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Small, very-specifically Canadian BNL trivia: MuchMusic - the MTV of Canada - used to have a videobooth on the corner of their building (called "Speakers Corner") where you could put a dollar or whatever into it and give a short rant/performance/video request/joke that they would show on air or between ads. I'm sure they had to filter out a lot of crazy people and bad requests and terrible things just to scrape half an hour-ish of programming a week, but it was kind of punk-rock/indie/grungy cool for the time. Barenaked Ladies crammed into the booth and performed, and it was a massive success for them: kind of a viral video before the internet. After that, every band/stand up comedian on the planet would shove themselves into Speakers Corner and try to hawk their show or album. MuchMusic even began holding special performances by established acts in the booth as a sort of "acoustic set" thing. It's kind of amazing how the personality and enthusiasm of those early songs still shines through to this day: Here's a clip of their performance which starts at 0:22. Old man rant time: MuchMusic moved towards a more celebrity-based, reality-TV kind of thing in the 2000s, and they removed the street level set up of Speakers Corner, taking it specifically to industry events/exclusive backstage parties where Will Ferrell etc. could annoyingly riff. That sort of thing didn't have the same DIY Canadian charm as a Wayne's World-era Mike Myers swinging by randomly and being cute.
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