Heywood Banks
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Heywood Banks is an American
United States
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 comedian
Comedy
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, and writer and performer of humorous songs.

His songs include "Toast", "Fly's Eyes", "Wiper Blades", "Pancreas", "Big Butter Jesus" (a song about the King of Kings statue), and "18 Wheels (on a Big Rig)".

Heywood frequently appears on the nationally syndicated radio
Radio
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 program The Bob and Tom Show. His most popular and widely-known song is called "Toast," (played on a toaster with a pair of forks). Another recurring song that B&T occasionally play is "Trauma to the Groin."

Banks' "The Revenge Song" (also known as "You Can Be Mean to Me") was performed on American Idol
American Idol
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on 1/16/07 by an "urban Amish" singer called Troy. Heywood did several spots for Mike's Express Car Wash, owned by Michael Krinn of Fort Wayne, IN, in 2007: "Man my car was dirty, with salt and slush and mud. Someone wrote with their finger in the back window crud: 'Mike's Me!'"

Banks lives near Flint, Michigan
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Albums

  • If Pigs Had Wings
  • Treated and Released
  • Picky Picky Picky
  • difErnt
  • Pretending I'm Not Home
  • Big Butter

Television appearances

  • A & E
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    's Evening at The Improv
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    with Richard Moll
    Richard Moll
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  • A & E
    A&E Network
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    's Evening at The Improv
    The Improv
    The Improv is a comedy club franchise. Originally, it was a single venue founded in 1963 by Budd Friedman and located in the Hell's Kitchen neighborhood of New York City on West 44th near the SE corner of 9th Ave. A second location was opened in 1974 at 8162 Melrose Avenue in the Fairfax District...

    with John Davidson
    John Davidson (entertainer)
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  • 6 MTV
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     Big @!#% Shows
  • MTV
    MTV
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     ½ Hour Comedy Hour
  • CNN
    CNN
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     Hollywood Minute
    Hollywood Minute
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  • Caroline's Comedy Hour
  • Entertainment Tonight
    Entertainment Tonight
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  • Showtime Comedy
    Comedy
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     Club Network
  • 12th Annual HBO Young Comedians Special with Paul Rodriguez
    Paul Rodríguez
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  • Harmony House TV Commercials

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