Here's the latest video from The Lonely Island. Called "Spring Break Anthem," it starts as one of Zach Galifianakis's Between Two Ferns videos with James Franco before breaking out into a full-on Spring Breakers parody Lonely Island music video. Between Two Ferns co-creator Scott Aukerman directed the Between Two Ferns part, while the Lonely Island guys directed the music video. Also, Ed Norton.
Marcel the Shell has successfully crossed over from video to children's book. Next step? Hopefully a Marcel the Shell video game, where you can play Marcel and navigate around water droplets and other teeny-tiny obstacles. Or a first-person shooter game where you shoot individual rainbow sprinkles at your enemies.
"On Frasier, a network executive once suggested that one week we have John Lithgow play Frasier and Kelsey Grammar play Lithgow's role on 3rd Rock From the Sun; I've been deeply afraid of the idea of a crossover ever since." - Modern Family showrunner Christopher Lloyd on the brilliant ideas of 90s NBC Executives. They're both balding and pompous, so it's hard to say for sure this crossover didn't actually happen.
There’s a scene in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party where the comedian summarizes comedy and music’s long-standing marriage by positing, “Every comic wants to be a musician. Every musician thinks they're funny. It's a very strange relationship that we have.” It’s a fitting appraisal, especially when considering the source, whose intertwining of the two is unrivaled by his contemporaries.
The following list, which features genres ranging from indie rock to commercial hip hop to dancehall, supports Chappelle’s theorem that musicians think they’re funny, and, in the process, seek to prove that occasionally they are.
It might be hard to believe, but sometimes when a Conan O'Brien gets lost or abandoned hundreds of miles from home, he can use his keen sense of smell and instinctual navigation to find Studio 6B. Conan stopped by Fallon last night not only to promote Conan's New York shows this month, but to pick up Triumph The Insult Comic Dog, who has apparently been squished between the couch cushions for, what, a year now? How you can have Triumph clutched in your surprisingly tan hands and not have him talk, however, is beyond me. It's against Conan's nature.
Earlier this week it was announced that Tim Heidecker, of Tim and Eric fame, will be releasing an album in March — and not a comedy album. He’ll be working with Davin Wood, the composer for Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, and they’ll be called Heidecker & Wood. According to Pitchfork, the album will feature “songs that evoke classic rock from the Eagles to Steely Dan.” This isn’t the first time that a famous comedian decided to make a straightforward music album; just last month, Paul Reiser of Mad About You fame released Unusual Suspects, a collaboration with Julia Fordham.
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