# Looking for stand-up comedy routine: The "I don't care" song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 25, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579 "2009-05-25T17:18:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/1 "2009-05-25T17:18:43Z")
Hello, I’ve got an earworm and I’m trying to excise it but my Google/Youtube skills are failing me. I’m trying to find a comedy stand-up routine in which the comedian sang a song based on the line, “I don’t care!” He’d intersperse his remarks about how lousy his life was with the words “I don’t care”, until the end or the act when it became a full-blown song: “I don’t care, I don’t care (he does not care!)” and so on. This cheerful ditty is stuck in my head and I’d like to pass it on to a friend… and thus spread the earworm 🙂 Here’s the other details I can remember: The comedian was male, and didn’t sound particularly old or young. I remember recording this act off the radio back in the late 80s or early 90s, on a Just For Laughs comedy show. (I’ve long since lost the tape, unfortunately.) That means the artist was probably Canadian, or at least played in Montreal. Thanks in advance for any help! (Waiting for someone to post, “I don’t care” in 3…2…1…) ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/2 "2009-05-25T17:28:05Z")
[Kevin Meaney](http://www.kevinmeaney.com/audio/KEVIN_MEANEY-.mp3) has a bit like that, and I think he’s the right age to fit your memories. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/3 "2009-05-25T17:35:07Z")
THAT’S IT!!! Thank you so much, that’s awesome! Yippee! ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/4 "2009-05-25T17:36:51Z")
> [@choie](#): > > [Kevin Meaney](http://www.kevinmeaney.com/audio/KEVIN_MEANEY-.mp3) has a bit like that, and I think he’s the right age to fit your memories. Yeah, I remember that. I saw a Kevin Meaney special in which he sang the song, and went out into the audience, out the door of the club, out on the street, and onto a bus, trying to get people to sing along. He found a teenage girl, and tried to get her to sing “I don’t care, I don’t care,” but the girl instead sang the chorus of “Doin’ Da Butt,” a popular song at the time. 😃 (“Da Butt” was a dance. IIRC the song appeared in the movie “School Daze”) ---
**Author:** ![choie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/choie/32/7829_2.png) [@choie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/choie)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2009, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/5 "2009-05-25T17:44:05Z")
> [@xnylder](#): > > THAT’S IT!!! Thank you so much, that’s awesome! Yippee! Coolio. 🙂 You can actually get the [whole routine as an mp3 over at Amazon for a buck](http://www.amazon.com/Thats-Not-Right/dp/B0019BBLGG/ref=dm_cd_album_lnk), if you want to hear it. Though it might be a little more in your neck of the woods. ---
**Author:** ![Cliffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cliffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cliffy)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-stand-up-comedy-routine-the-i-dont-care-song/497579/6 "2009-05-26T17:43:23Z")
I have been signing that song at appropriate moments (usually under my breath) for over 20 years now, ever since I saw Meaney’s late-'80’s appearance on HBO’s One Night Stand. –Cliffy