The Organist
Episode 70: A New Career in a New Town
SNL’s Kyle Mooney on the art of crafting a three-dimensional bro impersonation and the ways in which the act of uploading a video to YouTube constitutes character development. Also: David J, the bassist of Bauhaus, follows a harmonica line from a jukebox playing "Groovin’ With Mr. Bloe” all the way into David Bowie’s afterlife.
By Andrew Leland • • 21m ListenKyle Mooney grew up in San Diego, and many of his characters resemble hilariously contradictory and authentic depressive SoCal bros and antisocial, tenderhearted high school goths. In this interview, he talks about the deep YouTube research he does to produce the perfectly pitched homemade videos he makes for Saturday Night Live. Also: David J, the bassist from Bauhaus and Love and Rockets, recounts an uncanny encounter with David Bowie, where a single harmonica line spans the ages, from a jukebox in 1971 into the afterlife.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdwchohlMjI
Image: Film still from The Hunger (1983), dir. Tony Scott
