#Funny sounds professional

Finding himself in need of steady work, he agreed to take a job as the house band drummer at a hotel in Alaska. He was the odd man out at afterparties in San Francisco’s bustling stand-up scene.

In the early-’90s, Schletter was working as a drummer in a band otherwise populated by comics Greg Behrendt and Laura Milligan. I certainly didn’t think it was going to be a career.” “I was coming at it from being a civilian musician guy,” Schletter says. “I loved Monty Python but I didn’t really think much of comedy.

But he was passionate about film scores and was itching for an adventure.

#Funny sounds professional

He wasn’t a professional musician, either. Show, though, he had little experience at making funny things or making funny things funnier with music. Like them, Schletter went on to an enduring career in comedy, creating music for Drawn Together, SpongeBob Squarepants, and Another Period. Show, which ran from 1995-1998, served as a launchpad for its creators, along with Patton Oswalt, Sarah Silverman, Paul F. The show was not only Schletter’s crash course in the breakneck pace and staggering variety of making music for comedy it also taught him how music actually enhances the comedy. Show: Bob Odenkirk and David Cross’ heavily influential sketch series, the one that etched a blueprint for so-called ‘alternative comedy’ and set the stage for Upright Citizens Brigade to mainstream it. ShowĮban Schletter cut his teeth in that role while working on Mr.