Ninja Sex Party

Ninja Sex Party
Ninja Sex Party on the set of their music video Next To You.
Background information
Origin	New York City
Genres	Comedy rock, synthpop
Years active	2009 - present
Labels	Micro, Inc.
Associated acts	Starbomb, TWRP
Website	http://www.ninjasexparty.com
Members	Danny Sexbang (Leigh Daniel Avidan) Ninja Brian (Brian Wecht)

Ninja Sex Party is a musical comedy duo originally based in New York City, consisting of Danny Sexbang (Leigh Daniel Avidan) and Ninja Brian (Brian Wecht).^[1] Their videos have been featured on the front pages of Funny or Die, CollegeHumor, and Dailymotion. They have performed at many venues throughout North America, including the Upright Citizen's Brigade, the Timeout NY Lounge and a monthly slot at the Peoples Improv Theater in Manhattan. Additionally, they have appeared in various sketch comedy festivals, including the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival,^[2] Boston's Women In Comedy Festival, and Geek Week at ImprovBoston. As of March 2015, the duo's YouTube page has over 422,000 subscribers and more than 44,000,000 views.^[3]

Career

2009 - 2012: Formation & Early Career

Dan (vocals), who previously sang in the bands The Northern Hues and Skyhill,^[4][5] and Brian (piano), who was musical director of a comedy troupe in New York,^[6] formed Ninja Sex Party in 2009 after being introduced by mutual friends at the Upright Citizen's Brigade Theatre. Inspired by The Lonely Island and Flight of the Conchords, Ninja Sex Party is about "a Jewish superhero who wears a unitard, with his best friend who's a ninja, and together they sing songs about dicks, and try to hit [unsuccessfully] on women."^[7]

They began performing together that summer, and since have acquired a large and loyal following from their live shows and music videos on YouTube. Their videos include animated contributions from popular YouTube and Newgrounds animators such as Egoraptor, OneyNG, RicePirateNewgrounds, StamperTV, Spazkidin3D, Hans Van Harken, Gregzilla, PsychicPebbles and RubberNinja. As of January 2015, they have been viewed over 41 million times worldwide, and have appeared in many film festivals, including SXSW (2011),^[8] Dragon*Con (2011, 2012), and the LA Comedy Shorts Festival (2011, 2012).

They have been awarded "Best Comedy Video" at Industry Power Play's international music video competition, as well as the "Trophy of Awesomeness" on Vimeo's video website.^[9] They won "Best Comedy Video Short" and "Best Comedy Song" in Improvisation News' 2010 INNY comedy awards^[10] Their video "Sex Training" was also featured on the Comedy page of The Huffington Post.^[11]

In 2011, they released their first album NSFW, including many of their songs featured on YouTube. It is available on iTunes and other music download sources.

2013 - present: Strawberries & Cream, Starbomb, Game Grumps, & Attitude City

The band released their second album, Strawberries and Cream, in April 2013. In July, the band also announced a new single entitled "Party of Three", to be included in their third album. The song featured an appearance from animator, voice actor and comedian Arin "Egoraptor" Hanson; costar of Avidan's other project, comedy Let's Play webseries Game Grumps. The music video for the song, released the following October, also featured other friends and acquaintances from YouTube and Game Grumps in particular, including Game Grumps animator and editor Barry Kramer and animator Ross "RubberNinja" O'Donovan, amongst others. In late June, Jon "JonTron" Jafari left Game Grumps and was later replaced by Avidan. Soon after Jafari's replacement, a sister show to Game Grumps was made called Steam Train featuring Avidan and O'Donovan with guest appearances by Hanson.^[12] After multiple videos featuring the trio, a sister show to Steam Train was announced, similarly named Steam Rolled, which featured Hanson, O'Donovan, Avidan, Kramer, and Suzy "Mortem3r" Berhow. In December 2013, Ninja Sex Party's YouTube channel teased a collaboration album with Hanson called Starbomb, under the alias "Starbomb".^[13] The video featured Hanson rapping and Avidan singing on a song titled "I Choose You to Die (Pokémon)." Later that month, the Game Grumps YouTube channel advertised pre-orders for Starbomb's first album with a video showing Hanson and NSP recording another song, "Crasher-vania (Castlevania)." Later that day, NSP's channel confirmed that Starbomb would also be available for digital download in another video featuring Starbomb recording "Mega Marital Problems (Mega Man)." Starbomb's debut album was released on December 17, 2013.

Ninja Sex Party contributed the ending song for the film Dick Figures: The Movie. On January 20, 2014, Mondo Media posted a video explaining fans could submit footage to make the song into a fan-made video. This music video was released on April 3, 2014.^[14]

On the week of May 4, 2013, NSP album Strawberries and Cream debuted at number 9 on the Billboard Comedy charts.^[15] Also, starting on the week of February 15, 2014, Starbomb would hold the number 1 spot in comedy for 4 consecutive weeks.^[16] Starbomb also reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseeker Charts for 2 consecutive weeks starting with the week of January 4, 2014 ^[17] In July, 2014, Ninja Sex Party performed a concert for San Diego Comic-Con International at Nerd HQ, Petco Park, and during the concert, they released two new songs for their upcoming album, Attitude City. They played the audio accompanied with a lyric video for their unreleased song, "Road Trip." They also released the music video for "Why I Cry" during the concert. ^[18][19] On November 19, 2014, they released a music video for the song "Peppermint Creams". ^[20]

On January 12th, 2015, Ninja Sex Party as Daniel Avidan and Brian Wecht released a cover on their YouTube channel of "The Last Unicorn," the theme song to the 1982 animated film based on the Peter S. Beagle novel of the same name. The video also promotes Beagle's ongoing worldwide screening tour of The Last Unicorn. The band has made the cover downloadable for free at their Bandcamp page. ^[21][22] On January 23rd of that same year, a single was released by the band Tupper Ware Remix Party, collaborating with Ninja Sex Party, titled "The Hit."^[23]

Discography

Studio Albums as Ninja Sex Party

• NSFW (2011)
• Strawberries and Cream (2013)
• Attitude City (2015)

Studio Albums as Starbomb

• Starbomb (2013)
• Player Select (2014)

Singles

Music videos

As featured artist

Influence

Danny appeared in the 2014 PC game Default Dan as a playable option.^[24]

Danny, and his co-hosts from Game Grumps, Arin and Ross, will be playable characters in the game Hex Heroes for the Wii U. Danny will also be providing voiceover work for his character.^[25]

References

External links

• Official website