Brendon Small is a TV writer, comedian, voice actor,
animator, and musician. He graduated from Berklee College of Music in 1997
while taking comedy courses at Emerson. Brendon at some point decided to focus
on comedy when music wasn’t working out in the beginning. While at a comedy
club performing he met a man named Loren Bouchard who was working on a show
which later became Home Movies. Home Movies lasted four seasons then in 2006
Brendon began creating a new show for the late night block on Cartoon Network,
Adult Swim. The show, Metalocalypse,
featured death metal band “Dethklok” and there misadventures as an
international phenomenon. The show went on to release music, all written by
Brendon, and then later four whole albums. Brendon even tours with a live act
version of the band as front man and lead guitarist. Brendon had a brief web
series on youtube where he gave lessons on technical guitar techniques because
of the popularity of the guitar parts in the music for Metalocalpyse. I have been a follower of Brendon since the premiere
of Metalocalypse. His skill at playing guitar has influenced my way of playing,
and his script writing for the show itself has influenced my style of comedy in
many ways. In music I’d like to accomplish something similar to Brendon,
although my interests do not equate in terms of animation and television, I do
wish to pursue comedy, stand up comedy. His dry humor is something I find funny
and would like to utilize in my act. In the music aspect, the differences start
to break down because I play the same style of music. Brendon has also released
a concept album, Galaktikon, which is
something I wish to accomplish someday as a side project and eventually perform
it live.
