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A local news hit for a sci-fi rom-com turned into an on-air Korn tribute band audition.

In January 2015, Jay Baruchel and Eric André sat down with the anchors at KBAK/KBFX’s “Eyewitness News Mornings” in Bakersfield, California, to plug their new FXX series “Man Seeking Woman.” The plan was simple: talk about the show, throw out a premiere date, move on to the weather. Instead, the second someone mentioned the word “Bakersfield,” the segment stopped being a junket interview and became something else entirely.

• Baruchel and André appeared on Bakersfield’s KBAK/KBFX morning show to promote FXX’s “Man Seeking Woman.”
• The moment the pair realized the broadcast was coming from Korn’s hometown, they abandoned the promotional talk entirely.
• Both actors launched into impressions of frontman Jonathan Davis, scatting his vocal tics and air-riffing his down-tuned guitar sound, leaving the anchors laughing uncontrollably for the rest of the live segment.

The Pivot Nobody Saw Coming

The interview started the way these things always do — pleasant small talk, a quick setup of the show’s premise, the anchors lobbing softball questions about the cast. Then it clicked for André and Baruchel: Bakersfield isn’t just a stop on the promo circuit, it’s the town that produced Korn, the nu-metal band that broke out of California’s Central Valley in the mid-’90s with Jonathan Davis’s bagpipes and guttural scatting. That single fact hijacked the entire conversation.

From that point forward, “Man Seeking Woman” barely got another mention. André and Baruchel treated the discovery like breaking news, talking over each other about how much they loved the band and demanding the anchors acknowledge Bakersfield’s place in metal history.

Two Actors, One Impression, Zero Restraint

What made the clip spread was the commitment. Both actors dropped into exaggerated Jonathan Davis impressions on live television — mimicking his scatted vocal runs, throwing in mock down-tuned riffs, and generally behaving like two guys who’d waited their whole careers for a TV camera to let them do this. There was no cutting away from it; the anchors had to just ride it out.

The sudden shift into Korn fandom abandoned all promotion of “Man Seeking Woman,” leaving the morning anchors in uncontrolled hysterics as the actors improvised chaotic metal banter for the rest of the live segment.

It’s the kind of moment that local morning shows aren’t built to handle — there’s no producer cue for “the guests are now doing a Korn bit” — and that’s exactly why it worked. The anchors’ genuine, helpless laughter is doing as much comedic heavy lifting in the clip as anything André or Baruchel actually said.

Factors Driving Continued Circulation

Junket interviews are engineered to be forgettable — same five questions, same clip package, same handshake at the end. This one got remembered precisely because it broke that format on live TV in front of an audience that had no idea what was coming. It sits in the same lineage as those viral late-show or web-interview moments where the guest stops playing along with the format and the hosts lose control of the room, the kind of clip that ends up recirculated years later the same way overconfident guests derailing an interview format keeps finding new audiences online.

André, in particular, had already built a reputation for detonating the daytime-talk-show format on his own Adult Swim series, so seeing him do it as a guest rather than a host wasn’t exactly out of character. Baruchel matching him beat for beat is what turned it from a solo bit into a genuine back-and-forth — and it’s the sort of unscripted collision that tends to outlive whatever the segment was actually supposed to promote, in the same way clips filed under things caught on camera that nobody expected keep getting rediscovered.

“Man Seeking Woman” went on to run three seasons on FXX, but ask anyone who’s seen this clip what they remember about the promotional push, and it’s not the show — it’s two actors doing Jonathan Davis bits at 7 a.m. on a Bakersfield news desk while the anchors try, and fail, to get back to the script.