# Biff Tanner Sings! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 15, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494 "2006-10-15T03:32:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/1 "2006-10-15T03:32:06Z")
Tom Wilson, the guy who played Biff Tanner (and his descendants and ancestors) from the Back to the Future movies (not to mention Todd “Maniac” Marshall from the Wing Commander games) sings a song he wrote about [all the questions](http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1711413) people ask him. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Garfield226](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Garfield226](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garfield226)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/2 "2006-10-15T03:35:55Z")
It’s Tannen, actually. And Tom Wilson has been doing [standup](http://www.tomwilsonusa.com/) (link plays sound) for a while now. ---
**Author:** ![bienville](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/3 "2006-10-15T03:39:29Z")
Wow! Thanks for posting that! That was great. now I know what a “Best Boy” is! ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/4 "2006-10-15T10:22:43Z")
Cool link, thanks!! 🙂 I hope he becomes Famous on teh Internets ---
**Author:** ![Harborwolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c89c15/32.png) [@Harborwolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harborwolf)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/5 "2006-10-15T14:49:12Z")
Thanks for the link. I’ve heard Tom sing that on Bob and Tom and have been trying to find it to play for **Alias** at home. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [October 15, 2006, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/biff-tanner-sings/376494/6 "2006-10-15T21:48:10Z")
Before this thread decides to make like a tree and get out of here, I can’t help but post this anecdote about Ken “I won 74 consecutive _Jeopardy!_ games. What have you done lately?” Jennings’s [encounter with Tom:](http://ken-jennings.com/blog/?p=199) > [@Ken Jennings](#): > > Weird encounter at about 10 this morning: I find out too late that wires got crossed and I’m late for a Chicago morning radio show. I sprint over a block to State Street and rush into the Mancow Muller studio just in time. A very big guy holding an acoustic guitar says, “Hey Ken! I’ll be the accompanist for your segment.” > > Still a little discombobulated from my run, I say, “Okay, blues riff in B, watch me for the changes, and try to keep up.” It’s what Michael J. Fox tells Marvin Berry and the Starlighters in the first Back to the Future. > > Then I look up and see who I’ve been talking to. It’s Biff freaking Tannen. Well, it’s actor-comedian Thomas Wilson, who played Biff in the Back to the Future movies. He looks exactly the same (i.e. he doesn’t look like Old Biff from BttF2 yet). I guess he’s a regular guest on Mancow’s show. I felt like an idiot for my stupid Michael J. Fox quote, especially when Tom’s segment turned out to be a funny YouTube song he does about people making the same stupid Back to the Future jokes to him for twenty years. > > If he had rapped me on the forehead and given me a big “Hello, McFly!” right then, I would have deserved it.