In a new interview, Mike Judge talks about the return of his show “Beavis and Butt-Head,” how tedious jobs influenced his comedy, and the importance of creating art without waiting for permission.
”) have formed their own production company, Bandera Entertainment, with more than a dozen shows already in development. He’s also reunited with some old friends. In June, Paramount+ aired “Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe,” the animated pair’s first movie feature since 1996, and their first appearance onscreen since 2011. And, on Thursday, “Beavis and Butt-Head” returned to TV, where there will be two new seasons, also on Paramount+, featuring the duo in both youth and middle age.
Yeah. It had disappeared for a while. I think for a lot of us—the old folks—there was a time when we were kids, in the seventies or eighties, and the Three Stooges would come on late at night on some weird channel, and it just seemed amazing. I’m a huge Three Stooges fan. It’s interesting to me that when film first had sound, it didn’t take long for people to realize that possibly the best use of that technology was just somebody smacking another person in the head.
That’s kind of how I started. I made my own short films, transferred them to VHS, just sent them around to people, and got them in festivals.Well, I had been a full-time musician for a few years when I started animating, and I was tired of touring. I didn’t want to travel all the time, so my plan was to become a math teacher at a community college. I was going to the University of Texas at Dallas, part time, taking classes toward a master’s in math.
I remember there was a book I grabbed at a bookstore a long time ago, “Ernest Hemingway on Writing,” and I expected him to be, like, “You’ve got to suffer,” and this and that. But one thing that stood out was something he wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life—and one is as good as the other.” I think that’s a pretty honest thing for him to admit.
It’s hard to describe, but there’s something there. Butt-Head is this ugly guy who has confidence that he shouldn’t have. Beavis is crazy. They’re both stupid. They’re usually very positive. They’re fairly optimistic characters, I guess, no matter how bad things go. They’re also not out to hurt anybody. There’s something liberating about watching characters that just don’t care much about what happens. Their relationship kind of works. Beavis is insane. Butt-Head is the only friend he can get. Butt-Head abuses Beavis just enough, as much as he can get away with. And it all kind of balances out.Growing up in Albuquerque, it was amazing, the lack of supervision. As a kid, I lived out on the edge of town.
And then, when I finally did it, I thought, Oh, my God, I can hardly wait to get out of this building. The first office job I had, before I graduated college, was alphabetizing purchase orders. I’d get home and be alphabetizing in my sleep. Dreaming about alphabetizing. It was bad news.I actually like living in the suburbs. One of the big influences for me was Harvey Pekar and his comic books. Pekar said that everyday life has a huge effect on people.
And the next day some car spun its tires and gouged a big old hole right on that corner. I went out there, and he’s standing there looking down at the grass. And I guess he got the city or someone to place a little piece of concrete on that corner of his lawn. I remember thinking, I bet this is as interesting as anything that happens in New York. I loved it. It just made me laugh. Like, they didn’t patch his whole lawn, they just patched the one part that he put spiked sticks in.
Not long ago, I did a thing for the band Portugal. The Man. It was Beavis and Butt-Head introducing them at Coachella. I hadn’t done the voices in so long, and I didn’t know if they would sound right. I did it and listened to it and thought, This is pretty fun, it sounds like Beavis and Butt-Head. And then when Paramount reached out about doing all this again I figured, Why not? My voice will start to sound weird after a while, so I should give it one last try.
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