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Starbomb
Starbomb was an American musical-comedy group composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of musical-comedy duo Ninja Sex Party together with Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson and "space rock masters" TWRP, a Canadian music group known for collaborations with NSP. The songs of Starbomb consist of video game parodies; Avidan provides sung vocals, Hanson provides rapping vocals, and Wecht performs instruments. All three are also known as a part of YouTube Let's Play web series ''Game Grumps''. The group released three studio albums, '' Starbomb'' (2013), ''Player Select'' (2014) and ''The TryForce'' (2019). Starbomb has also released several music videos, which occasionally feature known Internet, film, and video game fandom personalities such as Markiplier and Ashly Burch. Although the project was not announced until 2013, Hanson stated that the band had actually been formed "way before", without specifying when. History Formation and ''Starbomb'' (2013) In summer ...
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Starbomb (album)
''Starbomb'' is the eponymous debut studio album by American comedy supergroup Starbomb, composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of American comedy rock duo Ninja Sex Party and Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson. Starbomb brings together the mostly sexually provocative musical stylings of Ninja Sex Party and the video game-based humor of Hanson. The album was released on December 17, 2013. Starbomb later collaborated on a second album, ''Player Select'', released on December 16, 2014. Background Shortly after Avidan joined ''Game Grumps'' in June 2013, fan speculation and leaks hinted at Avidan working on a new music project with Wecht and Hanson. Fans also discovered earlier hints about the band before Dan joined, as well. Avidan stated during his guest appearance on the July 12, 2013 stream of Polaris video gaming show ''Friendzone!'' that he was thinking of names for a new music project he was starting with Wecht. Promotion ''Starbomb'' was, eventually, unv ...
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Player Select
''Player Select'' is the second studio album by American comedy supergroup Starbomb, composed of Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht of American comedy duo Ninja Sex Party and Flash animator and Internet personality Arin Hanson. The album was released December 16, 2014 on iTunes, Amazon Music, Spotify and CDBaby. Following in the direction of the previous album, ''Player Select'' is mostly a video game parody album featuring the often-provocative adult comedy of Ninja Sex Party and incorporating the video-game humor of Hanson. Background Starbomb was a very hinted-at project with leaks and rumors circulating in June and July 2013 shortly after Avidan joined the online Let's Play webseries ''Game Grumps''. It was half-confirmed by Avidan during his guest appearance on the July 12, 2013, stream of Polaris video gaming show ''Friendzone!'', stating that he was thinking of names for a new music project he was starting with Brian Wecht, his partner in Ninja Sex Party. Due to the majority o ...
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Arin Hanson
Arin Hanson (born January 6, 1987), also known by the pseudonym Egoraptor, is an American YouTuber, actor, rapper, and animator. He is well-known for his Flash cartoons, as well as being the co-founder and co-star of the popular YouTube Let's Play series ''Game Grumps''. Hanson has created numerous shorts and web series on Newgrounds and YouTube, including ''The Awesome Series'', which parodies video game franchises like ''Pokémon'' and ''Metal Gear'', and ''Sequelitis'', a series of animated video essays in which he humorously compares a video game and one of its sequels. He has also voice-acted for television and video games. He regularly collaborates with Ninja Sex Party, a musical comedy duo consisting of ''Game Grumps'' co-host Dan Avidan and Brian Wecht, with whom he formed the video game-based parody musical trio Starbomb. Early life Arin Hanson was born to Lloyd and Maurette Hanson on January 6, 1987 in Margate, Florida. For a few years, his family lived in New Hampshi ...
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Brian Wecht
Brian Alexander Wecht, also known by his character name Ninja Brian, is an American musician, Internet personality and theoretical physicist. He is best known as a member of comedy musical duo Ninja Sex Party and video game-based comedy music trio Starbomb. He has also been a past member of the affiliated Let's Play webseries ''Game Grumps'', all three alongside Dan Avidan. Wecht originally worked as a theoretical physicist, and notably held research positions at Harvard University, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Michigan, and the Queen Mary University of London. Specialized in particle physics, his work included research on string theory, supersymmetry, and quantum field theory. He retired in 2015, choosing to join ''Game Grumps'' while focusing on his musical career. He is also the co-creator of ''The Story Collider'', a science-based story telling podcast recorded in front of a live audience. In Ninja Sex Par ...
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Dan Avidan
Leigh Daniel Avidan (born March 14, 1979), also known by his stage name Danny Sexbang, is an American musician, Internet personality, comedian, songwriter, actor and record producer. He is one half of the musical comedy duo Ninja Sex Party with Brian Wecht, as well as the co-host of the Let's Play (video gaming), Let's Play webseries ''Game Grumps'' with Arin Hanson. He is also part of the video game-based comedy music trio Starbomb with Hanson and Wecht, and the vocalist for the rock duo Shadow Academy, known for its inspiration from classic novels, alongside Jim Roach (producer), Jim Roach. Early life and education Avidan was born and raised in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey, Springfield, New Jersey, the elder child of Debra ( Schwartz) and Avigdor Avidan. His father was born and raised in Israel, and served in the Yom Kippur War before immigrating to America where he met Avidan's mother. His younger sister, Dana Avidan Cohn, is the executive style director of Po ...
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Ninja Sex Party
Ninja Sex Party (often abbreviated as NSP) is an American musical comedy duo consisting of singer Dan Avidan and keyboardist Brian Wecht. They formed in 2009 in New York City and are currently based in Los Angeles. They are also known as two thirds of the video game-based musical trio Starbomb, together with frequent collaborator Arin Hanson. Avidan joined Hanson's YouTube Let's Play webseries ''Game Grumps'' as co-host in 2013. The work of Ninja Sex Party typically consists of rock or synth-pop-oriented humorous songs, frequently on the topics of sex, seduction, love or fantasy, with Avidan and Wecht respectively portraying the characters of Danny Sexbang, an idiotic, exuberant, hypersexual Jewish man constantly trying to hit on women, and Ninja Brian, an uncommunicative, homicidal ninja with erectile dysfunction. However, their ''Under the Covers'' cover album series that began in 2016 saw them take on a non-comedic approach to music for the first time, covering songs from ...
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Tupper Ware Remix Party
TWRP (pronounced ''twerp''), formerly known as Tupper Ware Remix Party, is a Canadian rock band originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Initially founded in 2007, the band moved to Toronto in 2011 with a change in members and musical direction. Their lineup consists of keyboardist and vocalist Doctor Sung, guitarist Lord Phobos, bassist Commander Meouch, and drummer Havve Hogan. The band always performs in full costume, with their faces and real names unknown; they also have a fictional band history, involving Doctor Sung finding his bandmates through space and time. TWRP released their first album, ''Poised to Dominate'', in 2010. It was followed by ''The Device'' (2012), ''Ladyworld'' (2017), ''Together Through Time'' (2018), ''Return to Wherever'' (2019), ''Over the Top'' (2020), and ''New & Improved'' (2021). They have also released six EPs. They are also known for their collaborations with Ninja Sex Party, having become their opening act and backing band in 2015 on both liv ...
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TWRP (band)
TWRP (pronounced ''twerp''), formerly known as Tupper Ware Remix Party, is a Canadian rock band originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Initially founded in 2007, the band moved to Toronto in 2011 with a change in members and musical direction. Their lineup consists of keyboardist and vocalist Doctor Sung, guitarist Lord Phobos, bassist Commander Meouch, and drummer Havve Hogan. The band always performs in full costume, with their faces and real names unknown; they also have a fictional band history, involving Doctor Sung finding his bandmates through space and time. TWRP released their first album, ''Poised to Dominate'', in 2010. It was followed by ''The Device'' (2012), ''Ladyworld'' (2017), ''Together Through Time'' (2018), ''Return to Wherever'' (2019), ''Over the Top'' (2020), and ''New & Improved'' (2021). They have also released six EPs. They are also known for their collaborations with Ninja Sex Party, having become their opening act and backing band in 2015 on both liv ...
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Rachel Bloom
Rachel Leah Bloom (born April 3, 1987) is an American actress, comedian, writer, singer, and producer. She is best known for co-creating and starring as Rebecca Bunch in The CW musical comedy-drama series ''Crazy Ex-Girlfriend'' (2015–2019), for which she received numerous accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a TCA Award, a Critics' Choice Television Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Bloom first became known for her YouTube comedy music videos, including the Hugo Award-nominated video " Fuck Me, Ray Bradbury". She has also appeared in films, including ''Most Likely to Murder'' (2018), ''The Angry Birds Movie 2'' (2019), '' Trolls World Tour'' (2020), '' Bar Fight!'' (2022), and ''The School for Good and Evil (2022) Early life Bloom was born on April 3, 1987, in Los Angeles County, California, and grew up in Manhattan Beach. She is the only child of Shelli (née Rosenberg), a musician, and Alan Bloom, a healthcare lawyer. She is Jewish. Bloom attended Manhatta ...
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Comedy Music
Comedy music or musical comedy is a genre of music that is comic or humorous in nature. Its history can be traced back to the first century in ancient Greece and Rome, moving forward in time to the Medieval Period, Classical and Romantic eras, and the 20th century. Artists in the 20th century include Allan Sherman, Frank Zappa, Tiny Tim, Barenaked Ladies, Randy Newman, and "Weird Al" Yankovic. Artists in the 21st century include Tenacious D, Flight of the Conchords, The Lonely Island, Ninja Sex Party and The Axis of Awesome. Comedy music is often associated with counterculture, due to the subversive messages it displays. This informative nature of comedy music also contributes to the improvement of learning inside and outside the classroom. Forms of entertainment like musical theatre often incorporate comedy music as well. To create comic effects in music, Composers have developed several principal compositional techniques, including the use of comic text, musical parod ...
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Game Grumps
''Game Grumps'' is an American Let's Play web series hosted by Arin Hanson and Dan Avidan. Created in 2012 by co-hosts Hanson and Jon Jafari, the series centers around its hosts playing video games. After Jafari left the show in 2013 to focus on his own YouTube webseries, ''JonTron'', he was succeeded by Avidan. Since Jafari's departure, the channel has expanded to include other hosts, besides the main two, who have floated in and out of the channel over time as a part of spin-off shows. Those include Ross O'Donovan, Barry Kramer, Suzy Berhow, and Brian Wecht, as well as various guest hosts. , ''Game Grumps'' has over 5.35 million subscribers and over 6.2 billion total video views. ''Game Grumps'' have also developed and published two of their own video games, '' Dream Daddy: A Dad Dating Simulator'' and ''Soviet Jump Game'', as well as writing the young adult novels ''Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and the Secret of the Grande Chateau'' and ''Ghost Hunters Adventure Club and t ...
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Google
Google LLC () is an American Multinational corporation, multinational technology company focusing on Search Engine, search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, software, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and Computer hardware, consumer electronics. It has been referred to as "the most powerful company in the world" and one of the world's List of most valuable brands, most valuable brands due to its market dominance, data collection, and technological advantages in the area of artificial intelligence. Its parent company Alphabet Inc., Alphabet is considered one of the Big Tech, Big Five American information technology companies, alongside Amazon (company), Amazon, Apple Inc., Apple, Meta Platforms, Meta, and Microsoft. Google was founded on September 4, 1998, by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Doctor of Philosophy, PhD students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14% of its publicl ...
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