Stuckey & Murray is an American comedy music duo from
Brooklyn, New York
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.
Andy Stuckey and Jon Murray met when they were NBC
pages in New York City in the early 2000s. They formed Stuckey & Murray in 2001 and have produced two full-length albums, ''Destination: Rock Bottom'' and ''Mythical Fornication''. Destination: Rock Bottom was recorded over a weekend in
Austin, Texas
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and Mythical Fornication was made in Brooklyn.
Two of the duo's songs from their album Mythical Fornication are featured in the independent film, Stuck Like Chuck.
Stuckey & Murray's videos have about 20 million hits on
YouTube
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. The duo created a music video series for Heavy.com and
NBC
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's Dotcomedy in 2006.
Aside from performing, both Stuckey and Murray are freelance TV producers and writers in
New York City
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. They have worked in television production for over 10 years.
Television performance
Stuckey & Murray have been featured on several cable programs.
*
E! 200
"Pre-Oscar Show"E!)
"Cash Cab"(
Discovery Channel
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It init ...
)
* "
It's On with Alexa Chung" (
MTV
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)
* "
Webjunk 20" (
VH1
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)
* "
The Chelsea Handler Show" (E!)
* "
Attack of the Show!
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" (
G4)
"The Sauce"(
Fuse)
* "Attack of the Geeks" (E!)
* "
Munchies" (Fuse)
* "First Look" (NBC)
College Sports Television Promos*
E4 in the
United Kingdom
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Live performance
Stuckey & Murray performed at the BamaJam music festival in
Enterprise, Alabama
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, which is southeast of
Birmingham, Alabama
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alongside The Defibulators. The two groups then traveled on The Redneck Riviera Tour and played shows in Atlanta; Athens, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia; Nashville; Birmingham, Alabama, and at The
Flora
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-Bama in
Pensacola, Florida
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.
In 2007 Stuckey and Murray performed at the
Edinburgh Fringe
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festival, and were reviewed by Malcolm Jack of "The Scotsman." He said they were "Great stuff, in short, for 15-year-olds and Nuts readers". They have performed at the
All Points West festival in
, the
Reading and Leeds music festivals, the
Latitude Festival
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The first edition of the festival took place in 2006 and has continued annually (apart from 2020 when it was cancel ...
, the
Virgin Music
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Festival in Toronto, and the
Montreal
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Comedy Festival in
Montreal, Canada
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. Also at the Edinburgh Fringe festival Stuckey and Murray made a video of their song "Its Every Cuss Word We Know", which is a spoof of an
R.E.M.
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song. The video went viral probably in large part due to its appeal to 15-year-olds.
Stuckey and Murray's ill-fated appearance on "
Showtime at the Apollo
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" was met with a great deal of derision by the audience and caused host
Steve Harvey
Broderick Stephen Harvey Sr. Also aired August 16, 2015. (born January 17, 1957) is an American comedian, television host, actor, writer, and producer. He hosts ''The Steve Harvey Morning Show'', ''Family Feud'', ''Celebrity Family Feud'', '' ...
to announce "Unh-unh, these white boys ain't RIGHT!"
Fashion line
In 2008, Stuckey & Murray ventured into the realm of fashion with their invention of The Fuxedo. The Fuxedo is a fully functional cross between a jumpsuit and a tuxedo. Murray even wore his to his sister's wedding. The duo hoped to have The Fuxedo in production before the spring of 2011.
Personal life
Andy Stuckey has diabetes. The duo wrote a song about how Stuckey discovered he got diabetes on
Christmas Day
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in a song called "
Santa
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Gave Me Diabetes."
Jon Murray created funny videos while growing up in
Williston, Vermont
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east of
Burlington, including a satire of the
Beastie Boys' "Sabotage".
References
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American musical duos
American comedy musical groups
American comedy duos
Performing groups established in 2001