Funny/Blatantly Comedic Songs By Legit Artists.

[CorwoodRep]

What you got? I guess the hard and fast rule is no blatant novelty songs like Cash's "Chicken In Black."

I got a couple:
Warren Zevon - Hit Somebody!
Warren Zevon - Mr. Bad Example
Grinderman - No Pussy Blues

After Zevon/Cave I completely run out of obvious examples. Are there any good ones? I've heard legit bands do neat covers of really dumb songs, but that's really only funny in context.

[Flex]

Zappa has some pretty funny songs. And some songs that try too hard to be funny.

[tepista]

the stones have a few comedy songs, "Short and Curlies" "Far Away Eyes"

[CorwoodRep]

Far Away Eyes isn't a joke song. Running 20 red lights in Bakersfield is pretty conventional behavior.

[Flex]

Zappa has some pretty funny songs. And some songs that try too hard to be funny.

Following up, here's one of his classic "funny" songs:
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This might lean too much on the novelty (particularly the rendition of it in this video), but here's the most infamous of the Beach Boys "funny" songs:
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NOFX has about a zillion comedic songs. Here's one of my favorites:
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And what's probably the greatest song of all time:
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[CorwoodRep]

Wait, didn't the Beat Farmers do that one first?

P.S. Speaking of, they have a few songs that almost qualify but I'm not sure if they constitute just plain ol' novelty songs or not.

[Flex]

Wait, didn't the Beat Farmers do that one first?

Yeah, but I first became familiar with the Mojo/Jello version, and it thus remains my standard. You could pick almost any song off Prairie Home Invasion for this exercise, btw.

[Flex]

This song is like the OG of fuckin' funny songs, imho:
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Addendum: Sorry, pasted the wrong link in.

[CorwoodRep]

The thing that's interesting about this exercise is how many funny musicians don't really make it on, per se. Like, Hank III doing metal is HILARIOUS, but those are still basically legit songs. You need the context of what his name and background is and all this other stuff.

[Flex]

The thing that's interesting about this exercise is how many funny musicians don't really make it on, per se. Like, Hank III doing metal is HILARIOUS, but those are still basically legit songs. You need the context of what his name and background is and all this other stuff.

Part of that's probably a function of you discouraging contextually funny songs and asking for "blatantly comedic" stuff, right? I was going to mention Crass' "Our Wedding" but excluded it because the joke was all about context.

[CorwoodRep]

My goal is songs that stand on their own virtue as being funny, which is tricky, but yeah, needing excessive context spoils the idea.

[Flex]

Obviously, the ultimate answer that combines both contextual humor and the "blatant comedic song" angle is David Allan Coe's X rated material.

THREAD LOCK

[CorwoodRep]

KEVIN DID IT

YOU'RE ALL CLEAR KID NOW LET'S BLOW THIS THING AND GO HOME

[matedog]

Does A Boy Named Sue count?

[JennyB]

Pretty much all of License to Ill.