The 1993 MTV VMAs were a HOT MESS

[@bullmonty764]

RuPaul saying well done mama to himself (even if via video editing) is a whole new level of meta

[@Thecandyquinn]

Peak comedic timing 🤣🤣🤣

[@megano2000]

I died laughing at that part 😂

[@baylorsailor]

RuPaul goes by He

[@bullmonty764]

@@baylorsailor I know that, but I wasn’t thinking about that at the time

[@michelledavis6399]

The pic of RuPaul holding Francis Bean is absolutely 90’s iconic.

[@p0ison_0ak33]

Love that pic 💖😊 thank God Frances is more Kurt than Courtney 😂

[@shiannafoxx]

@@p0ison_0ak33 What did Courtney do

[@kennedyofficall]

NOT THE “DIAPERS” COMMENT FROM RUPAUL BYEEEEE SHE ATE THAT

[@GodLovesYou828]

Disrespectful on his rupaul part. Now he is wearing pampers

[@sedi2066]

I still live for the nene "its getting weird" meme LMAAAAOOO

[@kevaughnramsay9846]

😂

[@joshuamann5228]

You kinda missed two biggies: Keanu Reeves' tshirt and Snoop dodging the LAPD to avoid a warrant for murder only to turn himself in soon after.

[@casechow]

Holy sh!t using popular tv shows movies of the time to announce the categories is genius

[@bees.857]

What a time to be alive. They can just use AI now 😭😭😭

[@dannyaraya8017]

it would be all doodoo reality tv shows if they did it now

[@pembrokelove]

@@dannyaraya8017now I’m sad.

[@dancoroian1]

Literally nobody would've noticed the pimple if you hadn't pointed it out lmao

[@hotsexyangel]

This is the internet… trust that someone would lmao

[@dancoroian1]

@@hotsexyangel yeah, maybe 0.1% of people, being generous, versus 99.9% this way. Smart strategy for sure 💯

[@dannyaraya8017]

didn't even notice before\after he mentioned it

[@devangreedier1539]

The way he pointed it out made me laugh a little too hard 😂

[@TM-tl6do]

I didn't see it even with the zoom in

[@gracemonteleone1126]

The photo of Rupaul, nirvana and Kurt's kid is probably my favourite thing from any mtv vmas

[@kevaughnramsay9846]

FACTS

[@KillaKeyTV]

VMAS needs go to back to this format. The different shows announcing the categories was a fire idea.

[@vvorms]

i'm so happy every time you pull out one of these that's pre 2000 it's so INTERESTING a piece of HISTORY!!!!!

[@Only4_janett]

Madonna opened Janet closed that itself makes this one of the most iconic two legends in one night

[@RestingCatNipFace]

Yes. Janet always killed it 🔥 🔥. Her 2000 vma performance especially is so underrated

[@novalis]

… and in 1990, it was Janet Jackson who opened - and Madonna closed. ❤

[@ilovespooky]

The editing during RuPaul's interview is some of your most hilarious work 😂 Well done mama

[@muffythevampirelayer_]

What's wild to me is that "Calm Down Grandma!" article... she was the same age as Taylor Swift now. Imagine someone writing an article right now about Taylor and calling her a grandma. The ageism was insane.

[@bretth1069]

That's why Madonna deserves every bit of respect possible for putting up with all that sort of crap back then so girlies like Taylor can thrive today.

[@bullmonty764]

Not to mention the immediate cancellation whoever would write the article would receive from not just Swifties, but the entire industry. He or she would be wiped off the Internet forever, and that’s putting it delicately nopunintended

[@dannyaraya8017]

Madonna ran her ass off so taylor, miley, pink can half-assed crawl

[@jillsarah7356]

Unfortunately Taylor lived through some of it too, the 00s were SO misogynistic

[@TerryKraft-it7kt]

Fr back then 50 years old was like the end of life

[@Nina525]

Areosmith's performance is Steven Tyler who collapsed and pulled his pants down a bit to much. Unless I'm not in on the joke when you're calling him Carol Radcilff?😂

[@ImmundaDeus]

I'm glad that you add context to a lot of this stuff. Just adds so much more spice and flavor to the shows knowing what was going through the stars' minds. Like when Ru shaded Milton. Or about that scammy MLM guy. P.S. I love the TV show bumpers on this one.

[@DanPantzig]

God the 90s MTV awards shows were so fantastic. TAKE ME BACK!

[@RestingCatNipFace]

Absolutely. Then 1999 happened and shitty nu metal bands like Limp Bizkit polluted the airways. 😢

[@txwtw]

@@RestingCatNipFace hold up, were the mtv vmas in the 2000s any good?/genq

[@elizabthharris6741]

The early VMAs were wild. I remember they used to be entertaining. Back when they played music videos

[@dancoroian1]

"Not generally recognized as safe" is different than "generally recognized as unsafe" 🤦‍♂️

[@notamberp]

….is it, though?

[@dancoroian1]

@@notamberp...yes?

[@dancoroian1]

@@notamberp there's a WHOLE middle ground for which the safety is just unknown...surely you must realize that, right? The world isn't black and white. Not to mention the time/effort/resources necessary to formally classify anything as anything 🙄

[@DelosFive]

Sleeping Satellite, not Sleeping Seattle, you gorgeous creature!

[@dancoroian1]

Ah, that classic somewhat problematic 90s rom-com, Sleepless in Satellite

[@p.d.l7023]

Good song.

[@Grass12]

soon as I saw 1993 vma's, I instantly thought janet's LEGENDARY performance oh my gawd that woman is amazing

[@greendayrock]

Been binge watching your award show videos since discovering you last night. Keep up the amazing work, Hugo!

[@dennischristopher9952]

The 90s were a magical time 💫💥

[@Hokie5Libra82]

I think Cindy Crawford was still the host of House of Style on MTV back then, so not very weird to have her hosting on the red carpet. Love the vid as always bb!

[@martinacold9255]

Hugs from Asia! Who else is saying " A hot mess" along with Hugo at the beginning 😂 Thank you for this awesome content🌺

[@patsysolatzzo2962]

I know I’ve said this in another one of your videos but I absolutely love the variations of genres that showed up. There really was something for everyone which was what made these award shows so enjoyable. It was interesting to see what artists hang out together. It’s also enjoyable to have the tv cross over. MTV really was something else. Also fun story the boy who played Jeremy in pearl jams video (not the actual kid just the actor who portrayed him) used to live in an apartment in Manhattan that I’ve been to a few times. Great guy, I miss him- rest in peace. Thank you for bringing the supporting pop culture moments. I don’t think I would have lived right without seeing ru Paul dragging joy bayer on the view.

[@christinasciabarra1216]

Such a good video! Commentary was awesome. I felt some serious 90’s nostalgia…

[@ijomi]

janet being subbed is insane but she came and slayed

[@Imoimine]

When Naughty By Nature said that Uncle Milti won that round, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say they were being sarcastic 😂😂

[@mrmusickhimself]

Knowing Uncle Miltie he likely paid them to say it.

[@dannyaraya8017]

or they hate anything lgbtq related

[@jaredlange2516]

You are the BEST for doing these 90’s VMA’s and Movie Awards. Thank you!!!!!!

[@aljade9545]

Depeche Mode was ROBBED for best group video...... i feel you is a badass song and music video, highly recommend

[@p.d.l7023]

They're my favorite band!

[@the.honest.trainer]

7:58 lol Sleeping Satellites being Sleeping Seattle is funny 😂

[@M00nageDaydream83]

Thank you SO much for this swell of nostalgia I so desperately needed! I love this era of music and pop culture ❤ I don't even care that I'm old bc the 90s were truly the best time to be alive!

[@Thebaronvonburger]

WAKE UP GAYMERS NEW HUGO HENDERSON VMA VID DROPPED

[@denilsonzaslavski1989]

✋

[@nikhilsonavane8939]

HEAAAAAAAA

[@lorybianchi2859]

Fr

[@dannyaraya8017]

insert miley cyrus "what....." video clip

[@lorybianchi2859]

@@dannyaraya8017 one of his trademarks w ‘well done mama’ by rupaul 🙌

[@AmerieFanbase]

90s had variety of music, it’s crazy

[@wendyloo1159]

Yes, soul asylum, I totally forgot!

[@Colorz.]

Love Amerie! Are you gonna add more pics and videos to your channel?

[@XxMayhem88]

There's no more of any of that

[@trace2544]

Omg where did you dig this up? I love it!!❤❤

[@packnetadaija]

I love that for the playlist cover you have the photo of RuPaul holding a baby Francis Bean I love it 😂😂😂

[@cd.riscado]

The bumpers from that year was very creative, I wish they would made like this again

[@allendulles2481]

You're kidding, right? MTV is and has been garbage for 27 years! 😂

[@haliee]

i agree! it was enjoyable to watch

[@fortunamajor7239]

@@allendulles2481 if you take a permanent nap you can relive the heyday of MTV!

[@mikekling]

The apex of the VMAs in my opinion - especially Miss Jackson's epic performance to close the show - wow! Feels like it was only yesterday, my teen self would get so excited to watch the VMAs - I miss the 80s & 90s so much - but grateful I grew up in such an amazing era of music, fashion, movies, TV, & music videos!! I thought it was ingenious how they mixed together different TV shows for the nominations - SO 90s AND SO RAD!! **Where did you find this copy of the show? I've been searching for years and the only one I can find is dubbed in German. I used to have a VHS recording of the 93 & 94 VMAs - but I lost it!! I'd love to relive the magic and memories of the '93 VMAs - Can you share the link to the source taping? If not, at least I can watch your hilarious reaction to it and fill in the gaps from memory - LOL

[@EchanteDante]

AWWW KEANU WAS AND STILL IS SUCH A CUTIE PIE 🥰

[@JoeyandJesse]

My biggest complaint about your (great) channel is you dont provide enough commentary and original content. Youre getting better with every vid. Keep up the great work.

[@c.t.4837]

This is my childhood! ❤❤ MTV And VH1 was everything

[@Shannen.Holly.Rose84]

😂😂😂 Sleeping Seattle had me rolling the hardest.. Not by any means trying to be disrespectfull but some of the pronounciations..😊 Thanks for your videos! Love the recaps and all the effort you put in them!❤

[@austins.2495]

So many iconic players here, man what a great time in history. The 90’s were the best, fight me

[@YungBartTV]

Thank u bro this is what i needed on my last day of spring break 😂 Can you do 2019 vmas next?

[@RestingCatNipFace]

I genuinely thought the vmas stopped existing after 2013 or so.

[@YungBartTV]

@@RestingCatNipFace nah thats really the only think mtv has to look forward to

[@smokeedinero]

En Vouge was nominated for everything that year damn

[@singstreetcar5881]

Free your mind was a HIT.

[@lizzybethnj617]

Free Your Mind is a great song

[@nkashamasankofa1114]

They were an amazingly talented group

[@g.g.2102]

⁠they were the most nominated at that time

[@XanArt21]

Free your Mind is so awesome... I wish Mark Romanek would release the more freaky edgy version with the pinhead animals etc.

[@WhitneyShaleen]

This feeds my soul, thank you Hugo 🙏🏻

[@ally4516]

Its actually criminal in my opinion that you have less than 50k subs. I can't even with that information 😞😢

[@twannifufu]

Gosh, I miss this era of MTV. It was really tuned in to the pulse of popular culture of the time. Now, it's a relic of a bygone time. 90s pop culture was peak pop culture, cause everything was more intertwined than it is now (for better or for worse depending on the lens). Pardon my old person on a rocking chair moment.

[@NieceGenius]

I love your videos 😅😅 they give me so much nostalgia ❤ can you imagine being in high school and watching this live?!?! I love your generation but y'all could never😂😂😂 #GenXForever!!! Great video❤

[@notamberp]

people like you are honestly so annoying can’t lift your own generation up without bringing others down? lame

[@RachelleLove81]

Sleeping Seattle lol loving these videos. Listened to the radio constantly as a kid but we didn't have Mtv. Making a play list. Thank you. 😊

[@tylerch8]

“If” is probably the best pop song, music video and choreography

[@seruhhhhhh]

I love how Flea is part of so many of these hahahaha

[@jenniferpeters9552]

You are seriously one of my favorite channels. 😊

[@megano2000]

Those nomination bumpers are ICONIC

[@InfinitiCMBull]

I was 4 years old in 93 and the sheer amount of legendary music and TV that came out during this era is insane. Seinfeld, Star Trek TNG, Nirvana, Snoop, Dre... I wish the stuff that came out these days was anywhere near this level.

[@allendulles2481]

Yeah, you have not connection to it. Thanks for your irrelevant comment.

[@fortunamajor7239]

​@@allendulles2481 how funny. so any art you were exposed to before adulthood just doesn't count? if you were born in the 60s i guess you just can't comprehend what the Beatles and the Animals were doing, since you were a child 😅 how silly

[@allendulles2481]

@@fortunamajor7239 That's not my point. My point has to do with Shared Societal Participation that they can't comprehend. So yes, I love The Beatles, but I'll never truly be able to comprehend Beatlemania because I wasn't around to experience it when it actually happened. THAT is what I'm talking about.

[@JessicaClariceElsener]

Fun Fact: Bob Odenkirk star of the hit show Better Call Saul, back at this time was a writer. He wrote for the Ben Stiller Show, SNL, and would create the show "Mr. Show with Bob and David" 2-3 years after this VMAs. Look closely at the credits when the bee girl is dancing around 18:39 -18:42. I guess Bob helped write some of the funny things.

[@Regreviews]

To me this and 85 are the best vmas Everything was on point btw could you do 85 vmas please

[@KalmoK]

Nobody would've noticed the pimble without you talking about it tbh... 😂

[@emnem998]

Mariah Carey and Tabitha are twin flames

[@dannyaraya8017]

Mariah is Michael Jackson in female form getting revenge on tabitha

[@Bunniblossom]

If you covered the paint drying awards I’d watch it

[@karmakuntz]

Didnt even notice your pimple, Hugo! And I always look forward to your videos on this side of the world 🌍😉

[@duanein3d]

The way you keep the long pause and then cut away as soon as something starts to happen NEVER fails to make me laugh

[@katwebbxo]

I was born in 92 and always wished I was born earlier because of things like this lol. I've loved RuPaul and Nirvana for most of my life. Always loved the pics of them together. 💕

[@dannyaraya8017]

aww you don't look 32 at all

[@katwebbxo]

@@dannyaraya8017 Aw thanks. Still 31 till November but yay. 😊

[@greendayrock]

I noticed you previously reacted to the 2014 MuchMusic Video Awards (MMVAs). Would you consider doing future MMVA videos? I am from Toronto, Canada and they were a staple in my hometown every June. Past hosts included the Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, & PSY (Gangnam Style).

[@joeyclemenza7339]

6:52 ....pretty sure he means back stage at whatever venue they're performing at.

[@positive___soul]

11:47 If I'm not mistaken this is the last time RuPaul appeared on MTV

[@bees.857]

Of course they would ban her for going off script. She's funnier than any writer they could get.

[@dannyaraya8017]

@@bees.857 i think Ru left mtv cuz they let MB be rude af in front of everyone. ended their relationship. according to wiki "the entire event subsequently forced RuPaul to end what was, up until that point, a very prosperous professional relationship with MTV"

[@bees.857]

@@dannyaraya8017 Good. Ru didn't need MTV

[@brooklynleeeea]

and now rupaul’s drag race airs on mtv hahaha

[@Princessm2025]

RuPaul was 1000% the star of this entire awards show 😂❤️ thanks for sharing because I wasn’t even born in 93 and it’s cool to see

[@CrazyRachel1984]

Thanks for the joyful morning Hugo ❤

[@TramiNguyen-oi3kp]

I love these 1993 MTV VMAs moments!

[@dyskelia]

You missed the bit where Bon Jovi hit on Cindy Crawford…unless that was a different time she did the pre show?

[@hugohenderson]

She also did 1992 😁

[@dyskelia]

@@hugohenderson wow 😮

[@edgarquintero2876]

Adding Jorgeous to the diapers comment would have been gold 😂

[@kristinazubic9669]

Cindy hosted a show on MTV at the time called House of Style

[@notamberp]

….he knows that…

[@Winnipegger]

Tasmin Archer's Sleeping Seattle????? Satellite!!!

[@queenb7013]

Please cover the 2000 Teen Choice Awards, 2004 MTV Movie Awards and 2002 Teen Choice Awards

[@ItsAGoodChannel]

Hugo to K.D. Lang: I'muh let you finish, but Janet had one of the best videos of ALL TIME!

[@Rochelle1985]

Man, these days were the best....the best decade of music. And Christian Slater was quite gorgeous. ☺️

[@DelilaSloan]

Joy behar should have known that if you are going to get into a reading contest with rupaul, you are going to lose.

[@tylerch8]

I wish the VMAs were like this. Bring back Madonna and Janet being center stage

[@MrChuckGrape]

I totally remember the Amy Fisher obsession. I was only 8 or 9 and thought it was weird and gross that people were so consumed by the story.

[@bafbaas1210]

Do the 1991 one, that's where Mariah Carey breaks a record for highest note (a Bb7 btw!!)

[@musicnerd72]

"Daddy, daddy watch me twarl.... DADDY!". 🤣🤣🤣

[@DelosFive]

Blink if you’re not doing this as a hostage negotiation, Hugo!! ❤

[@christopherwebb3517]

1993 was peak 90s. That was the best year of the decade.

[@trerhodes8884]

I feel old , I was 2 when this aired lol 😭

[@teriverse]

16:15 - YOU ARE RIGHT, HUGO! Janet should've won Best Female Video at the '93 VMAs.💯💯 (she did win in '94 for the same category, but still...)

[@alicein1984]

When Milton said "you weren't supposed to say that" he meant it. They had gone over that joke & he didn't like it. I'm so old I watched all of these live flipping between channels during commercial breaks.

[@morganhayden625]

Joy beyard’s joke about taking fashion advice from drag queens makes no sense like hello? Their style is impeccable and not a laughing matter.

[@DelilaSloan]

Joy is an idiot.

[@TM-tl6do]

In the 90s they were kinda considered to be a joke, not taken seriously whatsoever. You can hear it by the audience reaction

[@XanArt21]

7:55 Sleeping Seattle 😂😂😂 Sleeping Sattelite!

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Awesome video.

[@clericjosep8245]

Man, this was a huge bit of nostalgia for me. Particularly Rupaul destroying Milton Berle.

[@juliagoolia5604]

Wil watch this later! 😅 epic! Love our old vma! 1984baby right here! I remember these more clear than the replays of these. No shade given. I just do! And the orange hair girl interviewer I Knew even as a kid something (bitchy) was “off”about her! Thank u for covering these oldies!! This oldie appreciate

[@didierrobert13004]

It’s 3.20pm in France but I don’t care, I just grabbed a beer and some chips ! LETS GOOO 🎉🎉🎉

[@blahdeblaaah9445]

You see how nasty Joy Behar said “drag queen”?

[@dannyaraya8017]

please do 1992 VMA's next

[@XxMayhem88]

Dr Dre shouting out En Vogue 😂😂😂 they're backstage with the video

[@app1escruff]

Janet stans unite! ❤❤❤

[@waffletoast215]

I wouldn’t have noticed the pimple if Hugo didn’t point it out 🤔

[@frankiemoran3660]

Yo Tabatha’s hair looked crazy from the back!!! When’s she’s interviewing Mariah Carey, there’s a shot of the back of her head, and the layers are so bad. It looks like a mullet with a bob on top of it.

[@singstreetcar5881]

That incident nearly ruined rupauls career.

[@funandyvideos]

"...this guacamole is... def!"