Music to make you laugh by

Anyone remember Spike Jones?

Root Boy Slim (RIP, Root) was hilarious live & not bad on album either. The first time I saw him live was in the 70's in a seedy bar outside Baltimore. Before the show I walked into the mens room to relieve myself & I was treated to the sight of Root sitting on the stool, stall door wide open, cigarette & Heineken in hand with a look on his face like the cat that just ate the canary.

Tom Lehrer made folk music relevant almost fifty years ago (An Evening Wasted With...). Randy Newman's songs reward close listening (Sail Away, Trouble in Paradise, Little Criminals...). Martin Mull could outsmarm anybody - his whitebread blues are the best...whitebread blues (...and His Fabulous Furniture in Your Living Room). Billy Connolly, once you get used to the accent, is a great stand up comedian who happens to play guitar and banjo extremely well (Billy & Albert, Songs & Music). Occasionally I still love to listen to National Lampoon's Lemmings - some pretty decent musical parodies.

Obviously I had forgotten the spine of this thread by the time I read through it. For music which is humorous in and of its content, try Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" off Mingus Ah Um.

I was listening to and watching the Tony Bennet Birthday show on NBC last week and Stevie Wonder was doin it on a chromatic harp and he did this little thing that made me laugh out loud. Then Tony laughed too it was that good !

Best Regards
Groovey

listening to
Van Morrison Inarticulate Speach of the Heart WB 1-23802 Vinyl