TV on the Radio Make Paul Reubens a Race Car Driver for 'Happy Idiot' Video — rollingstone.com

For "Happy Idiot," the first video from TV on the Radio's upcoming fifth album Seeds, the group has enlisted Paul Reubens as "Racer Steven" and Doctor Who actress Karen Gillan for what singer Tunde Adebimpe described as a "full-on geekfest in the desert." Directed by Danny Jelinek and written by comedian Jake Fogelnest, the "Happy Idiot" video, produced by Funny or Die, channels both the 1960s animated show "Speed Racer" and 1971 cult road movie Vanishing Point, as Reubens continually drives past an increasingly frantic Gillan while the band, dressed in white, remains the video's calming force. 

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