- 6/23/2025
Music being incorporated into comedians’ shows isn’t new, and Billboard brought in their top picks of musical comedians, including Morgan Jay, Matteo Lane, JR De Guzman, Bridget Everett, and more to share why they started using music, how their audience reacts, and more!
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00:00I had a friction this way, a friction this way, a friction this way.
00:05I said Asian guys can smash.
00:09I'm gonna definitely this Grinch.
00:13What the ?
00:15We got a goofy goober in the crowd.
00:24My name is Morgan J. I am a musician and comedian.
00:28I would describe my show as kindergarten for adults.
00:33We kind of like take those cool caps off that we've slowly put on.
00:37And I feel like I create a space where people can just have fun.
00:42It's like a little bit of a party now. It's very experiential.
00:45It's less I'm performing and you listen and more like we're all in this together type energy.
00:49The quick run of the evolution of my act was stand-up, guitar comedy, crowd work guitar comedy.
00:57Then it was the pandemic happened and then it was like zoom comedy.
01:01And then the auto-tune clip, one clip went super mega cuckoo, banana pants viral.
01:06And that kind of changed everything.
01:08Suspicious as .
01:12And then little by little I've noticed that, you know, my audience is a little bit younger.
01:21And because they're kind of like so trapped in the phone, you know, which I understand because I am too.
01:26I wanted to create a show where the phone is allowed.
01:30Not only is it allowed, you can film and photograph everything.
01:33I was already playing music and singing on my own.
01:35I like to sing.
01:36And so that's kind of where the transition happened.
01:39I was like, if I'm going to keep doing this, I better enjoy it, right?
01:41Because let's say it does pop off, right?
01:44You're going to have to do that for the rest of your life.
01:46You know what I'm saying?
01:47So it's like, we better like this.
01:48Because I don't want to be, you know, doing a 10,000 seat arena one day and then go to my hotel and be like,
01:53I hate these songs, bro. I hate these jokes, bro. I'm sick and tired of these .
01:58I got to do a Hot Pocket joke again.
02:00I'm not, obviously, it's a legendary joke.
02:02But you know what I'm saying?
02:03And songs, though, they have a ton of replay value.
02:05You know, music, you could just, you know, you play the song over.
02:08If I don't do the LOL song or the Suspicious as song, people get upset at the shows.
02:14Can I get an LOL or a ha-ha-ha or an LMFAO or a ja-ja-ja if you're Spanish?
02:23The LOL, ha-ha, like that is just so easy to do.
02:27And for some reason it works, right?
02:29The Suspicious as f**k. Suspicious as f**k.
02:32It's like three or four notes.
02:34Yeah, it's like three or four notes.
02:36Kyle.
02:37Kyle.
02:38Okay.
02:39Hey, baby girl, it's time to pick up the pace.
02:43Most hooks for pop songs, it's literally like, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
02:48It's like, literally, that's all it is.
02:50You go back, every song is like that.
02:51It's like the three same f**king notes, right?
02:54People stop me on the street, they don't know my name.
02:56They're like, oh my god, you're that guy.
02:58You're the goofy guy.
03:00Vinny.
03:01Luke.
03:02Peter.
03:03And we are O.
03:04C.
03:05T.
03:06On Company Time.
03:07That was awesome.
03:09Well, our comic style is like comedy, narrative storytelling, but in songs.
03:23So, you know.
03:24We're just trying to build experiences and make you dance, make you laugh, have a good time.
03:29They're bangers that just happen to be funny.
03:31We're musicians first.
03:33We love writing music.
03:34We love making songs.
03:36And we sort of just figured out that if you put silly lyrics to those songs, it makes them
03:42really funny.
03:44Oh!
03:45It's a frictionless wipe.
03:47And now I'll be here all night.
03:49I slide across the one ply like I'm gliding on the...
03:53We started with more trivial, silly topics like gaming.
03:56We did the Battle Pass.
03:57That was a Fortnite song.
03:58And as we've grown, we've gotten a little bit more serious with our topics.
04:02Recently, we just released Frictionless Wipe, which is a poop song.
04:05And we're really digging deep.
04:07It's a fantastic record.
04:08It's about capturing the everyday experience of using the bathroom.
04:14With a melody that's hard to wipe from your mind.
04:17Always the melody.
04:20We write, we produce everything musically first.
04:25And then we just kind of like sit around and mumble words.
04:28And the first one to say something that makes us laugh, then we just apply that joke to the
04:34whole song that we just created.
04:36Yeah, the melody's almost like the context attaches itself to the melody.
04:41So, we'll make songs and it's just like all gibberish.
04:44Like...
04:51And then the words will come.
04:59If we weren't doing musical comedy, what would we be doing?
05:02Do you guys want to...
05:04I don't know.
05:05This is all I ever wanted to do.
05:06Right.
05:07I would be a yodeler, I think.
05:09With the yodeling.
05:11Before we ever had any of this, that's where this was going.
05:14You're not.
05:15You don't have it.
05:16Stop.
05:17You're telling me that that wouldn't be like huge?
05:20You need to get your head out of the clouds.
05:21I think it's pretty good, actually.
05:22I think it's good.
05:23Pick a career that's realistic.
05:24All right.
05:25Well, you know what?
05:26That's...
05:27Seems pretty realistic to me.
05:29And I think that the people, they'll let us know.
05:31My name is Rikki Lindholm.
05:33I'm a musical comedian.
05:34I like highly adult subject matter and tackling complicated topics, hopefully, in a funny way.
05:42I used to be just totally folky and now I like to experiment with different sounds.
05:54It's mostly folk.
05:55It's mostly, like, piano and guitar.
05:57But there's also, like, I have some tracks that are, like, more R&B or more, like, I have, like, a track that's fully 80s.
06:05It's so long.
06:06Farewell.
06:07Alveda saying adieu.
06:10So long.
06:11Farewell.
06:12Oh, lyrics all the way.
06:14Like, the melody is, like, almost an afterthought.
06:17Like, because it's all about the joke.
06:18Do you know what I mean?
06:19And everything in the melody is made to support the joke.
06:21So if I have some, like, great melody but it doesn't support the punchline, I just smush it.
06:25So a lot of comedy music, the melodies aren't that complicated by design.
06:29Even if it's someone who can write a, you know, more interesting melody, it's just, it has to all lead up to the joke.
06:35And usually, like, you know, melody lines, like, will become more interesting at the end of the line.
06:39And comedy music becomes less interesting at the end of the line so the joke can pop.
06:43So it's, like, almost the inverse.
06:45And the mixing of the music, you know, the lyrics, the vocals are much louder in comedy music than in regular music.
06:51You wear sleep apnea machine.
06:54I'm in early menopause.
06:56Let's .
06:57When I started in musical comedy, there's, I would play at, like, some comedy club that's all dudes that, the kind of guys that have big podcasts right now.
07:06All those guys.
07:07And then I would come out with, like, an instrument.
07:08And I would see, people would just use that time to go to the bathroom.
07:12Like, they weren't mean, they weren't mean about it, but they were like, oh, now's a good time to break.
07:15And I was like, okay, I'm gonna bring them over, you know.
07:17And sometimes I did and sometimes I didn't.
07:19I uploaded these two songs on my couch, Sony Handycam, to YouTube.
07:24And then it sort of went from there.
07:26And then we were like, wow, people will buy this music.
07:29They'll come to shows.
07:30It was semi-accidental.
07:32But then also I was like, okay, I will finally take the hint.
07:35When I'm getting paid, I was like, okay, I have to pursue this.
07:37I ignored hints for, like, ten years.
07:39Like, things kept happening.
07:40And then when it was, like, that clear, I was like, maybe this is something I have a knack for.
07:44Maybe I should pursue this.
07:46I would say I'm never myself.
07:49I'm always in character when I'm doing music or not.
07:53I come from, like, an improv background and character background.
08:05And that's sort of the crux of what I do as opposed to, like, doing stand-up comedy.
08:10I've never really been a stand-up comedy.
08:12I've never gotten on stage as myself and told jokes as myself.
08:15I've always been in character.
08:17I don't like it all.
08:21The way I started incorporating music into my comedy was pretty seamless.
08:26And it almost happened from the beginning of when I started doing comedy in the first place.
08:30So when I moved to New York, I moved here and started doing improv.
08:35But pretty soon after, I developed this, like, sort of solo character style of comedy.
08:41And music always just was a part of it.
08:44So if you had seen me on stage in, like, 2016 in a basement in Brooklyn for, like, four people,
08:49it would have been me and an acoustic guitar in character.
08:52They were always part of my act.
08:54Has a song or bit every totally flopped?
09:00No. It's sort of been 100% across the board.
09:02I've never made any mistakes.
09:03And all of my bits are perfect and good.
09:05My name is JR De Guzman.
09:07My style of comedy...
09:09So I came up in stand-up, but I do a lot of music in it.
09:12So it's this mix of, like, R&B and folk stand-up is the best way I can describe it.
09:18Like, I have some sensual tunes that are kind of like R&B, like, let's get in the mood.
09:23But then you listen to the lyrics, and you're like, what am I listening to?
09:26But also some kind of, like, folky kind of style songs, too.
09:29Said our penises aren't small
09:34It's just like our rice
09:37When you warm it up
09:40It doubles twice its size
09:42I was in college taking a stand-up class,
09:46but one of the assignments was to do a musical comedy song.
09:49So I was like, all right, let me try this.
09:51And I realized, like, oh, this is actually in my lane.
09:54Like, this is something I excelled at at the time.
09:57Especially being Filipino, like, it's in your blood to do music.
10:00So when I started doing stand-up and threw a song in, I was like, oh, this actually, this works.
10:05This is something here.
10:06You know, I grew up in a white town.
10:08No, the folk was like, I think just, especially playing an acoustic guitar, the sound kind of lends itself to that.
10:17I think, like, I like to make beats on Logic and stuff, too.
10:21I think if I was doing more songs from Logic on stage, then the sound would be more like hip-hop or something that I'll produce on there.
10:31But with guitar, every song kind of sounds sort of like a folk song.
10:34I have a song about fighting with your girlfriend about what you want to eat, you know?
10:39And that, the vibe just feels very, like, folky.
10:41That's what it lends itself to.
10:43So some of them naturally go towards folk, I would say.
10:46Because I came up in the stand-up world, I feel like I deliver everything in a stand-up way.
10:51So I still think of my stuff as, like, a set of jokes and then a song that's, like, the summary of the jokes that I just did.
10:59Some of my favorite songs is Asian Guys Can Smash.
11:03That's a good one. Just represent my people.
11:05The Asian guys can smash. We're not just good at math.
11:11And people will still come up to me on the street and be, like, just, I'll just be walking in a regular setting, like,
11:16Asian guys can smash.
11:18And nobody else around me knows what they're talking about.
11:21And then I have, like, a dirty Christmas song that, like, everybody shares during Christmas time, which is cool.
11:27You don't gotta be a Christian. You don't gotta pray to get down on your knees on Christmas Day.
11:35I feel like Mariah Carey every Christmas, because people will, like, reshare a video from, like, five years ago or something.
11:41It's actually my entire vibe that I would like to do with musical comedy is, like, talk about serious things,
11:47but people are laughing so hard that they're not even realizing, like, oh, he's talking about the earth right now.
11:53Hi. My name is Bridget Everett, and I'm a New York City-based singer, cabaret singer.
11:59And my performance style is really just get out there, throw the t*** around, sing some muddy notes, got some nice trim ankles.
12:08And I like to think of it as, like, a great first date, and you never really know what's gonna happen.
12:12The audience doesn't know, and neither do I.
12:14When your lady is tired, her patience has expired, she needs to get off her feet.
12:20Draw your lady up some bubbles, don't you start any trouble, let your lady have her retreats.
12:26My songwriting style is really kind of, like, I just be walking around and something will drop out of the sky like a thought, like a hook.
12:33And I sort of start with that, and then I write a song around it.
12:37Like, I have a song called , and that was one of the very first songs that I wrote.
12:41And I was playing catch with my friends, Murray Hill and Champagne Jerry, and I just started singing,
12:47You got them little nippy f***ies, put them in the air.
12:51And just, and so I told my friend about it, and I was like, this is stupid?
12:54And he's like, no, it sounds like a hit.
12:56This kitty is hungry, give her a ball.
13:00Pop into the center of this toot-a-team.
13:03I just sort of write things that make me laugh, and I think about what they'll feel like to sing in the room.
13:09I'm no, you know, I'm no Taylor Swift, I'm not a prolific songwriter.
13:14I thought I could get over you.
13:17I can't take me back.
13:21But I do know what works for me, and what I think is going to make the audience have a really good time.
13:26And that's always my goal.
13:27My name is Matt Rogers.
13:29I'm out here doing some musical comedy, I suppose.
13:32You might know me from my podcast, Las Culturistas.
13:34I act in some things, I host some things.
13:37I kind of do what they tell me to do and go where they tell me to go.
13:40So my comic style, it's sort of like if you gave one of those balloon guys outside of a car dealership a beautiful voice and a lot to say.
13:50Yeah, boy, see it in your eyes that you are mine now, boy.
13:56It's following the fun.
13:58It's often based in character.
14:01A lot of my music, I'll write from the perspectives of different people.
14:06I've recently gotten into writing from my own perspective, but that's been a new situation.
14:11I started in sketch comedy, so I was really more comfortable writing in terms of sketch scenarios and characters.
14:18And then as of late, I've sort of been, I don't know, maybe as I grow up and experience more things, putting more of that into my work.
14:24So it's become a little bit more me-driven, but yeah, roots in sketch comedy.
14:30I got really interested in how to create original music that used a sketch comedy formula.
14:36And then all of a sudden, I stumbled on this idea that, oh, they can sing your jokes like it's a hook.
14:41It's Christmas, yeah, Christmas.
14:47I started singing as a comedian.
14:50And what I mean by that is it's like if you watch SNL and stuff, like it feels like every one of them can sing.
14:56It's because they're not too in their head about their instrument.
15:00Really, what they're doing is they're just sort of making fun of their favorite singers.
15:05And that's kind of how I started singing.
15:07I was like, oh, I'm just going to go out there and commit hard.
15:10And so then it wasn't until later that people were like, oh, you actually have singing talent.
15:15And I was like, oh, really?
15:17And then your imposter syndrome creeps in because I'm just like, like a comedian, like, you know, from the basements of, you know, this city.
15:26Just trying to get any reaction out of people.
15:28And so then someone's like, oh, you could actually refine a talent.
15:31And all of a sudden you're like, I can't call myself a singer.
15:34I can't call myself a singer.
15:35Like, I don't know what that is.
15:36I could probably read The Velvet Rage and find out.
15:38I'm the only hot who I be who will.
15:42Man, no, if that wife won't, I will.
15:45He's trying to get this mother me who, who will sex is what I do.
15:51This is a little bit of, and remember, it's 10 AM.
15:54Oh, oh, oh, oh, got this jacuzzi running.
16:00Hottest female up in the land.
16:03Oh, oh, I think your wife is calling.
16:07I'm the who who's screwing a man.
16:10And then basically it goes on to say, if you're trying to the Grinch, back off.
16:14That's my man.
16:15She's definitely going to the Grinch.
16:18My name is Reggie Watts.
16:20And I would describe what I do as, you know, it's a combination of music and comedy.
16:25And it's improvisational.
16:27That's pretty much it.
16:28So anything can happen.
16:30Whatever I'm feeling that day or whatever's going on in the audience.
16:34I feel like I've been doing it all my life.
16:44I was, you know, involved in music when I was a kid, formally violin, piano.
16:50But I was always joking around.
16:52And then in high school, I got involved in drama.
16:54We used to compete against other schools around the state in different categories.
16:58And I did humor solo the first year.
17:01And I would use music in that.
17:02So there was never really a point at which I decided to get into it.
17:05It just kind of happened organically.
17:07I guess I'm always trying to challenge myself, make sure that I'm not getting too comfortable
17:17in the things that I do.
17:18I mean, I guess I want the audience to leave with, I'd say it should either be confusion,
17:23you know, like a refreshed view on their lives and reality, you know, I hope.
17:29You know, the whole reason I do what I do is, I mean, I love performing.
17:33But I love scrambling people's ideas of what I am.
17:37And I think in doing that, it kind of creates a little bit of freedom.
17:41But I mean, that's what humor does.
17:42I'm not unique to it.
17:43But it still decontextualizes the mundane, everyday stuff that people go through.
17:48And that's what I find to be the most advantageous thing about comedy,
17:54or at least the most rewarding thing about comedy.
17:56It's like, oh, I'm thinking about things differently.
17:58Or that's absurd why we do this.
18:01Or it's absurd that I do this at all.
18:03Whatever.
18:10So, you know, I hope that the audience leaves either like, oh, that was really good.
18:13Or like, I don't know what the hell just happened.
18:15I think that those are two great outcomes.
18:18Hello, I'm comedian Matteo Lane.
18:20I would say my comic style is like just sort of like you're catching up with a friend at brunch
18:25you haven't seen over the past year.
18:26And I'm just sort of filling you in on what happened.
18:28I come up with an idea.
18:29And then I use the audience to explore it.
18:32Then I do it a thousand times and record myself and listen back.
18:35Because otherwise, if I sit at a coffee shop and write, I'll be sketching in my sketchbook.
18:38And I won't even care.
18:39Straight men do not deserve nice hair or nice asses.
18:42That is my rule.
18:44Oh, all these ex-football players walking around doing nothing with those asses.
18:49Find the beats.
18:50Yeah, because something will happen to me or I'll say something in conversation.
18:53Like, my white woman bit, I was walking to the gym.
18:56I didn't have my headphones.
18:57And these white women walked by me and it hit me.
18:59It was like, every time I walked by a group of white women, it's just the same conversation.
19:02It's just, I was telling Joanne the other day that I'm not going to be the one.
19:05So I thought, that's kind of funny.
19:06So I wrote that down, went on stage, worked, kept it.
19:08Every single conversation with white women, it is all the exact same.
19:11I was telling Joanne the other day that she's not going to be going.
19:15You can go to any other group of white women.
19:17They will finish the conversation for you.
19:19She was saying that I'm not doing my job, but I am.
19:21Just kind of stuff like that.
19:22I'm sort of regurgitating what happened to me in life.
19:24Paso profondo.
19:25So I, the lowest voice class in, in singing.
19:30My, I'm very impressed by that.
19:31My teacher, Nick Falco, always said, he goes, you have the lowest voice I've ever heard in my entire life.
19:35And he was a part of the men's Chicago choir and had to go to the lowest voice there
19:39just to find little operettas or songs to be able to give me to practice with,
19:43just to practice my lower range.
19:45And I was like 15 with one eyebrow in an Adam's apple.
19:48And I was like a hundred pounds just being like, you know, but being a bass is great,
19:54especially in opera, because you don't have to really, you can just kind of show up.
19:57Like if you're a tenor or a soprano, your life is ruined.
20:00You know, you're just all day worrying and kind of hit the high notes.
20:03And can I, like just that bass.
20:06We just kind of roll out of bed.
20:07We're like, like we're just ready to go.
20:11Like I used to have whistle tones like Mariah Carey.
20:13Like they just popped out of nowhere, including whistle tones and falsetto.
20:16Almost six octaves.
20:18She has five octaves in a semi-tone.
20:20I love Mariah Carey.
20:21But I also think finally after 17 years being able to sell tickets,
20:25you, you earn a certain amount of confidence.
20:27So you start to feel more confident about yourself.
20:30Because every night you're not fighting anymore.
20:33You become a bit more relaxed, I think, on stage.
20:35So I'm a little more relaxed.
20:36But if you saw me in 2016 when no one knew who I was
20:39and I was doing nightclubs at two o'clock in the morning and people were homophobic,
20:42I was vicious.
20:44It was a mutual viciousness.
20:46But I'm gay, so no one takes it that seriously.
20:48Like when we get angry, no one's like, oh God, you know.
20:50We're just like, uh-huh.
20:51Like when you walk into Starbucks, like they're angry,
20:53but you're still going to get your coffee.
20:55I mean, I must have done over 200 shows at Joe's Pub.
20:57I mean, I don't know how many at this point.
20:59Where you're intertwining singing and improv singing and singing songs
21:02and bringing comedy into it.
21:04You know, it does have a different effect than just normal stand-up.
21:08Because normal stand-up, there's a different expectation.
21:10But with singing, you become really vulnerable.
21:12You become really intimate, you know.
21:14And it's not so comedy is a bit of a defense mechanism.
21:17I can be super vulnerable, but it's shielded with jokes.
21:20So it doesn't matter what trauma I'm talking to you about.
21:22There's still jokes shielding you and it still makes people comfortable.
21:25Singing becomes quite emotional sometimes,
21:27because you're just sort of elevating yourself to a different mindset,
21:31which really calls in a different kind of vulnerability.
21:33So I always get more nervous if I have to sing than stand-up.
21:36My name is Francesca Duva, and I am a musical comedian.
21:42I would describe my comic style as musical comedy that is absurd, generally.
21:52I like things that are six minutes plus.
21:55I like to be silly, childlike, entertaining.
21:58I'm Nanny Franny, and I have a lot to tell you.
22:02I'm Nanny Franny, and I have a lot to say.
22:06I would say entertaining is like my number one stylistic goal.
22:10My musical comedy now, if I had to distill what it was,
22:14it's basically like mini musicals in, let's say like six minutes
22:20that reference a number of genres, and I play all the characters.
22:24Francesca, you will be the greatest cow they've ever seen.
22:30Yeah, kind of like musical theater, but not always stylistically referencing musical theater.
22:38Generally, I think it's probably like a joke or an idea,
22:42like something I want to make a song about tied to a melody
22:47or like a genre of music that I want to use.
22:50It's not usually like just one thing that starts it.
22:54I'll think of just like a line, and I'll think of like how can I expand that,
23:03or where does that come from in like a story that I already have or something like that.
23:08Sometimes I've used the same track for multiple songs.
23:12Like I'll use it a couple times in a live show,
23:15but pick like a different story every time.
23:19I don't want to do this show.
23:25One time I was doing a show in Manhattan,
23:27and there was like a group of like six people,
23:31and they were all couples, and they were so wasted
23:34having the time of their life at this show,
23:37and they were bothering everybody.
23:40And then I went up, and the music was so loud,
23:43and I think they were yelling the whole time,
23:45but I didn't hear a thing.
23:46And afterwards, they were like, we love you.
23:50You need to be on Disney Channel.
23:53You look like Dora.
23:54You need to be on Disney Channel.
23:56Dora the Explorer.
23:59I would describe my comedy as like a one-man Muppet show
24:02if Andy Kaufman and Maria Bamford
24:06and also Mitch Hedberg were Muppets as well.
24:09I didn't want to incorporate music into my comedy when I started.
24:12I was doing like experimental theater and sort of alternative stand-up
24:16that was very character-based and very voice-based
24:19and wanted to be a very strange, cool comedian.
24:22Make someone taller than you money.
24:29I had a job working for this children's company
24:31where we would write songs for kids,
24:33and I've been playing music since I was in high school,
24:35and so that just sort of that brought me writing songs again.
24:38And once I started writing songs,
24:40I realized I had all these like funny musical songs
24:44that I didn't really expect I would have.
24:46And so once I had that engine of writing funny songs going,
24:49I started slowly bringing the guitar on stage,
24:52which I did not want to do
24:55because people do not like an acoustic guitar on stage.
24:58She on a business soon, but we share this room.
25:01Let the song go on.
25:03And that song go, baby, will you give me attention?
25:06And so learning how to get an audience okay with that,
25:10and then learning what it means to do a stand-up set with songs
25:14and with music just got really addictive.
25:17And I just could feel that I was communicating something with music
25:21that I wasn't communicating with just jokes and just characters.
25:24And then sometimes I'm just doing a voice,
25:27and I like that voice so much,
25:29and I have that voice start singing,
25:31and then I sort of follow that melody line.
25:33So it's usually like a melody line mixed with a joke,
25:36and then just sort of repeating that over and over again
25:38until I can sort of expand it.
25:40And then I usually like to stop it real quick.
25:42When I started doing musical comedy on stage,
25:44people hate acoustic guitar.
25:45You learn that pretty quickly.
25:46And so I tried to do really short songs
25:48to let people know that like,
25:50I'm not going to take advantage of their time.
25:52So it's a...
25:54You want to write?
25:55Or to erase?
25:56Wait, you want both?
25:58In the same place?
25:59Hmm...
26:00Who try a pencil?
26:03When it comes to my musical comedy,
26:06the songwriting happens in a bunch of different ways.
26:08Sometimes I have one line that I'm just singing over and over again
26:12and repeating to myself,
26:13and then I slowly build that, build a song around that.
26:16Sometimes there's a joke I have,
26:18like a one-liner that doesn't work.
26:20But I'm like, that one-liner is very funny.
26:22And so I try to use music to sort of emphasize
26:24what I think is funny about it
26:26that isn't working, just spoken.
26:28I actually have a thing about comedy songs and choruses.
26:30Give me an intro, a verse, a chorus, and then we're done.
26:34Obviously people have done it right the other way,
26:36but for my taste, a second verse and a second chorus
26:39are offensive to a live audience.
26:41I think a second verse and a second chorus
26:43are offensive to live audiences.
26:45Number two.
26:47Now it's up, take it up.
26:49Wow.
26:50It's in the gum.
26:51Are you serious?
26:52Yeah, he's serious.
26:53You're gonna be fine.
26:54You're gonna be fine now.
26:55Let me see.
26:56Yeah, you're good, you're good.
26:57Are you sure?
26:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
26:59We would tell you what the ****.
27:00I don't know if you would, man.
27:01We're the ones that brought it up.
27:02Oh, yeah.
27:03We are Wolves of Glendale.
27:04Yes, Wolves of Glendale.
27:06Olivia's ghost life is only possible.
27:10We, Eric and I.
27:11Did you say Tinder, man?
27:12Yeah, I was gonna say Craigslist, Tinder.
27:14No, Eric and I are from South Florida,
27:16so we've known each other for a long time,
27:18and we were in like rock bands together.
27:19It's like middle school.
27:20And then eventually those failed,
27:23and then we made comedy band,
27:25and then Tom liked comedy band,
27:28and then our comedy band broke up,
27:30and then he was like, I would like to do comedy band,
27:32and then we were like, you are good.
27:34We'd like to do comedy band with you,
27:36and then we did our comedy band.
27:38I moved to L.A. in October 2021
27:41to find a comedy band,
27:43and then I met them,
27:45and then very quickly we were like,
27:46we have to do this.
27:47It's kismet for a lot of reasons.
27:49One, to find three people whose music tastes all aligned,
27:52and two, to have three people whose comedic tastes all aligned
27:56is like doubly rare,
27:58so I think that's why it also feels like we've known each other
28:01forever, because we often say like,
28:03we all would have been best friends in high school
28:05even though we did not go to high school.
28:07Look happy, they look free,
28:09that's exactly what I need.
28:11So I drive out to a farm,
28:14and I buy a horse.
28:16There's also a lot of weird synchronicities
28:18about this group that have kind of started since,
28:21like the first day that we met.
28:22Obviously Ethan and Eric have known each other forever,
28:24but the first day I met Eric, we all sat down together,
28:26and we wrote a full tune,
28:28a song called Vapin' in Vegas,
28:29which is one of our first songs,
28:31and we found out that even our vocal ranges,
28:34they fit in the way that they're supposed to,
28:36in the sense that Eric has the highest voice,
28:39Ethan has the lowest voice,
28:40I have a low voice.
28:41and I have a voice that fits perfectly in the middle,
28:44and so right away we're like locking into harmonies
28:46in a way that was like, this is kind of trippy.
28:48We should see how far we can take this thing.
28:51Yeah.
28:52It's fun because Olivia,
28:53I feel like when we click into that,
28:55everyone starts cheering before the lyrics come in.
28:58So it's like, that always gets a big response,
29:01but people dress up as the character Olivia a lot,
29:04and like this like ghost.
29:06And so you just like, you know,
29:08we'll be peeking behind the curtain before we go,
29:11and we're like, all right,
29:12there's like 11 Olivias here tonight.
29:13That's pretty cool.
29:14There's less than 10 that we messed up.
29:16It's going to be a shitty show.
29:17And then people, we, at the end of that song,
29:19we talk about sacrificing puppies.
29:20And at some shows, we don't tell people to do this,
29:22but it has happened like 930 Club in DC.
29:23That's a lot.
29:24When like 30, 40, 50 people will bring a stuffed puppy.
29:26And then when we get to that part of the song,
29:28we'll just get like pelted with this wave of stuffed puppies,
29:30which is crazy.
29:31The fact that people do that without us prompting it,
29:32it's crazy.
29:33It's crazy.
29:34It's crazy.
29:35It's crazy.
29:36It's crazy.
29:37It's crazy.
29:38It's crazy.
29:39It's crazy.
29:40It's crazy.
29:41It's crazy.
29:42It's crazy.
29:43It's crazy.
29:44It's crazy.
29:45The fact that people do that without us prompting them
29:47is insane and awesome.
29:48And then we don't also don't know what to do with the puppies.
29:51Because at the end of the night,
29:52we got like 50 stuffed animals.
29:54Like we look like Beanie Baby,
29:55like hoarders or something like that.
29:57And so I was going through an old suitcase that we had.
30:00Yeah.
30:01Just at my house.
30:02And then it was like packing for tour.
30:03And then there's like a bunch of stuffed animals.
30:05I'm like, what am I going to do with this?
30:06And it feels wrong to throw them out.
30:07Yeah.
30:08Because they mean a lot to people.
30:09I sell mine.
30:10Yeah.
30:11I mark them up.
30:12I say collector's edition.
30:13You guys been selling the $600, $700 sign?
30:14I sign it.
30:15I sign it and sell it.
30:16I have Eric sign them.
30:17Next question.
30:18I'm going to celebrate life.
30:21And dance.
30:24I want them to feel like their face hurt.
30:26They laugh so much.
30:27And I kind of want an element of what was that.
30:31That's what I was going to say.
30:32I love hearing that from people.
30:34I'm going to be confused.
30:35We've definitely, people have like brought friends
30:36and not told them anything.
30:38And so they're seeing this for the first time
30:39and they have no clue what they're getting into.
30:42And I love hearing from them after the show of like,
30:44I've never seen something like that.
30:45I don't know that this existed before.
30:48I'm freaked out by it.
30:50I love that kind of stuff.
30:51Yeah.
30:52Music is sort of a way that we can create that
30:56where I feel like stand up is a lot more limiting
30:59where with what you can do, you know,
31:02where I feel like the bands that we love specifically
31:06or like, you know, I remember seeing like the Flaming Lips
31:09when I was young or like Kiss or Slipknot
31:13or anything like we can add that element to a comedy show
31:16is pretty nuts, you know?
31:18Yeah.
31:19And it's also like we have being a comedy band.
31:22We have the ability to launch into a two and a half minute
31:27choreographed fight sequence set to music
31:29where we then end up talking to Optimus Prime
31:32and breaks through the ceiling because we can just do that.
31:35And then to what Ethan said, to Ethan's point,
31:38which I totally agree with, if people are leaving like,
31:40what was that?
31:41I want to go back.
31:42Like I've never really seen a band do that.
31:44Yeah.
31:45That's, I think, what I want to be.
31:47Yeah.
31:48And like what you said, like inspired.
31:49I remember just like going to see shows when I was young
31:51and be like, how do I do this?
31:53Totally.
31:54You know?
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