Spinal Tap on Jonathan Ross

[@draisine1609]

Anyone else here in 2021 after KZbin threw this into their feed? Awesome to see the Tap!!!

[@ChiralSpirals]

No but I'm here anyways... this was in your feed? Yt must like you, I rarely ever get good recommends.

[@YouTw1tFace]

Yes

[@JamesBond-uz2dm]

yes, Spinal Tap is my favorite band

[@markrainton3320]

Si

[@smoath]

Yup

[@ES-hr6vg]

Let’s not forget they are actually great musicians.

[@antennawilde]

The irony

[@lukemckean6155]

Great?

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

@@ES-hr6vg only when they play in D minor

[@catharineorellana3522]

"We're looking for someone with no immediate family, a strong pulse, the ability to count to four."

[@531ff]

Genius

[@davidtoohey783]

@@neuromd42 ​ Yes! - That was the only time Jonathan Ross lost it and laughed!!!

[@moonbeanification]

Derek, on playing in a Christian rock band: "Same three chords, basically. They just take a slightly different position towards the supreme evil one. "

[@markkusyrjala7919]

Thats so true and funny. I sometimes wonder why heavy metal guys are seriously anti-christian 'cause the material is from the bible anyway. It's like "hey you should be thankful for having a christian background to mock or use as material"☺ The Spinal Tap are just casual about it. "Just a different approach"

[@tylersims6937]

I fckin love Le'Tap!

[@tylersims6937]

Got to love thon Tap!

[@evankenney2082]

Soundgarden !!!

[@evankenney2082]

That is some funny shit!!!!

[@mattking241]

I still cry with laughter at Spinal Tap. Genius.

[@PeterMayer]

So do I!

[@Twirlyhead]

As a Brit I must say that their English accents are flawless.

[@NoxiousRob]

I'm also a Brit and I remember seeing This Is Spinal Tap when it was first released. I genuinely thought they were British. It was years later that I discovered they were Americans and I was genuinely taken aback, their English accents are so authentic.

[@Twirlyhead]

@@NoxiousRob Similar experience for me.

[@agentm00se]

so rare that anyone can actually get it right too, especially americans

[@NewsRedial]

Yeah, Tap was the first time I heard American actors doing believable English accents.

[@ES-hr6vg]

You forget they are American. It’s effortless.

[@markyncole]

This is why Mick Fleetwood is still alive today.

[@Kowasi]

Not making the grade for the Tap + a mighty resistance to asbestos' carcinogenic properties = survival!

[@sarcasticsteve3882]

Because he didn't make the band

[@DW-nb2zc]

Btw great in The Running Man

[@danacoleman4007]

This comment should have about a billion likes!

[@kelvinpell4571]

Unutterably superb. The greatest rock band possible, ever

[@robkunkel8833]

Spinal Tap paved the way for Elton John and even Barbara Streisand. The Waffles and, to some extent, the Hot Waffles sizzled! Legendary.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[@billdrumming]

Steel Panther too

[@TheMarcopix]

I saw them on the same bill with chicken one weekend. Hot Waffles and Chicken....what a show!

[@williamsherman1089]

So we can blame them for Barbera Streisand?!

[@SaintD382]

I love how Nigel's guitar has a solid bank of ten pickups in a row.😂😂😂

[@leonskum.5682]

Absolute comedy gold. I'm English and used to this kind of humour but I love it when people from other countries appreciate it. Peace.

[@oMerhav]

They are three Americans

[@CraigBillmeier_aka_Ums]

"You can almost hear the quiet."

[@cynomyS]

4:37

[@robertoseveno]

Haha great quip

[@SaintD382]

So many great dry throw-away one-liners from these improv geniuses.

[@moreheff]

Total comedy genius! Saw them live at the Royal Albert Hall when they were touring to promote the Break Like The Wind album. The guys can really play, and are as hilarious on stage as they are on film. And the songs are real and actually very good. Just bloody funny as hell. Can you tell I am a fan LOL

[@Beast96GT]

Are you kidding? The Royal Albert Hall? That's AWESOME!!

[@moreheff]

@@Beast96GT I know. It was amazing. There are some videos knocking about on You Tube if you can be bothered to search for them 😁 It was around 1990 or so, maybe '91 Memory a bit vague. I date by relating it to the girlfriend I had at the time LOL

[@johnmarlin7269]

Brilliant from top to bottom!

[@JewandGreek]

Mick Fleetwood was great. He's got that British accent down almost as good as the Spinal Tap guys.

[@musoseven8218]

I've never seen this, great at so many levels ✌️👍💜😊

[@Kowasi]

Man… the Break Like The Wind album… my first taste of Spinal Tap. I had it on tape… I got in on the ferry coming back from France… of course, that was back when France still existed.… good album, that, lot of guests on it…

[@neilpye6089]

Break like the wind was the only album to get to 0, It was a rear entry on the British charts the week of release

[@pauljohnmorales1840]

I'm watching this now in a very foggy summer in San Francisco and laughing my 'Arse' off! I'm a huge fan .. love all the comments below ;-)

[@JETJOOBOY]

BRILLIANT! Thanks for this... I can't believe I missed it back in the day!

[@yaseinbrat94]

My favorite song of theirs, so timeless and original, an often forgotten tune, from the kaleidoscope days and purple haze,,, Cups and Cakes.

[@missgreeneyes2650]

"Listen - to What the Flower People Say" is one of my very favourite songs ever, I'll have you know.

[@FlameFlickers]

Hahaha, the extra pick ups on Nigel's guitar are hilarious

[@SaintD382]

I was trying to count them...ten? Twelve? 😂

[@djizzah]

Very clever fellows, legends really, great musicians great actors and writers

[@tbc210]

“You can almost hear the quiet…” ✊🏻 Thank you, Spinal Tap

[@HardRockMiner]

How Jonathan held it together while saying "I want to wear you like a flesh tuxedo. I want to sink you with my pink torpedo", I will never know. I laughed hearing it and I am still laughing writing it.

[@HardRockMiner]

@MichaelKingsfordGray - Are you just coming out of a coma ? They only show if the person uploading the video chooses for them to show. Welcome back to the world.

[@SpideyVids]

@@HardRockMiner WTF has that got to do with anything he said?

[@SpideyVids]

"Big bottom, big bottom, Talk about mudflaps my girl's got 'em". 😂

[@HardRockMiner]

@@SpideyVids - ?? Geez why so angry..? Get a grip, man.

[@SophieW-z9r]

Ignore him & that stupid angry little man will go away hopefully !

[@835g]

I love how Nigel is always chewing gum . Just the little things you notice after watching the movie so many times.

[@TonySeagle]

Fleet did such an awesome job playing along.

[@chrisgilliver1]

"Monsters of Jesus Festival", lol!

[@josh0g]

The best part of that is if you grew up in that Christian music subculture... not far off.

[@chrisgilliver1]

@@josh0g in what way?

[@JM00237]

​@@chrisgilliver1 they're probably is a real life monsters of Jesus or something similar

[@LusciousTwinkle]

Their attention to detail is chefs kiss.

[@kevanbrown7620]

Spinal Tap are Legends ✌️

[@judyjudy51]

The Tap never got the recognition they deserved

[@2sc458]

I give props to that live mix. It sounded very well mixed with a truly live environment. It sounded to be at volume, too. Kudos.

[@jonandkellydominguez4025]

Bitch School almost sounds like it could be a new Rolling Stones song!!! Lol love it.

[@panayiotispanayiotou]

4.37 - "you can almost hear the quiet" 5.29 - "at the time we didn't have memories of that period"

[@brianmorecombe2726]

I could lookat this all day and laugh my head off

[@voicetube]

8:48 and Fleetwood's response was one of the funniest things in the whole show and I don't even know if one person in the audience laughed (yet the middle "Tap" did lose it for a second). That was HILARIOUS BTW!

[@SaintD382]

Yeah, that was brilliant, sort of obliquely dancing around the uncomfortable truth that Tap drummers spontaneously combust. Michael McKean did break character (like the wind) for a moment there, and Harry Shearer also put his hand over his mouth.

[@tripjet999]

The "New" Originals... reminds me of Harry Shearer's routine as the K-tel commercial announcer where he began the spot with, "Now and ONLY now...from now on!"

[@anonimouse8422]

AWESOME!! LOVE the FLOWER POWER bit!! Bring on the Rainbow!! :)

[@deletebilderberg]

‘The patron saint of quality footwear..’

[@CaptainKrimson]

The drummer survived this one!

[@DarrenGlen]

they are holding auditions in a month for a new drummer so obviously they werent to enamored with this one...or they expect him not to live much longer

[@v1mt0]

Still love the English accents on these guys. Proper.

[@caterham555]

Pucker

[@AlexH8280]

I like how Fleetwood is talking to them from LA. See, you can tell he's in LA because behind him is a backdrop with the "Hollywood" sign.

[@ASBO_LUTELY]

I had no idea Ross's career went as far back as Spinal Tap, he must be 102 by now!

[@pallhe]

There's one clever bit towards the end of that song/performance where the ability to count to four repeatedly will not suffice. Great drummer by the way, RIP.

[@blackphoenix8932]

How they play it so dry without laughing gets me.

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

That's what I call real rock n roll, awesome Tap !

[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

I bought The Hot Waffles album and it still rocks after all of these years. Spinal Tap are still Metal Gods.

[@wedgeguilala4742]

its right up there with "The Sun Never Sweats"

[@kennethmelnychuk9737]

@@wedgeguilala4742 : that song about dogs called Bitch School.

[@ugadawgs1990]

My favorite Täp song is “Cucumber Smuggler.”

[@pachy444]

Us British like laughing at ourselves but these chaps absolutely took it to a new level, coincidentally it surely was also how the Americans probably saw many British bands at the time..... Surely the best long running gag ever.

[@Chernobylkinsman]

No British person would ever say Us British. Stop roleplaying, yank.

[@KarstenJohansson]

This Is Spın̈al Tap is one of the very few movies I watched multiple times and still laugh out loud at the sheer audacity of it all. It's both accurate and over the top in its portrayals. Funny that MTV thought they were too sexist. It's like they were in that "sexy" scene from the movie! Anyway, Steel Panther has taken the sexist parody to a whole new level, and MTV is the one nobody talks about anymore.

[@ianclarke3627]

Rock on , you crazy diamonds ✌

[@Br00sta]

Hi, no idea why I'm watching this but thank you anyway youtube. Also I'd just like to say I had the same wetsuit boots as Nigel Tufnel - Victory Wetsuits split toe ninja booties that I bought in 1990 in Hermosa Beach Surf Shop for surfing in though. I'd forgotten about them until this vid. Awesome!

[@morlokkurak4763]

"Smell The Glove" was their best I think.

[@riyadbushnaq1537]

Closely followed by Intravenus de Milo

[@thehotyounggrandpas8207]

@@riyadbushnaq1537 No way, Shark Sandwich is by far the best thing they ever did.

[@neilpye6089]

Brainhammer!

[@Vortigan07]

@@thehotyounggrandpas8207 Yeah I agree, Shark Sandwich is top of the list for me, despite what the critics said!

[@tomlangron2532]

It's funny, but no-one seems to like The Gospel According To Spinal Tap. It was influential enough that it got Derek Smalls into Christian Metal.

[@jamesgeorge4874]

Michael McKean being Slippin' Jimmie's older brother shows his range.

[@littlemark01]

I've had plenty of Spinal Tap moments in my trivial music career. I can laugh a little harder with these guys

[@josh0g]

The pickup and pressure guage on Nigel's guitar...

[@radiorob7543]

I think that's a tachometer.

[@idhcustomtoys]

It's a speedometer to acurrately tell how fast Nigel is playing.

[@erikanthony8412]

The song birch school kicks ass

[@exessex3522]

Bitch School and I agree. It's a really clever song.

[@davidp5262]

8 pickups on Nigel’s guitar 😂

[@JETJOOBOY]

Such Obvious Rock Statements but he is always ahead of the Curve! Love that thing!

[@bazza5699]

micks nodding was more in time than his audition drumming. hahaha

[@JamesJones-mm2nm]

Mick was their drummer when I seen them , at Deer creek! He exploded as well!

[@scottmactavish9716]

Impossible to wrap my head around the fact that McKean played the asshole brother Chuck McGill in "Better Call Saul". That's some range!

[@bluetv6386]

There's a simple explanation: you're bound to become allergic to electricity when you've been exposed to amps dialled to 11 for so long.

[@bostonphotographer20]

And the one on the left created, produced, and starred in A Mighty Wind, Best of Show, and Waiting for Guffman.

[@katsanddoggies9904]

Lenny

[@gxtmfa]

I thought he looked familiar

[@LTPottenger]

he's pretyy amazing actually. Been in everything.

[@fishhookism]

Three Americans on a British talk show pretending to be British. great!

[@davidaxman]

Well the actor playing Nigel Tufnel (far left) is Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest, so the 50% of him that's British is very very British indeed.

[@neilmccormick2064]

@@davidaxman He had a seat in the House of Lords.

[@tomkeating5178]

and they do it so well GODS But its 11

[@Paulg51-73]

Best live version

[@RSR423]

The mighty Tap, excellent as per. Harry Shearer is a stunner as Derek Albion Smalls.

[@ChiralSpirals]

I just don't understand how they stay in character so well....I could not sing that song and not break into laughter at some point.

[@Battlefresh]

They almost broke at one point there lol.

[@EdwardHTilley]

Superb 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[@LTPottenger]

Is there anything we can do short of hiring you?

[@thecroft6070]

"Great memories now, but at the time we didn't have memories of that period because the period was actually occurring." Heh heh

[@middleagedshred]

They would have sounded better if they recorded it in Dobley.

[@davidmyles9967]

its ironic, that you left this comment 5 hours ago and i live 5 hours from Dublin. and if Tap recorded an album in Dobley in Dublin they would likely have broken rock `n roll by virtue of how ground breaking it would be.

[@middleagedshred]

Haha ahh I got the spelling wrong ....but are ya supposed to do evvy metal in Dubly..kzbin.info/www/bejne/baTdZoKodqiDpJo

[@ufoclips1]

@@davidmyles9967 Even better if it was a double album from dublin in dobly,i live 5 hours from loads of places.

[@davidmyles9967]

@@ufoclips1 LOL. of course they would have to get the dates just right to record in Dublin, so they would need Janeanne to consult the mystical forces of the tarot cards etc...

[@ufoclips1]

@@davidmyles9967 I hope they wear the astrology costumes.

[@redeoghan]

Best band evar.

[@rmooreg]

Next level hilarious!From the outrageous lyrics, song titles and album concepts to the individual, quirky "rockstar" personalities, fueled by ego and extreme self-importance, down to the detailed and absurd history of the band, Spinal Tap is concept comedy writing at it's zenith. Picture perfect satire which has only gotten funnier and with more biting satire since the "band" formed decades ago. They managed to make it to the top and the bottom and reach "iconic" status without ever having a full time, team member drummer.

[@lornai7171]

Nigel in Lycra. Truly the stuff of dreams...

[@DeeTeaDee]

Such a fcking GREAT live band man! So tight and full of energy. Sounds amazing. Top vocals. This is the REAL joke. And its on the ACTUAL bands out there who cant play for toffee

[@kevinberger3501]

Poor Mick Fleetwood, the music was just too complex for him 😂 😂

[@lamper2]

The argument over singing harmony at Elvis' grave was genius! He should've had no one come out then show them backstage having trouble finding the curtain.The they finally stumble out.

[@taismelo9737]

All three of them are americans and just nailed the British accent!!

[@lonedrone]

Great upload!

[@darrenmorgan870]

Is it just me, who found that clip of a old song they played wearing there 70s gear, good, it was catchy and that 70s gear they had on was something special.

[@wombatlittle1]

It's 60s gear not 70s

[@darrenmorgan870]

@@wombatlittle1 o well, I carnt be perfect all the time, I,'ll make sure I,m right next time I comment on something,,, Sorry about old bean.

[@slothrr776]

This audience is so confused! "The ability to count to 4, over and over again." Gets nothing!

[@alans1870]

Brilliant joke.

[@MorrisDugan]

At 14:30, I was waiting for something to happen to the drummer...

[@eily_b]

Christopher Guest had such a beautiful voice.

[@chris22326]

Its funny how the audience has no idea it is a spoof. Hats off to Mick Fleetwood.

[@StratsRUs]

???

[@davidtoohey783]

Absolutely! Mick played it down when Jonathan suggested the material may have been a stretch for him. Factually it wasn't, but "hats off" to Mick, he played along with the comedy (instead of a straight answer from his ego), and like all great British comedy there's no laugh track, it's building up to the moment when something tips you over the funny threshold and you burst out laughing and can't stop.

[@playfulplanets1697]

Genius!

[@ozzie-sk9dh]

This really puts a perspective on things

[@vhsvideovault]

Too much fucking perspective.

[@JETJOOBOY]

Some of you may not know that David St. Hubbins actually changed his name and began practicing law in the States.... He later went on to form one of the largest and greatest Legal Practices in the South West.

[@andydudley1775]

i never been able to watch these are ahead of time too fucking funny to watch but i cant stop not looking .

[@georgecoventry8441]

Another bravura performance from the greatest rock band EVER!

[@diaz5292]

I wish they woulda played 'Stone-enge'...😂🤣😅🤣😂😀👍

[@baslongstaff1819]

No they’re not gunna play fackin Stone-enge

[@diaz5292]

@@baslongstaff1819 😂🤣😅😂😂🤣🤣😅🤣😀👍

[@tedbishop567]

And risk being crushed by a dwarf?

[@baslongstaff1819]

@@tedbishop567 have you ever been to Stone Henge? The the pillars are 20ft high! You could stand 4 men up em

[@RatelHBadger]

I love how they are presented as a "70's concept band". If you didn't know it was parody, you would think they were just doing a "rock band" schtick.

[@markgreet3543]

Great film, so funny.

[@MrShotthat]

I love how Spinal Tap's members so physically refer to rock legends. The singer sings like Mick Jagger and looks like Robert Plant, another one looks like Lemmy, the short trousers are undoubtedly a reference to AC/DC, and the one who wears them looks just like about any British rock star from the sixties, seventies or nineties. Until recently I had no idea Harry Shearer (voice of many Simpsons characters) and the man who played Saul Goodman's brother (Michael McKean) were two of the actors.

[@jamesdaniels3699]

Maybe a little bit of Steve Hackett from GENESIS

[@Aj-dq6fe]

The singer is meant to be Bruce Dickinson, the blonde guy Rick Parfitt and yes Lenny.

[@blueeyedsoulman]

@@Aj-dq6fe Lemmy lol.

[@tomlangron2532]

Nigel Tuffnell was (allegedly) modelled on Jeff Beck. Plus his name was modelled on Eric Clapton, i.e. a very English given name plus a boring London district for a surname.

[@axxellein]

TRES Cool/tap/tap/tap!!!

[@531ff]

More pickups in that guitar please

[@blueeyedsoulman]

How about 9!? kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5bUc6Fpd6aAl8k

[@maestroaxeman]

Sure replaces "more cowbell" , doesn't it?🤔😎😉🤣

[@satchelm0uth]

Prince, a Cyclist and a Leather Daddy walk into a bar...

[@professorbernardkemp7448]

Amazing that these guys are all Americans. They do great English accents.

[@ugadawgs1990]

Mick Fleetwood could not live up to the genius level lyrics and sheer musical majesty of these lads. I’m embarrassed for him that he even asked.

[@SaintD382]

He had the skills, but they didn't want to sacrifice such a legend to the inevitable Spinal Tap Drummer Curse.

[@ugadawgs1990]

@@SaintD382, maybe so, but what better way to die than banging away behind Tap? It’s why Spinal Tap drummers are household names. Peter James Bond, Stumpy Joe Childs, Mick Shrimpton… RIP to them all.

[@diaz5292]

"Big bottoms, big bottoms, talk about mud flaps. My girl's got em!"

[@DanSmithBK]

Big bottoms, drives me out of my mind, why can’t I leave this ‘behind’.... brilliant!

[@diaz5292]

@@richandiben And yet mud flaps is plural.

[@justinmanser7525]

It's Late by Queen must have been influenced by Bitch School. Priceless.

[@TheAlfsterino]

That's what I heard as soon as it started - glad I'm not the only sad one.

[@dualline]

That lineup of 6 single coils… so perfect.

[@lewisjones2825]

Comedy has to get everywhere, but not all countries know it

[@pdlawson-venusloon359]

The tap rock. Nobody else comes close...