Max Headroom is best known for Coca Cola commercials. From here, the character of Max Headroom went into other areas such as this interview with David Letterman. People liked the Coca Cola commercials so much that they also enjoyed seeing him do other commercials, TV appearances, etc. The 80's were the start of personal computers and computer animation. This may be why the Max Headroom commercials have kind of a "techno" appearance. I think Max Headroom is hilarious!
@tuff47 Max Headroom started in 1984 on a television station Channel 4 in the UK. Had nothing to do with Coke. Then the Max Headroom movie was such a success and different to look at that's when COKE paid to use him in their advertising of New Coke and Coke. At the same time he had a music video show on CINEMAX while also having his ABC prime time show. Careful what you read on Wiki :)
@jmiggles696 Wiki is very unreliable. You have to cross reference even with the footnotes that random users put in. And if there aren't pages of unreliable info, there are pages of missing info. The best things to trust still to this day, and I know this is a foreign concept, are Library Encyclopedias you can open. They've been through tons of scrutiny and fine tooth combs before being published, unlike Wikipedia that any joe shmoe can add to. They've been in legal trouble several times.
@jmiggles696 Yeah dude.. to what others are saying. I mean I still go to Wiki for info. But normally info. that's not important like Popculture type stuff. And I did notice the faulty Max Headroom info about a year ago. It might have changed since then with more people becoming aware of him (and old people reminding others of him). But I wouldn't write any papers with Wiki info. It was brought up about real encyclopedias.. always go to those man, or legit encyclopeidas scanned online.
@NeonPurpleMonkey Cannot believe im actually responding to this. Yes I am aware of the trouble wikiepedia can get you in when writing papers. I am a university student. Im talking pop culture stuff here. Sure anyone can make stuff up or be misinformed when sourcing Wikepedia, but dontcha think majority of scholars want to properly inform people who know they look for information on wikipedia. Im just defending a site that everyone knocks, meanwhile it tries very hard to educate the world. PEACE!
@7VXX The 80s have been the decade to stand out the most with creativity, weirdness, trippyness, etc. etc. So much that the 90s and the 2000s had to keep returning to the decade.. I remind folks of all the remakes and resamples of all the songs from the 80s. Bet people didn't know that The Pussycat Dolls song "Don't You Wish Your Girlfriend" is a huge re-sample of Sir Mix Alot - SWASS. Look that up :)
@Talisa1811 Watch my video on the recent Dallas COmicon with Amanda Pays. She mentioned producers considering him making a come back after the recent new Max Headroom Channel 4 commercials in the UK.
@benZZZgomeZZZ You're the single person in 204,193 views that has the lack of taste in funny and unique entertainment that you've just expressed. Guess you would not care to know that they are bringing Max Headroom back according to Amanda Pays at a recent panal she spoke at.
That style that seems so much like Frewer's Headroom character was a part of Jim Carrey's stand-up act back in 1979 and beyond. Get them on beta max. Frewer didn't appear on the acting scene until 1983. While their voices and styles are similar, there's no real evidence that either one of them borrowed from the other. Several of the other Canadian comedians and actors coming up at that time had delivery styles similar to these guys (vice versa?). Maybe they all were imitating the same person.
@chytstorm You read too much Wikipedia my friend, you just copied what was written there. Don't trust sites that any joe can go and add info to. Plus it did not say his style of humor. Carrey has said in an ABC Documentary with Diane Sawyer that he spent his whole early career as a comedian doing celebrity impersonations. He did not start his outlandish styled humor till just before he got picked up with In Living Color. Frewer is older, and been around performing MUCH longer.
@hootyhaha No, I copied information from research I had to do on 80s comedy back in the late 80s. I remember Carrey's early stand-up from actually watching it myself. I was fan of Matt Frewer before even knowing about Carrey. I also think Frewer was an underrated and underused actor throughout his career, but the idea that Carrey borrowed from something that hadn't happened yet is a bit thin. Frewer's acting career did, in fact, start a few years after Carrey's. Damn I feel old.
@hootyhaha Wikiwha??? Although it's nearly impossible to find much of his early stand-up today, here's a small snip-it of his usual style, when he wasn't doing impressions.
@hootyhaha Matt Frewer even gave the dude with the sampler a good chance to piss about with his voice by highlighting moments by pausing... but the dude missed the timing of the whole thing... it must of been hard doing Max live...only a video-edit would produce the real max effect of his speech stutter... sadly i don't think it worked too well here live.
max was a great character. too bad the tv show didn't last longer. matt frewer cracked me up as max. i wonder how much of that stuff was just him ad libbing. he totally became max. as for the 1980s? well, it had it's ups and downs,but looking back, i like the memories of then better than the world today.
@chaza3000 I don't think Jim Carrey ever said that Max Headroom was a roll model. Max Headrom has a new video out.. YES NEW VIDEO.. look up Max Headroom Channel 4, and there are a few of them. He even jokes about THIS video you're wathcing and the title I gave it. That Jim Carrey ripped his style off. If Jim Carrey complimtend Max, Max would not have said what he did.
I always thought Christopher Titus looked alot like Max. Jim Carey may have channeled the mannerisims of Max, but Christopher Titus channeled the look.
@fgldnglbs Im surprised somebody knows about the original movie that was out before the TV show. I can't find it anywhere. I think I have a VHS copy of it somewhere, but I wish they'd release the DVD since they released the TV show. Some sites have it marked wrong that the movie was out in 87. But I think it was out at the end of 84 or during 85. Can you tell the class when it was out? :)
@hootyhaha I believe the original "Max Headroom" came out in "85, but check the IMDB website under title search. For anyone else reading this "max headroom" was on a garage entryway height sign that was the last thing his model, reporter Edison Carter, saw in an attempt on his life.
@mmodnao Are you young? I've noticed many comments on here from a younger generation that seem to get freaked out easily by Max. Look at my other vids. Look up Max Headroom HootyHaHa and see if the "Art Of Noise" one scares you.
@hootyhaha Hey, Max doesn't freak me out now that I'm 28, but he CERTAINLY scared the feces out of me when I was little. I don't think a developing person can handle something that goes outside of expectations that violently.
@tekNiqueAU It's NOT Jim Carrey :) You think it is because Jim Carrey ripped off his style. This video has been up with that title for so long that they even made a video based on my observation. Look up Max Headroom Channel 4. There are new Max commercials in the UK, and he specifically mentions what I say in this title. :)
@videogameobsession He has. He has new commercials in the UK. Look up Max Headroom DTV Channel 4. That should pull them up. Also, Shout Factory released the TV show that ran on ABC. Look up on Yahoo, SHOUT FACTORY MAX HEADROOM and you'll find it.
Fact, I had to google to see if Max Headroom was played by Jim Carrey. This youtube popped up. That's how similar Jim Carrey's style was to Max Headroom.
@fLiPpAntMisSCreanT You just made me fuggin laugh. It always interests me what about Max Headroom scares people. The Max Headroom ABC show is now being sold by Shout Factory. Look it up on Yahoo and you'll find the site.
Max Headroom is cool--but it's not Jim Carrey, though I agree, it does sound something like him. This is Matt Frewer, the crazy next door neighbor from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids".
are you kidding, jim has been doing his quarky stand up skits since the early 80's and max started in 85. For those that have no time, but to down jim; are simply idiots
@Thicket9 I grew up in the 1980's, and yes, they really were goddamn weird. The same decade that gave us Ronald Reagan, Diet Coke, MTV, The A-Team, Pac-Man and stadium rock.
@officialkingofbass When you say "THIS" generation sucks do you mean the generation of the 2000s? If so, I agree. There's NO color in clothing (it's slowly coming back but only in young skater clothes), theres no orginality in Televitsion programming, and all these new bands all sound like the same ol whiney suburban white boys or emo dorks crying like we should care about their issues. The ONE band that rocks today is HOTLEG or HOT LEG. Look up Hotleg Trojan Guitar from Barbeque Rock.
Max Headroom was not CGI. He was just Matt Frewer in heavy latex make-up and plastic suit being filmed with jerky effects and a spacy background (which was in fact computer generated...lines were about all you could generate back then).
@jxrz Max's image was actually that of actor Matt Frewer in latex and foam prosthetic makeup with a fiberglass suit created by Peter Mackenzie Litten and John Humphreys of Coast to Coast Productions in the UK. This was then superimposed over a moving geometric background. Even the background was not actual computer graphics at first; it was hand-drawn cel animation.
This is a very wise observation. I was just watcing the original "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!" movie and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom actor), who played the neighbors dad reminded me of Jim Carrey 100%. The voice, the mannerisms, the facial expressions. I even closed my eyes and listened to him and it was Jim Carrey.
his act could easily work with the increased tech now and our obbession with 24/7 news over even the most silly stuff. I think comedy central would be a good fit, mtv if they were so shitty now, or just do youtube like someone said. I rememeber him as a kid.
Jim Carey did imitate Max Headroom but this was from his earlier comedies. He was on In Living Color in the early 90's (he portrayed Fire Marshall Bill using the Max Headroom voice) . He also uses some of it in his Ace Ventura movies
@fusel412crew Sorry, I was there when this aired years ago and it was way before Jim Carrey was in show business (late 80's early 90's). There's one huge evidence people are not mentioning here, look how young David Letterman looks! That's a late 80's early 90's hair style. LOL
Please remember, there was no Jim Carrey in this time, when Max Headroom was around. Hell, it would be impossible for Jim Carrey to pull it off, his voice would sound like screaming if imitating this voice tone.
But when Carrey came out first, he was not acting outrageous until AFTER Max Headroom. Carrey even said that in an interview when he said one year he finally realized he was just going to have to go crazy and get nuts letting loose. It wasn't until his Mad TV years and his Unnatural Act that he started flipping out. Before that he was just a normal comedian. Even in ONce Bitten. He wasn't insane like Max. Max Headroom even makes comment on what I said. Look up Max Headroom Channel 4 .
@hootyhaha I can't say that Jim never acted this way befor Max. He has the same voice naturally and was a huge class clown in high school. By the way, he was never in Mad tv. He was in In Living Colour though. Gotta give him credit. For Max was just an ad, Carey is a legend.
It might be an accent thing. Frewer and Carrey are both from Southern Ontario. I do think some of the mannerisms are the same. But Carrey was already on TV (he'd done the Duck Factory in 1984) by that time.
'yes I agree the jim carrey used this stuff. kinda surprising nobody really picked up on it in the first place. i think jim carrey is not as original as i thought.....
as TheDebrick290 said - It is Matt Frewer! He's a Canadian who had a show on British TV in the '80s that was released in the US on HBO. He has had several comedy series on US TV and is currently a regular on SyFy's "Eureka!" As far as I know, there is no connection beteen Frewer and Carrey.
Yeah, I'll have to admit, I asked if this guy was a Jim Carrey thing, because it does share resemblance. I had not seen much of Max Headroom in the 80's, so what the hell do I know. However, my wife told me it wasn't him, it was some guy from B-List TV shows. I say who cares, Mac Tonight was the real shizzle!
Max Headroom is best known for Coca Cola commercials. From here, the character of Max Headroom went into other areas such as this interview with David Letterman. People liked the Coca Cola commercials so much that they also enjoyed seeing him do other commercials, TV appearances, etc. The 80's were the start of personal computers and computer animation. This may be why the Max Headroom commercials have kind of a "techno" appearance. I think Max Headroom is hilarious!
tuff47 7 months ago
@tuff47 Max Headroom started in 1984 on a television station Channel 4 in the UK. Had nothing to do with Coke. Then the Max Headroom movie was such a success and different to look at that's when COKE paid to use him in their advertising of New Coke and Coke. At the same time he had a music video show on CINEMAX while also having his ABC prime time show. Careful what you read on Wiki :)
hootyhaha 7 months ago
@hootyhaha Thats not Wiki, thats just ignorant thinking. Wikipedia is actually more credible than many people assume...Just saying.
jmiggles696 4 months ago
@jmiggles696 Wikipedia has been sued more than 5 times in the past two years for it's lack of credibility. Just sayin' :) And playin'
hootyhaha 4 months ago
@jmiggles696 Wiki is very unreliable. You have to cross reference even with the footnotes that random users put in. And if there aren't pages of unreliable info, there are pages of missing info. The best things to trust still to this day, and I know this is a foreign concept, are Library Encyclopedias you can open. They've been through tons of scrutiny and fine tooth combs before being published, unlike Wikipedia that any joe shmoe can add to. They've been in legal trouble several times.
AnnieLeeTX 4 months ago
@jmiggles696 Yeah dude.. to what others are saying. I mean I still go to Wiki for info. But normally info. that's not important like Popculture type stuff. And I did notice the faulty Max Headroom info about a year ago. It might have changed since then with more people becoming aware of him (and old people reminding others of him). But I wouldn't write any papers with Wiki info. It was brought up about real encyclopedias.. always go to those man, or legit encyclopeidas scanned online.
NeonPurpleMonkey 4 months ago
@NeonPurpleMonkey Cannot believe im actually responding to this. Yes I am aware of the trouble wikiepedia can get you in when writing papers. I am a university student. Im talking pop culture stuff here. Sure anyone can make stuff up or be misinformed when sourcing Wikepedia, but dontcha think majority of scholars want to properly inform people who know they look for information on wikipedia. Im just defending a site that everyone knocks, meanwhile it tries very hard to educate the world. PEACE!
jmiggles696 4 months ago
@jmiggles696 Wow.. thank you so much for gracing me with your response. I can't believe you actually think Scholars go to Wiki to publish info.
NeonPurpleMonkey 4 months ago
@jmiggles696 Scholars? :) Really? Its Wikipedia dude.
LoveGamesLongTime 4 months ago
@NeonPurpleMonkey And yes I realize there are people out there who find it amusing to misinform people
jmiggles696 4 months ago
@7VXX The 80s have been the decade to stand out the most with creativity, weirdness, trippyness, etc. etc. So much that the 90s and the 2000s had to keep returning to the decade.. I remind folks of all the remakes and resamples of all the songs from the 80s. Bet people didn't know that The Pussycat Dolls song "Don't You Wish Your Girlfriend" is a huge re-sample of Sir Mix Alot - SWASS. Look that up :)
hootyhaha 8 months ago
Movie/TV Series "Max Headroom"!! With Jim Carrey....
Coming Soon!!!
BLANKNOTING 9 months ago
bring back the real Max Headroom, Awesome!!!!
Talisa1811 9 months ago
@Talisa1811 Watch my video on the recent Dallas COmicon with Amanda Pays. She mentioned producers considering him making a come back after the recent new Max Headroom Channel 4 commercials in the UK.
hootyhaha 9 months ago
Max Headroom reminds me of Youtube Poops somewhy... It's awesome! :D
ZXRulezzz 9 months ago
wow, what a piece of annoying shit. I am glad i wasnt alive to experience that
benZZZgomeZZZ 9 months ago
@benZZZgomeZZZ You're the single person in 204,193 views that has the lack of taste in funny and unique entertainment that you've just expressed. Guess you would not care to know that they are bringing Max Headroom back according to Amanda Pays at a recent panal she spoke at.
hootyhaha 9 months ago
That style that seems so much like Frewer's Headroom character was a part of Jim Carrey's stand-up act back in 1979 and beyond. Get them on beta max. Frewer didn't appear on the acting scene until 1983. While their voices and styles are similar, there's no real evidence that either one of them borrowed from the other. Several of the other Canadian comedians and actors coming up at that time had delivery styles similar to these guys (vice versa?). Maybe they all were imitating the same person.
chytstorm 9 months ago
@chytstorm You read too much Wikipedia my friend, you just copied what was written there. Don't trust sites that any joe can go and add info to. Plus it did not say his style of humor. Carrey has said in an ABC Documentary with Diane Sawyer that he spent his whole early career as a comedian doing celebrity impersonations. He did not start his outlandish styled humor till just before he got picked up with In Living Color. Frewer is older, and been around performing MUCH longer.
hootyhaha 9 months ago
@hootyhaha No, I copied information from research I had to do on 80s comedy back in the late 80s. I remember Carrey's early stand-up from actually watching it myself. I was fan of Matt Frewer before even knowing about Carrey. I also think Frewer was an underrated and underused actor throughout his career, but the idea that Carrey borrowed from something that hadn't happened yet is a bit thin. Frewer's acting career did, in fact, start a few years after Carrey's. Damn I feel old.
chytstorm 9 months ago
@hootyhaha Wikiwha??? Although it's nearly impossible to find much of his early stand-up today, here's a small snip-it of his usual style, when he wasn't doing impressions.
Filmed 8 years before In Living Color:
YouTube Video
Rubberface - Jim Carey in his first film part 3
start @ 0:43
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twsupport 9 months ago
@twsupport Why did you remove your comment? Because it was wrong? :)
hootyhaha 9 months ago
Borrowed? More like stole his entire character from him!
NeloAngelo33 10 months ago
max was better than jim
endracismguy 10 months ago
Jim Carrey Ripped Off Max Headroom
lenneth3 11 months ago 2
@lenneth3 Look up my other Max Headroom uploads. Then subscribe if you like retro finds.
hootyhaha 11 months ago
@lenneth3 Um... how?
EmperorKinetic 10 months ago
@hootyhaha Matt Frewer even gave the dude with the sampler a good chance to piss about with his voice by highlighting moments by pausing... but the dude missed the timing of the whole thing... it must of been hard doing Max live...only a video-edit would produce the real max effect of his speech stutter... sadly i don't think it worked too well here live.
pcvideogamer 1 year ago
its ashame how ahead of its time this was and very few understood it.
hapt1K 1 year ago
max was a great character. too bad the tv show didn't last longer. matt frewer cracked me up as max. i wonder how much of that stuff was just him ad libbing. he totally became max. as for the 1980s? well, it had it's ups and downs,but looking back, i like the memories of then better than the world today.
12161euclid 1 year ago
@12161euclid Look up Max headroom Channel 4. Brand new max commercials!
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@hootyhaha thanks for the "heads"up!
12161euclid 1 year ago
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From an old fart- THANK YOU!
bfmcarparts 1 year ago
It cracks me up when he stutters.
rocker316ify 1 year ago
first guy to say "swagger"
skeeded 1 year ago
without the hair it would look like bruce willis.
alastarian1 1 year ago
its still Matt Frewer at an attempt at comedy with letterman
tamlando 1 year ago
Max Headroom rocked the '80s and Im willing to bet he could still kick ass and take names.
senji1101 1 year ago
sooo super awesome
Nusoundsnow 1 year ago
Hhehehh
Trusten1984 1 year ago
So damn funny, great actor ! 5 stars
Trusten1984 1 year ago
You're wrong. Steve Ballmer stole from Max Headroom.
venuecam 1 year ago
@MrStephenRGilman Tell me something I don't know.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@chaza3000 I don't think Jim Carrey ever said that Max Headroom was a roll model. Max Headrom has a new video out.. YES NEW VIDEO.. look up Max Headroom Channel 4, and there are a few of them. He even jokes about THIS video you're wathcing and the title I gave it. That Jim Carrey ripped his style off. If Jim Carrey complimtend Max, Max would not have said what he did.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
I always thought Christopher Titus looked alot like Max. Jim Carey may have channeled the mannerisims of Max, but Christopher Titus channeled the look.
JasonL77 1 year ago
I heard Max Headroom and Spleak were having an affair.
seasonsbleed 1 year ago
"I was driving around one day and suddenly one of my fans shouted 'Hey, there's Max Headroom!' and it kinda stuck." LMAO
bwc3821 1 year ago
@bwc3821 That, of course, was a jab at those who never saw the original movie and anyone else, like Letterman who didn't do their homework.
fgldnglbs 1 year ago
@fgldnglbs Im surprised somebody knows about the original movie that was out before the TV show. I can't find it anywhere. I think I have a VHS copy of it somewhere, but I wish they'd release the DVD since they released the TV show. Some sites have it marked wrong that the movie was out in 87. But I think it was out at the end of 84 or during 85. Can you tell the class when it was out? :)
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@hootyhaha I believe the original "Max Headroom" came out in "85, but check the IMDB website under title search. For anyone else reading this "max headroom" was on a garage entryway height sign that was the last thing his model, reporter Edison Carter, saw in an attempt on his life.
fgldnglbs 1 year ago
This is the first time Ive seen Max Headroom since it aired in the 80's. Totaly awesome.
LostWolf76 1 year ago
lol my comment was full of win,,,,, wow carey totally stole this then, the bit where MAX says "Im cramped" is carey thru and thru.
tekNiqueAU 1 year ago
i cant make the connection with Jim Carrey in what style? Max Headroom is Max Headroom...
notommr 1 year ago
It scares me in some way
mmodnao 1 year ago 3
@mmodnao Are you young? I've noticed many comments on here from a younger generation that seem to get freaked out easily by Max. Look at my other vids. Look up Max Headroom HootyHaHa and see if the "Art Of Noise" one scares you.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
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mmodnao 1 year ago
@hootyhaha im 18 and i love it not scary at all. i loved the film
PatrickTheScienceGuy 1 year ago
@hootyhaha Hey, Max doesn't freak me out now that I'm 28, but he CERTAINLY scared the feces out of me when I was little. I don't think a developing person can handle something that goes outside of expectations that violently.
MsMarieLynn 1 year ago
@mmodnao same especially the xmas song 1
ALEG0Man360 1 year ago
This reminds me more of Harland Williams than anyone else.
timbulb 1 year ago
jim carrey even looks like him weird
85mariapatricia 1 year ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
news flash it is Jim carrey.
tekNiqueAU 1 year ago
@tekNiqueAU It's NOT Jim Carrey :) You think it is because Jim Carrey ripped off his style. This video has been up with that title for so long that they even made a video based on my observation. Look up Max Headroom Channel 4. There are new Max commercials in the UK, and he specifically mentions what I say in this title. :)
hootyhaha 1 year ago 7
@tekNiqueAU the person who plays Mac in a guy named Matt Frewer. look it up...but I hate to bust you bubble "Its in not jim Carrey...Sorry...
robbi2629 1 year ago
He seems almost life-like, So does Max Headroom.
kdraper2007 1 year ago
Anyway, I was driving along one day and suddenly one of my fans shouted, "Hey, there's Max Headroom!" and it kinda stuck.
progrockcoffee 1 year ago
His face looks so... fake? Looks like hes made out of plastic.
DarthBlam 1 year ago
I think it's time for a Max Headroom come back! The 80's rocked. :)
videogameobsession 1 year ago
@videogameobsession He has. He has new commercials in the UK. Look up Max Headroom DTV Channel 4. That should pull them up. Also, Shout Factory released the TV show that ran on ABC. Look up on Yahoo, SHOUT FACTORY MAX HEADROOM and you'll find it.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@hootyhaha I meant for Matt Frewer, the actor who played Max, to do a new MH project. Oh well..
videogameobsession 1 year ago
@videogameobsession He did.... look up Max Headroom Channel 4
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@hootyhaha Yeah, that's just a short commercial for digital TV though. I'd like to see him do a talk show or something more substantial.
videogameobsession 1 year ago
Borrowed does not mean stole people...
Anathema1984 1 year ago
CLOTHES!
ThatComputerguy1 1 year ago
Fact, I had to google to see if Max Headroom was played by Jim Carrey. This youtube popped up. That's how similar Jim Carrey's style was to Max Headroom.
Kahalasama 1 year ago
That was fuggin terrifying.
fLiPpAntMisSCreanT 1 year ago
@fLiPpAntMisSCreanT You just made me fuggin laugh. It always interests me what about Max Headroom scares people. The Max Headroom ABC show is now being sold by Shout Factory. Look it up on Yahoo and you'll find the site.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
Max Headroom is cool--but it's not Jim Carrey, though I agree, it does sound something like him. This is Matt Frewer, the crazy next door neighbor from "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids".
jmham1 1 year ago
are you kidding, jim has been doing his quarky stand up skits since the early 80's and max started in 85. For those that have no time, but to down jim; are simply idiots
circa1970 1 year ago
@circa1970 But he didn't start acting like Headroom until after the show.
evilemperordude 1 year ago
How did Jim not get sued?
denise8969 1 year ago
The 80's were goddamn weird.
Thicket9 1 year ago 14
@Thicket9 Why yes... yes they were. Which made them a truly unique decade.
hootyhaha 1 year ago 15
@hootyhaha which also made it a gnarly decade!
swarrior216 1 year ago
@Thicket9 Yeah...the 80's invented Japan
Railx22 1 year ago
@Thicket9 I grew up in the 1980's, and yes, they really were goddamn weird. The same decade that gave us Ronald Reagan, Diet Coke, MTV, The A-Team, Pac-Man and stadium rock.
MrUnidyne 1 year ago
@Thicket9 Hence the 80's were goddamn AWESOME!!
LOLDISNEYLAND 1 year ago
@Thicket9 nope
xalonzosquarepantsx 1 year ago
@Thicket9 the 80s are weird??HA!!! THis GENERATION SUCKS AND ITS WEIRDER WWWWWAAAY MORE THEN ANY GENERATION AS WELL
officialkingofbass 1 year ago
@officialkingofbass When you say "THIS" generation sucks do you mean the generation of the 2000s? If so, I agree. There's NO color in clothing (it's slowly coming back but only in young skater clothes), theres no orginality in Televitsion programming, and all these new bands all sound like the same ol whiney suburban white boys or emo dorks crying like we should care about their issues. The ONE band that rocks today is HOTLEG or HOT LEG. Look up Hotleg Trojan Guitar from Barbeque Rock.
hootyhaha 1 year ago
@hootyhaha You forgot Muse, look em up, damned good band.
catmanmovies 1 year ago
Man, Dave looks young here.
nexgenhippy 1 year ago
Max Headroom was not CGI. He was just Matt Frewer in heavy latex make-up and plastic suit being filmed with jerky effects and a spacy background (which was in fact computer generated...lines were about all you could generate back then).
DavidPirtle 1 year ago 5
max headroom
jim carry
still my favorite actor/comedian =)
darknessofsauske 1 year ago
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jxrz 1 year ago
@jxrz Max's image was actually that of actor Matt Frewer in latex and foam prosthetic makeup with a fiberglass suit created by Peter Mackenzie Litten and John Humphreys of Coast to Coast Productions in the UK. This was then superimposed over a moving geometric background. Even the background was not actual computer graphics at first; it was hand-drawn cel animation.
MEKON17 1 year ago
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jxrz 1 year ago
Q: How do you kill Max Headroom?
A: Invite him to a Roller Skating party
For some reason, Rush Limbaugh reminds me of Max Headroom
DancingSpiderman 1 year ago
@hootyhaha Oh yeah, that is right
Yep, now that I think back you are right, he was the first CG person.
SuperJonesable 1 year ago
This is a very wise observation. I was just watcing the original "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids!" movie and Matt Frewer (Max Headroom actor), who played the neighbors dad reminded me of Jim Carrey 100%. The voice, the mannerisms, the facial expressions. I even closed my eyes and listened to him and it was Jim Carrey.
dcsmooth 1 year ago
2:57
Rise and shine.. Mr. Freeman.
ShodexTube 1 year ago
they used the same schick simulataneously. watch some of the older films carrey has appeared in.
zackhanscom 1 year ago
his act could easily work with the increased tech now and our obbession with 24/7 news over even the most silly stuff. I think comedy central would be a good fit, mtv if they were so shitty now, or just do youtube like someone said. I rememeber him as a kid.
sujag22 1 year ago
he is the granddaddy of youtube
sujag22 1 year ago
Matt Frewer is an insane genius
monkeyman1140 1 year ago
He reminds me of a less angular version of Kryten from the BBC's " Red Dwarf " Science Fiction comedy with maybe a bit of Holly thrown in.
knoxvilleguy2 1 year ago
So let's have Jim Carrey vs. Max Headroom someday. :)
NorthernBloodLust 1 year ago
Damn. you actually have a point. Very similar delivery.
DejectedPanda 1 year ago
Matt recently played Moloch in the Watchmen movie.
UncleMilo 1 year ago
Matt Frewer was the voice for the Pink Panther and was also in an episode of Star Trek TNG.
Dulcimerist 1 year ago
@Dulcimerist Yes, he was in Star Trek TNG as a time traveler from the future coming to study the past.
dragonballz0 1 year ago
Jim Carey did imitate Max Headroom but this was from his earlier comedies. He was on In Living Color in the early 90's (he portrayed Fire Marshall Bill using the Max Headroom voice) . He also uses some of it in his Ace Ventura movies
AmericanEvita 1 year ago
MAX HEADROOM ROCKS!!!
firefly4322 1 year ago
that's weird, this guy was Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey
pjdr 1 year ago
no you fucking idiots this is not jim carey. i remember when this aired and it was before jim carey became famous.
santi316 1 year ago
Wow, I'm convinced. Jim Carrey's WHOLE career has been built on Max Headroom !!
AngelArtists 1 year ago
That is most definitely not Jim Carey, totally different bone structure, they just have similar voices
Cordelia2006 1 year ago
you stupid fuckers this is jim carrey making a funny parody of headroom cuz hes a fan get a grip you pieces of shit
fusel412crew 1 year ago
You sure about that? He looks a lot like Matt Frewer to me.
They both sound similar though.
frazerdavid 1 year ago
@fusel412crew ur an idiot...
zeppelinator18 1 year ago
@fusel412crew Sorry, I was there when this aired years ago and it was way before Jim Carrey was in show business (late 80's early 90's). There's one huge evidence people are not mentioning here, look how young David Letterman looks! That's a late 80's early 90's hair style. LOL
Please remember, there was no Jim Carrey in this time, when Max Headroom was around. Hell, it would be impossible for Jim Carrey to pull it off, his voice would sound like screaming if imitating this voice tone.
dragonballz0 1 year ago
Jim Carrey is nothing but a no-talent drooling retard, for fuck sake. What talent is there in pulling faces and acting like a fucking RETARD!
islamstillsucksallah 1 year ago
I can see how Jim got a lot of his ideas from Max Headroom. Especially with Fire Marshall Bill and the Mask
AlbertaAllan 2 years ago
yah, what a fucking BITER!!
Scrap5000 2 years ago
doesn't matter anyway...they were both great!!!
lessanguish9 2 years ago
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lessanguish9 2 years ago
Max Headroom is a real computer generation based on the actor Matt Frewer :)
hootyhaha 2 years ago 6
But it is Jim Carey?
Dooby143 2 years ago
@hootyhaha No, the computing power wasn't available at the time. He was created with traditional effects and a mask
TheBilly 1 year ago
@hootyhaha
no it's not..it's not cgi
SyntaxErrorinline10 1 year ago
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@hootyhaha @hootyhaha
No it wasnt, it was in fact advertised as being CG but it was actually Matt Frewer in rubber makeup
Yep
SuperJonesable 1 year ago
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@hootyhaha @hootyhaha
No it wasnt, it was in fact advertised as being CG but it was actually Matt Frewer in rubber makeup
Yep
SuperJonesable 1 year ago
@hootyhaha i thought they used a prosthetic mask. Im pretty sure it was a prosthetic mask, along with camera techniques and all that jazz
MEKON17 1 year ago
carey came a bit before max headroom, specifically in Toronto at the Yuk-Yuk club. Rodney Dangerfield signed him not long after.
lessanguish9 2 years ago
But when Carrey came out first, he was not acting outrageous until AFTER Max Headroom. Carrey even said that in an interview when he said one year he finally realized he was just going to have to go crazy and get nuts letting loose. It wasn't until his Mad TV years and his Unnatural Act that he started flipping out. Before that he was just a normal comedian. Even in ONce Bitten. He wasn't insane like Max. Max Headroom even makes comment on what I said. Look up Max Headroom Channel 4 .
hootyhaha 2 years ago
He was never on Mad TV it was In living Color, just for future reference.
Interesting theory.
mister0zero 2 years ago 3
I wrote him about that comment before I saw yours said the same thing
horseboyken 2 years ago
Mad TV??? he was on in living color and that show pre-dates Mad TV doesnt it?
horseboyken 2 years ago 2
@hootyhaha I can't say that Jim never acted this way befor Max. He has the same voice naturally and was a huge class clown in high school. By the way, he was never in Mad tv. He was in In Living Colour though. Gotta give him credit. For Max was just an ad, Carey is a legend.
AJprofsr 1 year ago
@hootyhaha jim was never on MadTv, he was on In Living Color
gohanrocs12 1 year ago
How did they do this, was that a recording? must be
gofojibwas 2 years ago
its like a mix of jim carry and steve carrell.
missemsnitchesss 2 years ago
he said 'cramped'
tomp2008 2 years ago
Modesty... HOT
..Help I crapped.
LOL
arionex 2 years ago 2
Tim Gunn anyone? LOL I soooo remember MAX! A total legend!
JwahAmore31 2 years ago
that was painful
newyorklowlife 2 years ago
It might be an accent thing. Frewer and Carrey are both from Southern Ontario. I do think some of the mannerisms are the same. But Carrey was already on TV (he'd done the Duck Factory in 1984) by that time.
wookie72 2 years ago
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degibox 2 years ago
I don't like the 80s anymore.....
Doomed2Hell 2 years ago 2
haha BIG FELLA!
AshLuvsJonnyStew 2 years ago
jim carrey sounds so much like him!!!
Merche74 2 years ago 21
Fun...fun...fnn, fnn...funny
Yoetah 2 years ago 4
Aaahhh yes, Edison Carter hit a boundary that read "Max Headroom 2.3m"
Katalyzt
Katalyzt 2 years ago
Well Davey Do! Big Fella!!!!!!!
lionofthejungle 2 years ago 3
'yes I agree the jim carrey used this stuff. kinda surprising nobody really picked up on it in the first place. i think jim carrey is not as original as i thought.....
calamityash80 2 years ago 21
@calamityash80 very true. I guess imitation is the finest form of flattery. Carey has said he got a lot of his material from watching tv.
keithm940 2 years ago
@calamityash80 "the jim carey" used "this" stuff?? hmm you need to do check your head
01RoboDemon 1 year ago
@01RoboDemon do you even know english, your comment is gibberish.
85mariapatricia 1 year ago
@85mariapatricia WHAT ME WORRY? minus the do "Maria" eh Oh
01RoboDemon 1 year ago
as TheDebrick290 said - It is Matt Frewer! He's a Canadian who had a show on British TV in the '80s that was released in the US on HBO. He has had several comedy series on US TV and is currently a regular on SyFy's "Eureka!" As far as I know, there is no connection beteen Frewer and Carrey.
ackerdackerly 2 years ago
borrowed? parody you mean
RetardTE 2 years ago
It's like Hunter S. Thompson mixed with Jim Carey. Veird.
AlmityGuitarist 2 years ago
Yeah, I'll have to admit, I asked if this guy was a Jim Carrey thing, because it does share resemblance. I had not seen much of Max Headroom in the 80's, so what the hell do I know. However, my wife told me it wasn't him, it was some guy from B-List TV shows. I say who cares, Mac Tonight was the real shizzle!
mavericdragon 2 years ago
I remember watching this interview first run :P
I miss max
daffy72 2 years ago
Its Matt Frewer! He is brilliant and I kinda see what you mean about the Jim Carey thing...!
TheDebrick2490 2 years ago
is it me or is his head shorter here?
jaychristie909 2 years ago
durrrrrrrh.. what are you 12?. its homage if anything
nickelastic 2 years ago
Jim Carrey didnt steal s*hit, you mean SNL steal stuff too? Geez.
fruknullarn 2 years ago
I remember this episode from 1986, I didn't remember it was Jim Carey! LOL! Thanks, hootyhaha
1kevindf 2 years ago