ladies and gentlemen, the strokes! may i have your attention please? the dixie chicks. billboard s top 10 singles, all by black artists. i don t please everybody with who i am as a person. i love beyonce. is not a working telephone is it? empty shelves are all you will find at tower records. it s now out of business. three, two, one! this is a very special moment of the first performance at the mtv studios in the new millennium. please welcome no doubt! i will always remember new year s eve, 1999, going into y2k, seeing no doubt on mtv playing it s the end of the world as we know it by rem. it s the end of the world as we know it, it s the end of the world as we know it, and i feel fine. it was a very appropriately apocalyptic song for what turned out to be an apocalyptic decade. happy new year! we wake up, it s 2000, we are all alive, and we are in the middle of teen pop mania. boy bands were selling so many albums.
back when the rolling stones had shocked parents everywhere. my how times have changed. i see hustling and icy killing. that s what i rap about. you can take me out the but you can t take the of out of me though. is pretty ironic that people related to it. platinum record. country music has taken over the airwaves and the record charts. the honeymoon is over. now we re getting down to real commerce. are these girls crazy? yeah! [ music ] you may think of it as the channel that rattles your channel, occasionally your teeth and hypnotizes her children but what you may want to know is that mtv is responsible for a complete revolution in the music business in this country. mtv makes the hits. it s as if there was just one national radio station for new songs. in the 80s we have hairbands. poison, ratt, warrant. a lot of hairspray going on. there was a lot of sexually suggestive lyrics. it s not deep music but we have mtv pushing it so that s selling. when i
who work together there is nothing but watch. chemistry is the main special sauce. our timing was perfect for each other. you burn a hole in my bed. and we are going to be pals, right? there is one guy, who is out of control, and one guy trying to say come down. you ever disagree on material? no. yeah. the audience has to feel like they are loose and having fun. we are really able to fake fun and looseness. yeah. i actually grew up as a kid on comedy teams. that s how i learned about comedy, on comedy teams. hey, hey, michelle pfeiffer. comedy teams are dependent on harmony, harmony blends into one voice. it s like, wow. i think chemistry is something that you are secure enough that you can be playful. you are kind of delighted in being with them, so it kind of comes out, you feel it. you feel excited. i m not feeling sassy. oh, you are never feeling sassy. you wouldn t know what sassy looks like on me. why don t you eat a bowl of wings? wh
gratification. you kick the door in guns blazing and whatever happens happens. stop that, he s not my dad. sketches are a really fun way to talk about the culture with a quick turnaround. and i sketch you are satirizing life. satirizing. no, satirizing. my brain hurts. when you know people are improvising you are on the edge of your seats. everything you see tonight is being made up on the spot, we can t stress it enough. where is my mother? you have to go for it, you have to commit. i m rick james,one. we, we are going to do a sketch show. you don t comedy is like a concerto with all of its complications. sketch comedy is like a sex pistol song where people get in and get out and somebody gets hurt. i am so full of anticipation that my genitals are sucked up into my body company. sketches a really great way to deliver, do, because you can say so much. the best come in with a point of view about something they want to say. it makes it does feel any b
states, my friend donald j. trump. rupert murdoch is a direct line of the oval office in a way he s never enjoyed before. proximity to power. there probably would not have been a president trump without fox news. maybe we won t do it anymore with them. you give the viewers what they want. whatever his instinct is, that s what a great leader is. the channel became focused on telling him what he wanted to hear. james is watching this all in dismay. he is getting uncomfortable with the network under the leadership of his own father. but lachlan and rupert s view was why would we change this? we ve never had bigger ratings. and cracks inside the family are starting to appear. it s august 2017 and rupert murdoch invites bob iger, the head of disney, to have a drink with him at his $29 million vineyard in the hills of bel air. rupert offers iger a glass of wine and they begin to talk. like rupert, bob iger s an empire builder too. for years he s been buildin