# Favorite funny songs and parodies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 15, 2008, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801 "2008-11-15T01:42:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/21 "2008-11-17T04:03:06Z")
[Larry Weaver - The Unhappy Meal](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsFEU4fMNJI). It’s hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/22 "2008-11-17T04:03:17Z")
> [@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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![dbuzman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de0a6/32.png) [@dbuzman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dbuzman)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/23 "2008-11-17T05:13:02Z")
I like [Cows with guns.](http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/cowswithguns) ---
**Author:** ![hotflungwok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/edb3f5/32.png) [@hotflungwok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hotflungwok)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/24 "2008-11-17T20:53:50Z")
> [@cosmosdan](#): > > 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). ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2008, 9:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/25 "2008-11-17T21:03:46Z")
> [@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? Put {url=[http://www.gndn.com/mypage](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! ---
**Author:** ![mobo85](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b19c9b/32.png) [@mobo85](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mobo85)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/26 "2008-11-18T04:04:30Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/27 "2008-11-18T10:30:12Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a87d85/32.png) [@A\_Dodgy\_Dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/A_Dodgy_Dude)\ **Post date:** [November 18, 2008, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/28 "2008-11-18T23:31:17Z")
Tim Finnegan’s Wake: [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_ar_hcuw98) ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/29 "2008-11-19T00:11:51Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > 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.)) ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/30 "2008-11-19T01:43:20Z")
[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. ---
**Author:** ![CircleofWillis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/54ee81/32.png) [@CircleofWillis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CircleofWillis)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/31 "2008-11-19T01:49:49Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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) ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/32 "2008-11-19T02:30:00Z")
# 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… 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? ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/33 "2008-11-19T07:10:37Z")
Anything by the [Flight of the Conchords](http://www.conchords.co.nz/) ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 19, 2008, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/34 "2008-11-19T23:14:47Z")
Thomas Cat. [http://www.alienfolklife.com/music-4.html](http://www.alienfolklife.com/music-4.html) ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 11:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/35 "2008-11-22T11:34:35Z")
Dont Care by Klark K ---
**Author:** ![Dreamy\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@Dreamy\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dreamy_B)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/36 "2008-11-22T14:09:23Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > 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. ---
**Author:** ![TheVioletCreep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eb8c5e/32.png) [@TheVioletCreep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheVioletCreep)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2008, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/37 "2008-11-22T14:53:26Z")
Jonathan Coulton. Funny, yes, but in a very professional way, intelligent as fu\*k. ---
**Author:** ![tds1273](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/df705f/32.png) [@tds1273](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tds1273)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/38 "2008-11-26T17:50:07Z")
**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. 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. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/39 "2008-11-26T20:43:51Z")
You just can’t go wrong with [TwistedTunes.com](http://TwistedTunes.com). ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2008, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801/40 "2008-11-26T21:49:10Z")
> [@TheVioletCreep](#): > > Jonathan Coulton. > Funny, yes, but in a very professional way, intelligent as fu\*k. Is he the one that does “Re: Your Brains”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-funny-songs-and-parodies/472801.md?page=1)