The New York jazz pianist and composer Henry Hey became known to me years ago because of his "Help Song," as it's now named on YouTube, which was a sort of viral audio clip in which he created a piano accompaniment to a caller losing his mind on the answering machine of a computer customer service line.  It was one of the many awesome things I got hip to by way of Dan Gailey and/or Danny O'Brien, from KU ("to which I got hip??") and it started on some other website that was always hard to locate.  Fortunately, now it's available for all to see, although I'll let you do the YouTube search for it (Help Song), because there are naughties, and, as I said before, I'm trying to keep my new site somewhat family-friendly.

The next time anything like this sprung up was during the 2008 presidential campaign, in the form of "McCain/Palin Song" and "Palin Song," which became moderately viral and are loved by all who view it.  I, then, decided to figure out how to do it myself, and I chose the Bill O'Reilly temper tantrum from the outtakes of "Inside Edition" as the source material for what became my biggest YouTube hit, "Bill O'Reilly's Jazz Operetta."  My suspicion is that Henry, as talented a pianist as he is, used the same methodology as I did to put these together:

I imported the audio track of the video into Digital Performer and let the program use its brilliant pitch detection on his speech.  I then created a MIDI part out of it manually (I've since learned how to do this much more efficiently in Melodyne) and then composed some piano voicings and bass and drum parts to match it, to give the impression that he was singing and being accompanied.  Same deal with my vid...I'll let you search for it...you'll have no problem.  

Henry's version is clearly the winner, by far, as it should be.  Here's "Palin Song"