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38900 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And let me just say, those are a bunch of incredibly fierce and talented performers.
I was there last summer. It’s a good time!
Reich: Incredibly talented, comedic improvisers, so good at thinking on their feet. Those long d... |
38901 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I was there last summer. It’s a good time!
Reich: Incredibly talented, comedic improvisers, so good at thinking on their feet. Those long days, on your feet all day—
Mulligan: Just hoping to get a callback — hoping to get a ... |
38902 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Those long days, on your feet all day—
Mulligan: Just hoping to get a callback — hoping to get a callback for the Orbit gum activation in Times Square, where me and 20 other improvisers will be paid $100 to receive 10 hours o... |
38903 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: Dude, I did a month of background work on Third Watch, which was like the worst Law & Order.
Mulligan: I was a camera PA on Criminal Intent, which was the actual worst Law & Order! And it wasn’t even during the Vincent... |
38904 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: I was a camera PA on Criminal Intent, which was the actual worst Law & Order! And it wasn’t even during the Vincent D’Onofrio episodes.
Reich: Oh my god. Didn’t even have the pleasure of watching Vincent work.
Goin... |
38905 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: I was a camera PA on Criminal Intent, which was the actual worst Law & Order! And it wasn’t even during the Vincent D’Onofrio episodes.
Reich: Oh my god. Didn’t even have the pleasure of watching Vincent work.
Goin... |
38906 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And it wasn’t even during the Vincent D’Onofrio episodes.
Reich: Oh my god. Didn’t even have the pleasure of watching Vincent work.
Going back to your big anniversary announcement, I think a lot of folks will think, Oh, wow!... |
38907 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Didn’t even have the pleasure of watching Vincent work.
Going back to your big anniversary announcement, I think a lot of folks will think, Oh, wow! Dropout’s got a big anniversary announcement, is it going to be a new series... |
38908 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Dropout’s got a big anniversary announcement, is it going to be a new series? New content? Guest stars? and I can see a name change puzzling people. You give a great explanation in the announcement video, but in pure layman’s ... |
38909 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Dropout’s got a big anniversary announcement, is it going to be a new series? New content? Guest stars? and I can see a name change puzzling people. You give a great explanation in the announcement video, but in pure layman’s ... |
38910 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I feel like a lot of your fans already know you guys as Dropout.
Reich: Yeah, we told ourselves we would do this when it felt most natural to do it. So in a way, it’s not a big deal at all. And I think a piece of that, to you... |
38911 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
More people who are active fans think of us as Dropout than CollegeHumor now, and this message is almost for everyone else. We do, in the back half of the video, race through a ton of new show announcements.
Don’t think I was... |
38912 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
We do, in the back half of the video, race through a ton of new show announcements.
Don’t think I was going to ignore that, Sam!
Mulligan: I would say too, to Sam’s point, I think internally, we’re just “us.” We’re a comedy ... |
38913 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: I would say too, to Sam’s point, I think internally, we’re just “us.” We’re a comedy company and we have enough glibness and irreverence to have a healthy sense of humor about something like a brand change, internall... |
38914 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
We’re like, Yes, this is something that of course we’re having fun with, and I think you can see the, like, tongue-in-cheek-ness in the video itself, which is super fun, but also very earnest celebration of all the amazing wor... |
38915 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I would say, Susana, the obviousness of it is a testament to how tapped in you are. People that are very close to us feel in on the joke, people that are very close to us are like, Of course, I’ve known that CollegeHumor was d... |
38916 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I would say, Susana, the obviousness of it is a testament to how tapped in you are. People that are very close to us feel in on the joke, people that are very close to us are like, Of course, I’ve known that CollegeHumor was d... |
38917 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
People that are very close to us feel in on the joke, people that are very close to us are like, Of course, I’ve known that CollegeHumor was doing Dropout — I was there in 2018 when the thing launched. But I guarantee you ever... |
38918 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
But I guarantee you every 18 months, some video creator will be like [in a salacious YouTube thumbnail voice] “What happened to CollegeHumor?” and the first 100 comments will be “They’re the most healthy and sustainable they’v... |
38919 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
But I guarantee you every 18 months, some video creator will be like [in a salacious YouTube thumbnail voice] “What happened to CollegeHumor?” and the first 100 comments will be “They’re the most healthy and sustainable they’v... |
38920 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
What are you talking about?” But that video will still go viral.
So there’s a huge track of the mainstream that I think this actually is worth having an internal, well-made, funny statement about. Because it’s definitely satu... |
38921 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
What are you talking about?” But that video will still go viral.
So there’s a huge track of the mainstream that I think this actually is worth having an internal, well-made, funny statement about. Because it’s definitely satu... |
38922 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Because it’s definitely saturated our fan base, but my god, every time you go out — there’s even a joke in the video about how your dad will still call us CollegeHumor. That’s kind of an element of what’s being spoken to.
Rei... |
38923 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
That’s kind of an element of what’s being spoken to.
Reich: The truth is — and we don’t go into this at length in the video — we wanted to make the video even before we recognized that we were going to do the name change. We ... |
38924 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: The truth is — and we don’t go into this at length in the video — we wanted to make the video even before we recognized that we were going to do the name change. We thought five years would be a good opportunity for us ... |
38925 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
We thought five years would be a good opportunity for us to do a little callback to our original announcement video, a kind of update. But we’ve been wanting to do away with the name CollegeHumor almost since Dropout was first... |
38926 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
It’s been a blessing and a curse for a long time, the blessing being one of the few brands with quote-unquote “staying power” on the internet, so it has recognizability with a few different generations. And the curse being... ... |
38927 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And the curse being... pretty self-explanatory. We could not be more distant from our frat-y roots at this point.
You got Whose Line Is It Anyway?’s Wayne Brady on Make Some Noise this season, and in a Tumblr post you said he... |
38928 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And the curse being... pretty self-explanatory. We could not be more distant from our frat-y roots at this point.
You got Whose Line Is It Anyway?’s Wayne Brady on Make Some Noise this season, and in a Tumblr post you said he... |
38929 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
You got Whose Line Is It Anyway?’s Wayne Brady on Make Some Noise this season, and in a Tumblr post you said he told you, “There are only two people doing taped improv correctly: us and you.” If I said that Dropout is a notabl... |
38930 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: Every waking moment of my day activates my impostor syndrome. But at the same time, I love that sentiment. And I think some of that’s been a happy accident. We set out with a lot of scripted content on Dropout, and it d... |
38931 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: Every waking moment of my day activates my impostor syndrome. But at the same time, I love that sentiment. And I think some of that’s been a happy accident. We set out with a lot of scripted content on Dropout, and it d... |
38932 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And I think some of that’s been a happy accident. We set out with a lot of scripted content on Dropout, and it didn’t really work. It’s once we broke away from IAC that we started to do more unscripted stuff, simply because it... |
38933 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
It’s once we broke away from IAC that we started to do more unscripted stuff, simply because it was what was working on the platform. And I think it’s allowed us really to explore the world of improv more than we ever thought ... |
38934 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And I think it’s allowed us really to explore the world of improv more than we ever thought we would get to. And Brennan I knew as a world-class improviser and comedic performer even before I knew he was a GM.
Brennan just sh... |
38935 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And I think it’s allowed us really to explore the world of improv more than we ever thought we would get to. And Brennan I knew as a world-class improviser and comedic performer even before I knew he was a GM.
Brennan just sh... |
38936 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And Brennan I knew as a world-class improviser and comedic performer even before I knew he was a GM.
Brennan just shot something for us as a part of a new show, that’s an improv-based show, that’s one of my favorite things I’... |
38937 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Brennan just shot something for us as a part of a new show, that’s an improv-based show, that’s one of my favorite things I’ve ever seen him do.
Mulligan: Aw, thanks, man. That’s very kind.
Reich: And Brennan’s been through ... |
38938 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: Aw, thanks, man. That’s very kind.
Reich: And Brennan’s been through [Upright Citizens Brigade], and I’ve been through UCB, and so many of us have had this training. But Hollywood told us for years and years that th... |
38939 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
The impostor syndrome is very real, but I find myself bouncing back and forth between the feeling of — When Wayne Brady says something like that, you sort of can’t accept something that nice. So you deflect it away. But also, ... |
38940 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
So you deflect it away. But also, I feel like there’s something that would be too glib and dismissive to not be cognizant about the incredible fortune that we’ve had.
If you have a sober eye and look around at the entertainme... |
38941 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
If you have a sober eye and look around at the entertainment landscape at other places that are able to celebrate improv and celebrate spontaneous comedy, whether on Game Changer or Make Some Noise and things that push the env... |
38942 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
If you have a sober eye and look around at the entertainment landscape at other places that are able to celebrate improv and celebrate spontaneous comedy, whether on Game Changer or Make Some Noise and things that push the env... |
38943 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
So on the one hand, yes, very much impostor syndrome, and Oh, something that nice can’t be true. And then on the other hand, I do recognize the rare air we are breathing with having a space like this, so that’s really wonderfu... |
38944 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
So on the one hand, yes, very much impostor syndrome, and Oh, something that nice can’t be true. And then on the other hand, I do recognize the rare air we are breathing with having a space like this, so that’s really wonderfu... |
38945 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I wasn’t completely certain that you’d slipped some stealth reveals into the announcement video, but I figured it was pretty likely. Which of them are you most looking forward to? Or, do you have a favorite Easter egg snuck in... |
38946 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Which of them are you most looking forward to? Or, do you have a favorite Easter egg snuck into the video?
Reich: OK, the one that Brennan did the episode of recently that I was wild about is a show we’re calling Very Importa... |
38947 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: OK, the one that Brennan did the episode of recently that I was wild about is a show we’re calling Very Important People. And it’s a reboot of something we did 12 or 13 years ago on CollegeHumor.
Mulligan: One of my fa... |
38948 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And it’s a reboot of something we did 12 or 13 years ago on CollegeHumor.
Mulligan: One of my favorite CollegeHumor things of all time when I was a fan at home watching CollegeHumor.
Reich: [And it was] called Hello My Name ... |
38949 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: One of my favorite CollegeHumor things of all time when I was a fan at home watching CollegeHumor.
Reich: [And it was] called Hello My Name Is. And the format was that we would put, specifically Josh Ruben, in reall... |
38950 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: One of my favorite CollegeHumor things of all time when I was a fan at home watching CollegeHumor.
Reich: [And it was] called Hello My Name Is. And the format was that we would put, specifically Josh Ruben, in reall... |
38951 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: [And it was] called Hello My Name Is. And the format was that we would put, specifically Josh Ruben, in really ambitious makeup, and we would sit him down for a Charlie Rose-style interview in that character, which he w... |
38952 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
And the format was that we would put, specifically Josh Ruben, in really ambitious makeup, and we would sit him down for a Charlie Rose-style interview in that character, which he would have only a minute to create. We reboote... |
38953 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
We rebooted that as Very Important People. Vic Michaelis is hosting, and the cast is this rotating cast of characters from our improv world and it’s so... Every once in a while I get what I call the “quality chills”? I got qua... |
38954 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Vic Michaelis is hosting, and the cast is this rotating cast of characters from our improv world and it’s so... Every once in a while I get what I call the “quality chills”? I got quality chills while I was watching the Dungeo... |
38955 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I got quality chills while I was watching the Dungeons and Drag Queens shoot; this creepy-crawly sensation on your back like, This is really good. Because this is really good. A lot of quality chills.
Mulligan: Hell yeah.
Br... |
38956 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
I got quality chills while I was watching the Dungeons and Drag Queens shoot; this creepy-crawly sensation on your back like, This is really good. Because this is really good. A lot of quality chills.
Mulligan: Hell yeah.
Br... |
38957 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Because this is really good. A lot of quality chills.
Mulligan: Hell yeah.
Brennan, do you have a favorite Easter egg from the video?
Reich: There are three seasons of Dimension 20 in that lineup of quick titles...
Mulliga... |
38958 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Mulligan: Hell yeah.
Brennan, do you have a favorite Easter egg from the video?
Reich: There are three seasons of Dimension 20 in that lineup of quick titles...
Mulligan: Do I have a favorite Easter egg? All I’m gonna say i... |
38959 | Dropout’s dropping CollegeHumor on its 5th anniversary — here’s why and what the future holds
Reich: There are three seasons of Dimension 20 in that lineup of quick titles...
Mulligan: Do I have a favorite Easter egg? All I’m gonna say is this: The bag of chips I eat in the video was a real bag of chips, and I really ... |
38960 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The last person in the world who thought Danny Elfman would play Coachella was Danny Elfman.
But in 2022, the legendary composer behind projects like Batman, Spider-Man, The Simpsons, and countless Tim Burton films took the desert stage, s... |
38961 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The last person in the world who thought Danny Elfman would play Coachella was Danny Elfman.
But in 2022, the legendary composer behind projects like Batman, Spider-Man, The Simpsons, and countless Tim Burton films took the desert stage, s... |
38962 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Most movie buffs knew Elfman as Burton’s bespectacled, goth-adjacent music pal.
Then, in 2022, most movie buffs did a double take. Wow, yes, that’s frickin’ Danny Elfman.
Elfman’s rock turn may not have surprised those who were clicked in... |
38963 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Most movie buffs knew Elfman as Burton’s bespectacled, goth-adjacent music pal.
Then, in 2022, most movie buffs did a double take. Wow, yes, that’s frickin’ Danny Elfman.
Elfman’s rock turn may not have surprised those who were clicked in... |
38964 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Wow, yes, that’s frickin’ Danny Elfman.
Elfman’s rock turn may not have surprised those who were clicked into the alternative scene of the late 1970s and ’80s; before he established his macabre staccato identity in Burton’s Pee-wee’s Big A... |
38965 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Founded by Danny’s brother Richard, the band steadily toured and cut records through the early ’90s. (In fact, members of the band still tour to this day.) When Elfman left the band to pivot to composing, he also left behind his live music ... |
38966 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Founded by Danny’s brother Richard, the band steadily toured and cut records through the early ’90s. (In fact, members of the band still tour to this day.) When Elfman left the band to pivot to composing, he also left behind his live music ... |
38967 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
(In fact, members of the band still tour to this day.) When Elfman left the band to pivot to composing, he also left behind his live music career — for so long that many of his younger superhero-movie-watching/Hot Topic-shopping devotees ne... |
38968 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
And even in the Oingo Boingo days, the musician wasn’t going as hard as he did at Coachella.
So what brought him back? What rebirthed him as a man who could share a stage with Billie Eilish and Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland? To my mind, it’s H... |
38969 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
So what brought him back? What rebirthed him as a man who could share a stage with Billie Eilish and Limp Bizkit’s Wes Borland? To my mind, it’s Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Produced by Burton, the stop-motion project was ... |
38970 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
To my mind, it’s Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Produced by Burton, the stop-motion project was a black sheep for Walt Disney Animation that blossomed into a cult favorite, and based on the last few years in Elfman’s life, a... |
38971 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
To my mind, it’s Henry Selick’s The Nightmare Before Christmas. Produced by Burton, the stop-motion project was a black sheep for Walt Disney Animation that blossomed into a cult favorite, and based on the last few years in Elfman’s life, a... |
38972 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Elfman joined Burton early on in the development of The Nightmare Before Christmas, plussing up the loose animation pitch into a musical worthy of the Disney Renaissance. And after recording demos for Jack Skellington’s big numbers, Elfman ... |
38973 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Elfman joined Burton early on in the development of The Nightmare Before Christmas, plussing up the loose animation pitch into a musical worthy of the Disney Renaissance. And after recording demos for Jack Skellington’s big numbers, Elfman ... |
38974 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The rest is history: Elfman went on to win awards for his Nightmare work, and the soundtrack became a cross-holiday staple every October through December.
Elfman did not peak with Nightmare in 1993. His four Oscar nominations for Good Will... |
38975 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
In 2005, he premiered the highly baroque Serenada Schizophrana, his first work composed specifically for concert orchestra. In 2008, he wrote the music for the American Ballet Theatre’s Rabbit and Rogue ballet and in 2011 composed for Cirqu... |
38976 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
In 2005, he premiered the highly baroque Serenada Schizophrana, his first work composed specifically for concert orchestra. In 2008, he wrote the music for the American Ballet Theatre’s Rabbit and Rogue ballet and in 2011 composed for Cirqu... |
38977 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
In 2008, he wrote the music for the American Ballet Theatre’s Rabbit and Rogue ballet and in 2011 composed for Cirque Du Soleil’s $100 million Iris show. But it’s bops like “This Is Halloween” and “Jack’s Obsession” that will be engraved on... |
38978 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
But it’s bops like “This Is Halloween” and “Jack’s Obsession” that will be engraved on his future tombstone, and he’s never been ashamed to play the hits — unlike Disney, which had no clue how to release the movie to an audience weaned on T... |
38979 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
And unlike his film score work, The Nightmare Before Christmas gives him the chance to take the stage.
In 2013, the former Oingo Boingo frontman returned to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall to perform his scores from Tim Burton movies wi... |
38980 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
And unlike his film score work, The Nightmare Before Christmas gives him the chance to take the stage.
In 2013, the former Oingo Boingo frontman returned to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall to perform his scores from Tim Burton movies wi... |
38981 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
In 2013, the former Oingo Boingo frontman returned to the stage at the Royal Albert Hall to perform his scores from Tim Burton movies with a full orchestral backup. This included select numbers from The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he ... |
38982 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
This included select numbers from The Nightmare Before Christmas, which he sang in full. The concert appearance was such a hit, Disney invited Elfman to appear alongside his co-stars Catherine O’Hara (Sally) and Ken Page (Oogie Boogie) at t... |
38983 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The concert was such a hit, the group has performed it on the regular every October — and will do so again this Halloween.
The hype around his various Burton and Nightmare Before Christmas concerts sparked the idea for Coachella programmer... |
38984 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The hype around his various Burton and Nightmare Before Christmas concerts sparked the idea for Coachella programmers that Elfman could play alongside pop acts of the moment. As Elfman tells it, there was immediate and obvious hesitation on... |
38985 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
As Elfman tells it, there was immediate and obvious hesitation on his part: He was not a rock star or a pop star or hip-hop star. But after watching Childish Gambino and Janelle Monáe unleash pure theatrical mayhem at Coachella 2019, he saw... |
38986 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
But after watching Childish Gambino and Janelle Monáe unleash pure theatrical mayhem at Coachella 2019, he saw his way in. The then-66-year-old began immediate work on a set that would blend his film music, Oingo Boingo hits, and experiment... |
38987 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The then-66-year-old began immediate work on a set that would blend his film music, Oingo Boingo hits, and experimental songs fit for a rowdy crowd.
As he put in a video for the music festival, “Coming out and doing something as myself, no... |
38988 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
As he put in a video for the music festival, “Coming out and doing something as myself, not as Jack [Skellington], was terrifying and exciting.”
Coachella 2020 was ultimately canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but Elfman was purely act... |
38989 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
He released his new music as a studio album, Big Mess, and eventually took the Coachella stage in his now-notorious 2022 performance. As envisioned, the Elfman revue bounced from known tunes to weirdo grooves, all backed by animated graphic... |
38990 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
He released his new music as a studio album, Big Mess, and eventually took the Coachella stage in his now-notorious 2022 performance. As envisioned, the Elfman revue bounced from known tunes to weirdo grooves, all backed by animated graphic... |
38991 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
But it was not a total upending of expectations; there was still room for Mr. Skellington at Coachella.
In a flurry of post-show interviews, Elfman comes off as rejuvenated. While the show hasn’t realigned the trajectory of his career — he... |
38992 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
(This is where I want to flag that earlier this year, a Rolling Stone report uncovered a 2018 sexual misconduct lawsuit filed against the composer, which he settled out of court. Elfman has vehemently denied the accusations against him as “... |
38993 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
Elfman has vehemently denied the accusations against him as “vicious and wholly false.” No additional accusations or investigations have come out in the wake of the story, and Disney and his longtime collaborators continue to work with him.... |
38994 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
During the Coachella set, Elfman proclaimed that it was “my first time onstage as ‘myself’ in 27 years.” He’s likely referring to his time acting as Jack Skellington, though looking back, it doesn’t seem like Elfman as the frontman of Oingo... |
38995 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The act launched at Coachella is not a return to form. It is the final form.
There are few musical wanderers like Elfman, capable of swinging between genres and mediums and venues, and his time performing as Jack Skellington has everything... |
38996 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
The act launched at Coachella is not a return to form. It is the final form.
There are few musical wanderers like Elfman, capable of swinging between genres and mediums and venues, and his time performing as Jack Skellington has everything... |
38997 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
There are few musical wanderers like Elfman, capable of swinging between genres and mediums and venues, and his time performing as Jack Skellington has everything to do with that elasticity. He is now unified — as a six-packed weirdo rock s... |
38998 | Jack Skellington turned legendary composer Danny Elfman into a weirdo rock star
He is now unified — as a six-packed weirdo rock star with floppy red hair and body tattoos head-banging to the theme from The Simpsons.
Elfman has said at the time that there were no plans to tour his laser-lit Coachella act, although he b... |
38999 | USA vs Germany player ratings: USMNT defensive errors blight positive performance by Pulisic, Weah
RENTSCHLER FIELD, HARTFORD — The United States appeared well positioned to fight with a European power through 45 minutes, but the house of cards came crashing down after the break as the U.S. men's national team succumbe... |
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