Music to make you laugh by


No, I don't mean the text of a song as an example. Rather the musical content of a given piece of music, which by listening to it, be it in concert or at home in front of your rig, has made you laugh out loud or grin or smile, because it was funny or amusing in a clever way.
detlof

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Bob and Ray, yeah; gotta do a search. I wonder if they recorded baseball a la Shakespeare: "never have I seen so fair a foul". Good on ya, Elgordo.
Sorry, Detlof, that was actually off topic and I meant to include Dizzy Live at Newport II. Everyone's having a ball and it shows.
You can't mention Spike Jones and Peter Schikele without including the late Victor Borge. Phonetic punctuation, anyone?
There's nothing funny about 103 conservatory trained geeks that belong to a union. That's why I never made the cut.
Of course, that's not really fair, I could play all the notes, just not all the time. And there are 100's of orchestral inside jokes. The music? There are works with humorous themes like Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks and Lt. Kije but they don't "sound" funny and Till is hanged. How funny is that? Like a Shakespeare comedy, everybody still dies but they all die happy. I forget who said that. I've got it, Charles Ives oh oh, brain cramp, you know the one where the marching bands each play a different march and crash into each other at the intersection? I don't recall any fatalities from playing that. Maybe Gallagher narrating "Carnival of the Animals" or "Peter and the Wolf"? He could bring the hunters out in a Toyolet. That would be funny.