The Bathroom Wall

by Jimmy Fallon

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Personnel: Jimmy Fallon (vocals, guitar, harmonica); Gerald Bradford (guitar, background vocals); Mark Ronson (keyboards, bass, background vocals); Justin Stanley (keyboards, drums, background vocals); Peter Iselin (keyboards); Nadia Dajani (background vocals).

Recorded at The Hit Factory, New York, New York; Cello Studios, Los Angeles, California.

THE BATHROOM WALL was nominated for the 2003 Grammy Awards for Best Spoken Comedy Album.

Hot on the heels of his hosting the 2002 MTV Video Music Awards comes Jimmy Fallon's comedy album debut THE BATHROOM WALL. As with his work as a cast member of Saturday Night Live, Fallon's strength comes from his ability to draw from straight stand-up, hilarious impressions, and deft musical parodies. Wielding an impressive falsetto, the young comic rips through original songs that range from country honk Rolling Stones ("Idiot Boyfriend") to a Beastie Boys-flavored confessional ("[I Can't Play] Basketball").

Equally impressive is "Troll Doll Celebrities," one of his earliest bits where in a fictional audition for an ad campaign endorsing these odd-looking figures, Fallon gets to run through an array of uncanny celebrity impressions including Robin Williams, John Travolta's Vinnie Barbarino, and Adam Sandler. The musical segment of this bit, "Troll Doll Jingles," finds the excitable Saugerties native delivering spot-on parodies of songs by Dave Matthews ("So Much To Say"), U2 ("Desire"), and Coldplay ("Yellow"). This musical mayhem continues on "Hammertime," a segment doubling as an homage to the '80s that finds Fallon insisting any song from that era can be sung to the sound of MC Hammer's "Can't Touch This" including "Come On Eileen," "Der Kommisar," and "The Safety Dance."