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…
Category: funny songs
Wet Dream
It was April the 41st, being a quadruple leap year I was driving in downtown Atlantis -My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray, and it was overheating-So I pulled into a Shell station-They said I’d blown a sealI said, “Fix the damn thing and leave my private life out of it, okay pal?” I grew up listening to Bill Cosby and Bob Newhart and later on a few other comedians who had albums in thrift stores. A lot of the stuff I didn’t think was too funny, but some of it was down right…
Spring is Here, Spring is Here
The first day of spring always brings one thing to mind for me, Tom Lehrer’s classic Poisoning Pigeons in the Park. Now it is possible that the kiddies in audience don’t know who Tom Lehrer is, just one of the best satrical songwriters of all time. Such fun filled songs as The Masachism Tango and I hold your hand in my, Dear-about murder and mayhem. He stopped recording songs when he found that the real world was worse than anything he could make up. But Doctor Demento has done his best to keep Tom Lehrer alive and well in the…