Joss Whedon & Zack Whedon & Neil Patrick Harris & Nathan Fillion & Joss Whedon & Jed Whedon & Felicia Day
Joss Whedon & Jed Whedon & Joss Whedon & Zack Whedon
Joss Whedon & Neil Patrick Harris & Stacy Shirk
Joss Whedon & Nathan Fillion
Joss Whedon & Felicia Day
Joss Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen & Zack Whedon
Joss Whedon & Simon Helberg
Joss Whedon & Jed Whedon & Neil Patrick Harris & Nathan Fillion
Joss Whedon & Steve Berg & David Fury & Marti Noxon & & Stacy Shirk & Maurissa Tancharoen & Jed Whedon
Joss Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen
Joss Whedon & Maurissa Tancharoen & Zack Whedon & Jed Whedon
Joss Whedon & Neil Patrick Harris
Joss Whedon & Neil Patrick Harris & Nathan Fillion & Maurissa Tancharoen & Joss Whedon & Zack Whedon & Jed Whedon & Felicia Day
Joss Whedon & Steve Berg
Like most musical openers, “Commentary!” sets up the characters and their relationships to each other. The writers and cast are introduced in a mix of self-caricature influenced by their roles on set. This song provides the context that the rest of the album builds on.
[ALL]
Commentary
Commentary
Fasten your seatbelts – it's a commentary
Everyone loves these "Making-of's"
The story behind the scenes
The way that we got that one cool shot
And what it all means
We'll talk about the writing
We'll probably say, "It's great!"
And the acting — so exciting
Except for Nate
[NATHAN]
I phoned it in
[ALL]
Commentary
Commentary
Set course for wonder – it's a commentary
[CAST]
Bring back the cast, we'll have a blast
Discussing the days of yore
Moments like these sell DVDs
[WRITERS]
We need to sell more
We've only sold four
[JED]
We'll tell you which jokes were Joss'
[ZACK]
Maurissa's
[MAURISSA]
Or Jed's
[JOSS]
Or Zack's
[WRITERS]
We won't have those awkward pauses…
[NEIL/MAURISSA]
And you'll be dazed by the haze of blazing praise
Arrays of ways to rephrase:
"Those were the days"
[NEIL]
Laid on so thick it'll make you sick
That's the trick to all these
Commentaries
[ALL]
Commentary
Here comes the insight
It's a film-maker's journey
It's a road to adventure
It's a burst of fruit flavor
It's a most uncommon commentary…
Commentary!
Commentary! was written by Joss Whedon.
Commentary! was produced by Jed Whedon.
Joss Whedon released Commentary! on Mon Sep 01 2008.
The process was: we said “Let’s do a commentary musical” and in my mind it was going to be a musical about making Dr Horrible, for real, even though it was going to be silly. Commentary!, the first song was obviously a spoof. The biggest influence for that was probably the working song in Waiting Fo...