# Whats your favorite parody or comic song?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 17, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536 "2013-12-17T06:45:08Z")
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 6:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/1 "2013-12-17T06:45:08Z")
Mine is _Momma’s Got Her Boobs Out_ by Rodney Carrington. I had a viral email ten years ago with a photo of a woman flashing her tits at a outdoor concert with her kid looking right at her. This song played automatically. That looked like a candid photo and fit the song perfectly. Funniest thing ever. I can’t find that photo now. Google has thousands of porn hits for Momma Boobs. A shame because it was so perfect for this song. Here’s Rodney’s official video for the the song.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykINJGgdJqM)
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> Heard momma holler, Gimme a dollar and I’ll let you take a peek at these.
What’s your favorite parody or funny song?
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### Author:  [@Sr\_Siete](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sr_Siete)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 7:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/2 "2013-12-17T07:05:14Z")
_White and nerdy_ I guees
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/3 "2013-12-17T13:18:59Z")
Tom Smith’s _[Operation: Desert Storm](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvi00nuctK4)_.
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### Author:  [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/4 "2013-12-17T13:37:02Z")
[Smells Like Nirvana.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FklUAoZ6KxY)
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### Author:  [@bienville](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bienville)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/5 "2013-12-17T13:44:34Z")
I’m supposed to pick _one_???
“Weird Al” really does have a lot of great works. “Hardware Store” and “Genius in France” are often touted by fans as being among his best works. “White and Nerdy” may be his greatest song parody. I’m kinda partial to the often overlooked “Buy Me A Condo”, Al’s crowning achievement in biting social satire.
Tom Leher, of course, one of my heros. “National Brotherhood Week” may be my favorite, though I really will always have a soft spot for “Oedipus Rex”.
Flight of the Conchords? Hmmm, favorite . . . maybe “Most Beautiful Girl in the Room”.
“King Tut” by Steve Martin must be mentioned.
Ditto: “Let’s Talk Dirty to the Animals” by Gilda Radner
“He’s Got Coke (So He Get’s the Girl)” by Rob Paravonian
“Tie My Pecker to My Leg” by Mojo Nixon
I suppose I’ll also recommend the very funny [“The Sock Song” by Nikki Lynn Katt](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YknS6NiMxU) which should be on the list if for no other reason than because I co-wrote it.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/6 "2013-12-17T13:50:59Z")
“You Don’t Love Me Anymore” - a relatively rare Weird Al original.
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> You think that I’m ugly and you say that I’m cheap
> You shaved off my eyebrows while I was asleep
> You drilled a hole in my head
> Then you dumped me in a drainage ditch and left me for dead
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> Oh, you know this really isn’t like you at all
> You never acted this way before
> Honey, something tells me you don’t love me any more
Brilliant.
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### Author:  [@Haunted\_Pasta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Haunted_Pasta)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/7 "2013-12-17T14:56:54Z")
“One More Minute” by Weird Al. Since this song came into existence, there has been no need for anyone to ever again feel sad about a romantic breakup.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/8 "2013-12-17T15:16:32Z")
Too many to choose from. I’ll pick favorites for now.
Best pure parody was anything by Neil Innes and the Rutles. Here’s “[Get Up and Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amiBTezWKqQ).”
Best humorous song without lyrics: “[Jazz, Delicious Hot, Disgusting Cold](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABcNAwytrOY)” by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.
Best humorous original song with lyrics: “[My Home Town](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NdCOZBLAcuQ)” by Tom Lehrer
Best humorous cover song: “[Cocktails for Two](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0dw2UKRYSA)” by Spike Jones and his City Slickers.\*
Best case of taking an existing song and adding new lyrics\*\*: “[Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jjiWS__Mp0)” by Allan Sherman.
\*A few weeks ago, I was watching **The Lady Eve** on TV and noticed the song in the background. The movie came before Jones’s version, but it made the scene even funnier.
\*\*Weird Al’s stock in trade.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/9 "2013-12-17T15:21:34Z")
and then there’s Steve Macdonald’s \*[I Just Love Those Old B Movies[/]([http://www.stevemacdonald.org/lyrics/bmovies.html](http://www.stevemacdonald.org/lyrics/bmovies.html))I]
Flash steps into the throne room
Dale is held by Emperor Ming
Ming gestures and orders surrender
Flash’s weapon starts to sing:
Eat hot photons, laser breath!
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### Author:  [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/10 "2013-12-17T15:24:57Z")
The one that’s enthralled me recently is Anna Russell’s “How to Write Your Own Gilbert and Sullivan”.
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### Author:  [@JerrySTL](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JerrySTL)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/11 "2013-12-17T15:29:43Z")
I’m a big Weird Al fan and have seen him in concert about a dozen times.
The wife’s and my song is One More Minute. We even had it played at our daughter’s wedding. The groom’s family did NOT understand.
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> That’s right (that’s right) you ain’t gonna see me cryin’
> I’m glad (I’m glad) that you found somebody new
> 'Cause I’d rather spend eternity eating shards of broken glass
> Than spend one more minute with you
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> I guess I might seem kinda bitter
> You got me feeling down in the dumps
> 'Cause I’m stranded all alone in the gas station of love
> And I have to use the self-service pumps
That last line cracks me up.
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### Author:  [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/12 "2013-12-17T15:38:39Z")
[Merry Fucking Christmas.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-2VszpHHY0)
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### Author:  [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/13 "2013-12-17T15:50:12Z")
You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/14 "2013-12-17T16:15:04Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#):
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> “One More Minute” by Weird Al. Since this song came into existence, there has been no need for anyone to ever again feel sad about a romantic breakup.
That’s the first song I thought of when I read the subject line.
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### Author:  [@epbrown01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown01)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/15 "2013-12-17T17:21:22Z")
> [@Haunted\_Pasta](#):
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> “One More Minute” by Weird Al. Since this song came into existence, there has been no need for anyone to ever again feel sad about a romantic breakup.
This one is my favorite by Weird Al (and I like a LOT of his stuff so Amy’s dis on TBBT caused a scowl) just because the imagery is hilarious.
_I’d rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumb tacks
or stick my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
I’d rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades
than spend one more minute with you._
The only song in a similar vein that comes close is “I Can’t Stand Losing” by The Police.
My 2nd favorite Weird Al is “I’ll Sue Ya” done in the style of Rage Against The Machine, perfectly.
My all-time fave comic song will always be “Institutionalized” by The Suicidal Tendencies, just the original version though.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/16 "2013-12-17T17:46:48Z")
> [@epbrown01](#):
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> This one is my favorite by Weird Al (and I like a LOT of his stuff so Amy’s dis on TBBT caused a scowl) just because the imagery is hilarious.
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> _I’d rather jump naked on a huge pile of thumb tacks
> or stick my nostrils together with Krazy Glue
> I’d rather dive into a swimming pool filled with double-edged razor blades
> than spend one more minute with you._
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> The only song in a similar vein that comes close is “I Can’t Stand Losing” by The Police.
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> My 2nd favorite Weird Al is “I’ll Sue Ya” done in the style of Rage Against The Machine, perfectly.
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> My all-time fave comic song will always be “Institutionalized” by The Suicidal Tendencies, just the original version though.
My favorites line in that song is
“I’d rather have my blood suck out by leeches”, with the backup singers chorusing “Lee-ches!”
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### Author:  [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/17 "2013-12-17T17:54:08Z")
_ **Sex over the Phone** _, by the Village People:
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hYtUYiuzkw)
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### Author:  [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/18 "2013-12-17T18:00:55Z")
I’m glad to see all the love for Al Yankovic’s “One More Minute.” While my absolute favorite Weird Al song changes at frequent and random intervals, it’s certainly a regular in that rotation.
But because it’s the Christmas season, I’ve got to put in a word for “Christmas at Ground Zero.”
What else? Tom Lehrer? Check. My Lehrer favorite is “So Long Mom.”
Rutles? Check. Favorite? Torn between “[Cheese and Onions](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGd6dR3ypBk)” (parody of “All Together Now” and “Imagine” at the same time) and “[Piggy in the Middle](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4mXoaEdd5c)” (mostly a “I Am the Walrus” parody, with a swipe at “Happiness Is a Warm Gun” in the last verse).
Gotta get Julie Brown intp this thread. From “Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun” to Madonna parody “[Party in My Pants](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNXxJrz9mqA&list=PL834B3E3D44EEE39D)”, she’s done a lot of great stuff.
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### Author:  [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/19 "2013-12-17T18:03:26Z")
Being older, I remember [Allan Sherman](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HE-nUFG6-BA). This one’s “Schtick’s of one kind and half a dozen of the other”.
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### Author:  [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2013, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-parody-or-comic-song/676536/20 "2013-12-17T18:06:23Z")
[_Peter and The Commisar_](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_and_the_Commissar) by Allan Sherman.
Along with the myriad offerings of Yankovic and Lehrer.
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