Sadly No, Kanye Hasn’t Made Aziz Ansari’s Film Clip The Official Video For ‘Famous’
THIS IS AN OUTRAGE.
I’m sorry to do this to you. I would like to believe that ridiculous ideas always pay off and you should do stupid shit on the internet more often, but some success stories are too good to be true. Kanye West has not announced that Aziz Ansari and Eric Wareheim’s inspired viral fan video of them bopping around Rome and guzzling pasta is the official video clip for ‘Famous’. Though dozens of outlets have reported the news as fact over the past 24 hours, Kanye’s publicist has just confirmed to Vulture they’re not true.
Eric Wareheim is trolling us all.
It's OFFICIAL. @kanyewest's Famous: https://t.co/ENAhTNuqT2 @azizansari
— eric wareheim (@ericwareheim) April 18, 2016
The hope has been building on this one for a couple of weeks since the comedian pulled the original clip from Vimeo and re-posted on YouTube under the title “Kanye West – ‘Famous’ (Unofficial Official Video)”. This then ramped up overnight when a representative from Wareheim’s comedy collective JASH told Consequence of Sound that Kanye really is on board. “[He’s] agreed to have it be the official music video for the song,” they said (with suspiciously little outside confirmation from Kanye himself).
Told ya https://t.co/1l88dBEnog
— eric wareheim (@ericwareheim) April 28, 2016
Considering Wareheim founded JASH with professional piss-takers Michael Cera, Tim Heidecker, Sarah Silverman and Reggie Watts, there were probably a few warning signs along the way. But, at the very least, this whole thing has given us another reason to watch the clip again. I’m not even mad.