Just before the presidential inauguration in January, Sean Altman was approached by one of the writers on "Full Frontal with Samantha Bee" to bring his barbershop group, The Groovebarbers, onto the show for a segment. The group was hired to sing a ridiculously whitewashed version of the spiritual "Nobody Knows The Trouble I've Seen."

Altman, who is a GrooveBarber and Rockapella founding member, did some work for one of Sam Bee's writers when he was with "The Daily Show" a while back. Altman told us:

All the comedy show writers grew up watching Rockapella on "Carmen Sandiego," as evidenced by SNL's recent parody of the song, and Colbert's parody of it in 2015. They called; we delivered!

When GrooveBarbers tenor Steve Keyes couldn't get away from his job in Ohio for the Samantha Bee gig, the group had the wonderful Adam Spiegel sub in for the performance. He had the brilliant idea that, in addition to learning the requested pre-tape song "Nobody Know The Trouble I've Seen," they should have a version of Bee's theme song ready. He brought in his arrangement, and they sang it to her in the makeup room. She flipped over it and asked them to come sing it live for the audience during the next day's taping.

It ended up being the only thing they filmed that ended up on the original cable broadcast.

GrooveBarbers Sing the Full Frontal Theme

They wrote another tag and performed it at the live taping as well, but unfortunately it didn't quite make the cut. 

The GrooveBarbers have been around for 20 years, and the singers you just watched were Charlie Evett (bass), Kevin Weist (baritone) Sean Altman (lead), and Adam Spiegel (tenor).

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