Talking Heads have appeared on the US game show Jeopardy!, and presented questions in their own category.
The episode of the long-running game show series aired last night (October 15), and saw the iconic band appear in part of the episode to present questions in a special Talking Heads category.
In the clip, shared by both the series and the band on social media, the four-piece are seen introducing themselves, before presenting the contestants with questions about their discography and their concert film Stop Making Sense.
It comes as the band recently celebrated 40 years of their concert film by sharing a re-release via A24. This was followed by a tribute album that arrived in May, and saw artists like The National, Miley Cyrus, Paramore and more deliver their own covers of the band’s most famous tracks.
“Among other things, we’re the stars of Stop Making Sense,” David Bryne said at the start of the clip, with Chris Frantz adding: “Acclaimed as the greatest concert film of all time”.
“Now that it’s getting a 40th-anniversary re-release,” Tina Weymouth continued, with Jerry Harrison saying: “We’ll have clues about the movie and our music.”
In the segment, the members are seen asking questions about their biggest hits – including ‘Psycho Killer’ and ‘Burning Down The House’ – as well as more general questions about who directed the Stop Making Sense film and which iconic New York club saw them play their first show.
As well as Stop Making Sense coming back into cinemas earlier this year and the remastered 4K version of the 1984 movie being shared, the iconic band also reunited at a special screening as part of the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival.
Since then, the members have opened up about the film’s creation in an interview on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in June, saying that they didn’t want it to be “too Spinal Tap“.
At one point in the interview, Talking Heads were asked whether they had approached director Jonathan Demme with any “notes” on how he should capture their performance on screen.
“Do you all go like, ‘Hey, here’s what we definitely don’t want to do’?” Fallon said. Weymouth responded: “Yeah. We did that.”
The bassist continued: “We said, ‘We don’t want all the gimmicks’. We wanted the cameras to be like a sensitive eye; the way an audience member would be seeing it, without the camera getting in the way and playing around.”
She went on to say that the group wanted “no split screen” and “no interviews” to be featured. “That would be too Spinal Tap,” Weymouth added, referring to the classic comedy rock mockumentary – which was released the same year as Stop Making Sense.
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