“Junior high’s hell for everybody, and I was just sitting in seventh or eighth grade hating everything,” he says. As a good-natured dork in junior high, Groban asked his music teacher if he could borrow the theatre stage during free period, not for practice or vocal acrobatics or 60 minutes’ worth of scales, but to launch an improv group. (If you’ve not heard a 34-year-old with a heavenly baritone sing the phrase, “I have never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke,” Google it, we’ll wait.) Groban played himself on “It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia” and a vain, amplified version of himself on “Glee.” In 2012, Mindy Kaling DM’d him to offer a guest spot on “The Office.” It goes on like this.īut in case you think comedy is a side business, get this: Groban’s comic history actually predates his musical thing.

You may have caught Groban on “Jimmy Kimmel Live,” singing, with glorious magnificence, the tweets of fellow comedians Kanye West and Donald Trump. The music is so super-serious, and I’m so not serious when I’m not on stage.” “And I love that, over 15 years, I’ve got these comedic connections.

“I love that the Muppets are tapping into some blue humor from their older days,” Groban said last week from his New York home. (Long story.) (Actually it’s not that long: He’s part of a love triangle with Kermit, a “passionate, albeit brief affair,” Groban says when my first question is about his relationship with a fictitious puppet.) It’s actually his third Muppet-based endeavor he had a cameo in 2014’s Tina Fey-led film “Muppets Most Wanted,” and his video for “Pure Imagination” (with Lindsey Stirling) featured the gang, in a timely, web-worthy kid-nostalgia mashup.

But you already know all that, so let’s talk about the Muppets.Įarlier this month, Groban starred on ABC’s “Muppets” revival as a character named “Josh Groban” who is set up with, and promptly torn away from, Miss Piggy. He is one of the world’s first faces of classical pop. Josh Groban is known for his angel-man pipes, breathtaking range, coliseum-filling baritone and the wind-beneath-my-wings anthem “You Raise Me Up.” He’s sold 30 million albums in a time when, reportedly, no one buys them.

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