It’s impossible to scientifically measure something’s cultural influence, but in those days no movie pervaded the American mainstream as relentlessly. This was the power of Wayne’s World: cool enough to be quoted by the biggest rock star in the world, and universal enough for the whole world to get the joke. While wearing a shearling coat and a long blond wig, Cobain peeks out at the crowd of 50,000, turns back, takes a drag from a cigarette, inches very close to the camera, and then he says it: “Party on, Wayne.”Ĭomedy in the ’90s, Part 2: The Year Jim Carrey Arrived Director Brett Morgen’s documentary Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, however, opens with a clip of the frontman and those pre-show moments. What you don’t see in the official recording is the footage of Cobain before he and the rest of Nirvana come on. Dressed in a hospital gown as a sarcastic nod to media reports about his supposedly failing health, the wiseass lead singer used the microphone stand to pull himself up before belting out the first line of Bette Midler’s “The Rose.” Then, he staged a dramatic backward pratfall to the ground, where he stayed for a few seconds before standing up, grabbing his guitar, and launching into “Breed.” Leading up to Nirvana’s legendary set at the Reading Festival in southeast England, Kurt Cobain was pushed out onto the stage in a wheelchair. On August 30, 1992, the collision of two of the most dominant pop cultural forces of 1992 was captured in a single moment of grainy video. We start-where else?-in a basement in the suburbs of Chicago. Welcome to Part 1 of Comedy in the ’90s, a six-part series documenting this decade-defining boom in all of its sophomoric glory. What followed was a true golden age of Hollywood comedy that saw the arrival of megastars still with us today, a commercial explosion, and then, an eventual splintering that changed the genre forever. Nearly 30 years ago, a handful of smart people set out with one mission: To make some silly movies.
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