Also in 2012, Watts began collaborating with Michael Cera, Tim & Eric, and Sarah Silverman to create a comedy YouTube channel called Jash.
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In 2012, Watts began starring opposite Scott Aukerman on the IFC series Comedy Bang! Bang! based on the comedy podcast of the same name (formerly Comedy Death-Ray Radio). Soon afterwards, Watts performed a song with LCD Soundsystem on their farewell documentary movie, Shut Up and Play the Hits. The film was made available as a CD/DVD through Watts' official website as well as Comedy Central's online store. It was completely uncensored and received positive reviews. Watts's second stand-up special, A Live at Central Park, premiered on Comedy Central in the "Secret Stash" on May 12, 2012. Afterwards, Watts made various public appearances, including during Conan O'Brien's The Legally Prohibited from Being Funny on Television Tour. Comedy Central aired Why Shit So Crazy? and released the film as a dual DVD/CD package. In 2010, Waverly Films shot a one-hour special on Watts called Why Shit So Crazy? The special features Watts in live performance at New York venues Galapagos, The Bellhouse, and (Le) Poisson Rouge, bookended with brief sketches and a music video of Watts' "Fuck Shit Stack". He also toured in support of Devo in a fall 2009 tour. He then did voice work for an episode of Adult Swim UK's The Venture Bros., Australia's Good News Week, and appeared in the U.S.
He performed in his first solo short film Watts Does London and made a small appearance on Comedy Central's Michael and Michael Have Issues. He also began appearing on the PBS Kids' children's program The Electric Company. In 2009, Watts recorded his first solo EP, Pot Cookies. as a Mutantzoid Underling and on an episode of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, as well as making other various television appearances. He also appeared in the independent film Steel of Fire Warriors 2010 A.D. In 2008, Watts recorded a new special entitled Disinformation, which features his performance at the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater. The same year, he also wrote and performed the theme song for Penelope Princess of Pets, a web comedy series featuring Kristen Schaal and H. In 2007, Watts appeared on Plum TV's Scott Bateman Presents Scott Bateman Presents and starred in the CollegeHumor internet video "What About Blowjobs?" The video became a viral hit. He also shot comedic shorts for Superdeluxe, Vimeo, and CollegeHumor. Inspired by The State and Wet Hot American Summer, he began infusing spontaneous comedic material with the beat-box-driven musical compositions. In 2005, he recorded his first solo single, "So Beautiful". In 2004, after recording five albums over eight years, Watts moved to the Lower East Side of New York City. While in Seattle, he composed musical scores for dance choreographers and dabbled in sketch comedy with longtime friend and future playwright Tommy Smith, who later ended their collaborative relationship when Watts failed to credit him for co-writing the lyrics of his viral hits "Fuck Shit Stack" and "What About Blowjobs?" He experimented with improvising entire songs in solo acts with the Line 6, while trying to sound like Tom Waits, playing initial gigs at small Seattle venues and artist bungalows. He began using the Line 6 in live shows with Maktub to replicate the duplicate harmonies from the recorded material. While recording and touring from 1996 to 2000 with Wayne Horvitz's 4+1 Ensemble as a keyboardist, he was forced to downsize his effects pedal from a Roland Space Echo tape delay to a Line 6 DL4 delay modeler, a smaller device that makes it easy to travel. In 1996, Watts became the frontman for the band Maktub. He moved to Seattle at the age of 18 to study music, attending the Art Institute of Seattle before studying jazz at Cornish College of the Arts. He began piano and violin lessons at the age of five, with his love of music beginning as a young child when he saw Ray Charles play the piano on television. and settling in Great Falls, Montana, where Watts was raised he graduated from Great Falls High School in 1990. His father was an officer in the Air Force, leading the family to live in Germany, France, Italy, and Spain before returning to the U.S.
Reginald Lucien Frank Roger Watts was born in Stuttgart on March 23, 1972, the son of French mother Christiane and African-American father Charles Alphonso Watts.
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