Human Giant: The Bluegrass of Comedy
The Village Voice ran a cool interview with the Human Giant guys–Aziz Ansari, Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer–yesterday with a focus on the merging of comedy and music scenes in recent years. Here's a little:
This music crossover you’re having success with
is very interesting; when I was in high school, and went to festivals,
there would be no comedic acts.Aziz Ansari: Well, I think Rob and I can both agree, for the past
couple years there’s a huge crossover in comedy and bluegrass music.Rob: That’s all we care about. Merging bluegrass with hilarious comedy.
Aziz: So many people who listen to bluegrass, like our comedy.
It makes sense.
Aziz: No, all these festivals—South by Southwest, Bonnaroo,
Pitchfork, it’s so fun for us to go do comedy there, because there’s a
lot of people that are into comedy, that are listening to indie rock
music, or whatever.Rob: Well, I don’t think that’s new . . .I mean I think that it’s new, that they figured it out.
Aziz: Yeah.
The whole interview is interesting and funny. Definitely worth a read. Check it out at Human Giant on Peter, Bjorn and John, MTV, and Heroin.
Meanwhile, what's the best comedy you've ever seen at a music show? Or what's the best music you've seen at a comedy show? Drop it in the comments.
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Human Giant Pinatas:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XJoXbF9kiCM
Posted last Halloween:
http://holamun2.com/candy/ids/id-pinatas-revenge/
coincidence?
Careful, they may steal your work.
Human Giant Pinatas:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=XJoXbF9kiCM
Posted last Halloween:
http://holamun2.com/candy/ids/id-pinatas-revenge/
coincidence?
Honestly, I think the 80's died when Chunky A's follow up single "Blowing the Chunk" featuring that fat kid from the Goonies and that other fat kid from all of those commercials failed to chart and brought ignominy to the great and paradigm shifting work of Chunky A. "Blowing the Chunk" was boycotted by church groups, Mother's Against Drunk Talk-Show hosts, people with a brain in their skull and the fat kid from Stand-By-Me, who was also boycotting food at the time and passed out in the middle of his speech to congress. It also failed to get sustained whooo whooo from the people in the back row of collaborator Arsenio Hall's audience. Also, cocaine and stuff happened.
I always heard the Aimee Mann/Michael Penn shows with Patton Oswalt were pretty amazing, but I never caught one.
I saw Ultra Babyfat open for David Cross once. It seemed like it would be jarring to segue from rock to comedy, but it worked in a third-category kinda way.
I have never seen the twain meet, but I would like to have seen Barry Manilow open for Bill Hicks.
These days, though, I'm all about Maroon 5/Jeff Dunham.