News · 6 August 2026
Weezer C.E.O. video replaces the band with Tony Hawk and Hollywood stars
Weezer C.E.O. video landed on 5 August 2026, and it comes with a rather brutal twist: Weezer are replaced in their own music video. Tony Hawk, Christopher Mintz-Plasse and several familiar Hollywood faces step in after the real band walk off the set.
The new single is the third preview of Weezer’s forthcoming self-titled record, widely known as The Gold Album. The album is due on 21 August through Reprise/Warner Records.
The replacement is part of the video’s fictional story, not a change to Weezer’s real line-up. Hawk and the actors appear as guest performers in the clip, while the band itself remains intact. In other words, headlines about Weezer being replaced describe the central joke rather than an actual personnel announcement.
Weezer C.E.O. video turns nostalgia into the joke
The video opens with actors Rob Riggle and Rob Huebel playing record executives who want Rivers Cuomo to recreate the look of “Undone (The Sweater Song)”. That 1994 video placed Weezer in front of a simple blue backdrop, helped establish the band’s visual identity and included dogs running through the set.
This time, the backdrop is gold. Curry Barker appears as the director of the fictional shoot, while Brendan Walter and Jasper Graham directed the finished video itself. As the production becomes increasingly chaotic, a swarm of live bees takes the place of the dogs from the earlier clip.
It is a smart visual setup for a song and video built around the demands placed on a band with more than three decades of history. The executives in the story keep reaching for a recognisable piece of the past, while the musicians appear increasingly unimpressed with the exercise. The humour comes from watching the remake become more absurd without losing sight of the reference that started it.
A replacement band packed with familiar faces
When Weezer leave the soundstage, the fictional executives do not abandon the shoot. They simply find another Weezer.
The substitute line-up includes skateboarder Tony Hawk alongside Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Michael Peña, Giovanni Ribisi and Dax Flame. Jay Renshaw also joins them as his comedy character Chit, who takes the role of Rivers Cuomo. Together, they carry on in front of the gold backdrop as though swapping the entire band were a perfectly ordinary production decision.
The celebrity cameos are more than a quick roll call. They complete the central gag by showing that, within the fictional world of the video, the image can continue even after the artists responsible for it have gone. It gives the Weezer C.E.O. video a playful way to revisit the group’s past while making the repetition itself part of the joke.
The result stays focused on one idea throughout: nostalgia may be valuable, but trying to manufacture it on demand can become ridiculous very quickly.
How the new single connects to The Gold Album
“C.E.O.” follows two previously released songs from the new album. “Shine Again” arrived first, followed by “We Might as Well Be Strangers”, a collaboration with Karly Hartzman of the band Wednesday.
The Gold Album is Weezer’s first full-length record since the band released both OK Human and Van Weezer in 2021. Those albums were followed by the four-part SZNZ EP project, issued across 2022.
The new record was produced by Klas Åhlund and Kenneth Blume. Its gold presentation also continues Weezer’s long-running habit of giving colour nicknames to self-titled albums, although the new video uses that familiar format as material for its own comedy rather than presenting it as a straightforward throwback.
For now, the confirmed news is the single, the video and the album release date. The wider meaning is left inside the clip’s deliberately over-the-top story: two executives demand something familiar, the shoot falls apart, and a completely different band carries on regardless.