![]() ![]() ![]() I’m unsure why I find this strange at this point, but I do.Īnyway, here’s a video with Bette Midler and both Kipper Kids from that period. Turns out they had bit parts in UHF and the Oingo Boingo movie “Forbidden Planet”.įor some reason, it took me a decade to look these guys up on Wikipedia, and it turns out that one of them has been married to Bette Midler since 1984. They seemed really familar to me, and they were. Harry and Harry Kipper, if you’ve never heard of them, are for all practical purposes the unholy identical twins of Pere Ubu and Popeye. Kippers”, my first introduction to the Kipper Kids – Harry and Harry Kipper. It turned out to be a great score, a collage of Dangerous Brothers Episodes, Liquid Television stuff, footage of him humping his girlfriend, The Butthole Surfers Movie, an awesome film about lesbian persecution in the 50s, scratchy animation set to authentic alien abduction confessions, and “K.O. UHF Kipper Kids - YouTube 0:00 / 0:26 UHF Kipper Kids sloneramone 412 subscribers 21K views 5 years ago A loop of the Kipper Kids performance on the UHF telethon. You either already know what I’m talking about, or have this to look forward to, some booze-and-lulz sodden 3AM. The tape with the graffiti scrawl on it that says “Smells Like Butterscotch, Yo!”. They also starred in the 1990 comedy film The Spirit of '76.Anyone who partied with me since 1998 has been forced to watch this strange VHS tape I scored from a drifter junkie punk rock friend (along with some great Dallas punk EPs, Policy FTW!) for about $20. The Kipper Kids also performed a song in the 1991 comedy film The Addams Family - "Playmates" which can be heard in the film and on its soundtrack. First aired on Valentine's Day, 1989, "I See England, I See France, I See Maddie's Netherworld" featured The Kipper Kids as a pair of gravediggers in a surreal dream sequence, along with leading cast members Cybill Shepherd and Bruce Willis. Another television appearance came during the fifth season of ABC's Moonlighting. They also were seen as characters in the 1980 film Forbidden Zone and the 1989 film UHF. Von Haselberg made a number of films at American Film Institute with Routh in the lead role: Quiet Lives (1991), People Are No Damn Good (1991) and Your Turn To Roll It #54 (1992). Kippers, while the Kids also appeared in a 1982 project for HBO executive produced by von Haselberg, The Mondo Beyondo Show, a one-off variety show of sorts for performance artists (including a pre-Stomp Yes/No People, La La La Human Steps, Bill Irwin, Paul Zaloom and others) hosted by Bette Midler's Mondo Beyondo character. For HBO they produced Mum's Magic Mulch, and for Cinemax, K.O. The Kipper Kids made two projects for television. Japanese rituals, English music hall, Viennese Actionism, and the work of Samuel Beckett were amongst their influences. Examples are "Tea Ceremony" (1972) a Japanese tea ceremony-inspired piece and "Boxing Ceremony" (1972) in which one performer beats himself until bloodied whilst the other acts as referee. Routh and von Haselberg created elaborate but purposely low-tech installations in which they would perform "ceremonies" using mostly found objects. Quoting from an announcement for the Berkeley Art Museum: "Through actions that at times stress the visual, and the violent aspects of social rituals, the British Team of Harry and Harry Kipper perform in a fashion that combines the zany theatrics of Spike Milligan with a scatological slapstick that is all their own". von Haselberg has been married to Bette Midler since 1984. Photo of performance artists the Kipper Kids, as they pose with their hands down their trousers, New York, New York, 1980. ![]() Routh married digital artist, Patricia Wells in 2012. From 1981–87 he was married to performance artist Karen Finley. Routh was married to net.art pioneer Nina Sobell from 1975-1981. In 1982 they stopped actively collaborating, performing as The Kipper Kids only occasionally. Most of their performance work, however, took place in Europe. He is known for his performance work with Martin von Haselberg as one of The Kipper Kids. Despite having studiously avoided being part of a movement, they found themselves associated with the early years of punk in Los Angeles. Brian Routh is a performance/sound artist from the United Kingdom. In 1974 David Ross, later director of the Whitney Museum of Art and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, saw them in performance at Gallerie Rudolf Zwirner in Cologne and invited them to do some shows in California. Upon being expelled for being "too experimental" they took to the road, touring constantly. After months of improvisation they invented a character they called Harry Kipper and began experimenting with different theatrical formats to use him in. They met in 1970 at East 15 Acting School. Martin von Haselberg and Brian Routh are a performance duo. ![]()
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