Crazy Monkey is a series of spots made for MTV

MTV

MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....

 to go between music videos. The team behind Crazy Monkey first made them in the hope of MTV just airing them at least once, and thus staking the South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

n flag on the airwaves of the world's music channel.

Crazy Monkey is made up of Trevor Clarence, Brendan Jack, Gavin Williams and Brett Goldin

Brett Goldin

Brett Goldin was a South African actor and part of the Crazy Monkey comedy troupe.-Early life:Brett Goldin was educated at the King David School, Victory Park, in Johannesburg and at Crawford College High School before moving to the University of Cape Town.In 2004, Goldin wrote his first stage...

. The group started by having fun with a video camera and making fun of extreme culture.

After success in South Africa, Crazy Monkey was soon picked up by all the MTV regions in Europe

Europe

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...

, Canada

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

, South America

South America

South America is a continent situated in the Western Hemisphere, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a relatively small portion in the Northern Hemisphere. The continent is also considered a subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered on the west by the Pacific Ocean and on the north and east...

, Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 and Asia

Asia

Asia is the world's largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. It covers 8.7% of the Earth's total surface area and with approximately 3.879 billion people, it hosts 60% of the world's current human population...

. They even dubbed

Dubbing (filmmaking)

Dubbing is the post-production process of recording and replacing voices on a motion picture or television soundtrack subsequent to the original shooting. The term most commonly refers to the substitution of the voices of the actors shown on the screen by those of different performers, who may be...

 the spots into German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

. It wasn't long before MTV commissioned more spots, and even flew the guys to London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

 to shoot some Crazy Monkey in the UK.

There have been entire weekends on MTV in the UK, Canada and Scandinavia

Scandinavia

Scandinavia is a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common ethno-cultural heritage and language. Modern Norway and Sweden proper are situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula,...

 that have been devoted to Crazy Monkey. One fan, a Canadian wrestler, changed his name to Trevor Clarence after one of the shows creators.

Crazy Monkey teamed up with producers Ronnie Apteker

Ronnie Apteker

Ronen "Ronnie" APTEKER is an entrepreneur in South Africa who founded of Internet Solutions , South Africa's first Internet Service Provider...

 and Tendeka Matatu for their first feature film, Straight Outta Benoni. Their second feature film, Footskating 101

Footskating 101

- Plot :In order to save his grandmother, his town, and his own skin, Vince, a poor miner's son, takes part in a skateboarding competition without a skateboard. He invents the extreme sport of footskating.- Trivia :...

, was released in September 2007.

Brett Goldin murder

On 17 April 2006, the body of Brett Goldin and friend Richard Bloom were found in a field next to the M5 freeway to Klipfontein Road in Mowbray, Cape Town. They had been shot in cold blood and had had various items of clothing removed in an apparent gang related incident. The perpetrators were caught.