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This weeks theme is Music Videos featuring comedians.

Kanye West – Can’t Tell Me Nothin’ (Feat. Zach Galifianakis)

Kanye pretty much just ripped off an old Fiona Apple video, but hey, that’s what Kanye does, and I like this video better, which is also what Kanye does.

Travis – Selfish Jean (Feat. Demetri Martin)

I saw these guys with Megan here in New York and Demetri stopped by and did this live on the stage with them. It was amazing. Best concert I’ve been to all year, and that’s saying a lot. I saw the best Dave Matthews Band concert I’ve ever been to just last March. Sorry, Dave.

Dave Matthews Band – Everyday (Feat. Judah Friedlander)

Hey, call me a DMBhead, but I had to make it up to them somehow after the last blurb. Besides, this is just a good video and a happy song. Fans of 30 Rock should appreciate it.

This Week I’m going to share some videos that feature the great MC, Fat Lip. Coincidentally, they are all also directed by Spike Jonze. What can I say, the man’s a genius.

The Pharcyde – Drop

The Pharcyde is the group which gave Fat Lip his start. He later got into some drugs and left the group, disappearing for a while, but early Pharcyde is some of the best Hip Hop you’ll hear. For this video, each member learned his part in reverse, then rapped in reverse for the video, which was then reversed, thus reversing the reversal, which made their mouths match up, but the rest of the video in reverse. Genius.

Fat Lip – What’s up Fat Lip?

Spike Jonze set out to find out what happened to Fat Lip after he left Pharcyde and make a documentary about it. They decided to make a video along the way. The documentary is great, it’s on his Director’s Label DVD, check it out sometime. I have it if you want to borrow it. Someday I’ll buy the rest of that set.

Ludacris – Get Back

(Warning: Harsh Language)

Sorry, I tried to find a clean version to appease the masses, but to no avail. This video only features Fat Lip at the very beginning, and he’s not rapping, but the video’s great and I thought it fit well here.

I’ve been trying to find a way to keep myself posting regularly and I think I may have found it. Inspired by the posts and links of many friends, I have decided to dedicate every Friday to some of my favorite music videos of all time. You’re going to see a lot of Spike Jonze and Michel Gondry directed videos on here, mostly because they’re geniuses and every song they touch becomes music video gold, but I’ll try to mix it up a little week to week.

This week, I decided to cover my all time most favoritest music videos in the history of time, space, and music videodom across the universe.

Beastie Boys – Sabotoge

This is my all time favorite video, directed by my all time favorite music video director, Spike Jonze. Some day, I’m going to pick out my ‘fro, hop in the Falcon, grab my camera, and reenact this video on the streets of New York. Who’s with me?

Fatboy Slim – Weapon of Choice

Spike Jonze, Christopher Walken, and Fatboy Slim. What more can you ask for in a video?

Michael Jackson – Thriller

This is the video that put music videos on the map, and in turn, MTV. Now if only they’d remember that and quit airing rerun after rerun of my Super Sweet Sixteen. Seriously, those girls make me want to stab all the Pegasuses (Pegasi?) that I wished for with my Genie through the throat with a unicorn horn then go out drinking with my washed up leprechaun reality star buddy and end up chasing luck dragons headfirst into dumpsters. Those were the days… What? Where am I?