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So by now you’ve surely heard from your Twitter feed (my handle is @alecjacobs, thank you, yes I do have a lot of followers, thank you) or your favorite American college newspaper, The GW Hatchet™, that April 15th’s Spring Fling will feature none other than Childish Gambino, Donald Glover!
Now, it’s not Carly Rae Jepsen, but you should still be excited about this! Here are some reasons why:
1) Because these GW concert things (for as long as I’ve been here) always fucking suck! And this one will not. Okay, they don’t always always fucking suck, but most of the time they do. Like Sean Kingston. Ha ha ha, remember that? When everyone hated him and threw glowsticks at him because he basically just barely participated in a Natasha Bedingfield song ONE TIME and he couldn’t even do that right? And he cried and left? Or what about Girl Talk, when we could just as easily have played some sorority girl’s party playlist instead for a lot less money? There was also Mike Posner and “Chiddy Bang” one time. I didn’t actually go, per se, but I like to think it went a little something like this: They just did that song “Cooler Than Me” 20 times and everyone went home. That’s probably what happened. (I admit Spoon was pretty good when they were here a few years ago.) I‘m pretty sure I told Ted Costigan I wanted Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young or Squeeze this year, but whatever. I did all I could. Send complaints in writing to Ted Costigan. Donald Glover will be good though, because:
2) He’s hysterical. His character, Troy Barnes, is certainly the best part of NBC’s “Community,” everyone-on-the-Internet’s favorite network comedy. In case you don’t watch “Community,” he’s also written for “The Daily Show,” which you guys definitely watch because you’re GW students and you’ve learned in all your classes about, like, how influential Jon Stewart is and you like how he’s both funny and informative, right? If I know college students, and I think I do, you all love “The Daily Show” more than you love your own parents and almost as much as you love talking about yourselves. From 2006 to 2009, Glover was a writer on “30 Rock,” objectively the greatest television show in history. A television show that has given us such classic lines as “Lemon, you look terrible, and I once watched you eat oysters while you had a cold” or “Good God Lemon, those jeans make you look like a Mexican sports reporter” or “Lemon, lesbian Frankenstein wants her shoes back.” A television show that has on several occasions featured GW’s very own 2012 commencement speaker, Brian Williams, showing off his comedic chops. How could someone involved with these three fantastic shows possibly do any wrong? A: He could not.
3) His music is enjoyable, and I don’t even like rap!
4) He got his rap name (Childish Gambino) from an online Wu-Tang Clan name generator. I mean, that’s seriously maybe the most badass thing I’ve ever heard. I cannot think of a more awesome tidbit, except maybe that:
5) One time, he saw a couple having sex in a Bank of America after-hours ATM thing and live-tweeted it WITH PICTURES. I laughed for a lifetime. You can read the whole thing here.
Disclaimer: If he sucks, it’s totally not my fault. Now, enjoy this performance from Letterman: