We like to think it went like this: Back in 2003, Greg Grunberg got home from a busy day on the set of Alias, settled onto his couch with a tube of pringles to watch the karaoke episode of The Bachelor, and thought to himself, "You know, that Bob Guinney's a fun-loving guy, and we have the same face shape -- we could almost be brothers! Let's start a band!"
So he called his friend Jesse Spencer who, of course was just wrapping filming on the set of straight-to-video romantic comedy, Winning London, starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen (actually we think this was earlier than 2003, but we just like bringing it up).
"Why not?" thought Jesse. "I can play guitar. Also, I just finished shooting a medical pilot with the guy from Blackadder and you should've heard him on the piano the night we got blitzed on tequila." So then Hugh Laurie's like, "Look here, Old Son, I've written down the names of everyone I know on little bits of paper and I'm going to draw two of them at random out of my pocket and those will be the remaining members of our band. Wait for it, wait for it...Teri Hatcher and James Denton. Oh, bugger. He'll probably want to wear his toolbelt."
And so Band from TV was born. Ha. Get it? Because all the band members are from TV shows. Truthfully, we didn't even know they existed before today, and we've never actually heard their music, but we're thinking about ordering a T-shirt just 'cause the name is funny. Maybe we'll wait until after their performance on the The Tonight Show.
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