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  • thats what was great about these places all WHITE PEOPLE! NO PANTS AT THE BOTTOM OF THERE ASS CHEEKS, NO GUNS, NO FIGHTS just a good time! Is this racists ummmmmmm no a fact!

  • i loooove james' hair/wig thing on this

  • Are you drug free.

    Yeah, the drugs are free.

    :D :D

  • I betcha some of them are richer than Donahue now

  • TRASSSSSHHHHHH

  • I liked Kevin's speech. I was getting upset at Donahue lashing at them all for being out of controlled unfocused teenage brats,when he doesn't know them personally to accuse.

  • I'd like to see this interview take place today. The 2012 version. Donahue and the remaining club kids.

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  • 3:26 - Was that nicki minaj?

  • Prolem with Alig is he began to believe his own hype. And overused his own product. Eventually you outlive how outrageous you can be - - - Pr your welcome in a life that will eat you alive if you let it. If this had not occured - age would have caught up with him. The club scene can be mean - but more sad then that - forgetful. Fame is fleeting. Fake fame fades quicker. Sad story. I knowl. I lived it. - - Libertee Belle (The Strangest Act in Town)

  • "these young...mmmen and women..".

  • lmao I'm dying

  • Sophia looks very different here.

  • @sooowatsup100 thus meaning u dislike gays yes michael and James are both gay but this has nuthing to do with anything there's many successful gay people who aren't like this it's the drugs!

  • "yes all of her drugs are free". NY is so corny now. I'm kinda sad that I was only a toddler in those days.

  • that boy kevin was cute but i couldnt understand what he was sayin..prolly was being shy...lol

  • donahue is a FUCKTARD

  • @punk19 Did he take an arrow to the knee?

  • rofl, im sure his granddaughters are the ones dancing on speakers at EDC now...

  • Why didn't phil let them answer that lady's questions near the end of the video?

  • phil is great

    and that was a great time

    I loved the extra stupid questions and how the answers they got which were

    " uh, yeah!"

    heheeh

    

  • BEST-MEMORIES OF THAT WHOLE SCENE WE OFTEN SPEAK OF THOSE BEAUTIFUL,GREAT MEMORIES"that my brother & I will always have 2gether,NOW EVERYTHING IS SSOO FU**EDUP & SAD...HOW I MISS THE OL"DAYZ & ANY1 IN THAT SCENE @ THE TIME "DEF,KNOW XACLY KNOW WHAT I"M TALKING ABOUT",RIGHT OL"SCHOOL RAVER"S"CLUB KIDS",,,,LOL!! LOVE IT!,,,ALWAY"S WE WILL NEVER,EVER 4GET THIS ALL LOVE & JUST PURE HAPPINESS ALL OF MEMORIES !!! {=^.^=}

  • @brandies8up what do you mean everything now is so fucked up and sad? why?

  • "are black people allowed in" Jeez. i forgot how backwards American was even as recently as 93, he's not interviewing a white supremacist group! lol!

  • @BeepStratten was she living in the forties?

  • OMG I'M FROM INDIANA!!!! I love Club Kids!!!

  • 2:25 : "... and alcohole" - of course :P

    PS: Just because two of them loose themselves, it doesnt change the message...

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  • This is the Talk Show boom at it's finest! It's all stuff Donahue pioneered... most viewers, who were white and middle-class and knew VERY little about this were thinking "OMG kids dress like freaks and dance and do drugs all night, what's our nation coming to". The next week it would be the same thing only a different group of people like Shock rockers, Neo-Nazis, Gang members or what not.

  • damn Michale Alig is fried outta his head lol

  • He is so stoned

  • haaa amber from the tribe ^_^

  • Kevin talks and sounds just like Kathleen Hanna.

  • OMG! LOL Do Black people get in? WOW!

  • I thought talk show host were suppose to be open minded, && and not upset the ppl being interviewed

  • Is it me or is Phil Donahue very judgemental? Wow.

  • @nicoyadoll hes an old foogie

  • Who is Kevin?

  • James is a fucking legend and any bitch who doesn't recognize that should have their ass kicked twice.

  • Aliiiiiiig<3

  • haha Michael is totally high

  • god this donahue guy is a douche

  • OH COME ON PEOPLE. BEFOR GAGA RIPEED THE CLUB KIDS OFF, MADONNA AND OTHER ARTISTS BEFORE HER, ESPECIALLY THE 80'S AND 90'S DID. DON'T BLAME IT ALL ON GAGA. IT'S THE TREND, AND IT'S FUN!!! WHO CARES!!!!

  • @respond2cowards honestly STFU moron

  • God, people GET A CLUE! Nothing is original anymore. Everything nowadays is taken from something before it. Changed and redesigned to fit a different artists imagination. Lots of people complain that GAGA isn't original, but she never claims to be 100% original. NOTHING is original anymore. Anything new, can be related or traced to something that came before it. SO WHO CARES!!??

  • @tbazic87 We were doing this in L.A. in 79/80, as usual New York was slow on the uptake.LOL

  • @ladylestranj hold your horses. the club kid movement was indeed from the late 80's but celebutantes were around long before then. and james st james was part of the celebutantes. they were basically club kids. LA was way behind NYC

  • Ultimately, a lot of them did go on to do greater things, I mean Heatherette is one example.

  • This video took me back to '92 when I was 19, working on 25th St & 6th Ave and being scared to walk pass the Limelight after I got off of work. I was SCARED of the Club Kids. Lol. Then, my friend took me to the Limelight one night. I was still 19. We tried to get in through the side entrance on 20th St but the arrogance bouncer wouldn't let us in. So, we went to the front, talked to Michael and he let us in. He was so cool to talk to. I can't believe I was scare of him. Lol

  • @mutinlupa Michael Alig is the only reason Limelight was what it was. He was the ORIGINAL club kid. So it makes sense he's going to be older than the other club kids. But he did start when he was younger obviously.

  • @HarajukuEthan i agree you should id love to be apart

  • Michael Alig was kind of long in the tooth to be a club kid? He was like a 27 year old, balding club kid, he was 10 years older than most of the other club kids.

  • Phil is a great guy ... and will always be the catalyst for Oprah ... they are both "out there" and "in your face" ... but Phil did open the door for this kind of dialogue ...

  • thanks for adding this I want to know if you could please add the footage that was aired on the geraldo show that was copied in party monster I love how close the two are and have not seen the real footage for a long time.

  • @harajukuethan... i will help you, lets take it to UTAH or somewhere with nothing, and bring em back!!!

  • shes right about CT

  • My favorite part is at around 3:25 when the fat lady clown eating all the cookies stands up and sticks her big stuffed butt out and makes a fart noise.

  • @shannonisverybored Oh my god, I remember seeing this like it was yesterday too. And yes; the time did fly by. Wow. Appreciate your youth, you 20-somethings :). Soon you'll be 40 and watching old videos of Jerry Springer (on your computer of course) wondering where the time went.

  • Ughh

    

  • worst fucking host ever. no wonder he's not around anymore.

  • lol i like howthey asked if rupaul was some one they looked up to but rupaul was a club kid back in the day

  • It doesn't hurt anyone, until two of them murder someone..

  • @theDC4L This comment needs more thumbs up! Man, Michael would be pissed if he saw that...

  • @TheSkunkrocker why would he be pissed?

  • @theDC4L It was self-defense, genius.

  • my dad and mom used to see them all the time in clubs and walking around. my dad used to know james st. james pretty well and angel

    crayzey

  • were nightclubs back then more liberating then now?

  • @Remington61189 Drugs were a lot more easily available

  • Michael Alig is totally right! There's nothing to do here in Indiana...

  • Phil Donahue was the greatest talk show host in the USA.

    26 yrs Oprah could only manage 25yrs

    GO PHIL

    The reason why he mentioned "Black people" is that the Club Kid Craze was mostly Middle Class White kids rebelling against society and their parents.

  • "do black people get in?"

    LOL RIGHT ON DONAHUE YOU RACIST SOB

  • conneticut girl wasnt she named princess botanical

  • Bieber is 100x more original than these clowns

  • Some of the older audience members look horrorstricken as though they wanted to toss their cookies.

  • kevin is a cutie :)

  • Fabulous days!!

  • OMG!!!!!! DID PHIL JUST ASK THEM IF THEY LET BLACK PEOPLE IN THEIR CLUB? WHAT A RACIST!!!!

  • "Do black people get in?"

    oh my god I'm dying from laughter.

  • Ru Paul, Amanda Lepore, Richy Rich, James St. James All alive and well.

  • Richy rich!

  • So many Lady Gagas in one building lol

  • @mattxthexkiller They're not lady gagas,lady gaga is a club kid wannabe.

  • 02.39 !!!

  • white trash get down on your knees...

  • LOVE THIS!!!!!! <3

  • Donahue is such a bitch.

  • 6:51 Epic

  • "We're all future superstars"...no, they're all future AIDS victims and ODers.

  • @Yyyyzyyy  LMAO!!!!!!! Probably one of the greatest comments I've read online in a long time! That's exactly the kind of thing I would think and say/type... genius!

  • @RSCII WOW YOUR ALLLL ALONE IN THAT OPINION. THATS NOT FUNNY AT ALL. THATS HATEFUL AND IGNORANT. YOUR A SAD EXCUSE FOR A PERSON. AND IS OBVIOUSLY MISERABLE. FUCK OFF BITCH.

  • @chelsearains Sorry skank, but I am anything but all alone in my opinion. In fact my sentiments are shared by many others. Only the most psychologically disturbed, deranged, and other assorted sexual deviants would think otherwise. It is OBVIOUS these people are going to die of AIDS or drugs. Only a fucking idiot would see otherwise.

  • @Yyyyzyyy NOT FUNNY AT ALL YOUR A MISERABLE BITCH IN MY OPINION FUCK YOU. YOU CLREALY HAVE NO LIFE. LOLOLOL FUCK OFF AND DIE =] BITCH.

  • @chelsearains lol k

  • @Yyyyzyyy true I bet half of them fell victim to AIDS

  • Donahue "Do BLACK people get in?" .. " because you want a sertainn cilnetel"

    Donahue gos over to a black lady and then just skips her..

    what a jerk.

  • donahue is a prick !

  • the one in the blue next to michael look's like mccauley culkin.

  • @BLAKPEARL69 Tht's Richie Rich, the designer of Heatherette (together with Traver Rains).

  • @8008111 thnaks . i actually watched his fashion show on yt. cool clothes.

  • @BLAKPEARL69 It's actually Richie Rich, he is one of the successful club kids. He has a clothing line called Heatherette. It's funny because in the movie Party Monster Richie Rich is in it and Maccauley Culkin was in a move where he was named Richie Rich. Funny how things work out lol.

  • Lady Gaga much?

  • @ReggaeBoy425 this was before gaga.

  • @ReggaeBoy425 Gaga wishes she was that good.

  • I was too young for the Limelight, but the people I've met who did the club scenes at Limelight and Tunnel and Palladium said the whole drug and sex thing was 100% true.

  • i was 3 when this happened... damnit >.< lol

  • a bunch o fukin weirdos.

  • i like how "the club kids" try to validate what they do and make it seem like it's all just innocent fun and games.

    anyone catch Donahue asking if "black people" are allowed to get into the clubs, like it's 1959 or something and the most shocking part is that the clubs are not segregated. way to stay on top of the issues there Donahue.

  • the nu-club kid scene is here, one just has to look thru a few of cobrasnake's party photogs to see this.

  • jenny pwns...

  • Isn't this a belated American spinoff of the British New Romantics?

  • I'm like a famous designer so like, shut up.

  • what happend to these good old days.. i would give ANYTHING to be able to have these again ^_^

  • 00:47 i love the blondes hair!!! <3

  • I am a fan of Lady Gaga's music.. but I have to agree.. she did rip-off the Club Kids.. barely any of her audience even know who the club kids were - so they don't realize that she jacked her style (and even the *monster* theme) from the club kids..and they scream about how original she is.

    I still love Gaga though..she's a great singer and has some great songs -- which are WAY better live than the studio versions..but yeah, her look and hook are utter rip-offs.

  • @babygaga4421 You could also say that the Club Kids "ripped-off" the Celebutantes (James St. James WAS a Celebutante before he was a Club Kid), and you could also say that the Celebutantes "ripped-off" Warhol's Factory Superstars. Gaga taking style tips from Club Kids, Celebutantes, etc., and making music statements that could be likened to Madonna, it's just her expressing her art in the age that she's living in, which has been influenced by all that's come to pass before.

  • @babygaga4421 Look up James St. James's interviews on YouTube and also look up his books. Disco Bloodbath (now published as Party Monster, after the release of the movie of the same name) and Freak Show are both prime examples of the grown up Celebutante turned Club Kid whose art has evolved from not-so-simply being fabulous at exclusive hotspots every night to writing memoirs (FS being a memoir based fiction, PM truecrime). Don't dream it, be it.

  • @babygaga4421 it doesn't matter nothing is original. The Club Kids were inspired by someone else too. If GaGa is making brave political stances about homosexuality in the armed forces then hey that is surely in the spirit of The Club Kids becasue it's about freedom and fighting prejudice

  • @babygaga4421 and the club kids 'ripped off' the new romantics that started in the late 70s in the UK... just like everything else in america, this started in europe =)

  • @hcvang and you don't think the romantics were trying to copy something they've seen somewhere? perhaps in movies or something? the music they were dancing to started in america, then transformed in europe. so let's not get it twisted.

  • @babygaga4421 I think that what a c

    "club kid" means or reperesents is a different style of dress, wearing what you want and being who you truly are

  • club kids are drags

  • Wow James St James is so hot in here!

  • Wow James St James is so hot in here!

  • lol @ 1:22--A tongue ring was considered shocking back then. Wow.

  • It's funny...people tried to blast them out as being a bunch of drop outs and losers, but most of them have moved on to become very successful

  • Are there still any jobs like this cause if there is im in

  • jenny talia is the bomb! i loved her shaved head & the ballerina outfit. but she looks craaazzzzy here too!

  • and at 9:55 .... i live.

  • 7:25 he better speak it! yasss

  • "We're all future superstars, if not now" - Richie Rich. Now look at you....got youre own brand, "Heatherette" work!

  • I LOVE SOPHIA LAMAR! SHE IS STILL LOOKING GREAT

  • I love the way they slagged on rupaul then but love and adore him now.

  • I MISS THE LIMELIGHT, THE SHAMPOO ROOM, THE GOTHIC KIDS, RESERECTION FRIDAYS, COMMUNION ON WEDNESDAYS, THE GIGER CHAIRS, THE CREAKY CATWALKS. NEVER DRANK OR DID DRUGS THERE, bUT HAD TONS OF FUN DANCING AND bEING AROUND bEAUTIFUL PEOPLE.

  • Honestly, I may have gone for this had I been there and old enough at the time. Well, if I had been there anyway.

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  • Lady Gaga Swagger jacked the club kids. Quote for fact. Thumbs up?

  • @anro420 AGREE 100%..GAGA stole her whole thing from the Club Kids!!..Actually..Michael Alig!!..The man with the plan!!..Can't wait for him to get out!..

  • Fuck Donahue.

  • i plan to bring back the club kids

  • @HarajukuEthan I'm right there with you.

  • @HarajukuEthan I'm with you.

  • @HarajukuEthan I would help you bring back the club kids... We need to spring Michael from jail and get it going again :)

  • @HarajukuEthan  ehe

  • @HarajukuEthan YES!! Lady Gaga is nothing in comparison to these people.

    And on a side note: Donahue seems like a jackass.

  • @HarajukuEthan too late.gaga did.

  • 0:45 ITS LISA EDELSTEIN!!!!!! Yay Lisa E!!

  • hes cleary stoned outta his mind lol

  • THIS IS the american dream...get paid to do what u want to do...

  • Freaks, freaks, freaks, hope they all die. We live in a fucked up society, if Hitler could see this.

  • These people are sooo beautiful, if you can even call them people. They are like otherworldly beings. I really identify with them. I have officially found my subculture. xD

  • well its Amercia  what next WORLD WAR III

  • Donahue.....what a fucking lame shit excuse for an 'interviewer' ...

  • @gyqz phil was top in his pitch in the day.... he was square, sure, but he was a talented and intelligent interviewer

  • @gyqz DON'T DISS HE ROCKS THX A legend! HOW OLD ARE YOU 10? LOVEUGODBLESS, T AND J KABBALAH MATTHEWSHEPARD MADONNALICIOUS

  • Donahue the douche =/

  • this is so fucking awesome, I lol'd at how gay Donahue is and how judgmental and pretentious

  • haters gonna hateeeee

  • God, So fucking fabulous! lol Richie Rich was and is still so hot!

  • micheal alig....still in prison where is gitzie

  • @JaliscoGringa Gitzie died in the late 90s of a drug overdose.

  • @badkins83 i know she died later on but i was asking about the vid where's gitzie? this was filmed in the early 90's...

  • @JaliscoGringa Gitsie died of an overdose...

  • @littlemonster333 no shit i know that i said where is she on the show....i know Michael Alig personaly...ok honey..peace

  • @JaliscoGringa -U know Michael Alig? Is he still in prison? or what? I saw "party monster" not long ago.

  • micheal alig....still in prison

  • What a bunch of freaks. If they showed up at a club I've leave out of fear. I see where Lagy gaga got her fashion sense from

  • donahue was a asshole to these GODS! i love them i am one

  • I wouldn't say Lady Gaga is ripping them off, but carrying on the fab tradition =:D Let the children play! lol!