The Residents Mole Show Riverside Interview With Penn Jillette

Video cassette recording of a piece from BBC programme 'Riverside' on The Residents to publicise the Mole Show tour. I think it was 1983, though not 100% sure. Riverside was a 30-minute music programme that ran on the BBC from 1982-1983, often with remarkably dumb questions in the interviews. Good to see Penn Jillette looking so young.

[@HighPeerAeon]

Penn: "I am allowed pretty much a personal opinion..."
*green eye shaking his head no*

[@Atma505]

Penn Jillette was a perfect frontman for the Residents, it's great to see him come out in front of what many might consider a very intricate and self-absorbed performance, and explain the backstory in a minute or less, opening it up to everybody right off the bat.
I wonder if the motel anecdote (3:21) is all true, "I hated it... it was very foreign to me, and after a week of being in that room, I began to like it..." Hahaha, I love it!

[@alexjohnson9798]

Penn Jillette seems to be involved in every counterculture thing

[@kraftyhandz]

Some of the best art to ever grace this earth

[@konami1979]

Penn looks and sounds so young in this video.

[@-Ricky_Spanish-]

The shoulder pat is GOLD.

[@terrypussypower]

I have that tape of Penn Jillette in the hotel room with the Residents records. It's just as weird as you would imagine.

[@chrisbodum3621]

I have reacquainted myself with the Residents over the last 3 or 4 weeks and looked through everything that I can find; virtually every track ever released to live performances, documentaries, films and reviews as well as cover versions -well over 5000 uploads, just on youtube. Similar immersion, except I have known about the residents from the mid 70s and I am not locked in !

[@terrypussypower]

Chris Bodum What's that one called, the one with Pen Jillette in the hotel room, I have a cassette of it somewhere that I got from Ralph Records back in the early 80's but damned if I can find it and I can't remember what it was called.

[@terrypussypower]

Chris Bodum It was called "The 10th Anniversary Radio Special".

[@bcx1138]

terrypussypower would u share?

[@JonasMigas]

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[@variache]

I love how he just talks about it as the band members just observe random objects silently

[@DA-dw5zn]

I put a pen drawing of the Residents stood behind a mole in my art exam display at school. The teacher didn't rate it but I did. I wish I'd seen the Mole Show but I got the pic disc & Intermission.

[@Anophis]

Been a big fan since childhood and this is still one of my favourite videos of em. I have the 'Eyes Scream' documentary on VHS. Great stuff - You see how playful and inquisitive they can be! So much emotion in their actions, even behind masks!

[@erndogee]

The song @the beginning is "the new hyme " and the year was 1982. I caught the mole show in LA on Halloween nite.

[@fratermanix]

amazing unique music/cabaret in surreal mode at its best, reminiscent of different eras and with dark undercurrents of mystery.

[@Atma505]

oh, sweet, the recordings are here on YT, too
this is excellent, thank you

[@terrypussypower]

I saw The Residents Mole Show in 1984 in Edinburgh, and my mate Andy gave Penn a swig of his 10 year old malt whisky , on stage! The Residents themselves wouldn't imbibe.

[@kirbyculp3449]

Very nice. I saw them in Munich. They were screened with netting. One of the lady dancers was very cute, even in costume.

[@walwilliams5534]

It was '83/'84. Saw them at The Hollywood Palladium. "Everybody in the whole cell block... were dancing to The Jailhouse Rock".

[@scottconnors8419]

Glad I got to see them few times 1st was this Moleshow 80" I think it was,last time was wormwood shows 99"😢

[@diskochimp]

Thanks... I saw this on TV as a kid & have wondered about it ever since! :)

[@gogoyubari366]

I saw the Mole Show with Penn and Teller hosting.

[@slnd666]

the ralph records 30th anniversary recording was pretty surreal. he went from indifferent to loathing to being their self-rpoclaimed number one fan haha

[@LarzGustafsson]

Quite unique.

[@meatlejuice]

Ahaha Blue-Eye patting Penn on the shoulder is great

[@BGNOLA]

"Are any of them gay?" Yes, behind the eyeball masks they're the Village People.

[@nicolasmrn]

Hundred of years ahead of their time.

[@udomatthiasdrums5322]

still love it!

[@alanboro]

Go to 3:14 and pause....
and tell me if Im wrong... but.... Penn looks like eddie vedder from pearl jam!

[@floresmaya4563]

5:02 yes!

[@rob-profoundlydapper1619]

this was hilarious XD

[@willmadzier2484]

Is that a face inside at 4:40?

[@quitpayload]

What was the song at the very beginning of the video?

[@slnd666]

i meant 10th anniversary oh no

[@ODSTALCAPWNED]

Insane Clown Posse

[@comradeScallion]

are you still alive?

[@mickenassjo]

Ain't Randy their frontman?

[@arcrs40]

yesssssssssssssss

[@petermaxwell2965]

Big mouth ..they should write a song about Penn !

[@Ramblin-Man]

Stupid questions. It's been well known since the mid 80s (at least) that they never were a foursome.

[@LFrench]

This is from the early 80s

[@MrMultihp22]

ke$ha

[@operationd--msday]

are you still alive?

[@AdmiralSloth]

@@operationd--msday lol

[@jessebowman7678]

skrillex

[@nievesofficial]

Jesse Bowman No

[@comradeScallion]

are you still alive?