Scott Bush

No, not the small, green fruit—I’m talking about the comedic musical duo from New Zealand, Brit and Germain. Stop reading this and immediately watch one of my favorite songs:

I could embed a lot more, but why don’t you go see them all for yourself? I highly recommend “The Humans R Dead” (ecstatic robots celebrate after the “uprising”; listen for the “binary solo”), “Business Time” (a deluded, long-married husband who thinks he’s Barry White), and for those LOTR fans out there, “Frodo, Don’t Wear the Ring.” (One lyrical excerpt bears mentioning despite its language: “I don’t rap about bitches and hos, I rap about witches and trolls.” Good stuff!)

The folk comedy group now has a show on HBO that constructs elaborate plots around their songs, which are done in music-video style. Some of the links on YouTube are from live performances, others are from the show. Both versions are worth watching as sometimes they differ slightly.