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 (/ʃmoʊˈjoʊhoʊ/). 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 (formerly known as Auto-Tune the News), 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 (who married Evan in 2009) 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". The Gregory Brothers (using the YouTube username 'schmoyoho') first became well known for a series of YouTube videos, Auto-Tune the News (rebranded in 2011 as Songify 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.[citation needed] 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 (excluding major label music videos), 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.[citation needed] 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 (asdfmovie feat. Schmoyoho)" (210+ million views) More than 100 Million views "Songify This - Bed Intruder Song" (148+ million views) "All The Way - Jacksepticeye Songify Remix by Schmoyoho" (100+ million views) More than 50 million views "Jabba the Hutt - sung by PewDiePie" (61+ million views) "Songify This - Winning - A Song by Charlie Sheen" (66+ million views) More than 30 million views "Songify This - DOUBLE RAINBOW SONG!!" (41+ million views) "Songify This - Can't Hug Every Cat - a song about loving cats" (39+ millions views) "Songify This - Oh My Dayum" (36+ million views) "Songify This - Dead Giveaway!" (35+ million views) "MY SIDE - OFFICIAL SONG (LAURDIY + ALEX WASSABI)" (32+ million views) "Space is Cool - Markiplier Songify Remix by Schmoyoho" (30+ million views) More than 10 million views "Chicken Attack // Song Voyage // Japan // ft. Takeo Ischi" (24+ million views) "Titenic: The JonSong - sung by JonTron" (17+ million views) "Apparently - Songify This!" (13+ million views) "I'm A Pretty Girl - sung by PewDiePie” (13+ million views) "TAKIN MY BABY! *OFFICIAL SONG* (ALEX WASSABI + LAURDIY)" (14+ million views) "Songify This - Auto-Tune Cute Kids and Kanye" (12+ million views) "Songify This - Backin Up Song" (12+ million views) "Songify This - Obama Sings to the Shawties" (11+ million views) "Sunny D and Rum (The =3 Musical)" (14+ million views) "Celebration Time - Jelly Songify by Schmoyoho" (11+ million views) "smash, Smash, SMASH!" (10+ million views) "JUST DO IT!!! ft. Shia LaBeouf - Songify This" (10+ million views) "Songify This - Reality Hits You Hard Bro" (10+ million views) "WHAT IS MY LIFE - Jacksepticeye Songify Remix by Schmoyoho" (10+ million views) "BAD HOMBRES, NASTY WOMEN" ft. Weird Al Yankovic (10+ million views) More than 5 million views "Songify This - MOMMY & DADDY SONG!" (9+ million views) "Rent: Too Damn High! Song." (9+ million views) "Songify This - GINGERS HAVE SOULS" (9+ million views) "Chrissy, Wake Up - Stranger Things," (9+ million views) "Songify This - SunnyD and Rum - THE POP SINGLE!" (7+ million views) "Songify This - CHUCK TESTA - a song about lifelike dead animals." (7+ million views) this "Songify This - Strut That Ass Song" (6+ million views) "Songify This - BEST NASCAR PRAYER EVER - in song" (6+ million views) "Songify This - I'M NOT A WITCH - sung by Christine O'Donnell" (5+ million views) Get Money, Turn Gay - Songify the News #1 (5+ million views) Auto-Tune the News #10: Turtles (5+ million views) "Obama Mixtape: 1999 - Songify the News Special" (5+ million views) "We're All Doomed" feat. Weird Al Yankovic (5+ million views) More than 3 million views "FLY LIKE A BUTTERFLY - Markiplier Songify Remix by SCHMOYOHO" (4+ million views) "Songify This - TORNADO SONG!! - look at the tree" (4+ million views) FINAL DEBATE SONGIFIED (4+ million views) 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 (from A Heist With Markiplier) 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. 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.[citation needed] 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