Famous Fans

Fans of TMBG who are well-known or sort of well-known. This page will hopefully lead Wikians onto other authors, musicians, and artists they might like -- sort of a general review of everything cool in American culture, linked together by John and John.

• Danny Baker - UK DJ (DJ of the Year 2004) and comedy writer.
• Barenaked Ladies - Is stated that They Might be Giants is an influence for them. As so stated on the iTunes biography page.
• Frank Black - Pixies frontman
• Orson Scott Card - "Oh, I love They Might Be Giants. I just don't think of them by their initials. Mystery solved. Thanks." - After being told what TMBG stood for in a username on his online forum.
• The Brothers Chaps - Creators of Homestar Runner. They are fans of TMBG, and TMBG are fans of them. They worked with TMBG on some stuff for their site.
• Stephen Colbert - One of the very first episodes of The Colbert Report had a quick TMBG reference, his affiliation with Jon Stewart's show (Jon Stewart is friends with the band), his mysterious appearance in the People Are Wrong program, and the fact that they all reside in New York all point to some sort of affiliation.
• Elvis Costello - Stated that he likes Youth Culture Killed My Dog. He also came close to producing Apollo 18.
• David Cross - actor, comedian
• Dave Eggers - author, publishing mogul
• Glenn Eichler - creator and co-executive producer of Daria
• Paul Feig - Creator of Freaks and Geeks. Quoted Number Three in book Kick Me.
• Jake Fogelnest - Host of "Squirt TV" on MTV. Minimum Wage was the theme song, and he was often wearing TMBG shirts on his show.
• Neil Gaiman - author
• Gallo's Underground - band, states TMBG was one of their influences
• Janeane Garofalo - actor, comedian
• Dave Gorman - documentary comedian. "A fantastic and incredibly prolific band. Good tunes and silly songs that aren't really silly" (from the links page on his site). Favourite albums are Flood and Lincoln.
• Rupert Grint - as Ron Weasley in Harry Potter films. (Said about I Am Not Your Broom) "Cool track"
• Mark Hoppus - bassist of Blink 182
• Rob Malda - "CmdrTaco" of Slashdot fame, one of the world's most visited news sites.
• Michael McKean - Appears on Gigantic reciting The End Of The Tour and in the extras performing I Palindrome I. On the DVD commentary AJ Schnack mentions that McKean needed no prompting or rehearsal to recite the lyrics to these.
• Chris Morris - British comedian. Played many TMBG songs whilst working as a DJ on Radio 1 and GLR in the early nineties, including Kiss Me, Son Of God and We Want A Rock. Did a pastiche of the band (to the tune of Dead for a GLR jingle. A snippet from Minimum Wage can also be heard in a sketch from the 1991 Radio 4 series, On The Hour, which Morris presented.
• Mike Myers - Attended the 10-02-04 Irving Plaza show. "Mr. Mike Myers came backstage to say hello and got into the battle of the Scottish accents with Mr. Speiser." - From Dan Miller's show comments.
• Conan O'Brien - funny, funny man. TMBG occasionally appear on his show, and he appeared in Gigantic.
• Terry Pratchett - author of the Discworld series, which once featured an all-dwarf rock band called "We're Certainly Dwarves"
• Andy Richter - Former sidekick for Conan O'Brien, appeared in Gigantic reciting lyrics to I Should Be Allowed To Think
• Adam Schlesinger - of Fountains of Wayne, Ivy, and "That Thing You Do" fame
• Harry Shearer - Was spotted backstage at a TMBG show by AJ Schnack and performs They Might Be Giants (The Song) in the Gigantic film.
• Al Stewart - Scottish folk singer of "Year of the Cat" (top ten in US and UK, 1976) and more, heard praising band and doing a rendition of "Ana Ng" on UK Radio London (Danny Baker Show). Cited "Birdhouse in Your Soul" as his favorite pop song of the last twenty years when he played an acoustic guitar cover of it at The Point in Bryn Mawr, PA on New Year's Eve 2004. Also loves "Dinner Bell" and "Metal Detector".
• Jon Stewart - Friend of the band, TMBG covered Dog On Fire as the theme tune to his Comedy Central series 'The Daily Show With Jon Stewart'. Appears in Gigantic interviewing the Johns.
• Doug TenNapel - Creator of Earthworm Jim and Catscratch
• Scott Thompson, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, Mark McKinney - In addition to their declared fandom, Spiraling Shape appears on the Kids In The Hall - Brain Candy OST and briefly in the film itself.
• Jhonen Vasquez - Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, Invader Zim. "I used to be big on them a looooooong time ago."
• Sarah Vowell - author, NPR commentator, voice of Violet in Pixar's The Incredibles
• Weezer - Stated They Might Be Giants as an influence for them.
• Wil Wheaton - actor, blog author
• "Weird Al" Yankovic - "TMBG... prolific, smart, funny, great guys. One of my all-time favorite bands." Wrote and recorded 'Everything You Know Is Wrong' on his 'Bad Hair Day' LP (1997), a pastiche of/tribute to early-period TMBG.

See Also: Fans In Bands, and Other Bands You Might Like If You Like TMBG