Word: musication
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...there's one problem: retelling the same joke 30 times isn't very funny. The playing-off music isn't always properly timed and the preceding video footage is almost always more entertaining than the cat (especially the one with the guest who passes out on Glen Beck). After you watch one video, the others are mildly entertaining at best. The Internet clearly disagrees with me here, what with the ongoing popularity of Rickrolling, but I stand by my opinion. Jokes are only funny when they're original, when they take you in a direction you didn't expect...
...lefty folk community embraced Dylan even as he quickly surpassed Guthrie, writing his own music to go with his brilliant lyrics to protest the atrocities of the 1960s, songs like "Blowin' in the Wind" and "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall." But four-chord, straight-ahead folk music proved, well, boring after a while, and Dylan betrayed the folk pedants by going electric--"Judas!" they cried in England--and the ideology-encrusted hard-liner Pete Seeger tried to pull the plug on Dylan's breakthrough performance at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival...
...Highway 61 Revisited (1965) and Blonde on Blonde (1966)--in which cascades of surrealistic, high-art lyrics were married to the most elegant rock-'n'-roll musicianship. That was brought to a violent stop by Dylan's near fatal motorcycle crash in 1966, and when he resumed, the music--even the sound of his voice--was different...
...still true, even now, with Together Through Life. It will not go down among his best albums, but the music is good, and the mood is poignant to the point of intoxication, the wheezy nostalgia anchored by David Hidalgo's magnificent accordion work. Dylan can still get frisky, as he does with the last track on the album, "It's All Good," in which the banality of that expression is demolished in escalating scenes of horror...
According to his blog, "it wasn't clear to some that booking a DJ Straus performance doesn't involve micromanaging the music playlist." Sounds like a bit of a "creative control" tussle...