Garfunkel and Oates is a comedy-folk

Folk music

Folk music is an English term encompassing both traditional folk music and contemporary folk music. The term originated in the 19th century. Traditional folk music has been defined in several ways: as music transmitted by mouth, as music of the lower classes, and as music with unknown composers....

 duo from Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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, consisting of actress-songwriters Kate Micucci

Kate Micucci

Kate Micucci born March 31, 1980) is an American actress, comedian and singer-songwriter, whose first major television exposure was as Stephanie Gooch in Scrubs, and later as Shelly in Raising Hope...

 (Oates) and Riki Lindhome

Riki Lindhome

Riki Lindhome is an American actress and musician. She is best known for television roles in shows including Gilmore Girls, House, The Big Bang Theory and United States of Tara and is also one half of the musical comedy duo Garfunkel And Oates...

 (Garfunkel). The two met at the Upright Citizens Brigade

Upright Citizens Brigade

The Upright Citizens Brigade is an improvisational comedy and sketch comedy group that emerged from Chicago's ImprovOlympic in 1990. The most recent incarnation consists of Matt Besser, Amy Poehler, Ian Roberts, and Matt Walsh...

 theatre in Los Angeles, where they were introduced to one another by comic Doug Benson

Doug Benson

Douglas Steven "Doug" Benson is an American stand-up comedian and actor who has appeared on Comedy Central Presents, Best Week Ever and was a contestant on Last Comic Standing in the show's fifth season....

. The duet was formed when they started working together to turn a short film made by Lindhome, entitled "Imaginary Larry

Imaginary Larry

Imaginary Larry is a 2009 short film co-directed by Riki Lindhome and Dori Oskowitz and starring Riki Lindhome, Kate Micucci, Malcom Barrett, Ryan Devlin, Christopher Stewart.-Plot:...

", into a musical. Lindhome hails from Portville, New York

Portville, New York

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; Micucci is from Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Nazareth, Pennsylvania

Nazareth is a borough in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, in the United States. The population was 6,023 at the 2000 census.Nazareth is located seven miles northwest of Easton, four miles north of Bethlehem and twelve miles northeast of Allentown...

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In February 2009, the Garfunkel and Oates song "Fuck You" (reworked as "Screw You") was featured in the Scrubs

Scrubs (TV series)

Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...

episode "My Lawyer's In Love" which featured Micucci in a supporting role. In March 2009, Micucci announced in a bulletin on MySpace

MySpace

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 that the two had entered the studio to record an EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

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Their video "Sex With Ducks" that parodies arguments against same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage is marriage between two persons of the same biological sex or social gender. Supporters of legal recognition for same-sex marriage typically refer to such recognition as marriage equality....

 has been featured on such diverse media outlets as Buzzflash.com, FOX's "The O'Reilly Factor", HuffingtonPost.com, and others.

Other songs include "Me, You, and Steve", a song about being on a date with a guy, but his best friend keeps showing up; "Pregnant Women Are Smug", which parodies the comments women make when pregnant; and "Present Face", about the face that people make when they get a Christmas present they really don't like.

The band gets their name from "two famous rock-and-roll second bananas", Art Garfunkel

Art Garfunkel

Arthur Ira "Art" Garfunkel is an American singer-songwriter, poet, and actor, best known as being a member of the folk duo Simon & Garfunkel...

 and John Oates

John Oates

John William Oates is an American rock, R&B and soul guitarist, musician, songwriter and producer best known as half of the rock and soul duo Hall & Oates ....

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On December 14, 2009, Garfunkel and Oates were on the Jay Leno Show to perform their song "Year End Letter." On The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, they have performed "Pregnant Women Are Smug" on March 12, 2010, and "Self-Esteem" on May 18, 2010. In late October 2010, they performed "Weed Card" on The Tonight Show.

On December 9, 2010, the women announced on YouTube that they are coming out with a new album entitled "All Over Your Face."

On January 13, 2011, Garfunkel and Oates signed a deal with HBO for a pilot

Television pilot

A "television pilot" is a standalone episode of a television series that is used to sell the show to a television network. At the time of its inception, the pilot is meant to be the "testing ground" to see if a series will be possibly desired and successful and therefore a test episode of an...

 for their own show. Lindhome has described it as "Glee

Glee (TV series)

Glee is an American musical comedy-drama television series that airs on Fox in the United States, and on GlobalTV in Canada. It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues...

with dick jokes".

External links

• Official site
• Garfunkel and Oates on MySpace
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