Boys becoming men, men becoming wolves, ten-second jokes becoming full-length novelty songs
Boys becoming men, men becoming … Photo: 30 Rock Official/YouTube Before there was Kabletown, Kidney Now!, or even MILF Island, 30 Rock delivered the perfect ten-second joke at the start of its second season: Tracy Jordan takes a mental walk down memory lane about a certain novelty party song that earned him a gold record, “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah.” It’s an inspiring song, really. Boys become men, and men become wolves, completing their coming-of-age journey into the canine lupus species.
“As the Housewives would say, it was all over the blogs. That was really gratifying,” Sagher explained. “NBC would take down anything off of YouTube, force you to go to the NBC site, and then make you watch a 30-second ad for a seven-second clip. It felt like such a waste of goodwill and possible attention for the show.” So with the help of the aforementioned creative trio, Sagher penned some “Werewolf Bar Mitzvah” drafts prior to Jordan and then-30 Rock writer Donald Glover recording the song.
Sagher wasn’t present for the studio session, and said some jokes were tweaked in the midst of all the fun. “It all happened really fast,” she said. “It was such a tight deadline. We maybe had 24 hours before Halloween … the thinking was that we could record it and leak it to some places like Gawker and College Humor, who were such 30 Rock supporters.” The rest, just like that rocking werewolf zoo at Temple Beth-Emmanuel, was history.
“I feel so lucky. There were so many moving parts that made that show work, so many incredibly talented and hard working people in every department,” Sagher added about the song’s enduring popularity. “To be part of one of the bits that’s getting asked about all these years later? That’s cool as hell.” To celebrate this rare full-moon Halloween, read on and enjoy her annotations for the full song, performed by Morgan with interjections by Glover.
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