1985: MAX HEADROOM - TV HOST of the FUTURE? | Wogan | Classic TV Interview | BBC Archive
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Published 2022-03-24
Does the emergence of Max spell the end for homo sapiens as chat show hosts?
Originally broadcast 14 August, 1985.
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All Comments (21)
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Such a strange '80s clip: Wogon's aesthetic looks like something from the '70s, and Max Headroom's aesthetic looks like something from the '90s. It's as if they got in time machines to meet midway in the 80s.
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Why does this feel way ahead of its time? I cannot help but see some of Max Headroom in Jim Carey's performances.
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Max Headroom was of course portrayed by actor Matt Frewer under layers of makeup and prosthetics, and a fair bit of electronic and video trickery. Now that technology allows us to create actual virtual characters, why hasn't anyone created a genuine computer generated Max Headroom?
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The small lag in his movings are so appropriate
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And now hes leader of Nu Labour
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too bad Zoom doesn't have a Max Headroom filter, with frame skips and glitches
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Matthew Frewer, raised in Canada, played the role of Berlinghoff Rasmussen in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "A Matter of Time".
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This was way ahead of its time in real time.
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Clearly remember this on Wogan as a child. Thanks
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Awesome I miss Max on our TV
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Max Headroom has the most delightful nonsense that I have ever seen.
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I was 19 at the time, and loved it all. All this doom and gloom about Thatcher I and everyone I knew had loads of money then. Not so much now
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We loved Max Headroom 🤣
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Ah, memories.
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I have a thing for recognising faces and voices and in 3 seconds I realised it’s the next door neighbors father from honey I shrunk the kids
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how does he improvise so well?
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This man is fantastic. He is also a Bobcat G.
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Wonderful style
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Also played "Logan" on Fear The Walking Dead.
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He was Jim Carrey before Jim Carrey.
