# What songs are genuinely funny? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2003, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927 "2003-06-10T18:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/41 "2003-06-11T16:53:25Z")
I’m rather partial to [Allan Sherman](http://users.bestweb.net/~foosie/sherman.htm)’s music, if you can call it that :D. He’s best known for _Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (Camp Granada)_, but a spin through his recorded catalogue reminded me of my favorite song, one called _Good Advice_. In that song, he takes credit for every invention and great discoveries that have been made in the history of the world, with a very humorous twist at the end. But the swing band backing him up is awesome! Find a copy and enjoy. But be forewarned, it’s almost 9 minutes long. 9 minutes of pure enjoyment. ---
**Author:** ![Shodan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shodan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shodan)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/42 "2003-06-11T17:54:11Z")
_Eat It_, by Weird Al Yankovich. Or _Call Any Vegetable_, by Frank Zappa. Regards, Shodan ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/43 "2003-06-11T17:55:51Z")
Alice’s Restaurant - Arlo Guthrie The Police have one about a blow up doll that’s pretty humorous as well… _I bounce her in the kitchen and I bounce her in the hall…_ ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/44 "2003-06-11T19:22:26Z")
Fans of **Mirror Image** ’s Drew ([http://www.toothpastefordinner.com](http://www.toothpastefordinner.com)) will also love Austin’s own Fishboy ([http://www.fishboymusic.com](http://www.fishboymusic.com)). Fishboy rocks so hard live, but you can get some of the feeling from the mp3’s on his site, or better yet, by orderding one of his albums. He has a brilliant song called “April O’Neil” about the ninja turtles character. > [@](#): > > _From “That’s uh… jellyfish”_ > One day I went sailing on my boat > and no one really knows > I caught a jellyfish > I stared into his eyes > it almost made me cry > stupid jellyfish. > And now I’m thinking of him > made of substances unknown > the jellyfish was lonely > but he was not alone. God I love Fishboy. LC ---
**Author:** ![raizok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/45 "2003-06-11T19:22:57Z")
None of you people have anything that can match the humor in Adam Sandler’s “At a Medium Pace” NONE. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/46 "2003-06-11T19:26:10Z")
Oh, another great quote from Fishboy - this isn’t from a song, it’s just from his website. > [@](#): > > The day after this show, Sunday, Joey Ramone Died. Then on Monday the school set on fire and all the kids had to wait outside for 45 minutes. Luckily, all the instruments from the jam were still in the car and we all played songs about the ghost of Joey Ramone burning down the school. We had Fishboy playing before our play one night, and I had this really funny task of finding Fishboy. My producer sent me in to the coffee shop adjoining the theater, and I was asking around… “Are you Fishboy?”. Eventually someone said yes, and he went up and played, and it was great. I assume that was the actual Fishboy, not someone who was kidding around with me. LC ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/47 "2003-06-11T19:50:39Z")
> [@](#): > > None of you people have anything that can match the humor in Adam Sandler’s “At a Medium Pace” I’d laugh harder at my own vivisection than I would at Sandler’s stuff. I always found something about The Beatles’ _Why Don’t We Do It In the Road_ funny. And _Back in the USSR_ is pretty amusing. ---
**Author:** ![MeanJoe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanjoe/32/5693_2.png) [@MeanJoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanJoe)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/48 "2003-06-11T20:36:43Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by The Calculus of Logic \* > Bloodhound Gang has alot of funny songs. They have a way of writing them so that the lyrics are just part of the song rather than the crux of the song (if that makes sense). they are good audio songs with funny lyrics. > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zsofia \* > There’s a Bloodhound Gang song called The Lapdance is So Much Better When the Stripper is Crying, which I am deeply ashamed to find so damned hilarious. > > Because it’s hard to hide a hard-on when you’re dressed like Minnie Pearl. Haha… I was going to mention almost anything by The Bloodhound Gang is down-right hilarious but especially _“The Lapdance is so much better…”_ 2nd Verse: _"Well, faster than you can say, “shallow grave,” this pretty little thing come up to me and starts kneadin’ my balls like hard-boiled eggs in a tube sock. Said her name was Bambi and I said, “Well that’s a coincidence darlin’, ‘cause I was just thinkin’ about skinnin’ you like a deer.” Well, she smiled, had about as much teeth as a jack-o-lantern, and I went on to tell her how I would wear her face like a mask as I do my little kooky dance. And then she told me to shush. I guess she could sense my desperation. Course, it’s hard to hide a hard-on when you’re dressed like Minnie Pearl. "_ Hmmmm… perhaps I’m just sick. 😃 MeanJoe ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/49 "2003-06-11T20:39:23Z")
The original “Just A Gigilo (I Ain’t Got Nobody)” by Louie Prima is hilarious! He cracked himself up during that recording. A classic! ---
**Author:** ![raizok](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4491bb/32.png) [@raizok](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/raizok)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/50 "2003-06-11T20:43:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Marley23 \* > \*\*I’d laugh harder at my own vivisection than I would at Sandler’s stuff. > > I always found something about The Beatles’ _Why Don’t We Do It In the Road_ funny. And _Back in the USSR_ is pretty amusing. \*\* This coming from someone who hasn’t heard the song, right? Beatles? Please :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/51 "2003-06-11T20:53:19Z")
The latest Metallica is pretty funny… Try Lump by The Presidents of the United States of America. Lump Lump sat alone in a boggy marsh Totally motionless except for her heart Mud flowed up into Lump’s pajamas She totally confused all the passing piranhas —(get it?) She’s Lump, she’s Lump She’s in my head She’s Lump, she’s Lump, she’s Lump She might be dead Lump lingered last in line for brains, And the ones she got were sort of rotten and insane Small thing’s so sad that birds could land Is Lump fast asleep or rockin’ out with the band? She’s Lump, she’s Lump She’s in my head She’s Lump, she’s Lump, she’s Lump She might be dead Lump was limp and lonely and needed a shove Lump slipped on a kiss and tumbled into love She spent her twenties between the sheets Life limped along at subsonic speeds ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/52 "2003-06-11T22:12:11Z")
Big Balls, by AC/DC-- I still crack up every time I hear it Truck Drivin’ Neighbors Downstairs, by Beck–I’ve had some loud neighbors, but this takes the cake, esp. with the little excerpt of dialogue at the beginning Tangerine Speedo, by Caviar–“A woman can’t resist a man who looks good in a Speedo: fuckin’ get me a towel…” ---
**Author:** ![Ms2001](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ms2001/32/18463_2.png) [@Ms2001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ms2001)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/53 "2003-06-11T23:37:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Mullinator \* > \*\*I just wanted to second this song. Completely hilarious take on the rise of grunge as the newest great musical thing. > > “Silence, music’s original alternative.” \*\* Also see “Grunge Song” by the [Austin Lounge Lizards](http://www.austinlizards.com): > [@](#): > > This is the part of the song that’s really quiet > We play very soft, it sounds like a ballad > > And this is the part where we play real hard > It’s much louder than at the beginning > > And we go back to the quiet part again > If the whole song was this way, it would be boring > > So we go back to playing hard > It’s like the first time but slightly louder Another good one by the Lizards is “Grandpa’s Hologram”: > [@](#): > > Twenty years from now, grandpa passed away > But we hardly missed him ‘cause he’s still with us today > We can reach right through him to get the breakfast jam > We’re sittin’ in the kitchen with Grandpa’s hologram > > We just loaded Grandpa onto a laserdisc > Now we touch this magic lamp to make him re-exist > Always user-friendly, though he hasn’t much to say > We see lots more of Grandpa than before he passed away Heck, here’s one more by the Lizards, “Jesus Loves Me (But He Can’t Stand You)”: > [@](#): > > I know you smoke, I know you drink that brew > I just can’t abide a sinner like you > God can’t either, that’s why I know it to be true that > Jesus loves me–but he can’t stand you > > I’m going to heaven, boys, when I die > ‘Cause I’ve crossed every “t” and I’ve dotted every "i’ > My preacher tell me that I’m God’s kind of guy; that’s why > Jesus loves me–but you’re gonna fry ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2003, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/54 "2003-06-11T23:47:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rubystreak \* > **Big Balls, by AC/DC-- I still crack up every time I hear it** Heh – that reminds me of Aerosmith’s _Big Ten Inch_. Jeebus, I haven’t heard that one in years… > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Bearflag70 \* > \*\*Kill human being = funny > > Kill canine = sad > > Interesting… \*\* Not necessarily - _Dead Puppies_ by Ogden Edsl always makes _me_ laugh. But then so does _Teen Angel_, which isn’t even supposed to be funny. Obviously there’s something seriously wrong with me. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/55 "2003-06-12T00:49:07Z")
The song “Angel Baby” by Rosie and the Originals was a surprise hit in the early 1960’s. See if you can download it from kazaa or someplace else. The singer (Rosie) is somewhat offkey - the saxophone solo is pathetically offkey and the drummer frequently “misses the beat”. You would think they did this on purpose but from what I understand they were dead serious when they released it. Please try and give it a listen. I see someone mentioned the Hoosier Hot Shots and Spike Jones - 2 mainstays in the history of musical humor. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/56 "2003-06-12T00:55:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Rubystreak \* > \*\*Big Balls, by AC/DC-- I still crack up every time I hear it > \*\* Some balls are held for charity And some for fancy dress But when they’re held for pleasure They’re the balls that I like best hrh ---
**Author:** ![Aranea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Aranea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aranea)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/57 "2003-06-12T01:26:26Z")
“Lola” by The Kinks. ---
**Author:** ![TeaRoses](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c37758/32.png) [@TeaRoses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TeaRoses)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/58 "2003-06-12T01:36:25Z")
Jesus, John, and Elvis by Dick Siegel. I still have to see about buying that song. ---
**Author:** ![i\_like\_bacon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@i\_like\_bacon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/i_like_bacon)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/59 "2003-06-12T01:37:02Z")
how bout \*\* my girl bill\*\* ---
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 12, 2003, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927/60 "2003-06-12T01:38:06Z")
Speaking of the Kinks, I like their twisted Christmas song, “Father Christmas” It’s kind of darkly humorous–about poor boys beating up a store Santa because their family needed money–not toys at Christmas. Jimmy Buffet has had some humorous songs, too. And, I don’t know who writes the songs Lisa Kudrow sings on friends but “Smelly Cat” definitely cracks me up. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-songs-are-genuinely-funny/180927.md?page=4)