Quick history lesson: if a music video was funny in the 1980s, it was probably completely unintentional. In the first half of the decade, the ridiculously low production values provided all of the humor, and in the second half, it was the unabashed bombastic elements that made you laugh. Weird Al, the Beastie Boys and their pie throwing antics, and weirdly enough Phil Collins' meta work were some exceptions to that, and helped lighten up the art form in the nineties, when directors like Spike Jonze presented artists in innovative and fun ways. In the mid-nineties comedic actors began to be cast in videos1, notably in [...]
"We just started talking about, 'Well, why don't we do a feature that's a rock 'n' roll documentary on this band, and they're not very good, and nothing good happens to them?'"
-Michael McKean in an interview with The A.V. Club, discussing the origins of This Is Spinal Tap.
Here's Saturday Night Live's Jay Pharoah doing his excellent Lil Wayne impression on a radio show. Pretty shocking they've only had him play Lil Wayne on SNL once so far.
Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer's musical comedy outfit The Lonely Island announced the tracklist to their newest release, The Wack Album(due out June 11th), and it's as jam-packed with exciting special guests as their previous albums. From Billie Joe Armstrong to Hugh Jackman, Robyn to Kristen Wiig, it's an eclectic group of guests, with a mix of songs featured on SNL ("YOLO" featuring Adam Levine and Kendrick Lamar, "3-Way" featuring Justin Timberlake and Lady Gaga) and new stuff ("You've Got the Look" featuring Hugh Jackman and Kristen Wiig, "Spring Break Anthem"). Check out the track listing and video/audio of the songs that have been released [...]
Musical comedy trio The Lonely Island is putting out a new music video or song every Wednesday as part of their promotion "Wack Wednesdays," leading up to the June 11th release of their third album, The Wack Album. Here's their second "Wack Wednesdays" offering, audio of a new song caled "I Fucked My Aunt," which reunites them with T-Pain after their hit 2009 collaboration "I'm On a Boat." We'll see if this one becomes as popular as that song.
To promote their latest record, The Wack Album, comedy rap group The Lonely Island took to Reddit to take questions from strangers. The Dudes opened the Reddit with a message to fans and an offer of advice that more people should have taken them up on: "Anything personal going on with you reddit? We're great with advice. 2 out of the 3 of us have made love with a woman before and can talk about details (we WILL NOT kiss and tell, but we will talk about details)."
We went through and compiled the best responses from The Lonely Island's AMA, which – believe it or not – [...]
Comedian Tim Minchin has been tapped by DreamWorks to do the music for a new animated film, the studio announced last week. The movie is set in Australia, where Minchin grew up, and it's called Larrikins, which is Australian slang for mischievous youth. Larrikins follows a marsupial venturing out of his family's burrow for a musical adventure across the Australian outback.
Minchin said in the press release, "I was lucky enough to grow-up in Western Australia and know that the Australian outback is vast and spell-binding and heart-stoppingly beautiful, and the characters that inhabit it are unique and hilarious and tough and cheeky. I am hugely excited to be [...]
I don't know how much time went into editing this footage of newsman Brian Williams together to make it so he's rapping Snoop Dogg's "Nuthin' but a 'G' Thang," but I want more.
Here's the latest video in the Lonely Island's Wack Wednesdays video series in anticipation of the June 11th release of their new album The Wack Album. It's called "Go Kindergarten" and features Robyn, although neither The Lonely Island guys nor Robyn appear in the "Blurred Lines"-inspired music video (unless they're some of the people wearing bags over their heads).
Here's a new video Craig Robinson made for Funny or Die, in which he plays the piano and sings a seductive song, which is how I'm assuming he'll be spending all of his time these days now that The Office is ending.
Apparently, David Letterman has an inside joke where he asks every musician that performs on his show whether their drum set is rented or owned, and here's a compilation of several dozen times he's done that (video by Dave Shumka, comedian and host of Stop Podcasting Yourself).
Several months ago, Jack Black and Kyle Gass, members of the comedy-rock band Tenacious D, announced that they're gathering all the biggest names in comedy music for a big Los Angeles concert called Festival Supreme. This morning, Black and Gass announced details and the lineup, which is insanely impressive, via the Festival Supreme website. The all-day festival, scheduled for Saturday, October 19th, will feature 25 different comedians on four separate stages on the Santa Monica Pier, with Tenacious D hosting shows at various stages throughout the day. Black and Gass announced today that the comedians for the festival are:
Here's comedian Patton Oswalt in a new video for the hip hop group The Coup. In it, he visually interprets their song, "The Magic Clap," which is a much easier task thanks to the miracle of editing.
Over the weekend, Fred Armisen an a bunch of his SNL and musician friends recorded a studio version of "It's a Lovely Day," the song that he said goodbye with in his final episode of SNL earlier this month as his punk rock character Ian Rubbish. The song, which was a poignant and fitting way for Armisen to leave the show, is available at IanRubbish.com, along with an album cover, lyrics, and some previously-released Ian Rubbish songs. Armisen recorded the track at the studio Serious Business Music in NYC and was joined by Bill Hader on bass, Jason Sudeikis on drums, and Taran Killam on guitar with Carrie [...]
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