BELOW: "Pony-ing Up!" with the SMU Mustangs Women’s Basketball Team, 12/20/07.
Michael Hannon, a.k.a. "Hano" (guitar, vocals, percussive egg, idiocy)
Spencer White, a.k.a. "The Inspector" (guitar, vocals, used to play harmonica)
Influences
The Smothers Brothers, Hee Haw, Roger Miller, Buddy Holly, Shel Silverstein, R.E.M., Jimmy freaking Martin, Kinky Friedman, Homer and Jethro, Robbie Fulks, The Day the Vibrator Died, Waylon Jennings, Tom Lehrer, Johnny Cash, The Terrapin Mountain Boys, Barenaked Ladies, Tom Petty, Lewis Grizzard, Buck Owens, The Beatles, Harlan Howard, Ray Stevens, Danny Kaye, Hank, Hank Jr., Jimmy Driftwood, Gene Autry, Elton Britt, Rowdy Roddy Piper.
Sounds Like
The Everly Brothers after a bad car wreck.
BELOW: "PONY UP! FOR SMU WOMEN'S BASKETBALL" AT THE TIMES SQUARE MARRIOTT, NYC
The Knuckleheads (Michael Hannon and Spencer White), authors of the cult classic/internet phenomenon "Tommy Made Owen Wilson Cry," are a rollicking, galvanic acoustic musical comedy duo. Michael, the voice of VH1's "100 Hottest Hotties," Court TV's "Body of Evidence," and the Discovery Channel's "The Prosecutors," is a grizzled veteran of hundreds of radio and TV commercials. Spence is retired with only 7 to his credit. (But he did carry a spear in "Hamlet" on Broadway in 1995, so why don't you put that in your bong and smoke it.) Having lovingly stunk up the stages of Boston Comedy Club, New York Comedy Club, Don't Tell Mama, and numerous other venues in and around NYC, the Knuckleheads are favorites on the nationally syndicated "Joey Reynolds Radio Show," the "Two Guys Named Chris Morning Show" in Greensboro, NC, Baruch College's WBMB-FM in New York, ESPN Radio in Dallas, and the insanely lucrative Westchester bar mitzvah circuit. Their mega-viral Youtube hit, "Pony Up!", unofficial fight song of the SMU Mustangs, is played regularly on the Ford Stadium jumbotron. They are proud members of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, USA, and they produce and host "Hoboken Elks Comedy Night," a professional comedy showcase at the historic Hoboken Elks Lodge.
If one of you is in drag, then I will be in Annapolis. Ahh, who am I kidding, I don't want to see either of you in drag - maybe those Navy boys do - but I will be in Annapolis.
Yeah, so who is this June Jones I keep hearing about? Did Tome Jones get married?
Old news sure but I was in big D the other day and saw a guy wearing a pony up shirt while perusing the book Hawaii Warrior Football at the SMU bookstore. And then a woman, preumably his wife, walked up to him requesting something along the lines of "can we get the hell out of here we've been here for 45 minutes" only not as nice. Most of it was said with her eyes. She wore a Tisch/NYU shirt. The whole scenario made me think of you guys (Tisch/Theater/SMU/Football).... awww.
So it prompted me to log into myspace for the first time in, well, six months. I'm a bad myspace friend, I know. Sue me.
Great finding you here. Now I can show my niece and nephew what the guy who did the Pest House recording looks like... :)
If you ever manage to head south, give me a ring and we’ll fire up the hog cooker, go for a ride in one of the big green machines, and amuse everyone with really tall tales of great inebriated deeds…
you can pull on our whiskey anytime! Come by kuntry karaoke at hanks again someday, I'm the new host, and there's free pulls on the jim beam every time you get up the nerve to sing a song!
