2012

Garfunkel and Oates interview ComedyFest Vancouver 2012

Photo by Chad Nicholson

Photo by Chad Nicholson

Garfunkel and Oates are a pair of L.A.-based actresses/comics who make up songs like “Pregnant Women Are Smug” and “This Party Took a Turn for the Douche” and post them on YouTube, where they receive hundreds of thousands of views.  We caught up with them as they were driving into Portland, feeling a little flustered because Micucci had lost her laptop somewhere between Los Angeles and the Portland airport.  Read more...

Garfunkel and Oates - Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant 2012

Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome, best known as Garfunkel and Oates, reveal whose love life inspires most of their songs and give us a brief sample of what they would perform at the Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant 2012. They also talk about how fans always expect them to be together and share what other comedians performing that night they were most excited to see.

Garfunkel and Oates talk about their goals, song process and “Making It”

They may have taken on the monikers of the lesser-heralded halves of two famous musical duos, but don't let their band name fool you. Garfunkel and Oates isn't playing second fiddle to anyone. In fact, that's a ukulele that Kate Micucci plays. Not a fiddle. And Micucci and her singing partner, Riki Lindhome, are on the rise -- this weekend, they're celebrating their first Half Hour Comedy Central special and playing to the big festival crowds in Tennessee at Bonnaroo.

It seemed as though they already are enjoying the good life, as they spoke with The Comic's Comic last week by phone. "We're in the middle of the ocean," they told me. "Actually, we're in a restaurant." On Catalina Island, off the coast of southern California.  Read more...