Line #6 Funny/Radiohead


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4	Radiohead: They're [[NightmareFuel/{{Radiohead}} frightening]], they're [[TearJerker/{{Radiohead}} moving]], they're confusing, and they have [[SurrealHumor a really weird sense of humour]].
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7	* Most incarnations of Radiohead's website balance between hilarious and terrifying, in no small part thanks to the UglyCute bears and minotaurs that show up so often.
8	* The "My Showbiz Life" interviews on ''The Most Gigantic Lying Mouth of All Time''. Especially Ed's.
9	-->'''Ed''': [[LaughingMad Hahahaha]]-- '''''HONK.'''''
10	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfOa1a8hYP8 Thom Yorke's]] storeroom of fucks is growing low, and winter is rapidly approaching.
11	* Their appearance on WesternAnimation/SouthPark. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ex9cAbzGiN0 Little crybaby...]]''
12	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHK3rRuhSLs Poor Jonny]]...
13	* The [[TheWoobie crying minotaur]] who served as Radiohead's mascot during the "Amnesiac" period has now been made into [[http://store.wasteheadquarters.com/index.php/home-page/crying-minotaur.html an intensely huggable plush toy!]]
14	* Thom's signature goofy dance is pretty funny.
15	* Several moments during the [[Series/TheColbertReport Colbert Report Radiohead Special]]:
16	** Stephen Colbert (wearing a Santa hat, no less) solemnly introducing "Codex" as being from Radiohead's "upcoming Christmas album."
17	** "Dr. Pepper Presents Stephen Colbert's Rocktember with Radiohead Who Present Themselves Because They Are Nobody's Corporate Tool, Brought to You By Dr. Pepper, The Official Soft Drink of Radiohead."
18	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWvPHw3dYoE awesome spoof]] of the film Film/{{Se7en}}, from the Thumbs Down webcast.
19	* Some could find the chaotic horn section at the end of "The National Anthem" as pretty hilarious.
20	* [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8b/Radiohead.bends.albumart.jpg/220px-Radiohead.bends.albumart.jpg The cover]] of ''The Bends''. Just look at that dummy, and try to imagine what he's imagining.
21	** Users on the B3ta messageboard once photoshopped the dummy to look like he was, ''ahem'', receiving a ''certain kind'' of stimulation in a ''certain area'' of his body.
22	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iy7pic3lAN8 Thom Yorke making a cameo appearance during the 2007]] ''Series/BigFatQuizOfTheYear''. As you would expect, it's quietly very offbeat and weird... and as we quickly discover, [[AdamWesting it appears to be deliberately so.]]
23	* While anticipating ''[=LP9=]'', fans on Radiohead's subreddit got so convinced that the album wouldn't be announced come May 6, 2016, that they pledged to eat a picture of Thom if they were proven wrong. [[http://consequenceofsound.net/2016/05/radiohead-fans-are-eating-photos-of-thom-yorkes-face-to-celebrate-the-bands-new-album/ Some fans are already standing by their word, and it's even made some news sites!]]
24	* When performing "Paranoid Android" live, Thom [[https://youtu.be/3Rz69YmzqQM?t=1h37m39s has been known to make the "pips" that preface the song]] on ''OK Computer'' before the band starts playing. See [[https://www.reddit.com/r/radiohead/comments/6koigj/thom_doing_the_beeps_at_the_beginning_of_paranoid/ this Reddit thread]] for more. It's pretty funny.
25	* The SurrealMusicVideo for "Lift", from the 2017 reissue of ''OK Computer''. It's a four-minute long UncomfortableElevatorMoment that Thom, holding two carrier bags, suffers while having increasingly weird encounters on his way down.
26	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GBqFknWDzw A different version of "Idioteque".]]
27	* Technical problems during a 2017 show led to Thom muttering "Aw shit." into the mic. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtcmifROr0k Cue Jonny looping]] [[VoiceClipSong what Thom said]], and even making him [[{{Corpsing}} corpse]].
28	* There is a long-running meme that Ed [[PokemonSpeak is just singing his own name]] as backup vocals in "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi".
29	-->'''Thom''': "Turn me onto phantoms..."
30	-->'''Ed''': "Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeed!"
31	* Jonny Greenwood initially played harmonica and keyboards for the band... and spent his first few months playing with the keyboard turned off (as the previous keyboardist was fired for playing too loud). [[https://www.nme.com/news/music/jonny-greenwood-pretended-play-keyboards-radiohead-3156953 No one noticed.]]
32	--> "It was all guitars and distortion — and so I would pretend to play for weeks on end and Thom would say, ‘I can’t quite hear what you’re doing, but I think you’re adding a really interesting texture because I can tell when you’re not playing'... And I'm thinking, 'No, you can't, because I'm really not playing.'"
33	* Their wonderfully sardonic sales pitch for the release of an [[https://twitter.com/radiohead/status/1364953477114429454 "In Rainbows" jigsaw puzzle:]]
34	--> ''BORED? MISERABLE? DEPRESSED? LOST HOPE?''\
35	''NO POINT IN ANYTHING''\
36	''IT'S TERRIBLE. GOTTA DO SOMETHING''\
37	''GOTTA GET A JIGSAW INNIT''\
38	''NO WAY! THAT'S TOTAL GENIUS''\
39	''A RADIOHEAD JIGSAW''\
40	''WILL IT HELP ME FORGET MY TROUBLES?''\
41	''NO WORRIES''\
42	''IS IT REALLY DIFFICULT AND WILL IT TAKE AGES?''\
43	''YES MATE FOR SURE''\
44	''SOUNDS GREAT! IS IT AFFORDABLE?''\
45	''THAT'S DEPENDS ON YOUR PRIORITIES''\
46	''DO YOU RECKON I'M STILL GONNA BE MISERABLE AFTER COMPLETING IT?''\
47	''I SHOULD THINK SO''\
48	''SOUNDS AMAZING!!''
49	* At Lollapalooza in Berlin, Radiohead decided to play "Creep" live for the first time in decades. The moment is appropriately magical, with Thom and the band playing pitch-perfectly...[[YouHaveGOTToBeKiddingMe and then it cuts to]] [[https://youtu.be/rtXOzMVCSw4?si=W3e8dI04MiCzMvuS&t=89 Jonny]].
50	* Sing it with us now: "YESTERDAY I WOKE UP SUCKING ON A LEMON"
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Context Funny / Radiohead