(Meta) Gregg Turkington is such an interesting dude.

I grew up watching Tim and Eric, and I knew of Neil Hamburger but when I started watching On Cinema I didn't make the connection that Gregg was Neil. When I was watching Office Hours and Gregg came in as Neil I was like wtf? (Im a bit slow apparently)

I ended up watching an interview trying to find out more about the guy and holy shit he has a long and interesting history going back to the 80s, as far as I'm aware.

He used to write a, and I quote from the zine wiki, an "arty punky zine" called Breakfast without Meat (1983 - 1991) which featured contributers from many punk bands in the local San Fran area.

He has been in, well, many bands across numerous genres, really avante garde and interesting stuff. Caroliner (Industrial Bluegrass) and Hello Kitty on Ice (Punk) and the Zip Code Rapists (Punk Revival) just to name a few, usually but not always as lead singer. There are too many to name and not much on all of them, but some of them were pretty popular. The Zip Code Rapists even did some reunion shows in 2005 and 2006.

He also ran a record label called Amarillo Record which I shit you not, produced albums for Anton LaVey, founder of the Satanic Church. Gregg personally recorded them in his all black house in San Fran. He also released a ton of early prank phone call comedy records which were a big hit, and were actually sampled by some big labels. This is how he invented Neil Hamburger and the Gregg that we know today.

I know some of this stuff has been talked about on the sub before, but I just wanted to put it all in one place, as well as to gush over him because he is so cool, as us Greggheads probably knew all along. I can see why Tim wanted to bring him in for On Cinema, he truly is perfect for the role.