The Lonely Island put out this video to announce a new weekly holiday, Wack Wednesdays. Leading up to the June 11th release of their new album The Wack Album, they'll be dropping a new video or song on their YouTube page every Wednesday. That's five entire Wednesdays of new content, guys.
Jack Black and Kyle Gass, members of the comedy rock outfit Tenacious D, spoke to Rolling Stone today on their 20th anniversary as a band, and they laid out plans to hold a festival featuring all of the biggest names in comedy music. Dubbed "Festival Supreme," it's "a fuckin' Super Bowl of comedy-rock" in the vein of Coachella or Bonnaroo taking place on the Santa Monica Pier on October 19th of this year. Nobody's been booked for the event beyond Tenacious D, but Black rattled off his dream list of performers, which includes Flight of the Conchords, Lonely Island, Zach Galifianakis, Spinal Tap, Eric Idle, Tim Minchin, Neil [...]
Lonely Island staged these amazing-looking album covers for GQ, and all we can do about it is buy sweaters? SWEATERS? Will sweaters have us humming catchy tunes about incredibly mundane things all day? Will sweaters produce music videos that look like 1970s swingers party populated by Eurotrashy amateur DJs? Will sweaters introduce us to Justin Timberlake? (Note: if you know of a sweater that does any of these things, please tell me so I can buy it.)
There's also an interview with the Three Islandeers, a terrible alternate name I just invented, in which they reveal that Michael Bolton was the first and only choice for the [...]
David Wain has craftily enlisted the musical stylings of Garfunkel & Oates to sing about how sexy he is, AS IF we didn't already know. Like most G&O songs, this one is catchy enough that you'll probably be sing-humming it all day, unknowingly hammering the image of licking the sweaty David Wain into your unconscious mind until it's all you can dream about! Hmm. I gotta get these two to write a song about how employable and talented I am.
The best part about Weird Al's "Another Tattoo," a parody of B.O.B. ft. Bruno Mars' "Nothin' On You," is how your children and your children's children will mistake it for the real thing until they are in ninth grade and realize with an icy swell of horror that they have been singing the Weird Al lyrics out loud, in front of their friends, this whole time. At least the video is cool. Augenblick Studios is behind the delightful animation, which is like getting a visual sneak peek at your high school reunion.
The Lonely Island announced this weekend that their third album, which is called The Wack Album, will be released on June 11th. The musical comedy trio – made up of Andy Samberg, Jorma Taccone, and Akiva Schaffer – released this collective statement in a press release: "We’re decidedly pumped to share another collection of our fake raps with the world. We’ve heard the whole thing and there’s no denying, it exists." Their first album since 2011's Turtleneck & Chain, The Wack Album's title track is "YOLO," which they debuted as an SNL digital short featuring Kendrick Lamar and Adam Levine in January. The Dudes are doing their first-ever live show in conjunction with [...]
Admit it, you've always wanted to hear Chevy Chase rap. Yes, Chevy Chase released a musical comedy album back in 1980, and the self-titled record is available streaming in its entirety below, thanks to Archive.org. Believe it or not, the album's not great, and Chevy Chase's biggest contribution to music is still that song he plays on the keys when trying to woo Judge Smails's niece in Caddyshack.
The album is embedded in its entirety after jump:
Community's Christmas episode comes but once a year, and this Yuletide the Greendale gang is going to be "forced to fill in for Greendale’s glee club during the always-busy holiday season." Luckily, as TV Line reports, the tunes being belted out between arguments aren't going to be those shitty old holiday classics you'll start hearing the day after Halloween. Instead, the songs will be 100% original? "Away in an Air Vent"? "Carol of Annie's Boobs"? "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like the Dean Is Going To Have Some Sort of Breakdown"? As long as Shirley still has the body of a baby for some reason, this [...]
Maybe it's just a lesson everyone has to learn while trying to convince my friends to see my one-woman production of Carousel, but people have a hard time believing you won't continue to be obtrusively weird if you insist on singing your promise not to be. “We’re gonna have more fun and be less weird than the first two years combined," Jeff et. al vow in a new Community promo. Meanwhile John Goodman returns as the show's new villain, amid much squealing from Dean Pelton. Come for the musical comedy, stay for the squeals!
According to Deadline, Universal and Gold Circle have acquired worldwide rights to Pitch Perfect, "a musical comedy set in the world of college a cappella groups," continuing the current Glee-fueled trend for all things polyphonic. SNL's Kay Cannon is writing the screenplay, based on the nonfiction book Pitch Perfect: The Quest for Collegiate A Cappella Glory.
Comedian/musician Reggie Watts is currently filming the second season of IFC's Comedy Bang Bang, and he just released two music videos for the new YouTube channel JASH, which he's collaborating on with Michael Cera, Sarah Silverman, and Tim & Eric. Watts sat down for a question-and-answer session on Reddit yesterday, and here are all the best bits and pieces from it:
On Comedy Bang Bang Season 2:
We're halfway through filming season 2 of Comedy Bang Bang. Scott is one of the smartest, funniest guys I know and it's a pleasure to work with him. We goof around and make bad puns to each other a lot.
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When heard without context, the song “Bop 25” sounds like it belongs on modern Top 40 radio. The track has all the earmarks of a contemporary chart-topper. It’s short and catchy; the vocals in the chorus are auto-tuned; the bridge is drowned in a cacophony of digitized instruments; and, perhaps most tellingly, it’s utterly and profoundly ridiculous.
In truth, the 13th track on Myq Kaplan and Micah Sherman’s new musical comedy record, Please Be Seated, is a polemic of sorts against the state of modern pop music. Over the course of the song’s one-minute runtime, the duo sings the word “bop” 96 times. The rest of the tune [...]
Here's "Bananaise," one of 41 tracks on T.J. Miller's comedy music album The Extended Play E.P., which is available now on iTunes. In this interview, Miller talks about the satirical aims of the album's length. "What is more self-indulgent than a comedian coming out with an album with 41 tracks, many of which are self-referential," he wonders. He may as well be asking, what is bluer than the sky? What is deeper than the ocean? What is grosser than the idea of bananaise?
Sadly, Will Forte's Rock Of Ages role will not have him slipping into the handlebar mustache favored by Bon Jovi's most attentive detractors, though seeing as how Tom Cruise co-stars as a rock star named Stacee Jaxx and looks like this, a mesh shirt might have been playing it a little coy. Instead, Forte will be portraying Mitch Miley, head anchor of a network news show, alongside co-stars Russell Brand and Alec Baldwin, in a film that apperently embodies the excitement and excess of the '80s music scene via denim vests and a giant lolly. Interestingly, Forte's role was created specifically the film. First story [...]
