HIlarious Male Songs?

Hi! I'm competing in an acting competition this year, and I need a drop-dead hilarious song to perform. It doesn't necessarily need to be from a musical, it can be something from a song cycle or just written in a contemporary musical theatre style. Most importantly, it needs to be FUNNY, and, if possible, have some great belty moments. Songs such as "To Excess" by Kooman and Dimond or "Contemporary Musical Theatre Song" by Andrew Byrne are good examples of what I'm looking for (I've already used both, just FYI). Also, it's high school, so songs such as "The Sensitive Song" or "Wall Lovin'" won't work. It can be a little inappropriate if it makes it funny, it just can't the whole focus of the song. I know this is really specific, but if anyone can think of something I could use I would really appreciate it!

Updated On: 8/5/12 at 05:26 AM

"Mama Says" from Footloose. It is a belty song and the audience loves it. :)

The Creation of Man from The Scarlett Pimpernel.

Or, you can do a pop song that's totally inappropriate for your type- for example, I've been toying with adding "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin to my book.

To Excess is my favorite stalker song(if we already talked about "I really, really love you)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq7j2setNYU
Writing by the super talented Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond
Be sure to check all the songs they written, they have tons of great ones.

Another great song:
The name of the song is "I'm gonna like this play" and you sing it as if you are Abe Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcTDq54-Lk

Many comedic songs rely on a surprise twist or revelation in the lyrics. They can be funny if the audience doesn't already know the song--the problem is most auditioners have heard them all.
Remember, funny lyrics don't mean a funny performance. It's much more important that your performance is funny and shows off your particular sense of humor. Most cabaret specialty songs were written with a particular performer in mind. What works for them might not work for you. You have to be a pretty funny person to begin with to make "Taylor the Latte Boy" funny. You get real laughs when you take your audience by surprise; you get polite laughs when you sing a joke lyric.

I think the best comic song auditions involve a not-necessarily-funny song performed in a new context that makes it funny. That way it's yours alone. I knew an actress in her 40s who used to do a well-known, peppy ingenue song as a jaded, tired 40-something, leaning on the piano with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. She killed every time because no one expected it, and she got a few big jobs with that song. It was more risky than singing "Adelaide's Lament" but who wants to hire an actor who doesn't take risks?

Break a leg!

I'm forgetting that this is high school we're talking about! Much of my post really applies on a more advanced level, but I still think that how you do it is more important than how funny the lyrics are.

"The Legacy" from ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is great fun.

"Natasha" from A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine has funny lyrics and gives the singer a chance to clown around a bit.

Also -- not sure what style exactly you are going for - but I have had success in the past with "Where is the Life that Late I Led" from Kiss Me, Kate.

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Updated On: 8/6/12 at 09:25 AM

not at all sure these all rise to "hilarious" but FYC...

much of the scores of Howard Crabtree's WHOOP-DEE-DOO and WHEN PIGS FLY
Those Were the Good Old Days from DAMN YANKEES
Was I Wazir? from KISMET
Where Is the Life that Late I Led from KISS ME, KATE
I Don't Remember Christmas from STARTING HERE STARTING NOW
In Praise of Women from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Why Can't a Woman? from MY FAIR LADY
I Feel Like I'm 90 Again from TWO BY TWO
The Butler's Song from SO LONG 174th St.

and if you are an expert (don't try it otherwise!( tongue twister with crackerjack diction, nothing can probably beat Tchaikovsky from LADY IN THE DARK

I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POOR -- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Jefferson Mays.

Bumping this because I am in need of something truly hilarious, laugh out loud funny to use. Not just a chuckle-to-yourself kind of song, but something even irreverent or whatever. Open to songs from shows or stand alone new MT songs. Thank you!