Tasked with doing a personal ad for one of his sponsors, Adam Buxton could have just phoned it in like all the other podcasters. Instead, the English comedian, actor and DIY musician penned web-building platform Squarespace a deliriously catchy 30-second power-pop jingle far funnier than a song about website templates and signing up for a free trial has any right to be.
It’s the cowbell that always kills me. It only kicks in for the last five seconds, but something about how completely over-the-top it is always makes me laugh. I suppose cowbells are just funnys, aren’t they? (See the legendary Saturday Night Live Blue Öyster Cult “ More Cowbell ” sketch with Christopher Walken and Will Ferrell for ultimate proof).
Mixed in among all of Buxton’s other equally entertaining self-made so