Michael “Bluer Than Blue” Johnson can inspire a giggle.
And there’s GOT to be some love for Riki Lindhome (Garfunkel) and Kate Micucci (Oates).
Hell, yes! Their Vimeo show was amazing. I fall in love every time I see them.
Don’t forget Flanders & Swann.
I’m not much a fan of his music, but I’ve seen Dave Matthews in interviews and a few acting roles and think the guy is hilarious.
Todd Snider.
Great choices all. I’d have to add Jerry Reed, who gave us “Amos Moses” and “When you’re Hot, you’re Hot” among others, and who apparently enjoyed life just as much as his singing appearances and movie roles indicated.
Seconded for Rick, but I can’t believe nobody has mentioned Noel Gallagher. Here’s a snippet of his dryness.
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Lou Reed, always an entertaining interview.
No kidding, I almost fell off my chair laughing at some of their songs. I heard they are doing another special?
Weird Al has the smartest and funniest lyrics out there. He is also funny outside his music. His TV shows and movie are really funny and he really did write them.
He’s a super funny and smart guy.
Interpreting that as “funny people,” I nominate Jon Wurster and James Blunt.
Precisely. In 1962, in 6th grade, I was writing song parodies just like the ones in Mad.
Spike Jones seldom changed the lyrics, though they may have added comments. It was all the music.Jones was a drummer, and it tells since the songs are done with the weirdest percussion section in existence.
Invented lyrics were for the classical instrumental pieces.
I have lots of Spike Jones, including a CD with two of his radio programs.
But he owes it all to Frank Jacobs, who did it first and far better (and also cleared the way for him to do it).
I personally don’t find his lyrics funny at all.
Based on his SNL work, I think Justin Timberlake is in the running.
Ariana Grande can be pretty funny. Here she’s spoofing Jennifer Lawrence on SNL’s version of Celebrity Family Feud. Her impersonations are pretty funny across the board: Another SNL skit.
Dave Grohl is often funny in interviews.
Don’t forget Ray Stevens.
My first thought.:D:cool:
Hat’s off fellow doper.
I don’t know how funny Paul Simon is, but I do know he had at least one high-larious line.
At the “We Are the World” sessions, he turned to Kenny Loggins and said, “if someone drops a bomb on this place John Denver is back on top”.
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In the Australian music scene the one who always stood out with a sense of humour was Bon Scott. You can see the glee bubbling over in all those early ACDC clips.
John Farnham, was also a consistently charming and funny interview guest, even though I find his music uniformly plodding and dull.
Among people popular this century I’d nominate Dave Graney.
And have I missed Tom Lehrer’s name somewhere back up the page?
Fifteen years ago or so, I listened to an interview with David Coverdale on the radio, and I was surprised by how funny he was. One part I remember…
Interviewer: You live in Lake Tahoe now, right?
Coverdale: Well, not in Lake Tahoe. But I have a house on the shore, yes.