NR, 7 min.
Director/Writer: Fred
Armisen
Starring: Fred Armisen, Paul
Simonon, Mick Jones
Last week I reviewed a new
short mockumentary featuring Fred Armisen reprising his fake punk rocker Ian
Rubbish from Saturday Night Live. The film, titled “The Sexiest Elbows in Rock”,
featured the frontman from the band Split as the owner of the titular body
parts. It’s a fun send up of the rockumentary format with many real rockers
participating for authenticity. “The Clash: The Last Gang in Town” is another
fake rock documentary by Armisen in which his Ian Rubbish interviews two of the
members of the iconic punk band The Clash. It’s been nominated for a Webby
Award.
The 7-minute documentary is
really less of a tribute to The Clash than it is an opportunity for Rubbish to
further exemplify his ineptitude as a punk rocker. Paul Simonon and Mick Jones
are good sports and go along with the joke. Rubbish claims that his band’s
motto was generally to agree with anything thing The Clash said. He shows how
every Ian Rubbish & The Bizzaros album cover were just recreations of The
Clash album covers. His funniest bit involves an album he was so excited about
that the band forgot to record any of the music.
In terms of the Ian Rubbish
persona, this short is probably the best of the lot. Armisen really dives into
the Rubbish persona on this one, nailing both the referential jokes and the
nuances of the punk persona and the British accent. I could watch a television
series where Rubbish interviews all kinds of celebrities. I could see every
episode involving how Rubbish based every aspect of his own celebrity off
whatever his current guest is famous for. It would be bloody brilliant.
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