[DallasBiff]

For the youngins out there, Max was a minor hit nearly 40 years ago, and with all the AI gossip swirling about Biden, it's amazing how much Max Headroom looks like a young Biden.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

One of my good friends was the main editor on that show. I loved that show, it was so delightfully weird.

[BobL]

For those who didn’t know, the name Max Headroom came from a UK highway sign indicating clearance of an overhead bridge.

[COBOL2Java]

Joe to the Max!

[dayglored]

From the Wikipedia article on Max Headroom:

Max was advertised as "computer-generated", and some believed this, but he was actually actor Frewer wearing prosthetic makeup, contact lenses, and a plastic moulded suit, and sitting in front of a blue screen.

Harsh lighting and other editing and recording effects heighten the illusion of a CGI character.

According to his creators, Max's personality was meant to be a satirical exaggeration of the worst tendencies of television hosts in the 1980s who wanted to appeal to youth culture, yet were not a part of it.

Really very impressive what they did WITHOUT computer generated effects.

[al_c]

Nah ... Max has way more class than Biden.

[hardspunned]

Biden looks s lot more like the banjo player from the movie Deliverance.

https://youtu.be/NFutge4xn3w?si=lUVkGxSCcWxK5kNh

[SMARTY]

I liked the computer holograph “Ollie” on “Red Dwarf”...

[broken_clock]

[Conan the Librarian]

Blank Reg was one of the greatest TV characters ever!