Jon and Al Kaplan were born in Manhattan and grew up on Staten Island, several minutes drive from the Fresh Kills Landfill.
Jon and Al moved to Los Angeles in 1996 to study concert composition and film music at USC.
After graduation, Jon and Al went to work at the offices of Film Score Monthly magazine, where they did everything from write and edit articles to stuff thousands of subscription renewals into envelopes.
quickly became a viral sensation, appearing in magazines such as Entertainment Weekly and Maxim, and on radio shows like Opie & Anthony and Howard Stern's 100.
returned to New York, opening off-Broadway at Theatre 80, starring Brent Barrett as Hannibal Lecter and Jenn Harris as Clarice Starling.
In 2010, Jon and Al launched a series of one-off musicals on their YouTube channel 'Legolambs' that would feature entire films distilled into single songs in a matter of three to four minutes.
Jon and Al's musicals have also targeted Sylvester Stallone in Rambo: First Blood Part II and Peter Weller in RoboCop.
In 2006, Jon and Al landed their first television scoring assignment as two of several dozen composers providing uncredited music for the NBC reality show Starting Over.
The Kaplans also wrote all of the Super NES-styled underscore for G4's cartoon series Code Monkeys, which ran for two seasons.
In 2010, Jon and Al wrote, recorded and produced a short Lego video in which Darth Vader helps John Williams compose the Imperial march.
After several unsold pilots, Jon and Al were hired to write for the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, where the final show featured their Best Song presenter patter for Leighton Meester and Lil Wayne.
While working as comedy writers on the 2009 MTV Movie Awards, Jon and Al arranged Andy Samberg's "Lonely Island Medley",[6] performed by LeAnn Rimes, Chris Isaak and Forest Whitaker.
songs made Entertainment Weekly's "Must List" in 2004: "Cannibalism is deliciously served up in this tuneful and crass re-telling of Silence of the Lambs."
In reference to the 2005 staged production of Silence!, Rob Kendt of The New York Times called the songs "terrible (and vulgar)."
's 2011 Off Broadway run was met with great critical praise,[9] but the 2012 LA production received the show's best reviews to date.