Dave Mustaine jokes about Kurt Cobain's death (1995)

During an italian TV show the interviewer asks Dave Mustaine frontman of Megadeth to say something about the recent death of Kurt Cobain

[zzzhuh]

David Ellefson's face at the end. Its like the kid in school who said the joke, and the other trying not to laugh while the teacher is in a lesson.

[megazazzy]

Funny thing is this is a very Kurt-like joke to have made.

[TheTrooper]

I like how Ellefson is searching for Mustaine's sight and when he finds it they both start laughing

[christophermaclean]

Hetfield and Mustaine had to fun jokes about Cobain. Cobain’s addictions and demise reflected back to both men what they hated most about themselves.

[PassTheCemeteryGates]

"Wow I'm Dave Mustaine look at how much I don't care. I'm too cool to care about anything"

[billywiththebulgingbaloonb]

Dave was so done even before she asked the question

[phantom.wreath]

Even as a Nirvana fan, I literally laughed out loud. Morbid joke, but terribly funny.

Kurt was a sensitive soul, but Dave shouldn't be asked questions about someone he literally has no connection to.

[Henriquewahwah]

0:38 Mustaine and Ellefson looking at each other and laughing

[IkinBBfromAnthologyOfTheKiller]

love how in most other band fandoms they'd have called that disrespectful and all but here i just see most people going like "meh ok i think Kurt would have found that funny" and then go on with their life

[VolvoImpala]

Mustaine and Ellefson going Wayne's World after his joke. NICE!

[dawson]

The fact that Ellefson’s the only one there that got the joke makes this 10x funnier

[sinistermoon]

Dave wasn’t there to talk about Kurt, so I can’t say I blame him for not having anything to say about him. His joke was funny, and I think even Kurt would have laughed at the joke had it been about someone else that *allegedly* blew their brains out.

[msdawnga]

0:36 look at David Eleffson's expression, only him got Mustaine's joke, 😂

[ztterenkoy]

I don't think Dave was mocking Kurt's death. He was more like "what does that have to do with me?"

[alexandrebelloni]

Did he said "he was a good aim?"

[akaiicharrr]

Dave and JR really looks like kids giggling in interview at the school ngl

[trashbagLasagna]

Being a dick was always Dave’s thing . He’s pretty good at it

[elvisleeboy]

I like Kurt Cobain immensely, but this is exactly how such inane questions should be answered. At least it is less phoney and contrived than performative sadness.

[Max-Headroom-]

At 0:03 Dave's facial expression seems like he's thinking "Why is she bringing up Kurt Cobain For"? Moving on to 0:13 his body language implies that he is getting impatient. That is probably why he made the facetious remark.

[TheReflecter]

All these metal musicians making fun of grunge musicians dying when they ended up going to rehab themselves.