Adam Schlesinger To Write For The Colbert Report • No, not as a joke writer. But Adam Schlesinger does continue to write awesome songs for fun things. Adding to his resumé as Oscar, Golden Globe, Tony, and of course Grammy nominated songwriter, the Fountains Of Wayne singer-guitarist revealed to Paste he will pen tunes for The Colbert Report's Christmas Special. This is great news because Adam's songs got it going on ("Stacy's Mom" reference) and also because there will be a Colbert Report Christmas Special. More on why Adam wins at film and TV songwriting: this. (via Whit)
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Tags: Adam Schlesinger | Fountains Of Wayne | Stephen Colbert
This is a marriage made in heaven. The wittiest comedian on television and the wittiest song writer in the world unite to form a twisted supergroup. I can't wait.
However, Adam didn't write "Pop! Goes My Heart" for the film, Music and Lyrics. However, he did write "Meaningless Kiss," "Don't Write Me Off," and "Way Back into Love" for the film.
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Every word of your comment is true. Thanks Stuart.
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Not too surprising: Adam co-wrote the music for the Broadway show Cry-Baby with The Daily Show's executive producer, David Javerbaum. He was already in the family.
I just hope Adam's songs can live up to the high bar Colbert himself set for musical excellence with his 80's ode to stalking, Charlene.
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Hey Jay Leno, thanks for explaining your joke.
By the way, Fountains of Wayne's self-titled record was so good! ("Sink to the Bottom," etc.)
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For the record that's my homey Mike Viola singing 'That Thing You Do', he and Adam produced the song together. Mike deserves more than a little credit for the final product being as amazing as it is.
Not to take anything remotely away from Mr. Schlesinger, just...appending. 'Twas a collaboration, in essence.
Mike also wrote a bunch of tracks for the seriously underrated Dewey Cox movie.
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Javerbaum is doing the lyrics on this one as well. Schlesinger is writing the tunes.
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