Favorite comical Broadway songs

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Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 1:19pm

OK folks, what are your favorite comical songs from Broadway/Off-Broadway musicals? Here's some of mine:

"You Must Meet My Wife" from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC

"The Grass is Always Greener" from "WOMAN OF THE YEAR"

"Masculinity" from LA CAGE AUX FOLLES

ANY comical song from AVENUE Q (I can't choose one!)

"Bosom Buddies" from MAME

"A Little Priest" from SWEENEY TODD

"Big Ass Rock from THE FULL MONTY

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Updated On: 6/20/04 at 01:19 PM

#2

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 1:31pm

I love everyone's a little bit racist from Avenue Q.

#3

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 1:39pm

hm......either popular from wicked or whatcha gonna do from bat boy. kerry beat-boxing cracks me up every time!

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 1:55pm

I love all of Avenue Q, but if I HAD to pick favorites, I GUESS they'd be "...Racist", "Internet if For Porn" and "Schadenfreude".

I'm not a huge Wicked fan, but I do love "Popular" and "What is this Feeling".

I LOVE "100 Easy Ways (to Lose a Man)" from Wonderful Town.

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 1:56pm

yeah.... I agree on Everyone's a little bit rasicist from Aveneue Q.... or If you were gay....or the interenet is for porn... or my girlfriend(who lives in Canada).... difficult choice there.

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#6

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:01pm

Oy! Thank you, CurtainUp! I COMPLEEY fogot about"One Hundred Easy Ways", one of my all-time favorite comical songs! Any time I need cheering up, I always pop the CD with the Rosalind Russell cast ans laugh!

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#7

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:01pm

Mine has to be either THE CREATION OF MAN, from The Scarlet Pimpernel, or TEN YEARS MORE from Forbidden Broadway.

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:13pm

'Everyone's A Little Bit Racist' from Avenue Q. I don't think I ever laughed harder in a theatre. Also 'The Internet Is For Porn', 'You Can Be As Loud As The Hell You Want (When You're Making Love', 'It Sucks To Be Me',.....pretty much all the comic songs from Avenue Q.

But I'll throw in a couple non-Avenue Q songs too: 'Master of the House' from Les Miz is always fun, 'Without Love' from Hairspray ("I've tasted chocolate and I'm not going back!"), Tevye's dream from Fiddler, and the dentist song (forgot the name - 'I'm A Dentist'?) from Little Shop.

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:32pm

Well, I don't think anything has ever equaled "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" Think- how many other songs rhyme Heinous w Coriolanus? Hell, how many even USE the word heinous!

Updated On: 6/20/04 at 02:32 PM

#10

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:48pm

I think "Take Me To The Fair" from CAMELOT is quite clever. Doesn't make me laugh like GRASS IS ALWAYS GREENER though.

"Tom, Dick or Harry" from KISS ME KATE is funny but I'm not sure if it was as funny when written as it is now.

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#11

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 2:59pm

One Plus One Equals Three from Side Show, a very cute number!!

Meg

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#12

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 3:15pm

"It Sucks to be Me", "The Internet is for Porn", "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" and "Schadenfreude"- Avenue Q
"Popular"- Wicked
Creation of Man- Scarlet Pimpernel

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#13

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 3:21pm

probably not my favorites but the first that come to mind are:

Gee Officer Krupke from WSS
Cell Block Tango from Chicago
Two Guys At Harvard from THE FIX
King Herod's Song from JCS

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 3:22pm

BroadwayMatt- those are good ones! I totally forgot about "Herod's Song"! That's an awesome song!

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#15

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 3:37pm

here are my choices for best comical songs

the god why dont you love me blues - follies

popular - wicked

if you were gay - avenue q

we both reached for the gun - chicago

marriage tango - i love you, your perfect, now change

my new philosophy - Youre a good man, charlie brown

bigger is better - when pigs fly

#16

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 5:10pm

I should also add "An Ordinary Man" and "A Hymn to Him" from MY FAIR LADY.

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#17

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 6:00pm

Adelaide's Lament (Guys and Dolls)
The Oldest Profession (The Life)
Not Anymore (Raisin)
You Gotta Have A Gimmick (Gypsy)
Zip (Pal Joey)
If I Can't Sell It, I'll Keep Sitting On It (Black and Blue)

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 6:10pm

I'll pick the best Sondheim comedy songs:

Everybody Ought to Have a Maid (A Funny Thing...Forum)
Getting Married Today (Company)
The Little Things You Do Together (Company)
The Story of Lucy and Jesse (Follies)
Can That Boy Foxtrot! (cut from Follies)
You Must Meet My Wife (A Little Night Music)
Chrysanthemum Tea (Pacific Overtures)
The Worst Pies in London (Sweeney Todd)
It's Hot Up Here (Sunday in the Park with George)
Agony and Agony Reprise (Into the Woods)
and of course..... A Little Priest (Sweeney Todd)

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 6:14pm

Climbing uphill- Last five years
Summer in Ohio- Last five years
Go on ( i think thats the name)- Parade

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#20

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:01pm

Lets see....So many to choose......
"The Internet is for Porn" is right up there as is
"Be like the Bluebird" from Anything Goes.
But this list could go on and on and on.
B

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re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:01pm

I'm Calm (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
That Dirty Old Man (A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum)
What Causes That? (Crazy for You) [more the performance than the song itself]
Matchmaker (Fiddler on the Roof)
Agony (Into the Woods)
I Hate Men (Kiss Me Kate)
Climbing Uphill (Last 5 Years)
Master of the House (Les Miserables)
The Tango Maureen (Rent)
They Don't Know (Thoroughly Modern Millie)

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#22

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:05pm

Anything except "Fine, Fine Line" (although my favorite song, but not funny) from Avenue Q, especially "My Girlfriend who lives in Canada."

"Popular" and "What Is This Feeling" from Wicked.

#23

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:05pm

Everything from avenue Q save "fine fine line"
popular- wicked
they don't know- millie
me- b&tb
tango: maureen- rent

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#24

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:19pm

ponine24601 -- I agree with what you said about Kerry's beat-boxing in Bat Boy. No matter how many times I listen to it, I still laugh as hard as the first time.

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#25

re: Favorite comical Broadway songs

Posted: 6/20/04 at 9:55pm

I was on the floor laughing all the time with the last 15 minutes of the first act of Kiss me kate with carolee carmello
I agree with:
You Gotta Have A Gimmick (Gypsy)
whatcha gonna do (bat boy)

and I add:

I can't keep it down (Fame) I hate the show but this song... lol!!!
dildo rag (debbie does dallas) no comment

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