Josh Groban

The faces are kind of bent and weird, you know?

There are no paintings of me anywhere as a singer.

But for some reason, LA Connection was like...

This guy, this improv master, we must have him on there.

But improv was like an escape for me.

So I started there.

And then, you know, for the vast majority of the beginning of my career, the label and everybody else was like, you have to be the guy who's on the billboard all the time.

You cannot stray from the brand of singing these serious songs and being the serious guy on the pedestal because people are getting an emotion from the songs and you don't want to ruin that.

um honestly it started with kimmel he gave me uh he he said you know because i wasn't getting couch time and you giving me couch time like being allowed to talk and show my personality was not something as a singer you normally get to do right kimmel said we've got a panda that is not mating right now uh i think it's ling ling the panda yeah would you do a skit where you sing a ballad trying to make the pandas horny right and i was like

Here we go.

And away we go.

And so that was the first thing.

Did it work?

That's the only important thing.

Yes.

There's a little Josh the Panda.

I think that worked.

I don't know.

But then he had me back to sing Kanye West's tweets.

Right.