roommates: a musical comedy by Brooks Allison & Jordan Mendoza

Roommates the band is a musical comedy duo of real-life best friends Jordan Mendoza and Brooks Allison.

LOGLINE

Roommates the album/pod/live show/series is a lofi pop musical about the mundane melodrama between two codependent, sweet, somewhat sociopathic friends who decide to become roommates. Music by Boy Brooks. 

Think: Flight of the Conchords, Search Party, Tim & Eric, I Think You Should Leave. Like all of those folk comedy duos except it’s asian queer lofi pop.

Musical references: Clairo, Gus Dapperton, Still Woozy, Steve Lacy, Cuco

PLOT

Jordan and Brooks are two friends who love and admire each other as artists. But when they decide to move in together, they realize they might not be cut out to be roommates.

Along the way, Brooks and Jordan run into common problems that all roommates face:

• Paying the rent

• Cleanliness issues

• Having intercourse with each others siblings

• Racism and bigotry from their loveable third roommate, Tommy

• Despair

• Betrayal

• Murder?

In the course of the album/show, we’ll watch as the roommates come together, fall apart, and fight to the death.

Roommates is a comedy about the mundane—seemingly high stakes—drama between friends who decide to live together.

ABOUT THE CREATORS

Jordan Mendoza is an Asian-American writer, comedian, and filmmaker from Boston. He works in NYC at Comedy Central’s Creators Program where he writes, stars, and produces his original short-form series Apologies—in which each episode he plays a villain YouTuber apologizing for a previous video he had to delete. He recently was selected for the Made in NY Writers Room for his half-hour pilot Tidying, a dramedy about a Marie Kondo-esque organizational consultant who—suffering from an illness that makes her believe objects have feelings—falls in love with a client and his lamp.

He co-hosts Art School at Union Hall and Drunk Science at Littlefield (ft. The New York Times, Vulture, Gothamist, truTV Comedy Breakout Initiative). Time Out named him a "Rising New York comedian primed to break big.” He is an NYTVF Development Deal recipient with Audible. Recently he appeared as a guest on Radiolab, was tweeted at by The Rock, and became active on TikTok, a social media platform for teenagers.

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