In addition to the duo's popular nightclub work, they starred in a successful series of comedy films for Paramount Pictures.

In the Second City Television sketch comedy " The Great White North " featuring the fictional brothers Bob and Doug MacKenzie and in their film Strange Brew, doughnuts play a role in the duo's comedy.

The duo's first mainstream television appearance was in 1982 in the British comedy programme The Comic Strip Presents ..., where they were appeared in approximately 30 episodes each as well as writing material for the series.

The series was an offshoot the duo's long-running, groundbreaking improvised radio comedy series This Sporting Life ( TSL ), which premiered on the Triple J radio network in 1986 and ran until 2008.

Perhaps the duo's best known creation was their long running two-man show Kung Fu Grip which they often performed at UCBT and other comedy venues for many years.

The duo's hit single, " Computer Camp Love ", is a playful song based on the 1984 American comedy Revenge of the Nerds and almost parodies " Summer Nights ".

The reporter then expresses the conclusion to her audience that the music videos are to blame for the duo's actions.

The Indigo Girls followed it with the live Back on the Bus, Y'all and 1992's album Rites of Passage, featuring the song " Galileo ", the duo's first top 10 modern rock music track (# 10 ).

Shaming of the Sun debuted at number seven on the Billboard charts, driven by the duo's contribution to the Lilith Fair music festival tour.

In keeping with his early rock and roll interests, Bolan began bringing amplified guitar lines into the duo's music, buying a white Fender Stratocaster decorated with a Paisley teardrop motif.

The single was the duo's first music video together.

In the following three years the pair produced music under a variety of aliases, releasing a plethora of singles and EPs, including the successful bleep techno singles " Q " and " Metropolis ", some of which would end up on the duo's first compilation album " Earthbeat " in 1992.

Global sales of Modern Talking, after the duo's second and final break-up in 2003, had reached 120 million singles and albums combined, making them the biggest-selling German music act in history, so far outselling even Frank Farian's projects Boney M. and Milli Vanilli, Michael Cretu's Enigma, Sandra as well as Scorpions and Rammstein.

Also in 1981, American comedians Stevens & Grdnic released " Commercials on 45 ", which was a compilation of that duo's parodies of commercials set to music.

The film marked not only Hybrid's first forray into film music, but also the duo's first collaboration with Harry Gregson-Williams, which continuously invited them to work on the soundtrack for movies like The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, X-Men Origins: Wolverine and Total Recall.

The duo's material is known for containing influences of honky-tonk, mainstream country, and rock, as well as the contrast between Brooks ' and Dunn's singing voices and on-stage personalities, although some of their music has also been criticized as formulaic.

Although the duo's performance was billed under the Bark Psychosis name ( and was technically the band's last appearance for ten years ), it was in effect the debut of a brand new project which was only tenuously related to Bark Psychosis music.

The real PUFFY performs the cartoon's theme song ( which is also in Japanese, German, Spanish, and Portuguese in the respective regions ), and many episodes feature one or more of the duo's songs playing in the background, along with music by their Puerto Rico muse Andy Sturmer.

Illya Kuryaki and the Valderramas produced some catchy, original, and danceable music ( a mix of rock, hip-hop, and Latin ) which cemented their fan base all over the Americas, until the duo's separation in 2001.

Kane as " arguably the most criminally under-recognized band of their era ," suggesting that the duo's innovative music was a seminal influence on later developments such as dream pop, trip hop, acid house, and post-rock.

Michael desired to create music targeted to a more sophisticated audience than the duo's primarily teenage fan-base.

The stories mainly concern the duo's many ( failed ) attempts to get around the characters simply staying on the spot and conversing, but often twists are added to the episodes, such as the recent parody of a-ha's Take on Me music video in the episode " Paper ".

It was generally well received by contemporary music critics and has been frequently cited as a highlight in the duo's career.

The duo's biggest hit was " Flat Foot Floogie ( with a Floy Floy )" in 1938 ( see 1938 in music ).

The duo's music is always positive, a nice change from most of the pessimism and angst dominating so much of today's music scene.

The song became Roxette's international " breakthrough " song, finally exposing the duo to music consumers outside of the duo's native Sweden and Europe after more than one attempt.

The duo's music career was cut short when Darren died of cancer on 5 August 2005, six weeks after being diagnosed with a chest tumour.

Pat and Mike became one of the duo's most popular and critically acclaimed films.

In 1964, he scored his first hit duets with singer Mary Wells including " Once Upon a Time ", which was later featured on the duo's album, Together, which became Gaye's first charted album.

Their next album H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, a very polished, synth-heavy effort, became the duo's most successful album to date.

After several successive R & B songs such as " I Idolize You ", " You Should've Treated Me Right ", " Poor Fool " and " Tra La La ", the duo reached the top 20 on the pop charts with " It's Gonna Work Out Fine ", which became the duo's second million-selling single and also garnered them their first Grammy Award nomination.

The song was released the following January and became the duo's best-selling single to date, reaching # 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 and selling well over a million copies, later winning them a Grammy Award for Best R & B Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group.

It became the duo's first no. 1 album in the UK, and also spawned three major hit singles.

" Mama Don't Get Dressed Up for Nothing ", the third single and B-side to " My Maria ", became the duo's first release not to make the top ten.

This cut went to number one, as did If You See Hers next two singles: " How Long Gone " and a cover of Roger Miller's " Husbands and Wives ", which also became the duo's first top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.

Following it was " South of Santa Fe ", which peaked at number 41 on the country charts and thus became the duo's lowest-peaking single there.

It was followed in early 2003 by the duo's eighth studio album, Red Dirt Road, whose title track became the duo's eighteenth number one on Billboard.

Brooks & Dunn co-produced with Tony Brown, with further production from Mark Wright on " My Heart's Not a Hotel ".< Ref > A month after the album's release, " Play Something Country " became the duo's twentieth and final number one on Hot Country Songs, and went to number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100.

In the 1970s Crocker ran a television commercial featuring the song " We've Only Just Begun ," which was later rerecorded by The Carpenters and sold as a single: It became the duo's signature song.

The band's fifth album, Re-Arrange Us, was released on May 20, 2008 and for their tour in support of the album, Mates of State became a quartet by adding Lewis and Anton Patzner of Judgement Day as multi-instrumentalists to compliment the duo's sound on select songs.

The duo's use of drum machines, pitch-tweaked guitars and vocals and drug-laced humor became a trademark part of their sound.

The second song released was " Sublime ", released in Australia on 17 May 2002 and became the duo's second top twenty single peaking at number nineteen in June 2002.

The duo's first single, aptly titled " The First Single " from their five song demo, EP, became locally popular on Phoenix radio station KEDJ and led to the duo signing with Elektra Records in 2002.

In March 2004, My Town became the duo's second platinum-certified album.

In October 2005, You Do Your Thing became the duo's third platinum album.

In 1981, the duo's single, " Hip Shake Jerk ", became a hit in Australia, reaching No. 12, and their first album, On the Uptake was quickly released there.

The duo's self-titled debut album ( which prominently featured the " You're the One for Me " title on the front cover, and the album became known by this name ) followed in early 1982, and several additional singles from this effort were successful on both the R & B and Dance charts, although they were not as popular as the debut hit.

The duo's track Georgia featuring Ludacris and Jamie Foxx became an instant underground hit and the albums top selling single, eventually reaching # 39 on the US Billboard 200 and setting the tone for their third album.

The song became the duo's first # 1 in the United Kingdom, as well as reaching # 13 on the U. S. Billboard Hot 100, becoming one of their last significant hits.

Such was the duo's success, they became an integral part of the show, also presenting the 2003 series, and the 2003 celebrity edition for Comic Relief.