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[Music] Which Songs Make You Laugh?



Stato

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I've just bought a cheap Loretta Lynn CD and laughed out loud in the car hearing her sing 'Hey Loretta, I love you more than my Irish setter'. The song's by Shel Silverstein who also wrote the Johnny Cash classic 'A Boy Named Sue'. It got me thinking - musical songs are often where comedy goes to die, but there are some fantastic exceptions and there are some songwriters who can make me laugh with a well drawn character or witty line in the middle of an otherwise 'serious' song. So, as the world is so god-awfully miserable at the moment, let's have the songs that make you laugh, whether all the way through or with just the odd line.

Country music's got great form for a joke or a bit of self parody, so I'll start with John Prine & Iris DeMent's 's heart bursting 'In Spite of Ourselves'. My favourite performance is this one.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8tTwXv4glY

And on a similar romantic theme. Billy Bragg's 'Walk Away Renee' with backing from genius guitarist and terrible football pundit Johnny Marr. more than three decades on my wife and I still reference the last brilliant line to describe any kind of teenage heartbreak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHrFkSeLukA

And I couldn't mention Billy without Bill Bailey's perfect pastiche. Here he does it at a protest against Camden Council's charges for busking licenses, organised by Mark Thomas who you can see lurking in the back and sledging Bragg.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1_uEbGJtnY
 




Razzoo

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Ween's albums The Pod and God Ween Satan both provided laughs to myself and my mates in our teens/early 20's and also The Residents Duck Stab. Hashish and alcohol was also in the mix:smokin:
 






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Stato

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WATFORD zero said:
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That's great. I've never seen that side of BB before. Although Norm MacDonald's joke that features him is worth Googling.

Nick Lowe has some great lines. The first verse of 'All Men Are Liars':

'Do you remember Rick Astley?
He had a great big hit, it was ghastly,
He said 'I'm Never Gonna Give You Up or Let You Down,
Well I'm here to tell you that Dick's a clown.'

Darker, but funnier is 'Marie Provost' from his first solo album. It helps to know the story of the death of the silent film star as told in Kenneth Anger's 'Hollywood Babylon' books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_-Gxl1iSL4
 
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WATFORD zero

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Not exactly in the intended theme of the thread, but



cracks me up every single time :lolol:
 








Stato

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WATFORD zero said:
Not exactly in the intended theme of the thread, but cracks me up every single time :lolol:
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That classic is always welcome. Weirdly, I was actually watching that live when it went out. The song at the end was only half of the car crash. What you don't ever see is earlier when Paul Shane was taking calls from viewers and someone rang to say that he knew him from way back. The call was all very chummy, but took a sharp turn when the caller started saying that he'd rung in because Shane owed him money.
 


























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