Ke$ha: The Story of the $

Actor

Kesha

Writer & Director

Alex Fernie

Sound

BoTown Sound

Makeup

Kat Bardot

Executive Producer

Funny Or Die

Producer

Betsy Koch

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WEBVTT 00:00:03.000 --> 00:00:14.000 <v Announcer> At the young age of 23, Ke$ha has recorded a number one album, several top ten singles, and brought record profits to the glitter and whiskey industry, but she wasn’t always the pop star we now know. 00:00:15.000 --> 00:00:26.000 <v Ke$ha> I used to just be Kesha, with an s instead of a dollar sign, and then one year I had my birthday party at Shakey’s Pizza. 00:00:28.000 --> 00:00:31.000 <v Ke$ha> I’m sorry. It’s hard for me to talk about. 00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:32.000 <v Announcer> It’s okay. Go on. 00:00:34.000 --> 00:00:42.000 <v Ke$ha> And, on the sign, the big sign where they write happy birthday, they replaced the s with a dollar sign. 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:47.000 <v Announcer> And that one word sent her on a downward spiral to success and fame. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:01:07.000 <v Joe Wengert> Yeah, I remember that day. We had a special going on sausage, salami and sun dried tomatoes pizza, so we were just all out of S’s. We’re not made of S’s. We did just get a couple of those, we got backwards R’s. We’ve never had those before. I can’t wait to use them. 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:21.000 <v Ke$ha> It ruined my life. I wanted to be a CPA, but do you know who H and R Block doesn’t hire? People with dollar signs in their name. I pretty much had to be a pop star. 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:26.000 <v Announcer> For the last ten years, Ke$ha’s life has been affected by that one fateful birthday at Shakey’s. 00:01:27.000 --> 00:01:29.000 <v Nick Mandernach> Hey, Ke dollar sign ha! 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:46.000 <v Ke$ha> Souvenir shops never have keychains with my name on it. People think I cost ha dollars and I have to press shift twice when typing my name. All because of a fucking pizza place. 00:01:49.000 --> 00:01:58.000 <v Mike Leffingwel> Unfortunately, there’s nothing she can do. Anything written in print on a Shakey’s Pizza sign is legally binding. It’s in the Constitution. 00:02:01.000 --> 00:02:03.000 <v Ke$ha> I just, I just want my life back. 00:02:03.000 --> 00:02:08.000 <v Announcer> What if I told you that we found that same Shakey’s Pizza and told them it was your birthday. 00:02:09.000 --> 00:02:11.000 <v Ke$ha> Really? Do you mean? 00:02:12.000 --> 00:02:15.000 <v Announcer> That’s right. You’re nightmare is over. Come on. There’s a car waiting outside. 00:02:19.000 --> 00:02:22.000 <v Ke$ha> The moment I’ve been waiting for. 00:02:27.000 --> 00:02:32.000 <v Joe Wengert> We have an artichoke and anchovy pizza today, so we ran out of A’s. Sorry. 00:02:32.000 --> 00:02:33.000 <v Ke$ha> Fuck you! 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:39.000 <v Joe Wengert> It’s good, if you want to try some.