With the news that Weezer's Rivers Cuomo, of all people, will be developing his own sitcom on Fox, we started thinking about some other famous musicians who should also get their own sitcoms. Here are seven musicians who we think would do a pretty good job.
1. Nicki Minaj
Anyone who's heard Nicki Minaj's star-making verse in Kanye West's "Monster" knows that she's a woman of a thousand voices, so if she ever got her own sitcom, it would probably turn out like a more disturbing version of Martin, with Minaj playing herself as well as a bunch of different characters.
2. Dave Grohl
Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters may be the subjects of an upcoming HBO documentary series, but I think that Grohl is more than capable of carrying his own sitcom. As his appearances on Saturday Night Live, The Muppets and Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny prove (not to mention his recent ALS Challenge video), he's got a great sense of humor, and since he's pretty much the world's favorite rock star at the moment, his show would probably be a hit.
3. OutKast
Andre 3000 and Big Boi are like the odd couple of hip-hop, so an OutKast sitcom seems like a no-brainer; Big Boi would be the long suffering straight man, trying his best to deal with all of Andre's zany schemes. It also helps that both of them already have pretty extensive acting experience, though you'd be hard pressed to find a rapper who can't act.
4. Alice Cooper
To be perfectly honest, the sole reason we're including Alice Cooper on this list is because of his cameo in Wayne's World, which is one of the funniest scenes in the history of movies. If the magic of that scene could be translated to a sitcom about an aging shock-rocker, you'd have the funniest show on TV.
5. James Murphy (LCD Soundsystem)
Based solely on his music and public persona, I wouldn't have assumed that LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy would be a viable candidate for his own sitcom. However, when Murphy was 22, he was apparently offered a job as a writer for Seinfeld, so he must funny enough to have his own show. I don't know if he'd be a good actor (his role in The Comedy was too small to tell), but Jerry Seinfeld wasn't very good, and he did just fine.
6. David Bowie
David Bowie may actually be too talented as an actor to lend himself to a sitcom, but I'd give anything to see The Thin White Duke clash with Ziggy Stardust over who should take out the trash (like Nicki Minaj, Bowie would be playing every character in his show).
7. Andrew W.K.
Party guru Andrew W.K. has already hosted two TV shows over the last ten years (Your Friend, Andrew W.K. and Destroy Build Destroy), but neither of them was a scripted series. If he could somehow capture the essence of his music into a sitcom about balancing non-stop partying with the ugly realities of adulthood, he'd have one of the most ridiculous yet overwhelmingly joyous shows on TV.
What musicians do you think deserve their own sitcoms? Let us know down in the comments section!
