What are your favorite novelty (comedy) songs?

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Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb, almost anything by Ray Stevens, Hello, Muddah, Hello, Faddah, anything by Spike Jones, Shaving Cream, Fish Heads, Please Don't Bang on the Piano, Pico and Sepulveda, Speedy Gonzales.
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha!, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, Existential Blues, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Cows With Guns, and Last Will and Testament (the Frantic's sequel to Tae Kwon Leap/Boot to the Head)
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
Stephen Lynch is probably my favorite comedy artist. His songs are a bit "disturbing" but funny nonetheless.

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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top
More of a UK angle here, I suspect: 'My Brother' (Terry Scott), 'Hole In The Ground' and 'Right Said Fred' (Bernard Cribbins), 'Hello John, Gotta New Motor?' (Alexei Sayle), 'Toast' (Streetband), 'Worst Band In The World' (10cc). Then there are people like Jake Thackray, Big Daddy and the Rutles, who might - if sometimes only at a stretch - be considered comedy but whose recordings are far, far too good to ever be referred to as novelties.
Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha!, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron


I like those too. Don't forget "The Return of the Red Baron" and "Snoopy's Christmas". Which reminds me. I saw a report on MSNBC the other day about the anniversary of the Red Baron's death. "No comment from Snoopy."


"Making Love in a Subaru" and "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover" by Tom Lehrer.



Stephen Lynch is probably my favorite comedy artist. His songs are a bit "disturbing" but funny nonetheless.


I haven't heard of him.
'Right Said Fred' (Bernard Cribbins


I know he's an actor, but I don't think I've heard the song. The Rutles movie is hilarious.
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Yoda- "Weird Al" Yankovic, Bob and Doug McKenzie's 12 days of Christmas, and Guitarzan.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Monster mash and the x-mas tune{chipmunks}
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bob and Doug McKenzie's 12 days of Christmas, and Guitarzan


"Ahab, the Arab", "The Shriner's Convention."
Monster mash and the x-mas tune{chipmunks}


Also good ones, although I'm tired of "Monster Mash."

"Bird on My Head" and "Witch Doctor."
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does "Fuck You Gently" by Jack Black count? Cause it's frickin' hilarious.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top
'The Rutles movie is hilarious.'
Too true. All the music in the film was written by Neil Innes, one-time driving force (alongside the late lamented Viv Stanshall) in the Bonzo Dog Band - also worthy of several entries in this thread, including their one big hit, 'I'm The Urban Spaceman'. Innes also played Ron Nasty in the film. But while the soundtrack album is tremendous, the 'follow-up - released some 20-odd years later - is, in my humble opinion, even better. It was released not long after the Beatles' 'Anthology', and so is called 'Archaeology'. Miss it at your peril.
Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top
Does "Fuck You Gently" by Jack Black count? Cause it's frickin' hilarious


I haven't heard it.
Neil Innes, one-time driving force (alongside the late lamented Viv Stanshall) in the Bonzo Dog Band - also worthy of several entries in this thread, including their one big hit, 'I'm The Urban Spaceman'. Innes also played Ron Nasty in the film.

He was also with Monty Python when they performed live. I have the Live at the Hollywood Bowl tape. He sang "Urban Spaceman."
Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha Ha!, Snoopy vs. the Red Baron, Existential Blues, Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Cows With Guns, and Last Will and Testament (the Frantic's sequel to Tae Kwon Leap/Boot to the Head)


Nobody Special, we either both spent our Sunday nights listening to Dr. Demento, or it is true that Sick Minds Think Alike!! ((((Or Both)))

Since you already took a lot of my favs, I'll leave you, Iconoclast, and everyone else, with the opening line of one of my fav's that you left out:

"So long Mom, I'm Off to Drop the Bomb, so don't wait up for me" ~ Tom Lehrer