The Comic Strip: Bad News Tour (Part 3)

[antwilsh10]

shut up you tart lol

[TCC00P3R]

Jennifer Saunders as a Siouxise Sioux/ Pat benater type rock journalist lol  Soooooooo perfect!

is the School girl they pick up DAWN FRENCH as well?

[thegas70]

@TCC00P3R

yep, that's a young dawn!

[NetFilmMusicDotCom]

perhaps better than spinal tap...

[Memoryburst]

This reminds me ALOT of the Anvil documentary I just watched the other night. Especially the part where they don't get paid for playing and only a few people show up to see them.

"HELLO SPIDER!" HAHA

[TheEhce]

Would Bad News technically be NWOBHM lol

[MySpooky69]

yeah, you didn't let the dog in free did ya?

[reidfleming2k6]

2:57

[Ashortwalk]

This brings back memories and some! we lived Bad News Tour 'speak' on the road, with Discharge, in the early 80's - we all knew the script word for word! still brilliant!!

[flyboyofglam]

This is pre-"This is Spinal Tap", but not pre-Spinal Tap. It's great though

[schultz970]

yes, this is pre-spinal tap...and way funnier.

[TheEhce]

@schultz970 yes but are they actual metal heads like Guest and Shearer are?

[moby406]

is this pre spinal tap?

[rottenapples111]

The bad new's films were the best comic strips, i think. Ade is very cute in this. Vim, he's just so serious,haha

[Mikemaniax]

'Bad News' really hit home for me. I used to play bass in a band called 'Bad Connection', and in a way I was the Colin of the group, but vice versa, because I was the only good musician in the band. Of course we never went anywhere. Good thing too. It just goes to show you that bands with the word 'Bad' in their name don't work out. Bad News, Bad Connection, Badfinger. OK, maybe the last one was successful, but still.

[StayUgly]

@Mikemaniax yes.... Everyone is the good musician. It's always the rest of em....

[alkalinenofx]

@Mikemaniax Bad Brains were successful and really good

[Mikemaniax]

@alkalinenofx Oops, forgot that one. Ok, they're the exception.

[jimday666]

afi

[flowercorps]

Spinal Tap was funny, and silly, very entertainning, but Bad News is more realistic, a sort of sociologic study with their dream, their place on society and the band. Bad News is more a Ken loach movie than a rob reiner, so you can't compare

[jimy3399]

Will ya shut up about spinal tap would you? How can you compare two very different pieces of comedy? Answer that and stay fashionable!

[laiosto]

The producer twat has the fakest, gayest looking moustache outside of a Looney Tunes Acme Fake moustache.

[vedicardi]

haha at least spinal tap actually knew how to play XD

this is a great movie though

[blzqy]

this is so true, i've lived it for real, only the names change

[cookie5455]

im sure the owner of the venue is in coast to coast....

[dontpanicblink]

8:56-9:03

[macgnarly]

aww i love how jen and ade are flirting on this!!!

2:06 <3<3<3

*jen and ade are stoned of course*

Jen: "arent you going to sleep with me tonight?"

Ade: "What?"

Jen in a lower voice: "are you going to sleep with me tonight?"

Ade: *mumbling somthing thats sounds very cute and *ade*orable!!!"

[gtr1359]

The dog is a stroke of genius

[wedrinkmountaindew]

so did spinal tap rip off bad news or the other way around?

[ftumchaca]

Neither. Made more or less same time but released 2 years apart. But Bad News is far superior. You can watch it time and again. But Spinal Tap once is enough.

[sytby]

No way. I've seen "This Is Spinal Tap"....well, I lost track of how many times around 254. It, just like this, never gets old.

[kink66]

no way bad news came before!

[BanquosSon]

Spinal Tap WAS ripped off from Bad News. Typical Americans, can't enjoy the original Brit so have to duplicate it for the US. Reiner should be shot for such plagerism.

[TYRANN1CAL]

They are two very different films, same concept but done very differently. Just because they're both spoofs about a rock band doesn't mean anyone ripped each other off. Spinal Tap is superior IMO by far but they're both great!!!

[AceripXF]

this was done 2 years b-4 i was born omg rik was so cute i mean he still is

[3infactapples]

twas 8 years b4 I was born and omg I know!! love that expression at 3:52 XD

[AceripXF]

ohhh yeahhhh LMAO

[buckonz]

Those expressions from Rik Mayall around 3:50+... just classic! :)

[AceripXF]

*squeals* OMG!!

[philipriding]

bad news if you read this...do yourselfs a favor and get back together. Give oasis a run for there money. WE WANT MORE BAD NEWS.

[ShovelDuct]

Ade doesn't have a half bad voice. They're so young, they don't even resemble Richie and Eddie of Bottom.

[RighteousBrother]

Look out Im out of control, look out Im of control, look out Im out of control

I said look out I am rock n roll.

[nikh158]

Don`t forget "I am the roller I am the roll"

[minutegongcoughs]

Vim's (Ade) got a new band now. He's got the salted peanut haircut. "The Bad Shepherds"

[inventiontension]

"Or Ajax or whatever your new name is" The end is funny as hell!!!!!!

[piercedandproud]

I havent seen this in ages, LOL. Check out the graffiti on the toilet door at 1:02"Whitton Punx" "Abusive Youth". I was an 80s Whitton Punk, (too young for the original infamous 70s lot) Abusive Youth were my mate band, did one bedroom gig I think.

[summar55]

When I was 11 I used to play purple haze on the acoustic guitar with my dad on the trumpet...Ha ha ha ha...

[Sohemian]

"Heavy metal top of the class, stuff the media up your arse."

[dinotramp]

British comedy at it's best

[nikh158]

The quote I remember from this goes along the lines of: "Of course, I`m I much better guitarist than Jimmy Page. I could play Stairway to Heaven when I was 17 and he didn`t write it until he was 27".

[taffynz62]

Sounds pedantic I know but the quote is "I could play Stairway to heaven when I was 12. Jimmy Page didn't write it til he was 22. I think that says a lot." Awesome eh. I loved Bad News. Sorry for sounding like a smartarse here. :-)

[gazmic]

you didnt let the dog in free did ya ?

[rizermcfc]

don't forget to get your cock out den... eh?

[krysianka]

Sally chasing down Den on the toilet reminds me of him in "I thought you were dead" "Well, that's no reason to hassle me on the toilet!"

[lovepunkalways]

that's quite a funny quote.

i prefer "this calls for a very specia blend of psycology, and extreme violence."

(yes i do realise that adrian edmondson, rather than nigel planer said it)

[jmslck]

Hysterical! This was made before Spinal Tap and it's way funnier. Shame it's only half an hour long.

[theghostintheruins]

Thanks for uploading these!

[lukeydoeslikey]

very very funny.i had mates like this and it just reminds me of them.and when i first saw this back in the day...i just pissed my pants with laughter.england

[madbiker53]

bloody hilariouse

[rogerthehat]

you didn't let the dog in for free did ya

[cathysc]

lots of parallels to Spinal Tap, incliding actor/writer written music and the skull with the glowing eyes, but still really funny! "You mean you let the dog in for free?!" hehe cute dog.

[aldentesolo]

Interestingly - this was released before Spinal Tap!

[jimbob1969]

"We don't need no Rock control !"

[Ellis993]

classic comedy how it should be

[Fireprodude]

GET THE CAMERA DEN!!

[smithomac17]

don't you dare call me alan lol

[oyy2005]

LOL!! ELLO SPIDER!LOL!

[MayallFan35]

that guitar is bigger than he is (Rik's). :-)

MayallFan35

[craigathome]

Ade is god. :-)

[RomliIronfist]

Absolute Classic!

Ain`t seen this in years!

[MAYALL10]

these guys are freaking brilliant - I'M A WARRIOR OF GENGHIS KHAN!!!

[baax]

absolute gold, haven't seen this in years.Classic.

[funkyleaf]

RIGHT ON MAN

[mcflapps11]

Wicked! finally got it!!! thank you.

Can anyone tell me how to get a copy on dvd?

[qpine]

Funnier than Spinal Tap because they can't play!

[kink66]

BEST ROCKUMENTRY EVER!

[josbub]

omg i havent seen this in years..thanks for sharing ...