Did your city have any really, really, REALLY crazy cable access stars?

[nolabear]

Here are two of Seattle's finest, alas no longer on the air. But I spent many an evening with my mouth hanging open from the sheer AWESOMENESS.

I give you The Rev. Bruce Howard:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TQcFPQZraw

And The Goddess Kring:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=814_mdH8SYg

(I think The Goddess Kring is still doing her thing somewhere. Youtube was made for her. I hate to think what happened to Rev. Bruce and his minions)

[nolabear]

1. And how could I forget Spud Goodman? A stellar moment:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy7TYTpBElc

"Yes I don't have any gum..." :rofl:

[Suich]

2. If you send Kring a pair of white shoes,

she'll paint them for you!

http://www.shannonkringen.com/

I kinda remember Howard (he's a music teacher now???).

I don't know one other person in Seattle who has admitted watching Public Access!

:yourock:

[nolabear]

3. I remember her painting shoes for Tori Amos once.

She got about three shows out of those shoes.

LOL re the Public Access. I have always loved crazy, fringy performances. Circus, magicians, cable access...

[applegrove]

4. When I lived in Halifax during college we got our cable access from Bangore Maine.

There was a television host on the cable show who used to dress up as a woman named Margaret and introduce...I think movies. Wig and all.

[travelingtypist]

5. Portland, OR had our very own nudist Jim Spagg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Spagg

[nolabear]

7. I miss freedom of expression.

He sounds like a trip.

[gratuitous]

8. Spagg was one of a kind

There was also the Sister Paula show, a cross-dresser who wore a nun outfit, and did some preaching about love and accepance. I don't know if s/he was purely a Portland phenomenon or if someone arranged to put the shows on locally.

[sakabatou]

6. None, as far as I know.

[distantearlywarning]

9. Pittsburgh, PA - can't post links, but...

I ran across a political lunch hour talk show type thing on cable access last month that was pretty crazy. The hosts all looked like they'd escaped from the set of some B-grade horror movie about an insane asylum...that, or the set of Deliverance. Seriously, they all looked a bit deranged and scabby, with uncombed dirty hair, and one had an eyepatch. There was one sort of normal looking guy who seemed to be in charge, and I think he just went around town and picked up weird people off the street or out of the woods or something, just to be on his show.

I thought perhaps they were tea baggers at the beginning of the show, but they were so cognitively incoherent throughout the course of the program it was impossible to tell what they actually believed in. They might have had some liberal viewpoints, but it was hard to tell from one segment to another. One of them even had a speech impediment, and they gave at least 10 minutes of the program to her - literally, you couldn't really understand what she was saying! And they were all very vehement and loud about...whatever...it was they were trying to get across to the audience, even shouting and pounding the tables!

It was one of the strangest things I've ever seen on TV, actually. It kind of freaked me out.

And when I first moved here, about 6 years ago, there used to be a late-night show on cable access that was apparently solely devoted to video of well-endowed women (mostly African-American), doing topless hiphop and crawling around on fake fur rugs while shaking booty. No dialogue, just random amateur topless videos with music in the background. That was pretty weird.

[ceile]

10. Alex Jones, for a start.

Freakin' nutjob windbag.

[Hugin]

11. Haha! YES!

One I remember off-hand was this guy who wore a large hat, dark sunglasses and a loosely held big microphone up to speak into... His "studio" was located in an isolated house about 40 miles outside of town. Always on late at night and mumbled so much I could never quite make out what he was going on about.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. Tulsa had Gailard Sartain and Gary Busey for weirdness.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ-zhYxUYuo

They had a Saturday night show, since they wouldn't show Saturday Night Live in Tulsa.

I liked the Sherman Oaks School for the Dead: "Did you know that many people can matriculate after death? Please enroll in our School for the Dead. Read our underground newspaper!"

:rofl:

Intro, Mazeppa Pompazoidi's Uncanny Camp Meeting and Film Festival:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95hUDzuiy7Y