CollegeHumor has released a hilarious Star Wars-themed video, featuring a handful of popular musicians auditioning for the Star Wars Cantina Band. The video includes the likes of Ben Folds, Chris Daughtry, Jordin Sparks, “Weird Al” Yankovic, Lisa Loeb, Liz Phair and Rick Springfield.
You can watch the video here:
The video was released in conjunction with Disney, who allowed CollegeHumor to film on the actual cantina set. For many of the celebrities, working on the actual Star Wars set was a dream come true.
In a USA Today article about the video, Daughtry admits that he had Star Wars underoos as a child. Sparks claims that she was so obsessed with the prop lightsaber that she requested to keep the prop after the shoot, calling it a prized possession. Ben Folds, who wrote a song about accidentally killing an Ewok, found the movies “mindblowing” as a child, and hopes his song goes viral.
Watching the video is certainly a five minutes well spent.
-David Melamed (@DMelamz)