The Gregory Brothers


The Gregory Brothers are an American musical quartet, specializing in comedy music and auto-tuning recorded speech through their YouTube channel Schmoyoho. After the success of their songs "Chrissy Wake Up" and "It's Corn" in the summer of 2022, NPR reported that they "are responsible for some of the biggest viral songs of the past decade."
Their musical viral video the "Winning" song, part of their Songify the News series, won a 2012 Comedy Award, and their "Bed Intruder Song" received over 141 million YouTube views and entered the Billboard Hot 100. Their releases, "Who's It Gonna Be?" with Weird Al Yankovic and "The Last Fight" with Joseph Gordon-Levitt, parodied the two US presidential debates of 2020. Additionally, they released a video titled "They're Eating the Dogs," also featuring Gordon-Levitt, as a parody of the US presidential debate of 2024.
The three Gregory brothers – drummer/keyboardist Michael, guitarist/bassist Andrew Rose and keyboardist Evan – originally from Radford, Virginia, moved to Brooklyn, New York, in the mid-2000s and met guitarist/bassist Sarah Fullen in the local music scene. The band was formed in 2007, with all four members providing vocals, often accompanying "songified" individuals.
After 10 years of activity, having earned the most views by songifying the likes of Antoine Dodson, Charlie Sheen, Paul Vasquez and Daymon Patterson, their Schmoyoho channel reached three million subscribers in March 2017. In commemoration, the Gregory Brothers released a "mega-mashup" of their work, in which they outlined their main goal of eliciting "the maximum amount of happiness for the maximum amount of time".

Viral videos

The Gregory Brothers first became well known for a series of YouTube videos, Auto-Tune the News, in which recorded voices of politicians, news anchors, and political pundits were digitally manipulated to conform to a melody, making the figures appear to sing.
National television networks featured the Gregory Brothers' early political satires in the spring of 2009, but the group did not achieve mainstream recognition until the summer of 2010, when they released episode 12b of Auto-Tune the News, titled "Bed Intruder Song," which featured excerpts from an interview with alleged crime victims Kelly Dodson and her brother, Antoine Dodson, was viewed approximately 50 million times during its first six months online, making it the most-viewed YouTube video of 2010, and currently has more than 150 million views.
Largely non-political in content, it marked a departure from the Gregory Brothers' roots in political material. Following the mainstream success of that music video, the Gregory Brothers have generally produced a mixture of both political and non-political videos.
The band is best known for the Auto-Tune and Songify series, they have created several additional videos, independent of that series, which have received broad attention. The following videos are part of their first season of Auto-Tune the News for 16 episodes.
  • More than 200 Million views
  • *"THE MUFFIN SONG "
  • More than 100 Million views
  • *"Songify This - Bed Intruder Song"
  • *"All The Way - Jacksepticeye Songify Remix by Schmoyoho"
  • More than 50 million views
  • *"Jabba the Hutt - sung by PewDiePie"
  • *"Songify This - Winning - A Song by Charlie Sheen"
  • More than 30 million views
  • *"Songify This - DOUBLE RAINBOW SONG!!"
  • *"Songify This - Can't Hug Every Cat - a song about loving cats"
  • *"Songify This - Oh My Dayum"
  • *"Songify This - Dead Giveaway!"
  • *"MY SIDE - OFFICIAL SONG "
  • *"Space is Cool - Markiplier Songify Remix by Schmoyoho"
  • More than 10 million views
  • *"Chicken Attack // Song Voyage // Japan // ft. Takeo Ischi"
  • *"Titenic: The JonSong - sung by JonTron"
  • *"Apparently - Songify This!"
  • *"I'm A Pretty Girl - sung by PewDiePie”
  • *"TAKIN MY BABY! *OFFICIAL SONG* "
  • *"Songify This - Auto-Tune Cute Kids and Kanye"
  • *"Songify This - Backin Up Song"
  • *"Songify This - Obama Sings to the Shawties"
  • *"Sunny D and Rum "
  • *"Celebration Time - Jelly Songify by Schmoyoho"
  • *"smash, Smash, SMASH!"
  • *"JUST DO IT!!! ft. Shia LaBeouf - Songify This"
  • *"Songify This - Reality Hits You Hard Bro"
  • *"WHAT IS MY LIFE - Jacksepticeye Songify Remix by Schmoyoho"
  • *"BAD HOMBRES, NASTY WOMEN" ft. Weird Al Yankovic
  • More than 5 million views
  • *"Songify This - MOMMY & DADDY SONG!"
  • *"Rent: Too Damn High! Song."
  • *"Songify This - GINGERS HAVE SOULS"
  • *"Chrissy, Wake Up - Stranger Things,"
  • *"Songify This - SunnyD and Rum - THE POP SINGLE!"
  • *"Songify This - CHUCK TESTA - a song about lifelike dead animals." this
  • *"Songify This - Strut That Ass Song"
  • *"Songify This - BEST NASCAR PRAYER EVER - in song"
  • *"Songify This - I'M NOT A WITCH - sung by Christine O'Donnell"
  • *Get Money, Turn Gay - Songify the News #1
  • *Auto-Tune the News #10: Turtles
  • *"Obama Mixtape: 1999 - Songify the News Special"
  • *"We're All Doomed" feat. Weird Al Yankovic
  • More than 3 million views
  • *"FLY LIKE A BUTTERFLY - Markiplier Songify Remix by SCHMOYOHO"
  • *"Songify This - TORNADO SONG!! - look at the tree"
  • *FINAL DEBATE SONGIFIED
  • *Songify This - BELIEVE IN YOURSELF."
  • *Debate Highlights Songified!
  • *Songify This - Poke Me - Amir sings his plea"
  • *Why, Why, Manti?
  • *Town Hall Debate Songified
  • *VP Debate Highlights Songified
  • *Songify This - Sanity Song
  • *Songify This - 'Fast Don't Lie' Remix - feat. Slim Chin, Dwight Howard, & D. Rose"
  • *I Don't Wanna Be Free UNPLUGED - Mark's Version
The Gregory Brothers began to retroactively apply the series name "Songify This" to certain previously series-independent videos in late 2010, and they have released a number of new videos under this branding as well. The table above reflects the new "Songify This" branding where applicable.
In 2022, they attracted media attention when their Stranger Things parody "Chrissy Wake Up" and their remix of a Recess Therapy interview with a boy who described corn as "a big lump with knobs", called "It's Corn" both became major TikTok trends.

83rd Annual Academy Awards

The Gregory Brothers created a musical segment for the 83rd Academy Awards where they auto-tuned bits of 4 major motion pictures from 2010: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1, Toy Story 3, The Social Network, and The Twilight Saga: Eclipse.
Host James Franco comically introduced the segment as a tribute to a "great year for the movie musical." Characters who were autotuned included Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Sheriff Woody, Sean Parker, and Edward Cullen. On July 14, 2011, it was announced that this segment earned The Gregory Brothers a nomination for a 2011 Emmy award in the category "Outstanding Short-Form Picture Editing." Only Michael and Evan are nominated as there is a two-person nomination limit in this category.
While only those four aired, an alternative cut was released on the official 2011 Grammy Awards YouTube channel on February 27, 2011, featuring an auto-tuned version of The King's Speech in place of The Social Network.

"Double Rainbow Song"

In July 2010, the Gregory Brothers released an auto-tuned version of the Double Rainbow viral video. The original video featured the overawed reaction of Paul "Hungry Bear" Vasquez to a double rainbow at Yosemite National Park. The Gregory Brothers turned Vasquez's astounded speech into a song and pledged all of the song's earnings to Vasquez and Yosemite.
As of June 24, 2022, the Gregory Brothers' remix had received over 41 million views.

''Punch Up the Jam'' podcast

In December 2021, Andrew Gregory announced that The Gregory Brothers would be taking over the podcast Punch Up the Jam from the network Headgum.

Musical collaborations

The Gregory Brothers appear as members of the Welcome Wagon Choir on The Welcome Wagon's 2009 debut album Welcome to the Welcome Wagon, produced by Sufjan Stevens. The Welcome Wagon is a project headed by Presbyterian minister Vito Aiuto and his wife, Monique.
The Gregory Brothers often perform live with Sarah Gregory's band The Stanleys. The group was commissioned to produce the theme song for the Netflix series Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which was based on their "Bed Intruder Song".

''Song Voyage''

Song Voyage is a The Station web series starring the four Gregory Brothers, who are also co-creators and co-producers along with Portal A Interactive. Directed by Dan Eckman, the comedy travel series features the Gregory Brothers visiting nations in the Asia-Pacific region and collaborating with local musicians to create original novelty songs. It has been described as "a musical twist on an Anthony Bourdain show." The series premiered on Sling TV, after which episodes began being released on the Gregory Brothers' second YouTube channel in December 2016, while music videos from within each episode were also released on the main Schmoyoho channel.
Episode
number		CountrySong titleFeatured
artist/s		Release date
1Vietnam

Members

  • Evan Gregory – vocals, piano, keyboards, percussion
  • Sarah Fullen Gregory – vocals, guitars, mandolin, ukulele, bass, percussion
  • Andrew Rose Gregory – vocals, guitars, bass, ukulele, percussion
  • Michael Gregory – vocals, keyboards, drums, ukulele, percussion

    Filmography

Film

Television

Discography

''Meet the Gregory Brothers!''

The group released their first EP, Meet the Gregory Brothers!, on May 29, 2009. Village Voice music writer Ben Westhoff characterized the effort as "a lounge-y, refreshingly sincere slice of blue-eyed soul", and Jake Frazier of PopSense praised the work, claiming that it " more to the table than the other 1000+ songs ". Westhoff opined that "unfortunately, many of the Brothers' new fans have no patience for anything that's not Auto-Tune the News", though the group itself takes a broader view of its fans' tastes, believing that "there will definitely be some fans who found us through our videos, and who will be disappointed when they hear our records and they're not a bunch of hip-hop political parodies... most people get that we are capable of creating music in different styles, and can appreciate our folky soul jams for what they are."
For the period of July 15-22 2009, 47-54 days after its release, the EP was ranked as the top-selling album on Amie Street in the category of "Soul / R&B".
Contributing musicians on the album include Doug Hulin and Justin Keller. The album was recorded at the Mission Sound Recording facility in Brooklyn, New York, and was produced, engineered, and mixed by Zach McNees. The recording was mastered by Ricardo Gutierrez. The cover art photographer was Denny Renshaw, and Morgan King, founder of Yer Bird Records, is credited with its design.