CONSPIRACY ROCK

This video debuted at Emerson College in 1992, as part of a live show by the Emerson comedy troupe This Is Pathetic. After making the rounds at several broadcast outlets (including SNL, where it is rumored that Al Franken personally savaged it as unfaithful to conspiracy theory canon), the bit finally aired multiple times on Comedy Central during the week of November 22, 1993.

Four and a half years later, Robert Smigel aired a similarly titled bit on SNL's "Saturday TV Funhouse." (The producers are content to view this coincidence as a high form of flattery.) A remixed version of the film also appeared as an Official Selection in the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.

This silly little film would never have been possible without the brilliance and talent of animator Jason Scott Sadofsky, and of co-writers Michael D'Alonzo, Stephen Johnson, and Eric Drysdale. Thanks also to vocalists Shannon Hart Cleary and Carolyn Forno, and to the cast members (past and present) and supportive audiences of This Is Pathetic.

-Scott Rosann
Director
January, 2009

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• Conspiracy theory
• Schoolhouse Rock
• JFK
• assassination
• Emerson College
• This is Pathetic
• Charged
• Rosann
• D'Alonzo
• Sadofsky
• Johnson
• Cleary
• Forno

[pdderek]

that's the ONLY outrage? I'm outraged any time the government hides shit from the people.

BY THE PEOPLE. FOR THE PEOPLE...shit

[delcomurf]

mob + cia= dead kennedy

[Pocholo986]

Skull & Bones

[SgtTravisBickle]

@jamesms4 Your life is boring because you bury your head in the sand. CIA Agent E. Howard Hunt confessed to being involved in the hit at the behest of LBJ before he died.

[AxelXGabriel]

I think the biggest reason people try to create Conspiracies in the first place is because they refuse to believe the world is just that damn cruel for no damn reason.

[kelvinpyaeko]

@MrBigYum 'male rapist'? bahahahah looks what's your featured video on another account 'hot japanese girl' lmao..you are a perverted old pedo. we'all know..FAIL

[BrandonKinmanLee007]

screw nwo

[ironmancwb]

@TokyoDreamgirl1234 wow really , ever heard of 9-11 , Gulf of Tonkin . etc etc ?

[TokyoDreamgirl1234]

I'm not someone who believes in conspiracies but this is the only one I question about and to believe there's something that someone's not saying.

[AdonisKingAXC]

Brilliant!  Love it! ~a~

[GFedFan]

Unsolved history proved the shot was possible. It's insane, and could likely only have been done once, but it is possible.

[jamesms4]

Oswald acted alone. Life is that boring . So embrace the horror of the mundane.