The Best of Max Headroom Japanese Laserdisc

Produced by Chrysalis Visual Programming Ltd in 1987, this is a compilation of clips from the UK's Channel 4 program "The Max Headroom Show" which ran from 1985 to 1987 in the UK & USA.
Presented here in 60p to preserve the smooth look of interlaced video.
CONTENTS:
1. Opening. "Welcome to the MAX HEADROOM SHOW!"
2. Hollywood Scandal. Sexy talk with Jackie Collins
3. Born To Play Wild!? Pianist: Max
4. Sting & Max In Controversy. Golf vs Tennis
5. "Wanna Date?" Max on Video Dating
6. Sour But Tasty. "Lemon", Jack Lemmon
7. Free Spirit. Jackson Browne under arrest
8. Tina's Hot Christmas Present
9. Max Aid!? With help from Bob Geldof
10. Max In Harmony. I love my shades
11. Why Own Clubs For A Walk On The Course. Rutger Hauer
12. Stack Of Vouchers For Millionaires. Tracey Ullman
13. Superstar In Disguise. Michael Caine's best pal
14. Tell 'Em All! Censored Max Edition
15. Max, Live On Stage!
16. Mystery Voice Of GREMLIN In Person. Howie Mandell
17. ENDING "Never Can Say Goodbye"

[@MiniLemmy]

Matt Frewer is an incredible talent! Not only is he the perfect look and sound for the Max character, he’s actually a very charismatic and witty interviewer

[@PooperScooperTrooper]

Whaddya mean? Max is computer generated! Don't spoil my 80's, computer-obsessed childhood!!!

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

With a sharp sence of Yuma.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

With a sharp sence of Yuma.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

With a sharp sence of Yuma.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

With a sharp sence of Yuma.

[@Cato229]

Thirty years later, this could have been a full-time gig on Twitch.

[@myautobiographyafanfic1413]

Gross. Dude, think before you post.

[@reicrystalline2506]

Hahahah no less gross than what actually occurs on twitch.

[@pugjuice8462]

He even talks like Jerma.

[@tomsnowden6201]

It did way better than twitch

[@alakani]

@@tomsnowden6201 Matt Frewer got paid like $100k for Max Headroom. Some of the stupid streamers are millionaires

[@billygoatguy3960]

His character is...hypnotizing in its own way. Hard to describe.

[@supersmashbro596]

it's great. even if you know this is just practical effects and video editing, it's still hypnotic.

[@NortheastSurvival911]

I think Jim Carrey took a lot from this guy

[@stefoster7031]

@@NortheastSurvival911 Watching the piano playing scene, and decided to scroll down if anyone had mentioned Jim Carrey, haha.

[@followingtheroe1952]

H-hy-h-h..y..pnotic-hypnotic isnt it? >:) :O

[@HDZ274]

I love the constant crickets during interviews so any time there's silence it's immediately awkward.

[@CtrlAltRetreat]

Holy carp. At the time I didn't realize how cutting edge all of this was. He's by far the most cutting and ironically real ghost I've ever seen. There's so much here that ended up going so far beyond and is just becoming massive deals now. Both the guests and Max add to the whole cyberpunk dystopia of reality today. Too bad the style didn't keep on.

[@Optics21]

With this new chat gpt and ai advancements we’ll probably get a show similar to this with a real ai interviewer

[@JewTube001]

@@Optics21 The real thing is no fun though. This is fun because it's a good character, not what a computer thinks a good character is.

[@joe-nz4xz]

Sounds like shit ​@@Optics21

[@okeoi]

Not even 5 min in and he's already making golf jokes. Just perfect.

[@desertrose1226]

The best one was Rutger Hauer and Max Headroom! Rutger’s reaction is priceless !!!

[@enigmaticheat5623]

im born in 90's and think this is more than entertaining. And i started to love Max's personalities..

[@enigmaticheat5623]

@Pete Testube Since its first time i watched it, i love his sarcas jokes,something that kinda rare nowadays

[@Phractal]

Can’t imagine what the person who had to translate this into Japanese was thinking when doing the translation

[@jonmyers8046]

He needs a comeback. Especially now with the way the media is. He would have a field day, and he really could be CGI with an AI! Matt could still get gratuities for using his face and voice too

[@Wolfsheim23]

Thats one thing so timeless about this,. even with modern CGI we can't create anything this expressive. It was like CGI so far ahead we still can't make anything this expressive.

[@cmyk8964]

His comeback should definitely be computer-generated with intentionally old-school Gouraud shading. But his head animation should be rotoscoped IMO

[@warlockpaladin2261]

It was hand-animated using the filmed frames of Frewer's acting... basically, mo-cap without CGI, which was still being called "rotoscoping" at that time. This was the method used in the television series... not sure what they were doing by the time they went to this "late night" format tho.

[@TheMadwomen]

11:20 Are we just gonna ignore this absolute gem of a burn?

[@EvilNecroid]

lol

[@paulstrahan4670]

Gold! went straight under the radar LOL

[@okaywhatevernevermind]

Americans don’t get it because they don’t speak the same language.

[@harleyjackson3708]

It's so weird how he can go from being Jim Carrey before there was a Jim Carrey to being the most well-acted death in Dawn of The Dead 2004. TALENT.

[@Cato229]

You want every... single... second.

[@faradaysage15]

as another viewer pointed out which I didn't discover until he said, of course he was Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey existed because Jim Carrey copied Max headroom.

[@ciscornBIG]

You just blew my mind. I had no idea that was him but I felt like i recognized that actor. Never looked in to it and here I am 18 years later just now finding this out. Love it.

[@b1nary_f1nary]

@@faradaysage15 Thats just not true whatsoever. Carrey was already acting with his signature style around that time, just not starring in big movies

[@alakani]

@@b1nary_f1nary Eh, he did standup comedy, first time he was really on TV was the W5 interview in 1983. He made funny faces and did Elvis impersonations. He had the nonsense covered but lacked the subtle depth before '85

[@05Rudey]

The perfect video to Watch directly after '20 minutes into the Future', or perhaps about 10 - 15 minutes before the end.

[@MikePuorro]

Way ahead of it's time.

[@svenjansen2134]

Yes

[@alch3myau]

2022 and beyond needs Max back.

[@vee-bee-a]

Max Beyond Headroom, coming this 2024. 🤣 Even funnier, since the late Ms. Turner was in this video.

[@svenjansen2134]

Thanks for this. Max must be preserved!

[@PeterGumballs]

The 80sness of it all

[@HoustonRoderick]

He scared the shit out of me when I was a little kid

[@austinryan3934]

This character lives in the uncanny valley. It's kind of the point of the satire.

[@sledgehammer8130]

yeah I wish they still had Max Headroom shows - just think of what they could do with today's tech..

[@supersmashbro596]

nah i mean something would be lost if we used todays tech. max was never actually cg. just practical effects and video editing to look cg. i think the crappy video quality really helps with the illusion. iunno. this feels more like a "product of its time" that we can't hope to replicate in the same way.

[@reeblesnarfle4519]

Stellar performance from the only intellectual talking head on TV, the one, the only, MAX HEADROOM!😎 THANKS for sharing such rare footage of a rare event of enormous statue in television. Long may his memory survive!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹✌😎👍🇺🇸

[@mikechappell4156]

A lot of this was lost on me back in the eighties.

[@randyj420]

This is great - thanks so much. What great interviews and incredible wit - setting the bar pretty high for future Space Ghost and other future cutting-edge funny.

[@cycleistic1365]

Max Headroom should return immediately. He could be re-created on cgi now to make it a never ending source of snarky mockery of the contemporary stupidity of everything. Just need to be careful to follow the steps of the original, no modernization allowed in anything other than the topics. *Max, please come back!!!*

[@LooseFlannel]

One of the funniest jokes Britain creatives played on unsuspecting Americans. Max Headroom was styled after Nazi propaganda posters (blue eyes, swept back blonde hair), and would ridicule American TV show hosts, and much more, not only did they adopt this bigoted *robot into their own tv shows as a celebrity, they also had Coca Cola use him as the front man to release New Coke dangling this satirical joke on them in star spangled banners, as you know, he's that robot from TV. Simply amazing

[@itsukafeb]

嬉しい！上げてくれてありがとうございます！！！

[@potrzebie74]

どういたしまして

[@powderslinger5968]

どういたしまして

[@Kristian.Ofsteng]

That ending was the funniest shit ever. Even Max’s last words are iconic.

[@TobyDeshane]

This is fantastic! Thank you! :)

[@MisterLobo]

Great job! Watching Max Headroom made we want to make TV and fed my love for satire.

[@trippy_dragon8726]

This is so funny and uncanny at the same time

[@eijiaquarius]

おお！！マジか！！懐かしすぎ！ スティングめっちゃ髪あるやん。フサフサやん。

[@XD_cu]

?

[@pmimagery1295]

.It's time to bring back Max!!

[@EvilNecroid]

ye yes please

[@SaltGrains_Fready]

Behold The Man Who Created FACE TIME !! MAX Headroom !!!

[@Par-Crom]

"It is toned down truth, because if I wrote about the real Hollywood, nobody would've believed it." I can feel that.

[@retter2critical]

PLAYBACK '86!

[@taunusv4power]

Don't want to ruin this video mentioning that new trend but yeah... 80's Japanese... You know what i mean. Anyways, i really enjoy the max headroom show for what it was. I really love the show. Max's charisma is irreplaceable

[@haunter8201]

vaporwave

[@pan-semitistcommunist4181]

Max is definitely one of the original uses of vaporwave aesthetics. He has that distopian, 80s, retro-futuristic vibe.

[@zackmatulis4094]

@@pan-semitistcommunist4181 Max Headroom was produced in the 80s, that's why it looks like that....

[@pan-semitistcommunist4181]

@@zackmatulis4094 I'm well aware of that mate... Not everything in the 80s looked like this tho, its clear they were influenced by stuff like Blade Runner, Johnny Mnemonic and Do Androids Dream of Electric sheep, which are all heavy inspirations for the vaporwave aesthetic aswell. Thats what im saying.

[@zackmatulis4094]

@@pan-semitistcommunist4181 I totally misunderstood then sorry lol

[@MrRoboto1963]

How come in the credits it shows Simon LeBon, but there was no interview on here with him? I'm sure I didn't totally space and not realize I saw him? I think I would remember that?

[@maliciouslyContent]

"I have 40 pairs of golf shoes and I'm giving you one of them." what a guy

[@sirianfelixbrightonesquire3247]

I really feel like this is where Jim Carey got his delivery, they even sound so much alike. And Jim wouldn’t of made it big for a few more years.

[@sleepysteev2735]

Max Headroom -> Jim Carrey -> Jerma985

[@doctordothraki4378]

8:35 Did Max get a better graphics card? Because those ＦＲＡＥＭＺ

[@ronaldmorris2257]

I miss Max!

[@hanskramer9874]

Max did a tour of VFW posts in the 80s where he held the door open to the bar area (lush), but he should have had a female sidekick named Min Heartroom by then to turn him off. His exit line was always awkward.

[@TheBloodshower]

My favourite hobby is girls... Girls, my favourite hobby is golf. Brilliant

[@sierra118boy]

It would be crazy to see something like Max in Cyberpunk 2077

[@EvilNecroid]

or in cyberpunk something that works

[@Dogeathotdog1]

@@EvilNecroid 🤣

[@nicholastosoni707]

Max interviews SHODAN. 'Nuff said!

[@vee-bee-a]

​@@nicholastosoni707Man, that scene would be a riot! 🤣

[@RiasatSalminSami]

60 FPS finally!

[@doctordothraki4378]

8:35 is how I feel when I get 60fps. Notice how Max is moving at 60fps for once

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@doctordothraki4378 Felt so good. I miss the SD era really. All the news channels, local shows and series here were broadcasted at 50i back in the day. Now they've been switching to HD and all of a sudden, many of those shows became 25i [only few sports broadcasts are 50i now]. If this was the cost for the switch to HD, I 'd rather prefer SD at 50i.

[@nknguyen2877]

@@RiasatSalminSami newsline in most countries (including the developed) are still at 50i and 60i if you pay attention. It's just that most national television aren't bothered to re-render them at full 50/60p when uploading to KZbin

[@RiasatSalminSami]

@@nknguyen2877 yeah, which is such a shame. We should preserve the video in their best quality as much as possible. Then there are other ones where they export 25 fps footage to a 30 fps container, etc etc.. absolutely bollocks.

[@nknguyen2877]

@@RiasatSalminSami in their defence, stuff like this kinda requires certain demandings and as being a former National TV editor's assistant, I do know that this was more or less an unnecessary additional works and most employees within this department doesn't have time nor passion to do so.

[@pladampa]

I wonder if anyone has been interviewed on Max Headroom and spaceghost.

[@dfeyma]

There's about 5 years between Max disappearing from regular media and Space Ghost Coast to Coast premiering, so, no

[@pladampa]

@@dfeyma ty for reply, I was hoping for a chance

[@pamelawatson532]

wow, Howie Mandel with hair

[@honeyOTU_]

WTF HOWIE MANDEL WITH HAIR

[@DCCLXII]

I feel this needs a fully dedicated episode of format wars on regular show lol

[@canteventhough]

Finally I see a joke about head room. You need space between the top of the head and the frame. I always thought that's how he got his name!

[@canteventhough]

I'm nearly sure that they only interviewed non- golfers.

[@XeresKyle]

I think Jim Carrey- with how he acts now-a-days- is ashamed that his whole life is just a persona of Matt Frewer's personality as Max Headroom. His life is literally a lie. It isn't inspiration, because he never mentioned Matt at all. I just think he took that sarcastic, eccentric character and ran with it as his own when it's so obvious that he is mimicking Matt Frewer.

[@SendTheInvadersOutOfCanada]

you feel good about yourself eh, lol

[@agonistes06]

jim carrey is that kid in class who thought he was funny and could never shut up.

[@fisheatsteel]

He really does sound like Jim Carrey's characters.

[@faradaysage15]

I've always hated im carrey but never made the connection before . holy BALLS, thanks for this

[@michaelb7862]

I can see the similarities

[@dusk7919]

Whyyyyyyyyyyyyy!? 😒 Where did he go............. ? 😥 Why? Need ... MORE! 🙏😎

[@enigmaticheat5623]

Love his glitchy behavior, which seems creepy for today standard.

[@GothGuy885]

there is a part they edited out of this show. when a tech pirate hacked into the TV stations signal, and ran 20 seconds of a football game, and a few days later, in another city, 20 seconds of Dr who

[@Nofun1]

Twist , Jackie threw the Mistress mash !

[@NB-lv8oq]

"Marty.......you're fired...." :)

[@nihonam]

I want to know in details how it was made

[@kevinbuttry8135]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/faSno4uZbpmBfbc

[@shioq.]

at first I thought he said "Tacky Collins"

[@edit4audios]

*"HOLY SHIT!!!!"*

[@jamiesmith4293]

Having recently found out Max was live action, not CG, and I'll guess he was edited on a video toaster, it must've been a lot of work to edit the glitches into it.

[@we_dont_need_roads]

当時、小学生だったけど本当のCGだと思ってたわ😂

[@freedomprotrading4498]

PERFECT FOR STAR BABBIES!!!!!!!!!🙃😀😍😛

[@嗚呼素晴らしき空のいろ]

有名人のオンパレード!

[@ViridianFlow]

32:40 is the kind of thing that these days would instantly click with KZbin's theory channels (specifically putting on the only shades that show his eyes, looking straight at camera and saying "see a guys eyes and he cannot be trusted")

[@eiban1112]

私が日本人です

[@DeterminedExpression]

私が日本人です

[@vee-bee-a]

苗字からして私は日本人なのかもしれません。

[@sudounatumi]

まじこええんだけど

[@たけまろ]

マックス大好き！

[@dez4651]

chaos

[@peterhoeller7811]

GOLF

[@NortheastSurvival911]

Jim Carrey seems to have taken an awful lot of characterization from this. Max that is. Lot of similarities between this and Jim's comedy.

[@followingtheroe1952]

"I wont take this as the personal dig im sure it was meant to be" -Jim Carrey

[@michaelglettler4489]

36:26

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

*Jim Carrey is such a poser for copying Max's Style.*

[@StrikeFear13]

No.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@@StrikeFear13 _Unfortunately.........your application for "No" has been denied._

[@Perririri]

Jim Carrey is GOD!!

[@ObsidianTheGod]

@@MAGGOT_VOMIT Inspiration is never a bad thing, my guy.

[@MAGGOT_VOMIT]

@@Perririri _Jim Carrey is a plagiarist and a discount Matt Frewer._

[@followingtheroe1952]

7:45 A brash interior lmao

[@turtledove2024]

Hunger games was not original The grass is green The sky is blue

[@haji2nd444]

15:15 uhh ok well that was unexpected

[@rMeSclan]

I could see jim carrey pulling this off.

[@tomsnowden6201]

25:00 "I was blocking the entrance to a nuclear power plant" ...Why do these people who pretend to do things for the environment and poor people actively work against both?

[@okaywhatevernevermind]

they couldn’t find any oil platforms nearby

[@richardlitwin4046]

Anyone spot the influence of Kenny Everett here?

[@jam-the-hologram]

I think that if Max was real I would absolutely hate the man, but as it is, with it realistically being a dude in a shit ton of makeup, foam and fibreglass or “in-universe” being an A.I, I can’t get enough of him. I think because he’s an A.I (and a spoof) he is sort of excused in some way of his sexist remark and advances, of his calls to violence, etc, etc. because he’s just a talking head in a telly. What the hell is he going to do?

[@1stDRAGonLINE]

Could anyone tell me why is this is somehow subbed in Japanese?

[@potrzebie74]

It's a home video for the Japanese market. As Laserdisc is analogue, the subtitles are part of the image and can't be turned off.

[@sudounatumi]

真相は？

[@DaRealJohnDaGamer64]

It's the Dennis Hopper version of Bowser from that lame Super Mario Bros movie. XD

[@Pooglian]

Fun fact: The directors of that lame Super Mario Bros movie (Rocky Morton & Annabel Jankel) were co-creators of Max Headroom. Unfortunately, they took the dystopian aesthetic that worked so well in Max Headroom: 20 Minutes into the Future (the TV movie made to explain Max Headroom's origin) and tried to apply it to Super Mario Bros. We all know how *that* turned out.

[@DaRealJohnDaGamer64]

@@Pooglian Really? You learn something new everyday.

[@nicholastosoni707]

@@Pooglian Although...You know World [ ]-4, with black backgrounds and fireballs and spiked bricks? _The entire world of Dinohattan looks like World [ ]-4 if Koopa had won._

[@Jude_5555]

The original V-Tuber

[@duncelp1290]

Jerma985

[@Perririri]

Potrzebie is Polish for " need "

[@potrzebie74]

Correct. It is used randomly in Mad Magazine which is why I chose it.

[@theprof291166]

Did Max Headroom predate Jim Carrey?

[@kevinbuttry8135]

Oh yes. By a decade, give or take .

[@Musket-hi6eb]

なにこれ

[@Musket-hi6eb]

おお This is like Eminem

[@potrzebie74]

Correction, Eminem is like THIS!

[@Musket-hi6eb]

@@potrzebie74 I am not sure what this video is...

[@potrzebie74]

@@Musket-hi6eb welcome to the wonderful world of Max Headroom.

[@captainwilliam3920]

I came here from both rap god and oh yeah yeah

[@user-lx5kl8pz9s]

いや日本人いろや

[@XD_cu]

?

[@daryldixon5280]

@26:18

[@功次大橋]

やあ、マックス、しばらく前に、量子ハードディスクを、考案したんだ、0でも、1でも、無い、状態、N極、S極、でも、無い、状態を、作れば、量子ハードディスクに、成るのではと、言うこと。

[@BENDYBENDY-hf1fh]

Well the Max headroom show was off air this channel preserves the episodes

[@1Abbas]

جمل

[@フォートナイトボール]

Rap god?

[@jbullen82]

The Rap God video was a parody of this. Max Headroom was around 1985-1988 and few times since then including Pixels in 2015.

[@zeekmx1970]

Max Headroom's is to be removed from memory because his creators have a murder rap sheet.

[@melissawickersham9912]

What do you mean by that? His original creators were British.

[@pauls4522]

max headroom was a clever concept, for its time, but it ruins the immersion when his stuttering is inconsistent. over 90% of the time he talks normal and occasionally they add a stutter or 2 in there.

[@XeresKyle]

His glitchin is suppose to be inconsistent, just like how glitches are. Also he glitches in some words or letters to give them another meaning, like when he says "six-six-six successful" and " pee-pee-peek". It is fitting for the subject he is on. Like how network television is the devil when talking about censorship "...six-six-six success" and his genitalia when talking about girls, hence the "pee-pee-peek."

[@XeresKyle]

Sometimes what he says is blatant and other times he has a subconscious type of message intrinsically said I a less obtrusive but said to be still poignant but discreet.

[@XeresKyle]

He is a paradox but relatable.

[@powderslinger5968]

That's just DUMB! If his stutter was in any way consistent the effect would be runed! It's a GLITCH! Why would a glitch EVER be consistent? It has to be random and unpredictable or it's an intentional feature rather than a bug. Besides that his glitches often reveal double meanings. He can't be doing that with consistency.

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

dumb comment, dumb person

[@mrmree]

I heard the Beastie bois on the oldies station. Hey. Hey you flippin Gomers gotcha shitflipped there any deepfakesof this dipshit? like a proc gen Ai persona? I see a horrorable future of; old folks homes with digital staff. And I'd like a "Living nightmare" option with Max Headroom as the tech support.

[@ChaklitTea]

max headroom turned into joe biden

[@okaywhatevernevermind]

you mean trump? bigoted, slick blonde hair, inappropriate, and former TV host.