Here’s a newly-unearthed video of Reggie Watts (of Conan and Comedy Bang Bang fame) performing a parody song on the PBS/Disney kids show Bill Nye the Science Guy from 1998. At the time, Watts was a 25-year-old alternative musician in Seattle. Bill Nye was also filmed in Seattle and would typically use local musicians for the music videos that closed out each episode. This is Watts’s earliest known TV credit and precedes anything on his IMDB by nearly a decade. He wouldn’t begin performing solo until 2002. Thanks to Splitsider reader Victor Manuel for sending this in!
