History Main / MidVidSkit

* Music/Maroon5's "Don't Wanna Know" (In which the band portray Franchise/Pokemon-esque creatures) has one, where the director asks Adam Levine to put on a Pharrell Williams-esque NiceHat. Levine refuses because it would make him look "silly". [[HypocriticalHumor He says this as he's still dressed as a Squirtle lookalike]].

* P Diddy's "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour Ben Stiller visits and unsuccessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".

** "Lucky You" has a skit where Em and Joyner Lucas realise the zombielike creatures are copying their motions exactly, leading to Eminem to amuse himself by making them [[TotallyRadical dab]].

* Music/DrDre & Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Forgot About Dre" replaces a rather violent portion of Eminem's verse with a fake news report. Em is interviewed as an innocent bystander to the arson, denying he had any role in it.

Most music videos usually have the song play through uninterrupted while [[DressRehearsalVideo the band performs]], quite possibly with a narrative that has [[MusicVideoOvershadowing nothing to do with the song]]. The MidVidSkit is when the flow of the song, narrative or both are interrupted, usually by talking. Less charitably, kind of the MTV version of those annoying comedy sketches that hip-hop albums have between some tracks, but worse because they turn up ''in the middle of the video''.

* The video for "Chunky Chunky Air Guitar" by The Whitlams is a mockumentary about the 9th Annual Air Guitar World Championships. The MidVidSkit is a promo for a contestant's instructional video, "How To Air Guitar Like A Pro."

* The beginning of Creator/WillSmith's "Film/WildWildWest" music video is a {{Talky Bookend|s}} in which Will's character from said film, Jim West, wakes up from a nightmare involving the movie's villain Dr. Loveless. Salma Hayek's Rita Escobar comforts him, goes to get him something and is promptly kidnapped by Loveless' henchwomen. Just after the last third of the song starts up, a chandelier comes crashing down, kicking off a scene where Jim rescues Rita.

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* P Diddy's "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour Ben Stiller visits and unsuccessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".
* Any hip-hop video with a cameo by John Witherspoon (Willy Jones from ''Friday'', Grandad from ''WesternAnimation/TheBoondocks'') is pretty much guaranteed to include one of these.
* The Music/BeastieBoys's "Triple Trouble" opens with a TalkyBookend where the group insults Sasquatch, whom had held them captive for a year. Sasquatch, enraged, looks up their location on Google Maps and runs to their location. After the first two verses, there's a skit wherein Sasquatch attacks and reabducts the band.

* In the middle of {{Music/Madonna}}'s "Music", driver Ali G [[DiegeticSwitch turns down the radio]] and [[StylisticSuck tries to audition for her next single]]. Fortunately, she cuts him off, ensuring that the skit lasts less than ten seconds.
* Music/{{Weezer}}'s famous ConceptVideo for "Buddy Holly" presents the band as playing a gig in Arnold's from ''Series/HappyDays'', opening with TalkyBookends from the show. At the end of the second chorus, the music stops and cuts to the show's "Stay tuned for more Happy Days" bumper, then almost immediately the music starts again. Fortunately, it's just long enough to make the viewer wonder if the video's over.
* Music/FallOutBoy's "I Don't Care" features a still picture of a cat for a few seconds in the middle of the video. The clip falls silent while the picture is on the screen. The band purposefully had these put in due to censor additional ProductPlacement shots [[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595765/pete-wentz-fumes-over-product-placement-fall-out-boy-clip.jhtml they didn't approve of]].
** Most of Fall Out Boy's videos are like this, except with skits, usually (for example: "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race," "Dance, Dance," and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me")

* From Music/LadyGaga's "Telephone" video: "Let's make a sandwich!"
* Jack Johnson's video for "Taylor" has this with Creator/BenStiller.
* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "One" contains several clips from a film version of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' between the vocal sections. This is justified, since the song is based on the book. This is also what is known as Sampling, and has been used frequently in audio-visual art.
** Again for their cover of "Turn the Page," where the video pauses for the protagonist to give a short interview excerpt.
* Music/AllTimeLow's video for "I Feel Like Dancin'" features several short ones, used as a framing device to mock needless sex appeal, product placement and ExecutiveMeddling in music videos.

* Dr. Dre & Music/{{Eminem}}'s "Forgot About Dre" replaces a rather violent portion of Eminem's verse with a fake news report. Em is interviewed as an innocent bystander to the arson, denying he had any role in it.

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* The BeastieBoys's "Triple Trouble" opens with a TalkyBookend where the group insults Sasquatch, whom had held them captive for a year. Sasquatch, enraged, looks up their location on Google Maps and runs to their location. After the first two verses, there's a skit wherein Sasquatch attacks and reabducts the band.

* {{Weezer}}'s famous ConceptVideo for "Buddy Holly" presents the band as playing a gig in Arnold's from ''HappyDays'', opening with TalkyBookends from the show. At the end of the second chorus, the music stops and cuts to the show's "Stay tuned for more Happy Days" bumper, then almost immediately the music starts again. Fortunately, it's just long enough to make the viewer wonder if the video's over.
* FallOutBoy's "I Don't Care" features a still picture of a cat for a few seconds in the middle of the video. The clip falls silent while the picture is on the screen. The band purposefully had these put in due to censor additional ProductPlacement shots [[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595765/pete-wentz-fumes-over-product-placement-fall-out-boy-clip.jhtml they didn't approve of]].

* NewOrder's "Bizarre Love Triangle" interrupts the music for the following odd exchange: "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!" "You know, you're a real 'up' person." In the middle of a video with ''no narrative''. This is what is known as a Non sequitur.

* P Diddy's "Bad Boy for Life" video features a short skit midway through in which neighbour Ben Stiller visits and unsucessfully tries to intimidate him. This despite Mr Diddy's first name being "[[FluffyTheTerrible Puff]]".
* Any hip-hop video with a cameo by John Witherspoon (Willy Jones from ''Friday'', Grandad from ''TheBoondocks'') is pretty much guaranteed to include one of these.

* AllTimeLow's video for "I Feel Like Dancin'" features several short ones, used as a framing device to mock needless sex appeal, product placement and ExecutiveMeddling in music videos.

* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "One" contains several clips from a film version of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' between the vocal sections. This is justified, since the song is based on the book. This also what is known as Sampling, and has been used frequently in audio-visual art.

* NewOrder's "Bizarre Love Triangle" interrupts the music for the following odd exchange: "I don't believe in reincarnation because I refuse to come back as a bug or as a rabbit!" "You know, you're a real 'up' person." In the middle of a video with ''no narrative''. This might be someone's idea of a "bizarre love triangle" (there's another woman in the scene), or it might just be the avant-garde director being [[TrueArtIsIncomprehensible weird for the hell of it]].

* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "One" contains several clips from a film version of ''Literature/JohnnyGotHisGun'' between the vocal sections. This is justified, since the song is based on the book.

* In the middle of {{Madonna}}'s "Music", driver Ali G [[DiegeticSwitch turns down the radio]] and [[StylisticSuck tries to audition for her next single]]. Fortunately, she cuts him off, ensuring that the skit lasts less than ten seconds.

* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "One" contains several clips from a film version of ''JohnnyGotHisGun'' between the vocal sections. This is justified, since the song is based on the book.

* In the middle of {{Madonna}}'s "Music", driver Ali G [[DiegeticSwitch turns down the radio]] and tries to audition for her next single. Fortunately, she cuts him off, ensuring that the skit lasts less than ten seconds.
* {{Weezer}}'s famous ConceptVideo for "Buddy Holly" presents the band as playing a gig in Arnold's from ''HappyDays'', opening with TalkyBookends from the show. At the end of the second chorus, the music stops and cuts to the show's "Happy Days with be back in a minute" bumper, then almost immediately the music starts again. Fortunately, it's just long enough to make the viewer wonder if the video's over.
* FallOutBoy's 'I Don't Care' features a still picture of a cat for a few seconds in the middle of the video. The clip falls silent while the picture is on the screen. The band purposefully had these put in due to censor additional ProductPlacement shots [[http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1595765/pete-wentz-fumes-over-product-placement-fall-out-boy-clip.jhtml they didn't approve of]].

* The video for Chunky Chunky Air Guitar by The Whitlams is a mockumentary about the 9th Annual Air Guitar World Championships. The MidVidSkit is a promo for a contestant's instructional video, "How To Air Guitar Like A Pro."

* The video for Music/{{Metallica}}'s song "One" contains several clips from a film version of ''JohnnyGotHisGun'' in the middle of the singing. This is justified, since the song is based on the book.

* Jack Johnson's video for "Taylor" has this with BenStiller.

The MidVidSkit is kind of the MTV version of those annoying comedy sketches that hip-hop albums have between some tracks, but worse because they turn up ''in the middle of the video''.

* FallOutBoy's 'I Don't Care' features a still picture of a cat for a few seconds in the middle of the video. The clip falls silent while the picture is on the screen.
** Most of Fall Out Boy's videos are like this, except with skits, usually (off the top of my head: "This Ain't A Scene, It's An Arms Race," "Dance, Dance," and "A Little Less Sixteen Candles, A Little More Touch Me")

* JackJohnson's video for "Taylor" has this with BenStiller.