Above photo: Ben Colen

Article by Jason Caines

If you want to celebrate skate video skits you can’t escape the creative influence of Spike Jonze, the first skate filmmaker to bring a distinctly artistic vision to skate video skits in a way which had never been attempted before. Spike took the skills he honed in skating to Hollywood and won an Oscar for his 2014 film Her as well as for his recently lauded music video for Kanye West and Paul McCartney’s ‘Only One’.

Spike is a true innovator of skate video skits and, with Blind’s Video Days and work in every Girl and Chocolate video to his name, his back catalogue is an absolute visual feast.

As an ode to Spike, here are some of his finest skate skits as well as some other memorable skate skits by others that have impacted our collective skate consciousness and given us some laughs over the years.