Dog On Fire
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| song name | Dog on Fire |
| artist | They Might Be Giants |
| releases | TMBG Instant Fan Club 2019, TMBG Instant Fan Club 2024 |
| year | 2000 |
| first played | March 2, 2005 (1 known performance) |
| run time | 2:02 |
| sung by |  Instrumental
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Trivia/Info
- Also called "The Daily Show Theme", this song was written by Bob Mould, who performed the version that was used as the theme to The Daily Show during Craig Kilborn's tenure as host. A little less than a year and a half after Jon Stewart took over the show, it was supplanted with this TMBG recording. After premiering on April 10, 2000, the recording would used as the opening theme until 2016, and as the closing theme until late 2003. John Flansburgh recalled being brought in to redo the theme in a 2016 interview[1]:
We found ourselves very much out of obligations and just started looking around for TV work. And the first thing we did was for ABC. They had big budgetary constraints, and they heard some orchestral stuff we did for ‘This American Life,’ maybe? I’m not really sure. So we did all these sorts of fake John Williams' cues for this ‘Nightline’ science series, and they were completely bombastic. That gave the producers at the ‘Daily Show’ the idea to get us to do their music package. They were sitting in a room scouring through news programs every day, and I’m sure they saw in the credits, ‘bombastic news music by They Might Be Giants’ and thought, ‘This is a perfect match: people who have a sense of humor but who can also give the veneer of real fake news music to our show.’ And that’s what we were brought on for. And then we just redid the theme.
- There are multiple versions of the song. Since 2004, the show featured a unique re-recording used as the closing credits of The Daily Show, which was released on Podcast 47. As of 2013, the band still received royalties from the original recording[2].
Song Themes
Animals, Fire, TMBG Remakes, TV And Movie Themes
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