Favorite funny songs and parodies.

[cosmosdan]

While my son was visiting we looked up several funny songs on you tube

will someone please tell me how this freaking link thing works now?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0EJm_AQ_VQ
Trauma to the Groin by Heywood Banks really makes me laugh.

DaVinci's Notebook does Title of the Song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=281ax7Ovlsg

is one of the cleverest songs I've ever heard.

I was wondering what funny songs, ditties, or parodies other dopers liked. Links appreciated but not a necessity.

[Gatopescado]

I like John Valby. Dirty, dirty man. I doubt you'll want to share his ditties with the kiddies.

[cosmosdan]

I like John Valby. Dirty, dirty man. I doubt you'll want to share his ditties with the kiddies.

Yah, I had a couple of old cassettes of his stuff. Pretty funny but it got old after a while. Like Dice Clay, the same joke over and over.

Some really great parodies though. His version of the sound of Silence was great.

[Hunter Hawk]

The track "The Lay of the Surfers (http://www.amazon.com/Lay-Surfers-2007-Digital-Remaster/dp/B000TS10AM)" off Robert Calvert's Lucky Leif and the Longships concept album is a good Beach Boys parody.







Honest, I'm not obsessed with Hawkwind. It only looks that way.

[RealityChuck]

Well, my favorites are the old classics -- Tom Lehrer, Spike Jones, Flanders and Swan, the Bonzo Dog Band.

However, probably one of the funniest since them is Bowser and Blue's "Working Where the Sun Don't Shine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N0w2rORwSc)"

I also like "Carrot Juice is Murder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM)" by the Arrogant Worms

[BrainGlutton]

Anything from a Doctor Demento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Demento) album.

[2 Fat Cattle]

Skullcrusher Mountain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_ryNJVreiY) by Jonathon Coulton.

[feppytweed]

Rockstars Need Money (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6iEt8WNFn0), by downhere.

[minlokwat]

My all-time favorite remains No Anchovies, Please by the J Geils Band.

youtube clip here (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eh8PbDyg1A4&feature=related)

[BrassyPhrase]

I'm a fan of The Element Song by Lehrer.

This is a fun video that has been changed, I guess because of copyright stuff. It's still good!

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

[hotflungwok]

Read a book (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUkpR2Q6Oy8) kills me.

MC Hawking is great, with songs like Entropy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bueZoYhUlg) and The Big Bizzang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LWam5KMQg).

Tim Cavanagh's Drunk with Dignity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1Yq90eyrk).

[cosmosdan]

Read a book (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUkpR2Q6Oy8) kills me.

MC Hawking is great, with songs like Entropy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5bueZoYhUlg) and The Big Bizzang (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20LWam5KMQg).

Tim Cavanagh's Drunk with Dignity (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pV1Yq90eyrk).

pretty dam funny. I've never heard Hawking before.

You might enjoy Roy Zimmerman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIwiPsgRrOs)

Creation Science 101

[Crimmsy]

Todd Snider - Talking Seattle Grunge Rock Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_qQ78JVtS8&feature=related)

[rowrrbazzle]

I'm a fan of The Element Song by Lehrer.

This is a fun video that has been changed, I guess because of copyright stuff. It's still good!

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.htmlWhat changed? I saved a version of the swf from 2006 and the only changes I saw were in the intro text on the opening screen.

[PastAllReason]

I also like "Carrot Juice is Murder (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM)" by the Arrogant Worms
The_Arrogant_Worms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrogant_Worms) have created a lot of fun music, including The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, a farmer giving up the farm for a life of piracy (yes, in southern Saskatchewan) and Jesus' Brother Bob who finds being the wind beneath Jesus' wings less than satisfying.

[Rico]

Pinkard and Bowden's The Ballad Of Dick And Jane.

Link (Quite positively NSFW or young children, either!) (http://www.jibjab.com/view/147911)

[AllWalker]

I like "Trapped in the Drivethru" by Weird Al. 10 minutes long, but worth it.

[Don't fight the hypothetical]

If you are familiar with Desiderata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqsJJ08-uQ), I think you'll find Deteriorata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NAwlepnSs&feature=related) funny.

[RealityChuck]

The_Arrogant_Worms (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Arrogant_Worms) have created a lot of fun music, including The Last Saskatchewan Pirate, a farmer giving up the farm for a life of piracy (yes, in southern Saskatchewan) and Jesus' Brother Bob who finds being the wind beneath Jesus' wings less than satisfying.Yes. Someone told me about them back in June, and I also like "Canada is Big" and "Ontario Sucks."

[FlyingRat]

One more vote for DaVinci's Notebook: Internet Porn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxYVBNhJ3pc&feature=related)

"Girl on girl on girl on girl on girl on guy on sheep!"

[Justin Credible]

Larry Weaver - The Unhappy Meal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFEU4fMNJI). It's hilarious.

[mobo85]

If you are familiar with Desiderata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LqqsJJ08-uQ), I think you'll find Deteriorata (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1NAwlepnSs&feature=related) funny.

Towards the end of his life, Les Crane, who recorded Desiderata, said he couldn't listen to it without gagging and much preferred the National Lampoon spoof version.

[dbuzman]

I like Cows with guns. (http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns)

[hotflungwok]

pretty dam funny. I've never heard Hawking before.
He's got a cd out, A Brief History of Rhyme (http://www.buyswag.com/brashmusic/product.aspx?id=554).

[Malacandra]

While my son was visiting we looked up several funny songs on you tube

will someone please tell me how this freaking link thing works now?

Put {url=http://www.gndn.com/mypage}My Witty Title{/url} with square brackets instead of braces, and you get My Witty Title (http://www.gndn.com/mypage).

eta: I'm amazed that link goes somewhere!

[mobo85]

Well, you can now add Another Christmas Song (http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/download/147497-premiere-stephen-colbert-another-christmas-song-stream) to that list. Pretty funny.

[jackdavinci]

anything by They Might Be Giants

fish heads fish head roly poly fish heads.. eat them up yum!

Wet Dream (a song consisting entirely of water/fish puns)

I miss Dr Demento's radio program.. sigh...

the theme to Gary Shandling's Show

Voltaire's parody stuff, especially the one making fun of Treknobabble, and the one using Trek references as sexual euphemisms, and the one about Brains

Monty Python, especially Lumberjack and Spam and Every Sperm is Sacred

Kirby Superstar's "I Brake For Naked People Covered in Diarrhea"

"If I Was Gay"

My dingaling

thanks to Family Guy, "Bird is the Word"

pretty much everything in the South Park movie, and "America Fuck Yeah" from Team America

one semester of spanish spanish love song

pluma pluma gay

star wars cantina

jesus was way cool / long haired communist radical jew / christians and the pagans

i wanna be a lifeguard - blotto

[A Dodgy Dude]

Tim Finnegan's Wake:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ar_hcuw98&feature=related

[Kamino Neko]

Yes. Someone told me about them back in June, and I also like "Canada is Big" and "Ontario Sucks."

The Toronto Song ('Ontario Sucks') is actually by Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. (Scroll down to the bottom here (http://www.arrogant-worms.com/discs.php) for a cite from the Worms' website.)

It is a screamingly funny song, though, which is all the more reason to make sure the credit goes to the right group.

(My favourite song actually by the Arrogant Worms is Rippy the Gator (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLvSI14Oou8), and as a Newfoundlander, A Night in Dildo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqrhGxdL8pA) is a close second (Both links are YouTube vids) - Carrot Juice is Murder and Last Saskatchewan Pirate are also awesomesauce. (LSP is the only one of the four not on Russell's Shorts, which is clearly their most perfect album.))

[Harmonious Discord]

I Am Cow by The Arrogant Worms (http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/The-Arrogant-Worms/I-Am-Cow/)

Steel Drivin Man by The Arrogant Worms/ (http://radio3.cbc.ca/play/band/The-Arrogant-Worms/Steel-Drivin-Man/)

When Father Papered The Parlour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IprJUN2R85o) I had to settle with this one to have a playable link.

Sid and Henry Kipper:
The killing of the whale
Dido Fido

Adam Austin Arnold sings The Old Arm Chair (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LS1omPIbm0A) Once again I used this on for an active link. There are better versions.

I'll leave off here, because there are too many.

[CircleofWillis]

Anything from a Doctor Demento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Demento) album.

My personal favourite from Dr. D... Tom T-Bone Stankus' Existential Blues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOQQvGffWE)

[AHunter3]

The old master from an era before Weird Al: Allan Sherman (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnhCJdJRMUQ&feature=related). Again (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1AA9N-mEV0). Unfortunately not on YouTube: I See Bones (parody of C'est Si Bon); Here's to the Crab Grass; Getting to be a Rabbit with Me...


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When I was about 9, I cracked up to a parody of countrysong "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZYcqlEZxGQ) titled "Tubby, Please Take Your Love to Town", with lines like

She's leaving now, 'cause I just saw
The truck back to the door
With 20 men to load her up
They could have used 3 more


OK, pathetic. I was 9 years old, whaddaya want?

[Yookeroo]

Anything by the Flight of the Conchords (http://www.conchords.co.nz/)

[rowrrbazzle]

Thomas Cat. http://www.alienfolklife.com/music-4.html

[Lust4Life]

Dont Care by Klark K

[Dreamy B]

Anything from a Doctor Demento (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Demento) album.

Dr. Demento's "Shaving Cream" was (originally?) done in the 40's by a guy named Benny Bell. Now these are old school funny songs that I remember my parents playing when I was a kid. I think they were on those big black CDs.

Some of his catalog is available here (http://www.archive.org/details/BennyBell) for free download.

[TheVioletCreep]

Jonathan Coulton.
Funny, yes, but in a very professional way, intelligent as fu*k.

[tds1273]

CircleofWillis beat me too it, great pick.

Avalanches- Frontier Psychiatrist (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8BWBn26bX0); greatest music video EVAR!

Henry Phillips- Shoulders of Freaks (www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSI14ZE6SIM&feature=related). I forgot to look for this on youtube at home last night so I had to yahoo it today; hope it works.

Absolutely anything by The (Radio Free)Vestibules (http://www.thevestibules.com/)! Famous for "Bulbous Bouffant", but that is only scratching the surface.

[Clothahump]

You just can't go wrong with TwistedTunes.com.

[jayjay]

Jonathan Coulton.
Funny, yes, but in a very professional way, intelligent as fu*k.

Is he the one that does "Re: Your Brains"?