Comedy Songs Special (a.k.a. How to be a funny songwriter)

We got our funny on by looking at what makes comedy songs tick. Friend of the show Mike MacInnes “Phil’d” in for Phil. Thanks Mike! And our own tech person, Linda Lavender, treated us to a live comedy song she just wrote – great stuff Linda!

We talked about:

• why Top 40 charts don’t have many comedy songs
• stand-up comedians who also release comedy songs
• “Weird Al” Yankovic
• Flight of the Conchords
• Childish Gambino
• The Beautiful South
• Randy Rainbow
• the difference between clever songs and comedy songs
• how to not give away the joke off the top
• the use of innuendo
• satire and parody
• improvisation

Listen to the show

The songs

Bruce’s pick – his own song Scuba Diver (download the lyrics)

Neel’s pick – How Do You Solve a Problem Like Korea by Randy Rainbow (download the lyrics)

Guest host Mike’s pick – Song for Whoever by The Beautiful South (download the lyrics)

Our Audio Engineer Linda’s pick – her own song My Joy (download the lyrics)