Editing Michael Nesmith (section)

===''PopClips'' and MTV, ''Elephant Parts'', and ''Television Parts''===
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During this time, Nesmith created a video clip for "[[Rio (Michael Nesmith song)|Rio]]", which helped spur Nesmith's creation of a television program called ''[[PopClips]]'' for the [[Nickelodeon]] cable network. In 1980, ''PopClips'' was sold to the [[WarnerMedia|Time Warner]]/[[American Express|Amex]] consortium. Time Warner/Amex developed ''PopClips'' into the MTV network.<ref name=":0"/>

Nesmith won the first [[Grammy Award for Video of the Year|Grammy Award]] presented for (long-form) [[Grammy Award for Video of the Year|Music Video]] in 1982 for his hour-long ''[[Elephant Parts]]''.  He also had a short-lived series (1984-5) on NBC inspired by the video called ''[[Television Parts|Michael Nesmith in Television Parts]]''. ''Television Parts'' included many other artists who were unknown at the time, but went on to become major stars in their own right: [[Jay Leno]], [[Jerry Seinfeld]], [[Garry Shandling]], [[Whoopi Goldberg]],<ref name=":0"/> and [[Arsenio Hall]]. The concept of the show was to have comics render their stand-up routines into short comedy films much like the ones in ''Elephant Parts''. Nesmith assembled writers [[Jack Handey]], [[William E. Martin|William Martin]], John Levenstein, and Michael Kaplan, along with directors [[William Dear]] (who had directed ''Elephant Parts'') and Alan Myerson, as well as producer Ward Sylvester to create the show. The half-hour show ran for 5 episodes in the summer of 1985 on [[NBC]] Thursday nights in prime time.{{citation needed|date=December 2021}}