In the wake of comedian Norm Macdonald’s unfortunate passing, I saw a clip of him closing a Nineties-era Saturday Night Live Weekend Update with the joke “And this week on the college charts, at number 1 we have Better Than Ezra, and at number 2 we have…Ezra.”

It’s a funny joke, because, as we all know, Better Than Ezra is a band that existed in the 1990s. Right? And that name screams to be lampooned. Because it surely means something…but what? Who is this poor sap Ezra who the band decided to permanently degrade? Thinking about this trivial mystery made me realize that, outside of being vaguely aware of their existence, I’ve never heard one Better Than Ezra song. I do not even know what kind of music they make. I guess some form of alt-rock? Because that’s broadly what all 90s bands played? I guess?