our next guest sucks
he is the uh the creator and then the voice of both uh beavis and butthead
uh it's a show which newsweek magazine uh late in the summer
called part of a billion-dollar battle to insult your intelligence cool
ladies and gentlemen say hello to mike judge right nice to see you have a seat mike
wow this now this phenomenon of beavis and butthead is really quite something isn't it
and i think the question everybody wants to know first of all people who watch the show all agree
yeah i i know guys like that i i see guys like that maybe i'm a little like that where
where did they come from well they aren't based on any uh particular people it's just sort of
my general impression i guess of you know 14 year old that's a little discouraging isn't it
well it's a little exaggerated i guess yeah and these uh anybody uh any personality
characteristics of uh friends or neighbors or there's different like when i was uh in college
uh we had a bunch of us shared a we had roommates in a house and there was a a kid next door that um
used to call himself iron butt and he had uh why did he call himself iron butt
well he did this thing where he would demonstrate how he could uh he'd
stand in this position and all the kids could kick him in the butt as hard as they wanted it
and it wouldn't hurt so i'd like to see the japanese beat us at that ladies and gentlemen
this is the greatest country in the world iron butt yeah so there that became what he was sort
of well so i mean i started out trying to draw a kid i went to high school with and it didn't look
like him but it it ended up looking like what what is now butt head and then i drew i drew beavis
sort of as a companion now my observation is that beavis butt head maybe have just a little sense
just a little bit but it has maybe just a little bit of common sense and beavis is nothing yeah
beavis is just like gum stuck to butt head shoes that's that's pretty much the way i see it and
part of the show on mtv is these two guys sit on their couch and do very little other than watch tv
and talk about the the videos on mtv and a lot of it is very unflattering now do you do
you hear from the bands that these guys talk about um i don't personally i've i've heard
a couple bands their management has called and said you know it's not very nice but
it's kind of uh you know it's it shouldn't be taken seriously as a musical criticism which for
sometimes it is but um there was a i was actually at a concert and one of the bands that we really
ragged on is banned grim reaper i mean i had this video that was this isn't just my opinion i mean
this thing was really bad i was like spinal tap or something and uh so beavis and butthead were
just really going off on it and i was at this concert and uh this guy comes up to me i was in a
little backstage or whatever area guy comes up and says uh mike judge this is nick uh something from
guitar player from grim reaper and uh he's a big guy and and i the first thing that just came out
of my mouth was i'm sorry yeah and uh and he said he said oh no michael i love the show when i saw
that video come on there i said you know if they say this is cool i'll never respect the show again
we got another video it's even worse i'll send it to you
so uh could you it'll be the next season could you do and i don't know if this is
even fair to ask you but i know since you do both voices and it's your creation can
you do for us a conversation between the two is there anything that oh yeah
okay um i don't know about a conversation i can do
well yeah i'm not sure these guys ever have an actual conversation but it is kind of like uh
though cool and bieber's just gonna yeah yeah there you go wow that's what i do
you know anybody can do it no no offense mike but i could have done that
but i thought well that's true
and you now you're you've gone multimedia you you have entered the the music business yourself
you've done a cd beavis and butt head singing with a lot of stars with one or two stars we've
got um there's one song where where butt head does sort of a barry white style love song oh
great talking it through and then we have a uh a duet or trio actually with cher and beavis
and butthead doing that to me that seems like an unlikely combination cher and beavis and
butthead would they normally be drawn to share what they like would bevis and butthead like her
um yeah i guess so you know she she kind of doesn't wear a lot in some of her videos like the
end of that and that's all it takes i guess but uh yeah um i guess we were in a meeting talking about
people to be on the album and and cher's name came up and you know and immediately i just thought
cher do and i got you babe with butthead and uh it sounded funny i was real nervous about actually
trying to pull it off but i think it came out pretty good oh good good and she sure doesn't like
she doesn't like beavis but she likes butt head a lot she the woman has great powers of
discernment oh yeah yeah she uh uh i i like it i've been watching it for about six months and
i like it because it's so consistent it's so pure to itself it's just wild idiot behavior
there's something very very satisfying about that i think you do a very nice job with it
well thank you and we have i understand something that you have done for us
clip why don't we go ahead and play it okay here we go take a
look at this folks uh beavis and butthead mike judge the creator
so like uh say hello to our good friend beavis yeah yeah that would be nice
so like this is our uh top 10 list from our home office in butt montana
mike it's a pleasure to meet you thank you very much for being here continued
success with beavis and butthead have a great holiday mike judge kids
you