Kevin Murphy
Kevin Murphy has cultivated the act of talking back to the movies into an art form and a career. For ten years Kevin co-wrote and directed the Peabody Award-winning series Mystery Science Theater 3000, and starred as the plucky red robot Tom Servo. Classic episodes of MST3K, as its legion of fans call it, continue to be huge sellers on Shout! Factory DVDs and streaming on Netflix.
In 2002 Kevin created the ultimate movie-lover's marathon by going to movie theaters around the globe every single day for a year, chronicling the event in the bestselling book A Year at the Movies: One Man's Filmgoing Odyssey. Covering Kevin's movie-watching adventures in over a hundred cities in ten countries on three continents, the book became a top 100 seller on Amazon and won national critical praise. Time's Richard Corliss called the book "brimful of intelligent passion about films and filmgoing" while The Onion AV Club described it as "Lively, entertaining, diverse, sometimes fascinating, and deeply telling." Publishers Weekly declared Kevin "a highbrow man of the people."
With his RiffTrax partners Mike Nelson and Bill Corbett, Kevin continues the MST tradition by riffing on all manner of film, from old cheesy genre films to today's biggest blockbusters. Musically inspired by the movies they've skewered, Kevin also produced The RiffTones' first album, "Music for Riffing."
Kevin's movie commentaries have been a regular feature on National Public Radio's Weekend Edition Sunday, and his eye for bad film earned him the "Bottom Shelf" column for Total Movie Magazine. Kevin lives and works in Minnesota but continues to travel the world, watching movies everywhere he goes.
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Hey Kevin (aka Tom Servo),
If you are reading this, do you ever consider riffing more animated videos? Here are some ideas for RiffTrax!
Note: That I am not sure if this is the right place to suggest movies to riff.
Animated Tv Shows, Specials and Movies
-My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (S1E01): Friendship is Magic, Part 1 (Along with Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) (Categorized in RiffTrax Shorts) (22 Minutes) (as a vod and/or commentary)
-My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (S1E02): Friendship is Magic, Part 2 (Along with Bill Corbett and Kevin Murphy) (Categorized in RiffTrax Shorts) (22 Minutes) (as a vod and/or commentary)
-Santa Clause is Comin' to Town (similar to how Mike Nelsonriffed Nestor the Long Eared Donkey, another Rankin-Bass Christmas TV Special) (Along with you and Bill Corbett)
-Disney's Aladdin (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Hayo Miyazaki's Spirited Away (Either be Mike Nelson and Weird Al Yankovic, or you with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Some Episodes of Star Wars: the Clone Wars (Categorized in RiffTrax Shorts) (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Star Wars: the Clone Wars Movie (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson and also Chad Vader [Matt Sloan])
-Toy Story 3 (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Disney's Atlantis the Lost Empire (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Disney's Treasure Planet (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Disney's Home on the Ranger (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Tangled (Along with Bill Corbett, Mike Nelson, and Weird Al Yankovic)
-Beauty and the Beast (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson, and/or Bridget Nelson)
For Live Action Movies:
-The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Tron Legacy (Along with Paul and Storm, Jonathan Coulton, Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Captain America: the First Avenger (Comes out on Blu Ray and DVD on October 25th, 2011) (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Thor (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson) (To be released on Blu Ray and DVD onSeptember 13th, 2011)
-Cowboys and Aliens (it got mixed reviews after all) (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-Aliens (the Second Movie in the Alien Series) (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-The other two Indiana Jones movies, Temple of Doom and Last Crusade (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-The last three Harry Potter Movies, Half Blood Prince, and Deathly Hollows parts I and II (each are seperate) (Along with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson)
-The Lost World: Jurassic Park (with Matthew J. Elliott [who riffed Jurassic Park III], Weird Al Yankovic [Jurassic Park along with Mike Nelson] and Mike Nelson)
I enjoy your RiffTrax commentaries that you do with Bill Corbett and Mike Nelson! Keep up the good work!
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I just thought of something great that i'm sure you, Mike, and Bill would really like!! It involves Netflix and the xbox-360. Xbox-360 has the ability to stream Netflix movies and shows that you can watch instantly (which there are an enormous amount of movies and shows to watch instantly). The thing that is great about it is that before you start to watch a movie or show, you can start what is called a "Party" in which you can invite up to a full theaters worth of your friends (even non-friends) on xbox-live. And as long as you have a microphone you can all talk to eachother while watching the movie or show. When i realized this i thought "Gee, i bet the guys from MST3K would love this b/c they could riff on movies and/or shows, LIVE, with fans that love to hear them!!" So yeah, i just thought you might like to know that, b/c it would mean the world to me to be in the same party as you guys listening to what you do best while watching the movie you tear apart!! (P.S. long time fan. I been watching MST3K since i was 4 years old).
Are you & Bill going to do any more "Rifftrax Presents"? Some of us really miss your riff treatments of R-rated horror films!
Was in Portland OR for House on Haunted Hill. Great job as usual guys! I'll always look at pudding cups and paper bags with more suspician in the future.
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Kevin, you and all the others at MST3k shaped me as who I am today, a completely messed up and confusing human being. I'm not complaining, though! It's a funny kind of messed up. I have a great sense of humor thanks to MST, and I enjoy RiffTrax, even though I have only seen Plan 9 when you did a live feed. Keep it up, all of you!
EDIT: I have now bought over a dozen RiffTraxes (RiffTraxen? Rifftrax? Rifftraxi?) and my ribs now permanently hurt from laughing so hard. Again, thank you
I Have To Say, Best Brains Inc. Made the best decision when they made you Servo.
Josh's voice always gave me a slight headache when I heard it
Tom/Kevin is my favorite character. I've watched every MST3k including the first season 0. Thanks a ton for all your great work and it's so awesome that you're continuing to create new movies.
Thanks for "Plan 9", I hope to see more live shows! It was too much!
My friends and I, who cite late-night MST3K marathons as the bedrock of our friendship, convened in Jackson, MS to watch a broadcast of the Plan 9 Riff. Most fun I've had in a movie theatre ever. Proud to say that I was voted the Tom Servo of my circle of friends.
I'm glad you guys are making the internet work for you in the "post-mystery science" world.
I LOVE RIFFTRAX AND LOVE MST3K KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK !!!!!!!!!!
For real! Kevin is the MAN!
How could no one post a comment in the profile of the great Tom Servo!? You were the greatest part of Mystery Science Theater 3000, hands down!