Pretty much anything by Lehrer.
The Laughing Gnome by David Bowie.
“'Ere now, what that’s clicking noise?” “That’s Fred. He’s a metro-gnome!”
Anything by Ray Stevens gets my vote. My dad got me hooked thru “Shriner’s Convention” when I was a kid. Between us yelling “YOU’RE THE ONLY ONE WHO’S GOT A FEZ WITH A PROPELLER ON TOP!!” and making motorcycle revving noises for about a month, my mom was so close to killing us, then finding where Ray Stevens lived and beating him to death for the song.
Tom Lerher is a fave too. “Poisoning Pigeons In The Park” especially.
Voltaire:
Brains
When You’re Evil
MC Lars:
This Gigantic Robot Kills
iGeneration
Hot Topic is Not Punk Rock
Space Game
Dr. Bombay:
Calcutta
S.O.S.
Rice and Curry
Caramell:
Vad Heter Du
Diskotek
Dr. Steel:
Planet X Marks the Spot
Back and Forth
Build the Robots
Childhood A-Go-Go
Zombie Girl:
Creepy Crawler
Blood, Brains, and Rock 'n Roll
Anything by Tom Lehrer
Possibly more that I cannot currently remember.
"Let It All Hang Out!"
by the Hombres
“Tunak Tunak Tun” - Daler Mehndi
Not sure if it counts as “novelty” but it’s definately a joke song among my group of friends. If we need something wacky, this gets played eventually.
Oh my god-Guitarzan was my first.
I’m A Lumberjack and I’m Okay
Do The Nothing by Martin Mull
Hard Magic by Divine
forgot
I Don’t Wanna be a Homosexual by Sloppy Seconds
“Cover of the Rolling Stone” by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
The Merry Minuet, Kingston Trio. Still applicable!
“If it wasn’t for your gumboots” by NZ comedian Fredd Dagg
"Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavour on the Bedpost Over Night " Lonnie Donegan
“My voice keeps Changing On Me” the version I know was John Hore but it may have been a cover
In the 1970s I seemed to have the only copy of National Lampoon’s Lemmings in Australia. I had bought it secondhand and no-one had heard of it. I used to play it as though it was a serious music concert and my stoned friends would be in raptures as it unfolded. Belushi’s Lonely At the Bottom piss take of Cocker, Chevy Chase doing Denver in Colorado - “hey, Colorado’s calling me…HEY YOU” and Christopher Guest doing Positively Wall Street. And of course Farmer Yassir praising the peace loving suicidal hippies - “long hair, short hair what’s the difference once the head’s blowed off?”
I wish Graeme hadn’t lost it, I’d put it on now.
Lots of Good ones here. When I did a single act I used to include a lot of novelty songs. I tried to talk the band into doing GiTarzan knowing the audience would love it live but they were far too cool for such nonsense.
I’d record Dr Dimento looking for new funny songs to do. Dead Puppies was a good one. For raunchy novelty songs the audience loved The Rodeo Song “You Piss Me Off!! You Fucking Jerk” and the Asshole Song “Were you born an asshole or did you work on it your whole life?” and Seven Old Ladies an old Irish Pub tune.
One of the great Pun Novelty songs Wet Dream by Kip Oddotta
Fish Heads by Barnes and Barnes is a favorite of mine.
King Tut
Also, Particle Man, The Sun Is A Mass Of Incandescent Gas, Istanbul Not Constantinople, and Dead, (to name just a few) by They Might Be Giants.
Forgot Birdhouse In Your Soul by TMBG!
OK, I gotta ask: What on earth does your link have to do with the song?
No mention of Bonzo would be complete without the haunting “Tubas in the Moonlight.”