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Elephant Parts
Elephant Parts (comic)

Elephant Parts was a short-lived United Kingdom adult comic from the 1990s, similar in tone and content to Gas comic, only with a cruder page layout and a wilfully "amature" feel overall....
was also the name of a British
United Kingdom

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adult
Adult

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humour comic.

Elephant Parts is a collection of Comical Videos/Music Videos made by Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Robert Michael Nesmith in Harris County, Texas, is an United States musician, songwriter, actor, record producer, novelist, businessman, and philanthropist, perhaps best known for his time in the musical group The Monkees and on the TV series of the same name....
, former Monkee, in 1981. Nesmith produced the video through his own company, Pacific Arts, using money he inherited from his mother, the inventor of Liquid Paper

Liquid Paper

Liquid Paper, a brand name of opaque correction fluid, is used to cover up mistakes on paper without retyping the entire sheet. It was very important when material was typed with a typewriter, but has become less so since the advent of the word processor....
. Elephant Parts is one hour long and features five full length music videos including the popular songs "Rio" and "Cruisin'".

In 1989, WLUP

WLUP

Chicago

Chicago is the largest city in the U.S. state of Illinois and the Midwestern United States, as well as the List of United States cities by population city in the United States with more than 2.8 million residents....
stated that Hulk Hogan

Hulk Hogan

Terry Gene Bollea , better known by his ring name Hulk Hogan, is an American actor, and semi-retired professional wrestling. He starred in the VH1 reality show Hogan Knows Best and is the co-host of American Gladiators on NBC....
was featured in the video "Cruisin'".

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Elephant Parts is a collection of Comical Videos/Music Videos made by Michael Nesmith

Michael Nesmith

Liquid Paper

WLUP

Chicago

Hulk Hogan

WLUP

WLUP is an album-oriented rock FM radio radio station serving the Chicago metropolitan area. It is owned by Emmis Communications. WLUP transmits its signal from an antenna located the top of the Sears Tower in downtown Chicago at a height of 1,390 feet with an effective radiated power of 4,000 watts....
's error, the video actually featured a wrestler named Steve Strong. "Crusin'" also featured a Monterey California based comic named 'Chicago' Steve Barkley.

There are various comedy sketches in between, notably "Elvis Drugs", "Neighborhood Nuclear Superiority", "The Tragically Hip" (which was the inspiration for the name

The Tragically Hip

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of the Canadian

Canada

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band), "Large Detroit Car Company", "Mariachi Translations", recurring comic blackouts that ended with the catchphrase "Just to prove a point!", and several series of bits with a lounge singer and a pirate, as well as a game show called "Name That Drug".

Throughout Elephant Parts, Nesmith regularly pokes fun of himself. He mocks his song, "Joanne" through the song, "Rodan

Rodan

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". He also pokes fun of his albums, Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma
Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma

Infinite Rider on the Big Dogma is Michael Nesmith's ninth post-Monkees studio album and the third studio album from his own company, Pacific Arts....
and Live At The Palais
Live At The Palais

Live at the Palais is a live album by United States singer-songwriter Michael Nesmith, released in 1978.The material covered on the album was primarily derived from the half-dozen albums Nesmith did on RCA Victor in the early 1970s....
.

Elephant Parts holds the distinct honor of winning the first Grammy

Grammy Award

The Grammy Awards ?or Grammys?are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry....
in the Music Video category.

DVD Release

When Elephant Parts was released on DVD

DVD

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in 1998, Nesmith recorded an esoteric commentary track which did not describe the content of the video. However, Nesmith re-recorded a commentary track which does describe the content and released the second version in 2003.

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