Ninja Sex Party is a musical comedy duo based in Los Angeles, consisting of
Danny Sexbang and Ninja Brian. 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, Boston's Women In
Comedy Festival, and Geek Week at ImprovBoston. As of September 16, 2015,
the duo's YouTube page has 589,021 subscribers and 68,876,520 views.
Career = 2009–2012: Formation and early career=
Dan, who previously sang in the bands The Northern Hues and Skyhill, and
Brian, who was musical director of a comedy troupe in New York, 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."
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, Dragon*Con, and the LA
Comedy Shorts Festival. 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. They won "Best
Comedy Video Short" and "Best Comedy Song" in Improvisation News' 2010 INNY
comedy awards Their video "Sex Training" was also featured on the Comedy page of
The Huffington Post. 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. 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". The video featured Hanson rapping and
Avidan singing on a song titled "I Choose You to Die." 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." 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." 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.
On the week of May 4, 2013, NSP album Strawberries and Cream debuted at number
9 on the Billboard Comedy charts. Also, starting on the week of February 15,
2014, Starbomb would hold the number 1 spot in comedy for 4 consecutive weeks.
Starbomb also reached #1 on the Billboard Heatseeker Charts for 2
consecutive weeks starting with the week of January 4, 2014 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. On November 19, 2014, they
released a music video for the song "Peppermint Creams".
On January 12, 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. On January
23 of that same year, a single was released by the band Tupper Ware Remix
Party, collaborating with Ninja Sex Party, titled "The Hit."
After an announcement on June 17, 2015 stating the release date of their third
album Attitude City, it was released on July 17, 2015 on iTunes and CD Baby. It
was one of the top 20 best-selling albums on Amazon.com circa July 2015.
An upcoming album of cover songs called NSP: Under the Covers was announced on
July 28, 2015 in a Game Grumps episode. This album will also feature Tupper Ware
Remix Party on backing instruments. = 2015: Skyhill reunion=
On October 7, 2015, Avidan released the single "Firefly" with Peter Lennox. The
two had previously worked together as the atmospheric band Skyhill from 2006
to 2007. The song briefly became the number-one best-selling album on Amazon
upon release. Discography
NSFW Strawberries and Cream
Attitude City Influence
Avidan appeared in the 2014 PC game Default Dan as a playable option.
Avidan, and his co-hosts from Game Grumps, Arin and Ross, will be playable
characters in the game Hex Heroes for the Wii U. Avidan will also be providing
voiceover work for his character. References
External links Official website