A Mighty Wind (3/10) Movie CLIP - Wha' Happened? (2003) HD

CLIP DESCRIPTION:
Mike (Fred Willard) recalls his short-lived career as a television personality and how he came to discover the Main Street Singers.

FILM DESCRIPTION:
The writing and directing team who created Waiting For Guffman and Best In Show turn their satiric eye toward the world of folk music in this sly mockumentary. Irving Steinbloom was one of the great behind-the-scenes figures of the folk music boom of the late '50s and early '60s, and helped to nurture the careers of three of the best known acts of the era. The Folksmen -- Mark Shubb (Harry Shearer), Alan Barrows (Christopher Guest), and Jerry Palter (Michael McKean) -- were an earnest folk trio who sang of America's noble past and the challenges of the future; they split up in the early '70s after a failed attempt to go electric. Mitch & Mickey were a duo in both music and life, comprised of Mitch Cohen (Eugene Levy) and Mickey Devlin (Catherine O'Hara). They sang soulful songs of love until the collapse of their relationship sent Mitch into a deep and incapacitating depression. And The Main Street Singers were a nine-piece vocal group -- a "neuftet," as they prefer it -- who offered energetic good-time music, cranking out nearly 30 albums in the course of a decade; their current incarnation, The New Main Street Singers (played by Jane Lynch, Parker Posey, John Michael Higgins, David Alan Blasucci, Steve Pandis, Christopher Moynihan, Paul Dooley and Patrick Sauber) is still on the road. When it is announced that the legendary Irving Steinbloom has died (the character never appears in the film), his son Jonathan (Bob Balaban) decides that the best way to memorialize his father is through music, and with the help of Mike LaFontaine (Fred Willard) of Hi-Class Management, they set out to bring The Folksmen, Mitch & Mickey, and The New Main Street Singers back together for a special concert at New York's Town Hall. Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer -- who previously teamed up for This Is Spinal Tap -- not only perform together as The Folksmen in A Mighty Wind, but composed most of the songs performed onscreen.

CREDITS:
TM & © Warner Bros. (2003)
Cast: Fred Willard
Director: Christopher Guest
Producers: Donna E. Bloom, Karen Murphy
Screenwriters: Christopher Guest, Eugene Levy

WHO ARE WE?
The MOVIECLIPS channel is the largest collection of licensed movie clips on the web. Here you will find unforgettable moments, scenes and lines from all your favorite films. Made by movie fans, for movie fans.

SUBSCRIBE TO OUR MOVIE CHANNELS:

HIT US UP:

[StefanieKechayas]

The tone change and line of "...But it only lasted a year and that's good because that's how you establish a cult." When I first saw it I laughed so hard, and it still gets me EVERY time. RIP King

[rushguy]

Every time Fred Willard opens his mouth in this movie, gold spills out.

[csanadignat]

I asked my grandfather and can confirm that the phrase 'I don't think so" didn't exist before 197smthnahem

[antonioortiz]

Hysterical. How could "I got a real red wagon" in any conceivable way be a catch phrase? How could that come up even once? A "real" red wagon! It's so hysterical!

[TotalSinging]

to think that all this is 100% improvised. nothing scripted. genius.

[dmreeoogdaq]

Fred Willard = pure genius.

He could have gone on and on and on and it would have never stopped being funny.

[drpero]

"Hey, Wha' Happened!" No better words for an epitaph. RIP Fred Willard.

[RHM]

"Back in 197hmmhmhmhm I started…"

[crescentfreshbret]

I remember when I saw this in the theater- everyone cheered when this scene started. They’d obviously all seen his performance in Best In Show and knew that what they were about to see was gonna be gold.

[latvguy]

I've seen this a hundred times, but I just paused on the Variety page for the first time. "After a dismal four episodes, 'Wha' Happened' has been yanked from the airwaves and judging by it's pathetic numbers, it won't be missed". Knowing the show only had 4 episodes makes this even better.

[hawaiidispenser]

"due to TOTAL lack of interest" LMAO!!

[joeharris]

"To see if indeed there's a reflection" is briliant

[jackobora]

"To see in fact if there's a reflection" is a joke that moves by so fast that I didn't catch it for years.

[teddydurgin]

Is it wrong "Wha' happened?!" was my first response upon learning of his death? R.I.P.

[msnpassjan]

"But is only lasted a year but that's OK because that's how you establish a cult" love his one liners.

[IanSane]

The best part of this is that the character is supposed to be a failed comedian.  So Fred Willard can ad-lib the lamest jokes and it all fits.  This is like the lowest pressure comedy - the more you bomb, the better the bit.

[pheenmachine]

"You don't want to be on a cruise ship when dysentery breaks out" absolutely hilarious

[YouTube-tied]

One of the only people I've ever seen in my 54 years that would automatically make you smile upon hearing his name or seeing his name in the opening credits for a movie or tv show. He was always funny. RIP Sir, you brought us joy.

[AdamG]

"Dysentary broke out on the ship a couple of times" LOL

[CSMuffin]

Wha' happened is one of the funniest comedians ever just passed away. Thanks for the laughs Fred. R.I.P.