todd rundgren. welcome back, everybody.love songs written by our audience members in under an hour. it's time for "battle of the instant songwriter." here we go. ♪ sing the song and i'm writing the song about another song ♪ >> jimmy: that's my favorite theme that you guys do. i just love that. ♪ singing a song about writing a song about singing a song ♪ welcome to battle of the instant songwriters. before the show, we went through our audience and picked out two people who said they were musicians. we gave them each a made up song title and gave them under an hour to write an original song based on that title. here's a shot of them practicing backstage a minute ago. yeah, i can't wait to see what they come up with. let's meet them right now. come on over, guys. hey. [ cheers and applause ] ♪ >> hi. >> jimmy: hey, welcome. welcome, welcome. thank you for being here. let's start with contestant number one. what is your name and where are you from? >> my name's cassandra jenkins, and i'm from new york city. >> jimmy: hey, new

rocker todd rundgren recently said this it variety.mp supporter don't come to my show because you won't have a good time and also, i don't understand your frickin' values because i'm not singing about that. if you don't understand that basic thing, you're just fooling yourself. i guarantee that in this show if you're a trump supporter you will likely be offended. let the buyer beware. i welcome all people to my show, including mr. rundgren himself. so, todd, why no trump supporters at your show? their money is no good for you? >> well, i'll tell you the genesis of this issue. i have a lot of costume changes in my show and i needed a video to give me the time to change my clothes and so i created a video to go along with tin foil hat pretty much thinking that only my audience would see it and react however they-- well, how i expected them to react. early on we started having episodes in the audience where shouting watches would break out. sometimes it would get very personal, it would last into the next song that i was trying it play. j

todd rundgren you recently said thissa a for variety. to my show because you won't have au good time ani don't understand your valuesth because i'm not singing about that. if you don't understand that basic thing you are fooling yourself. i guarantee in this show, if you areou trump supporter you will likely be offended. buyerel beware. jesse: i welcome all people to my show. why no trump supporters? is there money no good to you. >> i will tell you the genesis ofou this issue. i have a lot of costume changes in my show m and i needed the video to give me the time to change c my clothes so i createa video to go along with tinfoilki hat pretty much thinking only my audience would see it and react however, well, how i expectedvi them to react. early on we started having episodes in the audience with shouting matches, sometimes it would give very personal, it would last into the next song that i was trying to play. >> okay. >> and it just became very disruptive and i thought if you are that easily ticked t off, yu probably will become annoy