VIDEO: Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll Channels HAMILTON in Fake Rock Opera 'Seeds for Feast'

Below, check out Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll's fake rock opera 'Seeds for Feast' centering on the 19th century's Irish potato famine. Jokingly known as "Familton", the spoof clearly takes some cues from the Tony Award winning hip hop musical HAMILTON.

Seeds for Feast, the musical storyline, were planted early in the FX comedy's first season, when Sonny "Rehab" Silversteen (John Ales), the bassist for the fictional rock band, the Heathens, played a couple tracks from his 29-song cycle for bandmate Johnny Rock (Denis Leary).

"I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if a guy like [theater vet] Campbell Scott decided that since Hamilton was going to be a big hit, he would develop his own hip-hop historical musical so he could win his own Tony Award?'"

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, the comedy created by and starring Denis Leary, began its second season on FX on Thursday, June 30 at 10 pm ET/PT. The 10-episode second season stars Leary, John Corbett, ElizaBeth Gillies, Elaine Hendrix, Robert Kelly and John Ales.

Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll centers on "Johnny Rock" (Leary), lead singer of a legendary early 90s New York band called The Heathens. Known for living up to their name, the band partied so long and so hard that even Keith Richards thought they needed to slow things down. The Heathens were on the brink of BECOMING famous for their kickass live shows and the release of their highly anticipated first album. Until they broke up. The same day the album dropped. Because lead guitarist Flash (Corbett) found Johnny in bed with his wife. So the band became legendary for all the wrong reasons - like self-destructing sooner than any group in rock-n-roll history. 25 years later, Johnny's massively talented daughter Gigi (Gillies) reunites Johnny, Flash, and the rest of their dysfunctional rock and roll family - Ava (Hendrix), Bam Bam (Kelly) and Rehab (Ales) and- to be her new backup band, The Assassins. Together they've got another shot at rock glory.

Source: ">USA Today

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