The connection between musicians and comedians is long-established, with the idea often being that each group wants to be the other. Comedians long for the joy of being rock stars, while our favorite musicians often want people to know they’re funny. As Madonna’s disastrous attempt at standup proved, this trade-off does not always work out […]
Continue ReadingComedian Eliot Glazer has created a live show that combines his absurd comedic sensibility with his musical gifts. A classically trained vocalist, Glazer orchestrates poorly written pop songs of the nineties like “Too Close” and “S8R BOI” into moving ballads featuring vocal harmonies and critical analysis. The most recent monthly performance of Haunting Renditions sold […]
Continue ReadingA little-known fact about improv is that a lot of it used to be accompanied by music, specifically a piano. One comedian who actually began the deviation from live music in improv was UCB co-founder Matt Besser, but as many things in life seem to do, those elements have come full circle. On his podcast […]
Continue ReadingComedian / accomplished musician Tim Heidecker has been releasing anti-Trump jams over on his Bandcamp for the past few months,… MORE
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The Goddamn Comedy Jam is set to premiere next week (March 22nd) and we have two full performance clips to… MORE
Sam Richardson and Mark Duplass live their rock fantasies in these clips for “The Comedy Jam” appeared first on The Laugh Button.
We’ve covered the Georgia hard rock band Mastodon on this site before. Mainly because they have a terrific sense of… MORE
Brian Posehn meets his demise in Mastodon’s new video for “Show Yourself” appeared first on The Laugh Button.
SNL released a new installment today of its Creating Saturday Night Live web series, which offers a behind-the-scenes look at the show from the perspective of Leon Pendarvis, Eli Brueggemann, Lenny Pickett, and Hal Wilner of SNL music department. It’s a fascinating look at some of their favorite musical guests, what it’s like to collaborate […]
Continue ReadingThe band Old 97’s are one of Texas’ greatest exports and the quartet recently released their album, Graveyard Whistling. The… MORE
Fred Armisen plays drums with the Old 97’s in their music video, “Good With God” appeared first on The Laugh Button.
Keep Sunday, March 12th totally open – that’s the day Sub Pop Records releases the 107-track Bob’s Burgers Music Album,… MORE
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Today – February 20, 2017 – would have been Kurt Cobain’s 50th birthday. The singer and songwriter, frontman of the… MORE
Happy birthday, Kurt Cobain: Check out the Nirvana singer’s “sketch comedy routine” appeared first on The Laugh Button.
