Official trailer for The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture.

Unbelievable true stories from celebrity culture, retold through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

Discover the bizarre real events behind music legends, movie stars and pop culture icons, including Michael Jackson, Prince, Pink Floyd, Ozzy Osbourne, Madonna, Billy Idol, Keith Moon, Leonardo DiCaprio, Elton John, Milli Vanilli and more.

Every episode explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions.

Real events. Reimagined with humour.

The true stories cameras never captured.

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Pink Floyd wanted one perfect photograph for the cover of Animals.

Instead, they lost a forty-foot inflatable pig, disrupted British airspace, called in a marksman, and eventually discovered that reality refused to cooperate.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind one of rock music’s most iconic album covers, where three days of bad weather, unexpected chaos and analogue photo manipulation transformed a production disaster into music history.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 Pilot Pig
00:28 Who’s Algie?
00:56 Calling The Marksman
01:28 Old Production Reel
02:03 Day 1 (Bad Weather)
02:58 Day 2 (Clear To Go)
03:54 Algie Scares British Airways
05:01 Military Gets Involved
05:23 Algie’s Descent Into The Countryside
06:00 Day 3 (Let’s Try It Again)
06:26 Still Not Happy (And The Solution)
06:49 Support C3 Comedy (Buy Me A Coffee)

In 1982, Ozzy Osbourne bit the head off a bat during a live concert and created one of the most infamous moments in rock history.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind the incident that blurred the line between myth and reality, from Ozzy’s growing reputation for chaos and excess to the unexpected hospital trip that followed.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 A Special Kind Of Man
00:25 On The Bus
00:56 The Past Reminds Us
01:09 Fans Get What They Want
01:42 The Ants Incident
02:33 Bat Meets Man
04:34 Advertisement “One”
05:02 The Bite
05:50 Arrival At The Hospital
06:24 Advertisement “Two”

Keith Moon drove a car into a hotel swimming pool.

During a chaotic birthday celebration, the drummer of The Who left a trail of destruction that became part of rock-and-roll legend.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind the infamous hotel pool incident and the extraordinary mayhem surrounding one of rock music’s most unpredictable stars.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 Meet Keith Moon
00:35 A Town That Didn’t Deserve This
01:19 Hotels as Playground and Stage
02:25 The Pool Incident
04:40 Aftermath and Public Amusement
05:30 Chaos Becomes the Story
06:51 The Aftermath

Michael Jackson built one of celebrity culture’s strangest worlds.

Then there was Bubbles, the chimpanzee who accidentally became one of celebrity culture’s most unusual eyewitnesses.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind Michael Jackson’s extraordinary relationship with Bubbles, from private jets and media spectacle to exile and neglect, revealing how celebrity culture drifted further and further away from ordinary life.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 The Dream
00:27 Sanctuary: Kids Arrive
01:39 Acquisition
02:16 Sanctuary: Question Time 1
02:31 A Mirror Of Michael
02:59 Sanctuary: Question Time 2
03:12 Neverland
03:42 On The Move
04:54 Growing Larger
05:35 Sanctuary: Question Time 3
05:44 Removal
06:07 A New Beginning
06:41 Sanctuary: Question Time 4 And End

Madonna didn’t just release an album in 1992.

With her book SEX, she sparked one of the biggest celebrity controversies of 1992.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind the backlash that followed, as retailers refused to stock it, commentators condemned it, and millions of people bought it anyway.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 The Detonation
01:05 Retailers in Retreat
02:20 The Moral Outrage Loop
03:45 Manufacturing Hysteria
04:50 The Inevitable Sequel

Billy Idol was removed from a Bangkok hotel by military police after three weeks of chaos.

What began as a celebrity stay escalated into injuries, property damage and a situation that became increasingly difficult to control.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind one of rock music’s strangest hotel disasters, where excess, bad decisions and escalating chaos turned a luxury hotel into the setting for an unforgettable celebrity incident.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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00:00 Travel Decisions
00:25 The Calm Before The Storm
00:56 The Party Starts
01:33 Complaints Come In
02:22 The Stress Level Rises
02:42 Hotel Countermeasures Start
03:13 Authorities Are Called
04:01 Neutralise Target

Milli Vanilli didn’t just lip-sync.

They became one of the biggest acts in pop music while performing songs they hadn’t actually recorded.

Discover the unbelievable true story behind the infamous live performance where a repeating playback track exposed the secret and triggered one of the biggest scandals in music history.

Every episode of The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture explores the strange consequences of fame, money, ego and spectacularly bad decisions through cinematic comedy, satire and absurdity.

The true stories cameras never captured.

Based on true stories.

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Series: The Absurd History of Celebrity Culture

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00:00 Two Guys, No Plan
00:14 Fame Without Work
00:54 The Perfect Lie
02:00 You Will Not Sing
02:20 Success Without Voices
02:57 The Album Without Them
03:34 The Threat
03:53 The Lie Becomes Routine
04:12 MTV Goes Live
04:37 The Glitch
05:03 Complete Chaos
05:25 The Aftermath