--- title: Macaulay Culkin's Velvet Underground Band's Pizza-Themed Music Video description: Pizza Underground is making musical magic canonical: https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/ author: Laura Stampler article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-10T16:12:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:16.093Z og:title: Please Watch Macaulay Culkin Play the Kazoo While Wearing a Pizza Mask og:description: Pizza Underground is making musical magic og:url: https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Please Watch Macaulay Culkin Play the Kazoo While Wearing a Pizza Mask twitter:description: Pizza Underground is making musical magic twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Please Watch Macaulay Culkin Play the Kazoo While Wearing a Pizza Mask > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 10, 2014 4:12 PM UTC by [Laura Stampler](https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/) ## Laura Stampler Dec 10, 2014 4:12 PM UTC No one likes pizza more than _Home Alone’s_ Kevin McCallister. > [](https://twitter.com/Panago%5FPizza/status/542009678826192896) Except, maybe, for Macaulay Culkin (pictured below), who famously portrayed the McCallister in the first two _Home Alone_ movies.  YouTube The image is a still from a music video Culkin made with the Pizza Underground, his pizza-obsessed Velvet Underground cover band. Although the bizarre music video was made earlier this year, it has [resurfaced](http://bust.com/macaulay-culkin-s-band-the-pizza-underground-finally-has-a-video.html) [this](http://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Macaulay-Culkin-Pizza-Underground-Video-36246238) [week](http://gawker.com/macaulay-culkins-pizza-themed-velvet-underground-cover-1668700320) as the Pizza Underground tours [North America.](http://thepizzaunderground.tumblr.com/) And we are very grateful for the resurfacing. I mean, where else can you see Culkin play a kazoo solo with a slice of pizza over his head? Culkin made headlines in December 2013 after a four-and-a-half minute [video of him eating a slice](http://entertainment.time.com/2013/12/20/macaulay-culkin-eats-pizza-and-we-have-questions/) went viral. Which raises an important question: Will there be another pizza-themed video in Culkin’s future? Well, according to [_Vanyaland_](http://www.vanyaland.com/2014/12/06/purr-fect-match-macauley-culkin-announces-feline-themed-band-pussy-joel-stage-boston/), the musician told audience members at a sold out Boston gig Saturday that his next endeavor will be a Billy Joel cover band that sings about cats called Pussy Joel. (Obviously). Watch out, [Taylor Swift](http://www.buzzfeed.com/lyapalater/proof-that-taylor-swift-is-the-ultimate-cat-lady), there’s a new cat lover in town. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/"},"headline":"Please Watch Macaulay Culkin Play the Kazoo While Wearing a Pizza Mask","datePublished":"2014-12-10T16:12:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:16.093Z","description":"Pizza Underground is making musical magic","url":"https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","Pizza","Music Video"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Laura Stampler","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/laura-stampler/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3627878/macaulay-culkin-pizza-underground-video/","name":"Please Watch Macaulay Culkin Play the Kazoo While Wearing a Pizza Mask"}}]}] ```