# Funny if sung by... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 1, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536 "2001-08-01T20:38:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/1 "2001-08-01T20:38:32Z")
While I was biking yesterday, the most ghoulish picture entered my head, almost making me laugh out load: Jeffrey Dahmer or Dracula singing “People…people who need people…” What songs can you see being totally hilarious if sung by the right person (or, perhaps, the wrong person)? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/2 "2001-08-01T20:48:49Z")
“That’s what little boys/girls are made of” by John Wayne Gacy? ---
**Author:** ![Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Home\_of\_the\_Braves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Home_of_the_Braves)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/3 "2001-08-01T20:49:16Z")
“Send In The Clowns” sung by John Wayne Gacy (I think that’s his name). ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/4 "2001-08-01T21:02:48Z")
“Let’s go riding in the car,” sung by Susan Smith. ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/5 "2001-08-01T21:06:14Z")
“Thank heavens, for little girls,” Bill Clinton ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Angel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d26b3c/32.png) [@Johnny\_Angel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Angel)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/6 "2001-08-01T21:30:33Z")
I do a pretty good impersonation of Elmer Fudd singing _Eve of Destruction_. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 1, 2001, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/7 "2001-08-01T21:36:11Z")
Oooh! I love this game! A group of friends of mine would play a variant of this where: Biz Markie (“Oh baby you, you got what I need…”) sings any song at any location/event in history You can come up with some doozies. So, to conform with the OP, my songs will all be sung by Biz Markie, with the bonus of giving a location: Biz Markie, “We All Live in a Yellow Submarine”, Battle of Waterloo Biz Markie, “I’m a Little Teapot”, Impeachment Trial of Andrew Jackson Biz Markie, “The Good Ship Lollipop”, The Conception of LeAnne Rhymes ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/8 "2001-08-02T02:31:28Z")
“Don’t Know Much About History” (I don’t believe that’s the name, but I forget)-George W. Bush “Amazing Grace”-Marilyn Manson ---
**Author:** ![beckwall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b487fb/32.png) [@beckwall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beckwall)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/9 "2001-08-02T02:49:32Z")
“The Best Things In Life Are Free” - Lars Ulrich ---
**Author:** ![Nocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/9fc348/32.png) [@Nocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nocturne)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/10 "2001-08-02T03:27:38Z")
My friends and I play a (somewhat) similar game. It has to do with the remake of “Lady Marmalade” that was done by four artists. We pick four artists unlikely to work with each other. I’ll give you an example: “Lady Marmalade” as covered by Bjork, Dio, William Shatner, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. ---
**Author:** ![Kittie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f07891/32.png) [@Kittie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kittie)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/11 "2001-08-02T06:11:04Z")
Hmmm…I’d want to see Slipknot cover “It’s a Sunshine Day”. Basically, I just want to hear Corey say “everybody’s smiling!”. Also, I want to see Britney Spears cover “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap”. I can only imagine what the music video would be like ~Kittie ---
**Author:** ![waxteeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/258eb7/32.png) [@waxteeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/waxteeth)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 12:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/12 "2001-08-02T12:34:03Z")
I’ve always thought it would be funny if Ozzy did a cover of New Kids On The Block, you got the right stuff. Not only that but if he used his long singing voice like on no more tears “youuu got the riiiighhht stufffff” ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/13 "2001-08-02T14:36:13Z")
“Money” sung by Bill Gates. ---
**Author:** ![THespos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@THespos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/THespos)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/14 "2001-08-02T14:48:15Z")
“Suicide is Painless” sung by Mariah Carey. “I Can See Clearly Now” by Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder. “I Want a New Drug” by Keith Richards. “Fat Bottomed Girls” by Carnie Wilson. “Sister Christian” by Marilyn Manson. “Come Sail Away” by Duran Duran. “You’ve Lost that Loving Feeling” by Tommy Lee. “Territorial Pissings” by Ozzy Osbourne (Live in Texas). “Bitchin’ Camaro” by Bret Michaels. “Insane in the Brain” by George Harrison. “Leaving on a Jet Plane” by Lynyrd Skynyrd. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 2:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/15 "2001-08-02T14:54:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by waxteeth \* > \*\*I’ve always thought it would be funny if Ozzy did a cover of New Kids On The Block, you got the right stuff. > > Not only that but if he used his long singing voice like on no more tears “youuu got the riiiighhht stufffff” \*\* Faith No More worked it into their song “We Care A Lot” in concert. Mike Patton would start singing “oh-oh oh-oh-oh oh-oh-oh-oh oh-oh oh-oh-oh the right stuff…we care a lot!” And seque back into the original song. If you want to see it, it’s on the “You Fat Bastards” home video. ---
**Author:** ![Lodrain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c4cdca/32.png) [@Lodrain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lodrain)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/16 "2001-08-02T15:53:30Z")
Blixa Bargeld doing ‘Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds’, although he _did_ sort of cover ‘All You Need Is Love’ (on _Tabula Rasa_, ‘Headcleaner’, IIRC)… I have a traumatizing image of the T-rex from the _Jurassic Park_ travesties doing the Macarena… Arm movements and all. ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/17 "2001-08-02T16:03:16Z")
I once had a long, rambling nightmare which included a duet. Ethel Mermen and Louis Armstrong. Singing “River Deep, Mountain High”. It isn’t funny in the sense that some of the other pairings here are funny, but it was bizarre enough that I had to get it off my chest. Thank you. ---
**Author:** ![Chum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3ab097/32.png) [@Chum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chum)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/18 "2001-08-02T16:11:48Z")
“Afternoon Delight” by System of A Down because they take themselves so seriously. And Serj probably could sing that high. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/19 "2001-08-02T17:14:22Z")
Anything is funny when performed by Christopher Walken. ---
**Author:** ![Ich\_Bin\_s](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Ich\_Bin\_s](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ich_Bin_s)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2001, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536/20 "2001-08-02T17:33:46Z")
the Jesus Lizard doing “Shiney Happy People” Pantera doing “Out of Step” by Minor Threat. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funny-if-sung-by/74536.md?page=2)