Oscar Isaac Probably Deserves an Honorary Grammy For Trying to Play Tears For Fears’ ‘Shout’ on Bagpipe on ‘Tonight Show’

Oscar Isaac is crippled for playing around. Though the histrion has earned plentifulness of accolades for his melodramatic roles successful films specified arsenic Body Of Lies, Drive, Inside Llewyn Davis, Dune and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, erstwhile helium popped successful to The Tonight Show connected Monday (Oct. 20) Isaac came to messiness around.

Ostensibly promoting his relation arsenic Dr. Victor Frankenstein successful manager Guillermo del Toro’s eagerly anticipated remake of 1 of the all-time classical monster tales, Isaac erstwhile again showed disconnected his philharmonic chops astatine big Jimmy Fallon’s request. Playing the Random Instrument Challenge game, Isaac couldn’t assistance but people a constituent aft Fallon astir blew it playing a piccolo trumpet mentation of the Halloween classical “Monster Mash.”

Isaac seemed daunted erstwhile helium picked the 1984 Tears for Fears Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 deed “Shout,” past crestfallen erstwhile helium learned helium had to play it connected a bagpipe. “Oh no,” Isaac lamented, not adjacent definite wherever the mouthpiece was astatine first. His resulting show sounded much similar a whine of a British ambulance than a chart-topping popular song, with Roots drummer Questlove jokingly guessing Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.”

After Fallon did a amazingly admirable occupation playing Steppenwolf’s rocking roadworthy anthem “Born to Be Wild” connected the harp, Isaac gave it different changeable by plucking retired Neil Diamond’s “Sweet Caroline” connected a stand-up bass, with Quest instantly sussing that 1 out.

Fallon besides recalled that past clip Isaac was connected her played an archetypal called “The Hippopotamus Song” and during a commercialized interruption Roots drummer Questlove gave the actor’s oldest son, Eugene, a drum lesson.

When they got home, a Questlove-branded drum kit was waiting for them, which spawned a emotion of drumming successful Eugene, arsenic good arsenic inspiring Eugene’s younger brother, six-year-old Mads, to leap down the kit. Which is wherefore past twelvemonth Isaac and Mads formed a band, which the kindergartener dubbed “Fleece.” Their seven-song debut EP screen features an adorable Mads successful a vest, achromatic garment and drawn-on goatee and mustache, with dada close adjacent to him successful a vessel apical and agelong blonde wig.

Mads is the vocalist and drummer for the group, whose songs helium has fixed names including: “Hi-Hat Man,” “Fat Daddy,” “Be successful Love with Me,” “Downtown Time,” “Lucky Dude connected Fire” and the kick-off track, “Damn Tour.” After playing the recorded mentation of the lo-fi funk jam, Isaac hopped up to strum an acoustic guitar and execute “Damn Tour” with the Roots. “I’m gonna drum til the rain, it drops/ I’m gonna drop, I’mma antheral it up/ I’mma driblet ’cause I conscionable can’t stop,” the histrion sang.

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