Funniest song from any Broadway Show?- Page 5

[Thespianchick87]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#100

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:14pm

Colored Spade from Hair the first time I heard it I ws too shocked to laugh, then it kind of sank in

[James885]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#101

Posted: 7/24/05 at 9:33pm

I would have to say "Keep It Gay", "Springtime for Hitler", "The Internet is for Porn" and " Over The Moon" are the funniest songs I've heard.

"You drank a charm to kill John Proctor's wife! You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor!" - Betty Parris to Abigail Williams in Arthur Miller's The Crucible

[Menken Fan]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#102

Posted: 8/30/05 at 5:49pm

Bumping this thread, since it inspired the current playlist on my internet radio station (see below). Over 100 of what I think are the funniest songs from musicals (Broadway, Off-Broadway or Movies). I included most of the songs listed in this thread. Maybe you agree or maybe you don't, but they make me laugh...

Sho-Toonz - Funniest Songs From Musicals Updated On: 8/30/05 at 05:49 PM

[MyDreamsRecurring]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#103

Posted: 8/30/05 at 6:56pm

"Everyone's A Little Bit Racist"
"Schadenfreude"
"Four Jews in a Room Bitching"

"No two shows are alike in the making. Each show is a living piece of your life in a small unreal world with its own character and integrity; its own new set of memorable experiences and incredible happenings. You begin to love and adapt to its strangeness. Dreams harden into substance. Values come into focus. You wish it would never end. The dream world vanishes like mist before a rising sun; part of you vanishes with it. And back you land in the real world with a thud- fogged, uneasy, jittery, difficult to get along with. There is only one cure. A new show. A new, small unreal world; new visions, experiences, incredible happenings. Again you love it, adapt to it, wish it would never end. But end it does. Another part of you vanishes. That's show business."-Anonymous

[Unknown User]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#104

Posted: 8/30/05 at 7:31pm

i LOVE "i'm not that smart" from spelling bee but it's better live.
and also "my unfourtunate erection"
basically everything from Q

[Menken Fan]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#105

Posted: 8/30/05 at 8:16pm

"I'm Not That Smart" is a pretty funny performance, but if you think about the lyrics, it's actually pretty sad. Yeah, some songs are much funnier when you see them than when you listen to them.

[Madame X2]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#106

Posted: 8/30/05 at 10:34pm

I'm not sure why, but "All for One" from Spamalot cracks me up every time.

[littlewow]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#107

Posted: 8/31/05 at 6:04am

Story of My life from Hello Again

Songs about impotence are funny....

[wonderfulwizard11]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#108

Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:46am

Definately All About Ruprecht.

I am a firm believer in serendipity- all the random pieces coming together in one wonderful moment, when suddenly you see what their purpose was all along.

[doodlenyc]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#109

Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:44am

Very funny:

Funny/Duck Joke and Welcome to Brooklyn - My Favorite Year

"Carson has combined his passion for helping children with his love for one of Cincinnati's favorite past times - cornhole - to create a unique and exciting event perfect for a corporate outing, entertaining clients or family fun."

"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS

[Enjolras77]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#110

Posted: 8/31/05 at 12:50pm

Going back to the 1940's....

"Where is the Life that Late I Led" and "Brush Up Your Shakespeare" from Kiss Me, Kate

Also:

"I Just Can't Wait" from Subways are for Sleeping
"Therapy" from Tick, Tick, Boom
"Farmer's Tan" and "The Night Dolly Parton was Almost Mine" from Pump Boys and Dinnettes
"A Little Bit of Luck" and "Get Me to the Church on Time" from My Fair Lady

"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man

[Menken Fan]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#111

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:27pm

Yeah, "Funny/Duck Joke" is pretty hysterical. Just about anything with Andrea Martin cracks me up. She made My Favorite Year much more tolerable! I added that and some of these other suggestions to the playlist.

[Mini_Mimi17]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#112

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:43pm

You Wont Susceed On Broadway from Spamalot when I first heard it in the play I almost wet myself!

"You wanna prowl? Be my night owl, well take my hand were gonna howlll...OUT TONIGHT!"-Daphne Rubin Vega the BEST Mimi ever!

[me3]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#113

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:52pm

Wont succeed on bway if you dont have any jews ! Spamalot

[me3]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#114

Posted: 8/31/05 at 9:52pm

Wont succeed on bway if you dont have any jews ! Spamalot

[Menken Fan]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#115

Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:03pm

Now, am I the only one who doesn't find "Won't Succeed on Broadway" very funny? I was hoping they would cut it after I saw the show in Chicago, but it's David Hyde Pierce's only big number. I didn't care for the Lancelot number either. I think "Song That Goes Like This", "Not Dead Yet" and "Diva's Lament" were much funnier.

[LyTeMyCanDyI]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#116

Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:28pm

La Vie Boheme from RENT
"bisexuals, trisexuals, homospaiens, carcinogens, hallucinogens, men, PeeWee Herman" and "to leather to dildos to curry vindaloo" and "to faqqots, lezzies, dykes, crossdressers too!" Sme of that might b from La Vie Boheme B. Same basic concept.
Contact is close..."I think I missed...don't be pissed. It was bad for me. Was it bad for you?"

Megan Mullally as Karen Walker on Will and Grace: "Tell me more. Tell me more. Like does he have a car?"

[La Nouba]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#117

Posted: 8/31/05 at 10:44pm

The Creation of Man from The Scarlet Pimpernel. The song itself isn't so fuuny, it's what they do with the song that makes me laugh (especially the version they did on the tour).

Javert is dead and Jean Valjean can finally live his life... PARTY AT LIFE CAFE TO FOLLOW!!!

[TheColorOfFlame]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#119

Posted: 8/31/05 at 11:57pm

Has anyone mentioned Sondheim's "The Boy From..."?

"I am the sound of distant thunder, the color of flame." CARRIE the Musical

[WickedJerseyGirl]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#120

Posted: 9/1/05 at 12:03am

Everyone's a little bit racist
You can be as loud as the hell...(just for playing it in your car reactions)
&
Over the Moon (I would LOVE to have seen Idina's audition where she thought it was a serious performance piece. It had to be a riot.)

Idina: This is called a kielbasa! Pianist: It's called a 'KA-basa'... Idina: It's called a kabasa? Oh, a KIEL-basa's a sausage, isn't it? I CAN PLAY THAT TOO! HULLO!!

[GypsyRoseLee]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#121

Posted: 9/1/05 at 12:22am

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Paris Makes Me Horny" from Victor/Victoria. My voice teacher assigned this to me a few weeks ago, and it took me a few tries to get through the first sing-through...I was laughing so hard!

"This is what I trained to do, and this is what I love about theater. What I love about being an actress is being able to really look into myself and understand another human being. And out my own self, to shape and form and fashion a real human being--and to present that in such a way that people see something of themselves or their own understanding in that human being." --Phylicia Rashad

[Unknown User]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#122

Posted: 9/1/05 at 12:53am

WickedJerseyGirl,
what do you mean?

[WickedJerseyGirl]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#123

Posted: 9/1/05 at 1:53am

Idina said that when she read the script she was baffled by over the moon. She just didn't get it. She took it to her mother, who is a psychologist or something similar and her mother told her that she thought the piece was about a woman betrayed. So, when Idina went in a read the part, she read Over The Moon completely serious. They let her get completely through it before they explained it to her, I believe. I know I read it and of course now I can't find it...lol.

ETA: I knew I could find it:
quote: [Idina:] "I got the thing back - 'Over the Moon' - and I had no idea what it was. I didn't read the script, nothing, and it just read to me as a sweet monologue. I didn't know it was supposed to be performance art, I didn't know anything -- So I went in and I just did it really realistic, you know? Like *sweet speaking voice* 'Last night I had a dream... I found myself in a desert. Called Cyberland. Hot.' (???) So Michael Greif, the director -- *laughs* And he let me do the whole THING like that!!! I called my mom, and I told her 'Mom, you know, what do you think this means?? I don't understand.' And like, she's a therapist, and she's like 'Well. It sounds like the woman's really been betrayed' and all this crap!"


Like, there is like a website and like you can hear her like actually say like the actual quote.

Idina: This is called a kielbasa! Pianist: It's called a 'KA-basa'... Idina: It's called a kabasa? Oh, a KIEL-basa's a sausage, isn't it? I CAN PLAY THAT TOO! HULLO!!

Updated On: 9/1/05 at 01:53 AM

[Sarah2]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#124

Posted: 9/1/05 at 1:58am

Basically any song from Avenue Q. I don't think it's the funniest song from a Broadway show, but I love "There is Life Outside Your Apartment", there are some really great lyrics in that song ("And a homeless man who only wants to buy something to eat...sorry, can't help you!"). And I think "I'm gonna jump!...don't do it!...ok!" is hilarious.

[Grommetik]

re: Funniest song from any Broadway Show?#125

Posted: 9/1/05 at 11:31am

"the Glee Club" from "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown"