Matt Farley

Matt Farley (born June 3, 1978)[1] is an American singer-songwriter, musician, filmmaker, author and podcaster who has released more than 25,000 songs as of January 5, 2024[update].

[2][3] Farley's creative output is released under his label Motern Media, and he usually presents his musical work under a variety of pseudonyms and band names, including the Toilet Bowl Cleaners, Papa Razzi and the Photogs, the Hungry Food Band, the Guy Who Sings Songs About Cities & Towns and the Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee.

Farley has additionally starred in, co-written, co-produced and released over 15 amateur feature-length movies with his friend Charlie Roxburgh including Don't Let the Riverbeast Get You!

Farley grew up in Massachusetts, graduated from Bishop Fenwick High School in 1996, and majored in English at Providence College in Rhode Island.

[6] In 2016, he performed "Used to Be a Pizza Hut", a song topic derived from internet traffic about how re-purposed locations of the American chain restaurant still retain their distinctive roof style, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon.

[4] In 2024, New York Times journalist Brett Martin found that Farley had written a song about him specifically, 11 years prior.

[4] Farley has now slowed down to producing one 50-song album per month,[4] and he performs an annual five-and-a-half-hour concert "extravaganza" in Danvers, Massachusetts, where he now lives.

[7] Farley has two pseudonyms dedicated to songs about fecal matter; The Toilet Bowl Cleaners, which he describes as "making statements with their albums", and The Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee, which he says is "more shameless".

[4] According to Farley, one song that contains only the word "poop" repeated over and over generated $500 in streaming revenue every month as of 2018,[update] likely in part because children requested it from Alexa or other devices.

[12][18] "Poop in My Fingernails" by the Toilet Bowl Cleaners is one of his most popular songs, with over 4.4 million streams on Spotify as of March 2024[update].

[8][24] As of 2024[update], Farley has earned approximately $469,000 from both his pseudonyms the Toilet Bowl Cleaners and the Odd Man Who Sings About Poop, Puke and Pee collectively.

As an example, in Magic Spot (2022), fan-favorite recurring actor Kevin McGee stars as the deceased Uncle Dan Port, who as a ghost visits his young nephews and nieces to teach them a poem; when his nephews Walter (Farley) and Poopy (Chris Peterson) reflect on the poem as adults, they find that it reveals the secret to both time travel andtheir uncle's mysterious death.

[26] His working method, primarily relating to his music, is the subject of a 2018 Australian documentary, Lessons from a Middle Class Artist.

[12] He wrote and directed a fictionalized version of his career in 2013's Local Legends, the only film Farley has made where Roxburgh is not credited as director and co-writer.