Devo Spice is a nerdcore and comedy rapper from New Jersey who has been called "the red-headed stepson of Weird Al Yankovic and Eminem." His demented brand of hip hop has made him one of the most popular artists on the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show. Performing as "Sudden Death" his songs "Cellular Degeneration", "Getting Old Sucks" and "Pillagers" were the numbers 1, 2, and 4 most requested songs on Dr. Demento in 2007.
For more information on Devo Spice please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.devospice.com
Possible Oscar is a Minneapolis, MN based comedy music act that specializes in original and parody songs. Their topics range from video games to nerd love, with stops at comic books and notable Hollywood movie sound effects. They also enjoy wearing T-shirts with their band name on them.
Possible Oscar’s sound is two great tastes that taste great together; they usually play rock music with layers of guitar and keyboards, but sometimes a little hip hop is in order.
Possible Oscar released an EP entitled Greatest Hits in 2006, then followed with their first full-length album, The Wrath of Con, in 2007. Con was hailed by fans as “nerdy as a motherf**ing nerdy nerding nerd.”
The Dr. Demento Show has played several Possible Oscar songs, including “Earn Hollywood Earn” and “Talk Nerdy to Me,” and a few of them have made the weekly Funny Five countdown. “Earn Hollywood Earn” was selected to appear on Dr. Demento’s Basement Tapes #15. In December of 2007, their song "That Calls for a Wilhelm Scream" landed at the No. 23 spot on Dr. Demento's annual Funny 25 countdown.
Power Salad is a comedy music group regularly heard on the nationally-syndicated "Dr. Demento Show" as well as college and independent stations in the US. Their song "Hold On, I've Got To Take This" was the #1 requested song of 2008 on the Demento show. The group evolved out of Akron Ohio's radio comedy group Zot Theater in the late 1980's, and has released 5 CDs of funny music. Performing member Chris Mezzolesta has represented Power Salad live at fan cons including the huge GENCON in Milwaukee 2001, ALCON (Weird Al/funny music con) in Chicago 1998/2000/2002, and Dementia 2001 in Detroit 2001. Power Salad returned to live performance at MARSCON 2007 in Minneapolis, to a wild, enthusiastic reception, and has also appeared at Con on the Cob in Akron Ohio, Penguicon in Detroit, Confluence in Pittsburgh, the annual MENSA gathering also in Pittsburgh, and Keycon in Winnipeg, Canada. The group is on independent Marianth Records, distributed by Orchard Records.
For more information on Power Salad please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.powersalad.com
Raymond and Scum are neither Raymond nor scum, but are in fact Matt and Jeff from southern California. They write funny songs, and they rock. What more could you ask for? The duo has a knack for picking on celebrities in their music having written songs about Demi Moore, Jeff Goldblum, and Jennifer Lopez.
At Dragon*Con 2004, Dr. Demento declared "the great Luke Ski" to be his radio program’s "Most Requested Artist of the 21st Century". Since then, Luke held onto that title by having songs on "The Dr. Demento Show’s" annual year-end "Funny 25″ countdown of his most requested songs of the year for ten years in a row, including three of them at #1 ("Peter Parker" 2002, "Stealing Like A Hobbit" 2003, "Snoopy The Dogg" 2011), and two of them at #2 ("You Don’t Know Jack" 2006, "Too Much Stuff" 2009). His song parodies, originals, stand-up and sketches about pop culture phenomena (doot doo, do-do-do!) have make him a favorite performer at science-fiction and fandom conventions all across the midwest and beyond. He’s released ten albums and a DVD over the past fifteen years, many of which feature collaborations and cameos by his fellow comedy musicians of the FuMP, most significantly Carrie Dahlby, who often sings lead vocals on Luke’s parodies of female musicians. His past hits amongst his fans include songs about Spider-Man, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Star Trek, Pirates of the Caribbean, Battlestar Galactica, Batman, Firefly, Doctor Who, Babylon 5, and Family Guy, with more recent hits about Disney buying Marvel, Twitter, Anime, Bruce Campbell, The Big Bang Theory, Monty Python, and Snoopy. He is the musical jester of sci-fi, the emissary of rap dementia, the pimp of the geek nation, and a prominent bacon enthusiast. So join the Dementia Revolution, and become a Luke Ski fan today!
The only recording artist to appear on both NPR's Sound and Spirit and The Dr. Demento Show, Tom Smith has sixteen albums, fourteen Pegasus Awards, a spot in the Filk Hall of Fame, and fans around the world. His concerts combine high-energy folk rock, SF/fantasy, popular culture, Life With Computers, progressive politics, cartoon voices, unbelievably bad puns, and the occasional recipe into a show you will never forget.
Besides his work for The FuMP, Tom releases new songs at his iTom project, and he has other albums and media on the way.
Worm Quartet is a Rochester, NY-based band that forcibly staples punk and electronica together and throws them into a blender with hysterically twisted lyrics. They have been featured repeatedly on the Dr. Demento show, with many Funny Top Five appearances, and had the most requested song of the year in both 2004 ("Great Idea For A Song") and 2005 ("Inner Voice" with Sudden Death.) The sole member of Worm Quartet is a 6'4" long-haired manic who insists on being called Shoebox" and who poses by day as a mild-mannered software engineer.
Baldbox is a duo made up of a Pegasus winner and one of Dr. Demento's most requested artists of the new millenium. Their album, conceived and recorded in a weekend to see if they could, pretty much cancels out both members' previous reputations. They highly recommend against listening to their music, buying their CD, or acknowledging their existence in any way. Why are you even reading this? MC Lars is a ways further down the page.
For more information on Baldbox please visit the artist's web site at:
Bob Ricci is a musical artist, with a knack for comedy, who has been performing parodies and writing creatively original music since his early teens. Bob has built a diverse and powerful fan base over the years through his exciting and funny live performances as well as his ingenious and hilarious lyrical compositions.
For more information on Bob Ricci please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.bobricci.com
Do virgins taste better than those who are not? For centuries, knights and peasants have asked that same question. But only the Brobdingnagian Bards have dared to find an answer. TASTE TEST!!!
The Brobdingnagian Bards (pronounced brAHb'ding-näg-EE-en) hail from Austin, Texas. They take traditional Irish and Scottish folk songs, mix it up with Lord of the Rings music to create a unique brand of Celtic Filk. And when they say "unique", believe it! How many bands do YOU know that play autoharp, recorder, and mandolin... while wearing KILTS?!
The Bards (or if you're from Chicago "Da Bards!") were voted the #1 BEST PERFORMING NOVELTY BAND in the 2004-5 and #1 BEST NONE OF THE ABOVE BAND in the 2006-7 Austin Music Awards. They are the 'Godfathers of Celtic MP3s'. Over FIVE MILLION MP3s have been downloaded by their fans online. Over a million MP3s were from one song, "Tolkien (The Hobbit & Lord of the Rings)". They continue to give away over a dozen free Celtic MP3s from their website at www.thebards.net.
But wait there's more!
The Brobdingnagian Bards music will touch your Scotch-Irish heritage with traditional Celtic songs and contemporary parodies. It's a musical experience that shouldn't be missed. So visit them online, get a free "Real Men Wear Kilts" sticker. And laugh your arse off to a musical experience that will leave you glowing for more... without the radiation poisoning. Slainte!
For more information on Brobdingnagian Bards please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.thebards.net
Carl fronts a 4 piece rock band called Soul Patch which you can check out at
www.soulpatch.net.
He also does solo acoustic shows.
His real passion is original song writing. Even most of his "non-comedy" tracks are infused with a certain amount of humor. He is currently putting the finishing touches on his debut comedy CD entitled "The Lord Loves A Fool".
Professional Smart Aleck Carla Ulbrich has been compared to the likes of Weird Al, Chet Atkins and a bologna sandwich.
A better guitar player than most bologna sandwiches, the South Carolina native and former school band geek made her singing debut at a pig pickin' on Spring Break in college. Her songs address important topics such as wedgies, shopping lists, Klingons, and the correct spelling of her name.
Carla won the Just Plain Folks Novelty Song of the Year (2006) with "What If Your Butt Was Gone," and her song "If I Had the Copyright" (The F word song) was featured in the documentary "F**K" (dir. Steve Anderson, "The Aristocrats").
She has released 5 CDs.
She plays listening rooms, colleges, patches of grass in backyards, performing arts centers, boat launchings, nudist resorts, and comedy clubs in both the US and England.
For more information on Carla Ulbrich please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.carlau.com
A long time participant in shadow-casts of the "Rocky Horror Picture
Show", "Shock Treatment", "Buffy: The Musical", and "Hedwig and the
Angry Inch", classically trained opera vocalist Carrie Dahlby made her
first contributions to the world of comedy music on the albums of 'the
great Luke Ski', most notably on his 2005 Dr. Demento Show hit "Vader
Boy" (an Avril Lavigne parody). She began performing with Luke on a
regular basis, often bringing the house down with her Olivia Newton
John parody vocals in "Grease Wars", and soon released a 5 song EP of
her own comedy compositions. More recently she has made appearances in
the songs of Sudden Death and Possible Oscar. Her debut funny music CD
"Happy Ranch" was released at
MarsCon 2007, where she also made her
solo dementia act concert debut. Her 2nd CD "Giant Kitten" was released
at MarsCon 2009, and both CDs are available online exclusively here on
TheFuMP.com! In October 2009 she started her own PodCast with Luke Ski,
titled "Luke & Carrie's Bad Rapport", which can be heard at
http://badrapport.com
From the four corners of the Dementia universe comes a sketch comedy super group! Cirque du So What is made up of Shoebox of Worm Quartet, The Great Luke Ski, Devo Spice, and Chris Mezzolesta of Power Salad. Each artist individually had #1 songs on the Dr. Demento Show, and now they have banded together to expand into sketch comedy, on their never ending quest to control the world.
Deep within their secret lair, three mad scientists, their lab assistants, and one smart-alecky robot are hatching an evil plot: TO ROCK the EARTH into OBLIVION!
My fellow scientists, ladies, gentlemen and members of the worldwide PRESS, allow me to introduce myself, for soon MY NAME will be a household WORD. I am Dr. Milo T. Pinkerton III, founder and leader of the Consortium of Genius - a group best known as the C.O.G.!!!
Since 1996 we have been devoting all our TIME, TALENT, and obvious GOOD LOOKS into the singleminded pursuit of TAKING OVER THE WORLD. Except for that one time we attempted to DESTROY the world... but I digress. Look, we ARE going to take over the world, whether the world is ready for us or not! And we intend to accomplish this worthy goal in the LOUDEST manner possible. Or my name isn't Dr. Milo T. Pinkerton III!!!
Think YOU can stop us?!?? Go ahead and try... I DARE you. I DOUBLE DARE YOU!!! Mwahahahahahahaha! Heh.
Dino-Mike is a singer, a lyricist, but most importantly a musician. To him, a song must be just as musically interesting as it is lyrically funny, otherwise it has little replay value and falls by the wayside. Mike embraces this philosophy in everyone of his songs, parody and original tunes alike.
For more information on Dino-Mike please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.dino-mike.com
Flat 29 are Dan, Rich and Charlie - comedy musicians from the UK who make beautiful and silly music together. They also do a podcast in which they write and record new comedy songs every fortnight. This very high turnover of new material is all part of their everlasting quest to throw just enough sh*t at the wall in the hope that some of it sticks. In any case, there will probably have to be a lot of cleaning up of the wall in question and surrounding areas afterwards, which noone is looking forward to..
For more information on Flat 29 please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.flat29.com
A mild mannered organic chemistry grad student woke up one morning in 1993 from a strange and wonderful dream. He was standing amid the bloodied corpses of the Indigo Girls, Joni Mitchell, and John Mayer. His hands were wrapped around the throat of James Taylor....and it was all GOOOOD! So he went out bought a devil suit and an acoustic guitar, stuffed a sock in his crotch, and started gigging. His mission: To jump into the same pool as James Taylor and the Indigo Girls and take a whiz....and whiz he did!
Flibbertigibbet is a now 39 and playing out of Long Beach, CA. His interests include frogs, organic chemistry,pissing people off, and trying to get more sex and he has written songs about all of the above.. His dislikes are too numerous to count, but he has resolved to write catchy acoustic tunes about every single one of them as well before the great Cthulu callls him home.
Often called the greatest band ever to come out of Cypress California, they were formed as an emissary of comedy rock to the world. On television, they have appeared on EXTRA and G4's "Attack of the Show" and The Travel Channel's "America's Worst Driver". They have played in venues such as The Improv, The Ice House and The Carpenter Performing Arts Center. Hot Waffles has also performed live with Dr. Demento and has appeared on his nationally syndicated radio show. The brothers and their music were also featured in the independent documentary film "The People vs. George Lucas"
Jesse Smith is a writer, producer and manager for Morning Sidekick, which provides daily prep, jokes, song parodies and produced audio comedy bits for radio station morning shows.
He maintains a successful career despite suffering from Human Condition, an affliction in which most of the brain is wired wrong. In addition, experts suspect that his body is made of minute particles, which themselves are composed of smaller bits which technically don't physically "exist" except as probability waves. If reflected upon overmuch, this can cause nausea and occasional sneezing.
Jonathan Coulton is the Contributing Troubadour for Popular Science magazine and the musical director for John Hodgman’s Little Gray Book Lectures. He recently accompanied Hodgman on his book tour, singing songs about hobos and furry lobsters, all while wearing a funny hat. His songs about vengeful nerds, ennui-afflicted clowns, self-loathing giant squids, and devotees of a certain Swedish prefab furniture store are insanely clever without ever being too clever for their own good. They repeatedly lure you into laughing before suddenly breaking your heart. And the sick part is, you keep coming back. Coulton's is the voice of every spooky elementary school kid who could never quite keep his shirt tucked in or shoes tied; every lovelorn mason and mad scientist; every one of us who has ever sat despairingly on the floor, surrounded by parts of an Ikea endtable, weeping over our allen wrenches.
Kobi LaCroix is a graphic artist, sandwich maker, mustache farmer, amateur Christmas tree impersonator, and interim sheriff of Saturn…and he writes funny music occasionally. He may also be a two-headed fox-shaped lava monster, depending on which dimension of time and space you meet him in.
For more information on Kobi LaCroix please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.zencavern.com
Cats. Sci Fi. Renaissance Festivals. Irish drinking songs. Nowhere else but from the bizarre imagination of Marc Gunn would those four elements be so neatly integrated. Nicknamed “The Celtfather”, Marc Gunn is a champion of the Celtic MP3. He has given away over 10,000,000 MP3s since he began his Celtic music career in 1999. He allows fans to download and share his most-popular songs straight from his website for FREE!
In a town famous for almost every musical genre except Celtic music, Marc Gunn has raised the bar and held it high. Using the musical past and a vivid imagination bolstered with ambition and drive, he blazes trails from terra firma to cyberspace, encouraging others to follow.
For more information on Marc Gunn please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.marcgunn.com/
MC Lars makes "post-punk laptop rap". He has been called nerdcore and has been played on Dr. Demento's show, but isn't quite sure where the hell he fits in.
For more information on MC Lars please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.mclars.com
We are a Chaotic Cooperative of Comedy Performers from the adult entertainment and aeronautics underworlds.
Our lyricist and puppet master, Spaff, solicits appearances from the brightest stars in the music galaxy. When they say no, he enlists members of the FuMP.
Cosmonaut Coups include Cameo Pieces by "Weird Al" Yankovic and Radio Hall of Famer Dr. Demento - and a rare posthumous performance by Karen Carpenter.
Our name comes from a Tom Smith song. Our first two choices ("The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus" and "Yanni") were already taken.
Our Collective Comeliness has been Captured by Pinup artist Andrew Bawidamann.
For more information on Moneyshot Cosmonauts please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.spaff.com
MORNING SIDEKICK is an internationally syndicated radio comedy service for morning DJs that regularly puts out song parodies across many music formats. If you heard the parody of James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" called "My Cubicle", it was probably the one produced by Morning Sidekick.
Nuclear Bubble Wrap is an alternative rock band from Nashville, Tennessee. Their songs tend to span a variety of subjects, poking fun at pop culture and using excessive amounts of wordplay. Although most of their songs are original pieces, they also occasionally do song parodies, and have targeted such acts as The Beatles, My Chemical Romance, and Green Day.
Ookla the Mok is one of America's most popular nerd-rock bands. They're from Buffalo, New York, but they play at science fiction and comic book conventions all over North America. They wrote and performed the theme to Disney's Fillmore cartoon, they scored the feature film Bite Me, Fanboy, and their songs have been featured in the award-winning short films Lorem Ipsum and Because You Demanded It. Their song F. People spent six weeks at the top of Dr. Demento's Funny Five chart in 2005.
Paul and Storm are a comedy music duo from the Washington, DC area. They have been performing together since 2004; prior to that, they were half of the a cappella band Da Vinci's Notebook. The duo are regular contributors to the nationally-syndicated Bob and Tom Show, and their work has been featured on Comedy Central, Dr. Demento, and homestarrunner.com.
They are also ninjas, and are developing a home improvement show based on the exclusive use of soy products and cheeseburgers (no onions).
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"Look, Positive Attitude have come in here and basically hijacked the FuMP. They CONSTANTLY take up coveted slots and suck revenues away from us other artists that were on the FuMP before them. And with what? CHIPMUNK SONGS? I could fart in a mic and it'd be better "music"!"~ Seamonkey
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Would you like the idea of Bach done as a hoedown? Coldplay performing the “Chicken Dance” at a wedding? No, of course not. These are the regrettable ideas of Project Sisyphus—a deranged muscial creation from session keyboardist/producer Bob Emmet, who was looking for new ways to lose money between gigs. Featuring a growing assortment of singers (none ever seem to want to come back), the first CD, “Finding Emo” was completed in September of 2007. For reasons nobody can explain, the first single, “Me And You And A Dog Snafu” has been featured on Dr. Demento and debuted at #5 on Dave Tanny’s Dementia Top 20 podcast. Unfortunately, other releases are bound to follow.
Rob Balder first gained notoriety as the creator of the comic strip PartiallyClips (then later as author of the webcomic Erfworld). But he is also a fabulously funny and talented filk singer. He performs regularly at science fiction conventions, where he can be seen belting out such hits as "Always A Goth Chick" and "Sympathy for George Lucas. "With two CDs and a Pegasus award under his belt, the sky is the limit for Rob's offshoot musical career. He is the progenitor of the Funny Music Project.
He also has an English degree, which makes him immensely comfortable with words like "progenitor."
For more information on Rob Balder please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.robbalder.com
The Seamonkey began ruining people's favourite songs ca. 1995 just to be a spoilsport. Now, a local legend*, the Seamonkey can be found unleashing his "musical taboo" in extremely small local venues in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. If you like your parody music disturbing or just like to punish your neighbor with mediocre singing, Seamonkey Music is not just a thrill, it's a necessity!
Steve Goodie is, in all modesty and candor, the genius of our age. Comedian, writer, singer, director and producer, Steve was a founding member of Monty Python and has written scripts for Sid Caesar, Woody Allen, Mahatma Gandhi, Matt Groening, and Queen Elizabeth (for which he was knighted in 1972 at the unprecedented age of six). The Beatles credit much of their fame to his early studio work, during which he developed their recording sound with his apprentice, George Martin. His film scores and theatre work need no introduction, and he became a household word with his ground-breaking recording of The Biggest Belch In The History Of Man. It is a tribute to his humility that, on the suggestion of his long-time fan and sometime paramour Liz Taylor, he entered the Federal Witness Protection Program and began a new career, "to level the playing field," as he put it, "for the other idiots trying to make it in Show Business."
The Boobles is a comedy music project created solely to raise money for breast cancer research for treatment and a cure, through the ultimate trifecta of the timeless music of The Beatles, the power of comedy, and that which has captivated man for centuries… boobs!
For more information on The Boobles please visit the artist's web site at:
http://www.theboobles.org
Chris Waffle is branching out into uncharted comedy music territory. He invites you to come along for the ride. PLEASE NOTE: Ass, gas or cash, no one rides for free.
Tony Goldmark has been recording and releasing comedy music since age 13. He has released four albums (soon to be five), one of which under the name "Flying Like Wilma" for some reason. He also has his own wacky web review series about the Disney parks, "Some Jerk With A Camera" (at somejerkwithacamera.blip.tv)
Tony has no official website, but you can follow him on Twitter at @tonygoldmark.
Toyboat is a filk rock band from various places in the midwest. They are, Mike Nixon - Lead Guitar, Jason Neerenberg - Bass and Guitar, gundo - nearly every instrument that a rock band can contain, Eric Coleman-Drums and Guitar, and David M. Stowell - Keyboards. Everyone but David sings (we'll work on him, he's new), Mike writes most of the songs. Their live shows got them a Pegasus Award nomination for Best Performer this year (2010). They have played at conventions all over the midwest the last couple of years, and have appeared everywhere from main stages to room parties (their room party shows at Marscon have been particularly raucous). Their songs run the gamut from serious SF hard rock songs to deconstructions of classic filk songs to evil, evil parodies (Mike is a bad bad man). The intention is to get more of the parodies recorded and up here on the Fump. In the meantime quickly repeat after me TOYBOAT TOYBOAT TOYBOAT !!!
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