loved this episode for it's nostalgia and it's education!

[@StonerWaifu]

GTA4 Unhinged Integrity Lazlow is my favourite Lazlow.

[@leobuscaglia5576]

I miss Maurice Chavez and his talk show. Please bring him back.

[@jigzonyt517]

😅

[@docksidegames8861]

If gta vi has VRock, it ain't gonna hit the same

[@axman7114]

Nah Cousin Ed Will Carry Lazlow Was Soft

[@SOVBI]

Lazlow is underrated gta legend Edit : he's been in most of gta's sadly don't think he'll be in gta 6 considering he left

[@br9663]

They started development around 2015 long before he left

[@JokersVsZombies]

"Lazlo was born in 1962 or 1966..." Lazlo is around 60 years old. That makes me feel old AF

[@MutantMasterRace]

That makes him at least 47 during GTA Vs story. That makes what he was doing with Tracy even more weird, lmao

[@LunchMoneyy]

@@MutantMasterRacecrazy to me tho is how young he looks and even in online when he is supposed to be 5 years Older he still looks the same

[@MutantMasterRace]

@@LunchMoneyy true

[@IISourAyyII]

Lazlow is what made GTA

[@godnmaste]

low key

[@mightyx5441]

no..................he made it funny

[@lovelyminx6444]

The dumbest comment I've seen all day 😂

[@reyntime1950]

Oh shit that was lazlo on the Vrock cover? I actually bought the Vrock CD back when vice city came out lol. Completely forgot about that.

[@blooharrison8105]

Finally a lazlow video. Thank you

[@BobLazier-zk8gi]

GTA as a whole has been lazlows story the whole time..

[@Jay2Stoney]

Lazlow Jones is the reason why i listened to GTA talk shows.

[@alfiewillis4893]

I thought this would be about the real man's criminal history and I was so worried lol. I hope he's doing alright, I loved his contributions to the series.

[@yeti1682]

Good thing Lazlow lives on in the Opie and Anthony archives.

[@No-right-to-take]

I was thinking the same thing. I like how Opie and Anthony did voice’s for some gta and red dead redemption characters and I think Patrice O’Neal was a radio guy for gta 4

[@yeti1682]

@@No-right-to-take bobby Kelly was in it Steve c was a cop the o and a show was prominent in rockstar games for a while there. The funniest thing to me is Lazlow never really got to the things he came into talk about because they had such A.D.D as a show they always were distracted I think I heard him actually get his stuff in one time 😂

[@gavinhirst3136]

Only found your channel about a week ago, and I'm binging HARD on GTA:Biographies and this series ❤️

[@redwiltshire1816]

Can we acknowledge the fact that lazlow is the only character from both universes hope we get our paranoid coke friend back in vice city

[@JamesJohnson-tr1gu]

You already know GTA VI online mode will be monetized hellscape. Oh you have a 5 star wanted level? Pay $10 to reduce it by 2 stars...Rockstar and Take 2 will absolutely destroy our rectums and our wallets

[@DogInatutu]

And people will still pay for it.

[@Skimmerlit]

The most criminal act Lazlow committed was putting Opie in a game but not Patrice

[@dudewelcome]

I think I heard Fez in GTA IV too haha

[@napalmkitty6686]

FYI Patrice is on that celeb bashing show on gta 4 and anthony does that pisswaser theme song

[@DXMXNXXN]

Hope you're better man🤙🏿 keep up the good work

[@EmilicoYamigos]

WCTR was easilly the most entertaining radio of all time in GTA history, I loved all the nonsense and bizarre interactions between the characters, anything could happen in that Radio.

[@numpty123]

Still waiting for IRL Lazlow's Master Blaster story.

[@empinata]

I miss the lazlow show. RIP Big Wayne 💚

[@ArthurMorgan18993]

Nice I’ve been looking forward to this one. Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Americans out there!

[@tylersimmons7263]

This was actually a great doc on Lazlow, earned a sub from me for sure

[@jhp1045]

13:58 we need a Criminal history about Ursular.

[@CompositeCreativity]

That character Lazlow is speaking to acts like she's a witch. You're thinking of Ursula from GTA V, who is a different character and is not a witch, just crazier than Trevor. Either way, there's too little information on Ursula to justify Guiness making a video about her.

[@CompositeCreativity]

@jupiter4025 Did you not read my comment? It literally mentions her name…

[@CompositeCreativity]

@jupiter4025 My point still stands. There’s nothing on the Ursula on the radio or the one in GTA V to justify Guiness wasting a video to cover.

[@Fiftylockedn]

39:40-44:19 Ain’t no way this man lazlow was only yapping for 5 minutes straight about nonsense😂

[@birdseppuku6424]

Hope he makes a cameo in GTA 6. I’d love to see what a 60~ year old Lazlow does

[@Somethingelseentirelydifferent]

If you can find it, listen to the Lazlow Show. From approx. 2005-2011 it was on terrestrial and satellite radio. There were only about 35 episodes and they were perfect. I’m sure you can torrent the box set somewhere. RIP Big Wayne. Reed is gay.

[@user-yi7zj3lv5t]

how could lazlow only stay for a year at V-Rock when he was present in both Vice City Stories and Vice City?

[@kylesoler4139]

I wonder what the devs have in store for Lazlow. Would be amazing if they have him back as a guest radio DJ. Maybe have him on the eazy litsening/Power Ballad station Emotion 98.3 (I heard he is really into that kind of music IRL). Crazy to think that Lazlow is old enough to be a grandfather.

[@alejandrogonzalez00]

44:19 this part is Gold right here 😂😅 I laughed 5 minutes straight I love that Saxophone guy Theodore

[@MrMarioski]

“Bullsh*t! All saxophone players are called Clarence or Walter!” 😂

[@alejandrogonzalez00]

@@MrMarioskiLazlow’s a real douche bruh 😅😂

[@davids.3724]

Deserve way more subs with the quality of this content keep grinding

[@MrROTD]

When I got the double pack of Vice City and GTA 3 and then Lazlo and Fernando came on the radio doing that hilarious segment I had to pull over the in game car and laugh my guts out.

[@perfectogaming5240]

The whole reed tucker bit in gta3 made me laugh and still does till this day

[@ScottyCruse]

Robert Downey Jr. should play Gay Tony

[@jacoblemus]

Its a end of an era for Mr.Lazlow Jones..really sucks we wont see him in GTA 6 being that its in Vice City again the radio isn't gunna be the same without him.

[@RukarioEnterprisesLLC]

SKIP TO 3:12 IF YOU DON'T WANNA HEAR ABOUT PATREON PLUG!

[@JamSleazy92]

Great content, ive been playing gta since london and i grew up listening to lazlow over the series and to see his history is fantastic, bring back memories of playing as tommy,claude,cj and nico and is what makes gta a masterpiece in its own way. bravo sir! would love to see more on Gay Tony , Fernando and Kent Paul

[@TheCriminalHistorian]

Sounds like somebody needs to look through the channel 😉

[@JamSleazy92]

@TheCriminalHistorian I will have a proper look tonight thanks again buddy great idea for content

[@kingrecoilz4491]

So we just not gonna talk about Ursula being in this game. I Mean ffs she was a bootycall in GTA5. Same voice and everything in GTA5 just aged up

[@Reclusiveon3]

This dude has been a staple of my life....gonna be weird without him goin further lol

[@myrahonore2656]

Happy thanks giving

[@nathanhudson-young2460]

OMG Delusional does not even begin to describe Lazlow.

[@Fragatron]

Getting older but not any wiser! It's Lazlow!

[@Raven]

Would love to see Lazlow return in GTA 6 even though he's not an employee anymore. Too big of an ask?

[@br9663]

The script and voice acting was most likely done BEFORE he left. So he might appear

[@jankington216]

Does anyone expect GTA6 to have a good singleplayer mode after rockstar's decade of greed?

[@br9663]

@@jankington216 the writers don't make the financial choices

[@jankington216]

@@br9663 I'm not commenting on laslo or his bits, I'm just talking about the general hype I'm seeing for GTA 6 after rockstar spent a decade gouging people's wallets and removing content from the GTA 5

[@redwiltshire1816]

@@jankington216and the ceo saying he wanted gta to be paid to play I got a funny feeling gta 6 will be online only still have single player but you have to online to play

[@JDubblesify]

Reddick Florida is a real town but it's super small and really poor, it's never had a radio station. I went to elementary school there and my last job used to rent the community center for annual safety training. The town is so small and off the radar I'm suprised anyone ever even mentioned it.

[@jackjones8753]

We need a criminal history about Fernando Martinez

[@drwgalabuschagne3287]

Damn. To think we won't have him in 6...

[@MJH129]

We will. The script for the game would've been finished before he left.

[@drwgalabuschagne3287]

@@MJH129 😮‍💨🧢

[@depa3129]

This has to say something about rockstar. They made a lot of open world games with a main storyline in each of those games, and we get a 1 hour long video talking about a minor part of the franchise. This is amazing and I love it

[@NicS_313]

30:45 Opie took this idea and turned it into reality 😂

[@jonvia]

That has to be Fred Armisen's voice at 31:00

[@chris-p6k]

Such a brilliant character, always made me laugh.

[@fleezyp]

My first gta was gta advanced. Hearing and then seeing each character that interacted with Lazlo end up as a character was always so cool to me as a kid, even in gta v where you see so many of them from gta III, VC and others- despite rockstar saying that the 3d universe is not related. You can still have the references which is always nostalgic to me

[@JP.710]

Lazlow is the original lolcow.

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

13:58 i wonder if she is in any way related to ursula from gta5, since the modern lazlow and a crazy woman named ursula are in gta5

[@PineappleForFun]

Just to note, in your beginning message you repeatedly use 'cannon'. The correct usage is canon. Cannon is a big boom stick, canon is the body of church law, particularly the parts about which potential books of the bible were divinely inspired and hence 'real' (for the purposes of the church). Different canons, like the books catholics consider canon but protestants dont, is viewed as analogous to deciding which stories are 'real' for the purposes of the franchise.

[@wolfsbane5667]

Please do rocco pelosi ,arthur morgan , lincoln clay, Joe barbaro, and packie mcreary

[@yungvolio7853]

Wait, is no one gonna talk about how the actual Florida and Ronald Reagan canonically exist in the GTA universe??

[@MutantMasterRace]

In the original trilogy, yeah.

[@SalveASMR]

The radio is going to feel different without Lazlow as the writer. 😞

[@ClellBiggs]

GTA's satire is no longer funny because it's identical to the real world. Any satire they attempted to do now would have to be so outrageous now that it would lose its edge. I'm curious to see how this will affect GTA VI.

[@Robb1977]

were just generally exposed to the weirder people of the world now because of the internet. there was a time when people first were discovering furries and assumed humanity couldnt get any weirder than gay people in mascot costumes. now were at the point where someone swallowing rocks and snorting MSG would be considered "just participating in another average viral health trend," Back in the day radio was also relevant, and so playing the game and listening to the wackiness of the world was kinda... real? like Howard stern, O&A, and the likes had gangs of societal outcasts who they'd have on just to gawk and mock at: the fringe of society, and that added some edge. But now media, and ESPECIALLY radio is just... corpo nonsense. every second is pre-planned and designed to be all about selling a product or inducing a pity laugh, or just filling time with backing tracks and stingers before the ad plays. It really feels like GTA4 had the last believable era of radio personalities: the era when the shock-jock format was falling to the wayside... when society was naive enough to think an autistic dude getting drunk was the most outrageous thing that would ever be broadcast. Now thats just nightly news. I guess if they wanna be edgy? satirize how banal it is and wink at the fact that all the "important" stories are just there to arbitrarily debate and pretend its politics. "president x weighed in on the migration habits of seagulls today, saying that his opponent, candidate y's view on bird migration habits are __ist propaganda"

[@corbjones2738]

I have a hunch there'll be more nods to capitalist realism (Mark Fisher) because the devs themselves said, not too long after V's release, "we don't exactly know how or what to satirize at the moment". The ways I've seen people get around this hurdle is by just ardently pointing out the dissonance between the hellscape we live in and the corporatism that whips our reigns and tells us to be happy despite it. What today is more absurd than a mass of people being able to point and deconstruct every social ill, yet the ills persist because we're "too interlocked" with them?

[@lephishe6271]

I think the closest thing we can get now is to not see it as satire and more as a seperate world where everybody is just cynical enough to say the quiet part out loud

[@s0urp0wer5]

Something tells me that GTA VI is going to be far less funny and even more cynical if red dead 2 gives us a glimpse of their new attitude

[@Wveth]

@@s0urp0wer5 Uh, no, just because you want ONE of your stories to have a darker tone does not mean you want every story you ever write to have that tone, forever and ever. That's not how writing works.

[@sncf1312]

43:00 hello Arthur Morgan

[@robertfrazier6563]

True that the stuff Lazlow do is minor but still go to Prison for most of them. [ Anyway ] Lazlow probably living in some Motel like Jack Howitzer in Sandy Shore still being a creep & working in some dive bar as a janitor.

[@KoltonCass]

14:40 makes me cry

[@bloodstone1992]

GTA 6 is going to feel so empty without the great writings from the real life Lazlow

[@yoshewab1639]

RIP LAZLOW’S SISTER RIP BIG WAYNE RIP THE VIRUS RIP ONA

[@dudewelcome]

I'm happy that there's still so much O&A content on KZbin

[@Yoda98292]

Love that this was just a compilation of Lazlow being a weird and creepy loser on a spiral 😂 And I'm talking the character of Lazlow, not Lazlow Jones the wonderful actor who'll be missed in GTA VI

[@wouterosinga8170]

Is Lazlow really The Last DJ like he claims to be, or just a deluded, unlikable has-been/never-was who deserves to fail at his endeavors?

[@TKsh1]

A bit of both. He started as an sensible radio host and as the games went on, he became more deranged and washed up.

[@wouterosinga8170]

@@TKsh1 Rockstar has ruined his character a bit then he was one of the only healthiest smartest radio presenters ever.

[@ikeduno7973]

This feels like a vid from the gta tv. I love it!

[@MatthewK122]

Still impress he never got caught by the law

[@JediWicket]

I love listening to Lazlow and zoning out on his shows. Driving around, following traffic and vibing.

[@duckurie59]

It'll be cool if you could do a Biography about our GTA Online character. Kinda like q recap about meeting Lamar all the way to the Mercenaries thingy. Exposing his/hers various crimes, contacts, achievements and possible fate.

[@stickaaay]

GTA IV Lazlow seems like a parody of Anthony from Opie & Anthony

[@rickDArula]

I used to listen to Lazlow on opie and anthony. He was always funny

[@lenninmartinez5280]

Please. Do Maccer next.

[@camextra9226]

Theodore said it the best ( you just talk and talk and talk and never say nothing)

[@iamdb1990]

the talk radio stations are the highlight of the GTA games

[@DJTerrellRussell]

Lazlow is HILARIOUS my favorite was lazlow 2.0 fucking gold dude

[@Degas93]

that ~35 minute part eerily sounds like possible Joe rogans downfall :D

[@kyledodson2992]

Rogan ain’t going anywhere. Still gets tons of guests and good variety. But I think Lex and Theo are good contenders

[@trxsh_oc]

without Dan i dont think this quality of radio will be in VI 44:10

[@isaac80745]

lol Michael humiliated lazlo out of existence

[@railroadhistoryarchives]

It's Lazlow's world, we're just living in it.

[@Albo_AK]

All the OG devs / writers are leaving R*. GTA VI was probably the last game they’ll all worked on together minus 1 or 2 people. Let’s hope the next generation of R* talent can live up to their expectations.

[@viviennewestwoodruinedmylife]

I think you're looking at it wrong. The reason these people left isn't because they are retiring or something. There was obviously a disagreement that went on and I think the disagreement is also obvious. The tone of gta. Everyone who left is who wanted gta to stay the same. This is a amy hennig situation same way Neil drukman pushed her out is the same way take two pushed Dan and lazlow and the others out.

[@wrongemail5242]

@@viviennewestwoodruinedmylifescitzo posting

[@ililllillillilliil8327]

Lazlo show was the best in gta 3. Man those callers were weird!

[@hokage1997]

really hope this goof is in gta6. wouldnt be a gta without his personality thrown in

[@bbutler3230]

Lazlow left rockstar, but i hope for one of two things, either a Simon Vicklund situation where he still does work for the company even after leaving, or we get a weasel news broadcast that goes something like "BREAKING NEWS, FORMER RADIO AND TV HOST LAZLOW JONES FOUND DEAD IN VICE CITY" and that's just the end of his story lol.

[@RacingHeartMedia]

Waiting patiently for Guinness to do a Watch Dogs or Sleeping Dogs video next

[@Icedsobaka]

Too many damn dogs

[@im.rihito]

I just want Lazlow on his radio station…😢