# Fun(ny) music videos, NOT parody or cover **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 13, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263 "2014-02-13T17:12:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/1 "2014-02-13T17:12:55Z")
Hi, since there are currently threads on parodies and covers, I thought one on fun or funny music videos would fit right in. I’ve been looking around YouTube and found several that are fun or funny: This is the Austrian band “Kontrust” and their song [Hey DJ](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwhPOlIuSXM) From Germany [Geh mir aus den Augen](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVQuFaPsg7o) by the band “9mm” I don’t know if the song [Cannibal Family](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHtJPrzUFEU) by the French band “The Wolfgangs” is supposed to be funny, but it is to me! And this one from Japan [Take My Chance](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu2z4Uf9Tgc) by the all-female band “Doll$boxx” starts and ends humorously. Forgot this one by the Russian band “Russkaja” called [Change](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aGx4gsCV8o) What others have you found? Only rule - No Weird Al or other parodies, should be an original song. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Moonlitherial](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4bbf92/32.png) [@Moonlitherial](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonlitherial)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/2 "2014-02-13T17:31:26Z")
Anything by Garfunkle and Oats. Here are a couple to get you started: [Sex with Ducks](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXPcBI4CJc8) [Pregnant women are smug](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbTB3ASkdOo) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/3 "2014-02-13T19:59:41Z")
Juice Newton, a country/rock singer from the early '80s, did some silly videos: [Queen of Hearts](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0DK-0fIKCw) [Love’s Been a Little Bit Hard on Me](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tatoOZ2-uw) David Lee Roth: [Yankee Rose](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qz5w06Naq0c) (the first 90 seconds, full of utterly non-PC stereotypes) [Just a Gigolo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXjBWN8LO8) (mostly funny if you watched MTV in 1984) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 8:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/4 "2014-02-13T20:06:12Z")
[Aqua-Barbie Girl](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyhrYis509A) ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/5 "2014-02-13T21:05:15Z")
**[The Bonzo Dog Band](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCXkW3HZ64P0pByiOv36QnA)**. The musical version of Monty Python – a very apt comparison, since Python members worked with them and used them as inspiration for their act, while Bonzo Dog Band member Neil Innes wrote and performed with them (he wrote and sang “Brave Sir Robin,” for instance). ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/6 "2014-02-13T21:16:09Z")
Actually, about half the songs on each of Weird Al’s albums have been original, including favorites like Albuquerque, The Night Santa Went Crazy, Germs, One More Minute. Blotto had a video for [I Wanna Be a Lifeguard](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blotto&sm=3) that got a lot of play on MTV in the early days that was funny. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/7 "2014-02-13T21:17:21Z")
One of my faves,[You Can Call Me Al](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq-gYOrU8bA). ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/8 "2014-02-13T21:58:04Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Just a Gigolo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXjBWN8LO8) (mostly funny if you watched MTV in 1984) Similarly, here’s Phil Collins, [Don’t Lose My Number](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM) ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/9 "2014-02-13T22:16:21Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Just a Gigolo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeXjBWN8LO8) (mostly funny if you watched MTV in 1984) But it doesn’t qualify, because it’s [not original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-a8kLtJSJ4). ---
**Author:** ![Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e47c2d/32.png) [@Hershele\_Ostropoler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hershele_Ostropoler)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/10 "2014-02-13T22:20:45Z")
Matthew Sweet’s [We’re the Same](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIEUxASauuA)? Natalie Imbruglia’s [Torn](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VV1XWJN3nJo) video; it’s a cover (of an Ednaswap song), but it’s not a parody, and Imbruglia isn’t a comedy act. So it doesn’t quite meet the criteria as articulated, but it’s what I suspect OP is looking for. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/11 "2014-02-13T23:00:54Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > But it doesn’t qualify, because it’s [not original](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-a8kLtJSJ4). Technically true (it’s a cover song), though I suspect the OP meant “original” in the sense of “not a parody”. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/12 "2014-02-13T23:05:56Z")
Two I thought were pretty funny when I first saw them: [I Believe In A Thing Called Love](http://youtu.be/sRYNYb30nxU) - The Darkness [Knights Of Cedonia](http://youtu.be/G_sBOsh-vyI) - Muse ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/13 "2014-02-14T00:34:00Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Blotto had a video for [I Wanna Be a Lifeguard](http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=blotto&sm=3) that got a lot of play on MTV in the early days that was funny. Blotto had several others: “We Are the Now Tones” and “[Metal Head](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyJSetm6U0k)” are terrific ---
**Author:** ![bunyupp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@bunyupp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bunyupp)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/14 "2014-02-14T01:13:22Z")
Thanks. I had completely forgotten Juice Newton. Kenobi\_51 you are right, I did mean “original”, but all videos with David Lee Roth are fun. Just to kind of hijack my own thread, I didn’t know Weird Al did original songs. Has anyone parodied his songs? ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/15 "2014-02-14T01:40:17Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Similarly, here’s Phil Collins, [Don’t Lose My Number](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM) Oh you reminded me of [Genesis - “Jesus He Knows Me”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EprQGmZ3Imw) and [Genesis - “I Can’t Dance”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOyF4hR5GoE) both of which are fun and have a funny bit at the end. [Dumb Ways to Die](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJNR2EpS0jw) by those rebels of rock, Metro Trains Melbourne. **bunyupp** : Not a video, but someone parodied Weird Al’s “Another One Rides the Bus” with “Another One Got Hit by the Bus.” It is presumably unreleased but Dr. Demento played it. It was about a bus driver who got tired of Weird Al’s song and wanted to run Weird Al over. Emo Phillips and Cheech Marin were also mentioned in the song. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/16 "2014-02-14T03:00:26Z")
My two automatic responses to this question are Ke$ha’s “[Blow](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFWX0hWCbng)” and “[C’mon](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8A4QVop3-8).” Both of them are so completely nonsensical that they make _perfect_ sense. ---
**Author:** ![Alley\_Dweller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alley_dweller/32/430_2.png) [@Alley\_Dweller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alley_Dweller)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/17 "2014-02-14T03:11:13Z")
In this video, Australian pop diva Ricki-Lee Coulter chronicles the trials and tribulations of a pop superstar as she attempts to find a suitable dance partner in a trendy night club. Will she find someone who can wiggle it for her? But just a little bit? [Ricki-Lee – Wiggle It.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Fh0S_flyk) Note that I can’t find a high-quality link anywhere. If you remember the [1990 hit by 2 in A Room](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2PGNA2u_HI), this is a different song (mostly). ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/18 "2014-02-14T03:17:28Z")
[The Streak](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM) ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/19 "2014-02-14T03:23:46Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Similarly, here’s Phil Collins, [Don’t Lose My Number](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Z-eUmR2bM) Genesis’ “Illegal Alien” video is quite amusing too. I’ve always loved the Foo Fighters’ debut video and single, “Big Me”. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2014, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263/20 "2014-02-14T04:32:24Z")
“It Wasn’t Me” by Shaggy. Dude ends up being chased by the Black Charlie’s Angels or something; he even steals a motorcycle, parks it and dives off an overpass onto a tractor-trailer. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” by Bonnie Tyler. Being a professor at an all-boys school causes the clearly long-celibate main character to have a psychotic episode. See also: The literal video version. “What kind of private school would let in these kinda guys? It started out as Hogwarts, now it’s Lord of the Flies!” Sorry I didn’t link. It’s a lotta work on this phone. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fun-ny-music-videos-not-parody-or-cover/681263.md?page=2)