Mike Schur really wanted to dial it into, like: They’re not terrible. What was your model for Andy and his band’s style? I was the kind of person they were looking for. I didn’t come from the more stuffy world of orchestral composing or whatever. Yeah, I guess because I had a comedy background and also one playing in rock bands. Were you mainly brought in to write the songs for Andy and Mouse Rat? We all had a lot of mutual friends in the comedy world. My friend Tom Gianas brought me into that gig. How did you get the job on Parks and Rec?Īziz Ansari brought me in because I had done some songs for some of the later seasons of Human Giant. (He also wrote anchorman Perd Hapley’s theme song and the tunes on Andy’s TV show, Johnny Karate.)įollowing last night’s special, we caught up with Rivers to discuss how he landed the Parks and Rec gig, what it was like writing for Andy, and why the show is still so special. He wrote-and performed-most of Mouse Rat’s-Andy’s band-songs on Parks and Recreation, and even played Andy’s drummer onscreen. Show with Bob and David-which led to a rich dual career of writing comedy scripts as well as comedy songs for shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, Kroll Show, and Big Mouth. Cross wound up asking him to write the theme song for HBO’s sketch show Mr. Rivers got his start playing in rock bands in Boston, where he met a bunch of what he calls “young, struggling comics” like David Cross, Marc Maron, and Janeane Garofalo. The biggest emotional wallop of last night’s Parks and Recreation Special was arguably the entire cast singing along to the song Andy Dwyer (Chris Pratt) wrote in tribute to miniature horse and Pawnee legend Li’l Sebastian: “5000 Candles in the Wind.” The real-life songwriter who made that catchy, absurd, now nostalgically moving ballad is Mark Rivers.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. Archives
December 2022
Categories |