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Billboard’s Top 15 Musical Comedians Right Now (Critic’s Picks)

Music Comedians: Bridget Everett, Morgan Jay, Bo Burnham, Reggie Watts and Riki Lindhome and more top talent today.

She may be the only person to have shared stages with Broadway legend Patti LuPone (who invited her to a Carnegie Hall show to duet on “Me and Bobby McGee”) and Beastie Boy Adam Horovitz (who plays bass in Everett’s frequently filthy and always rocking band the Tender Moments and co-produced 2013’s Pound It). But perhaps sensing that Trump’s return demanded some comic relief, he told Rolling Stone last year that the time had come to remind people that he still loves the “overtly funny,” and he’s followed through with the munchie-fueled “I’m Hungry,” a slice of harmony-laden pop recorded with indie duo the Lemon Twigs, which would have been at home on one of the crackpot late-’70s Beach Boys albums. A trained opera singer with a six octave range when his voice is rested (“I used to have whistle tones like Mariah Carey — they popped out of nowhere — but when you’re touring they come few and far between”), Lane once opened his sets warbling the Puccini soprano aria “O mio babbino caro” (“Oh my dear Papa”), bowed, then said, “That is a true story of how I came out to my dad.”

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