Ben Greenman’s Britney “Musical” Now on YouTube

I’ve singled out short story writer and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman for his prowess at linking musical parodies to current events before. After publishing a few of them on Gawker last year, he’s taken the format back to McSweeney’s, where he presented “Death Comes for Britney Spears!“… which a few of his friends recently adapted for video. Granted, they don’t actually sing, but they do speak in rhyme, and there is a dance number. Greenman even plays himself, metatextually scripting the entire affair. It’s reasonably safe for work, if a bit risqué for (forgive the pun) brief flashes.

Greenman’s next musical was just posted this afternoon; it’s about the Roger Clemens scandal, and it includes some of his best passages yet.

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