Back in the good old days I used to listen to Dr Demento, which was a syndicated radio show which played songs that were often shocking bad or good. The problem was that you never knew which was which until you had already heard the song. Comedy songs have a long history, as Dr Demento often had songs from the dark ages of the 1950s and even had time to play a bit of Gilbert and Sullivan once or twice. Modern Major General was a bit of a hit in the 1879 musical The Pirates of Penzance. The odds are…
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Bulbous Bouffant
While killing time on Plurk yesterday, I was thinking about good old Dr Demento and one of my Plurk Buddies-Myriam-said Bulbous Bouffant. I recall a number of bad songs from Dr Demento, My Name is Larry was a bad one. The Smoke Off seemed to make the Funny Five a lot. Wierd Al was always on the list when I listened. Ok, Blubous Buffant is a classic, right up there with Wet Dreams and Pencil Necked Geek. Hmm, those were the good old days. . .