Most Humorous Song
Most Humorous Song
StateOfJade
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/03
#0Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 3:44pm
Yeah, so we had what made you cry...what made you laugh? Here're mine:
'Popular'-Wicked
'Loathing'-Wicked
'The Internet is for Porn'-Avenue Q
'Two Ladies'-Cabaret -That one takes the cake for me, lol.
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
Hello Gorgeous
Broadway Star Joined: 7/29/03
#2re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 3:56pmBig Ass Rock-The Full Monty
BwayTheatre11
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/25/03
#3re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:00pmYes. A bunch of songs from The Full Monty also.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#4re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:03pm
AVENUE Q all the way!'
I also like many songs from FORBIDDEN BROADWAY
and some songs end up being humorous when done on the stage.
WOSQ
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/18/03
#5re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:09pm
Getting Married Today
All it takes is a smart actress who gets it. It is the only part of Company that works consistently no matter what the rest of the production is like.
"...but by Monday
I'll be floating
In the Hudson
With the other garbage.
I'm not well."
Oscar Jaffee
Stand-by Joined: 5/15/03
#6re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:17pm
"A Little Priest" from "Sweeney Todd"
"Repent" from "On the Twentieth Century"
#7re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:18pm
poor judd is dead always makes me laugh
#8re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:35pm
I must agree with "Getting Married Today." Alice Ripley brought the house down with that song at the Kennedy Center production of COMPANY as couple years ago.
#9re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:38pm"Springtime for Hitler" was the funniest thing I have ever seen.
#10re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:40pm
king of broadway
betrayed
mushnik and son
snuff the girl
#11re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:40pmYou Must Meet My Wife from A Little Night Music
WindyCityActor
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/13/03
#12re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:41pm"Buddy's Blue" from FOLLIES
#13re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:43pm1 of the funniest songs i can think of on the top of mah head is Keep it Gay! ~l8R~
StateOfJade
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/03
#14re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 4:48pmI forgot about every single song from 'Rocky Horror,' particularly 'Eddie's Teddy,'Swords of Damocles,' and 'Sweet Transvestite.' Also 'Timewarp,' but you have to see it performed to see why it's funny.
lc1965
Leading Actor Joined: 7/29/03
#15re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 5:02pm
Not necessarily the absolute funniest, but good, hearty smiles:
Gotta Getta Gimmick (sp?) (Gypsy)
Dressing Them Up (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Gotta Loada Toad (A Year w/ Frog & Toad)
Take Me To The Church on Time (My Fair Lady)
The one from Barnum that starts "Quite a lotta/Roman terra cotta...)
Adelaide's Lament (Guys & Dolls)
Arkansas (Big River)
JakeB
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/15/03
#16re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 5:09pm
I walked to college the other day and was laughing very hard to the first act of Jerry Springer the Opera. I hate to rabbit on about this but it really is just so funny, especially Talk to the Hand and the final song.. "Jews and blacks'll go to Hell" sing the Klu Klux Klan. It's funny in the same way as The Producers, though perhaps much more shock value at Jerry.
Other than that - Stars and the Moon from Songs for a New World.
Unknown User
Joined: 12/31/69
#17re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 5:12pm
Springtime for Hitler
King of Broadway
Jubilation T. Cornpone
StateOfJade
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/6/03
#18re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 5:41pm
I keep forgetting something.
'Boho Days'- Tick Tick Boom
#19re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 6:10pm
Barnum song you are quoting is called "The Museum Song"
As for me, one of the best "theater" comedy songs has to be David Friedmans "My Simple Wish"
#20re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 6:13pm
* "Keep it Gay" from THE PRODUCERS
* "Springtime for Hitler" from THE PRODUCERS
* "Mama Says" from FOOTLOOSE (so sue me...Willard is the only bright spot in an otherwise bland show)
* "Everyone's a Little Bit Racist" from AVENUE Q
* "Bless the Lord My Soul" from BAT BOY (this is mostly because of how it was acted)
* "Run Freedom, Run" from URINETOWN (again, because of staging. Love it when Bobby "heals" Becky Two Shoes)
* "Don't be the Bunny" from URINETOWN
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#21re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 6:26pm
There are so many great comic songs - these are just a few that spring readily to mind:
A LITTLE PRIEST - Sweeney Todd
TO KEEP MY LOVE ALIVE - A Connecticut Yankee
EVERYBODY'S GIRL - Steel Pier
HE AND SHE - The Boys From Syracuse
GEE, OFFICER KRUPKE - West Side Story
WE'RE GONNA BE ALRIGHT - Do I Hear A Waltz?
GETTING MARRIED TODAY - Company
#22re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 6:29pm
Over the Moon!!! when done right, it has the audience rolling in the aisle!!
Most of ILYYPNC is jaw-droppingly funny..A Stud and A Bbabe, Marriage Tango, ect.! great stuff =)
dotmarie
Broadway Star Joined: 8/14/03
#23re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 6:58pm
"Agony" (and the reprise of course) from Into the Woods.
Oh and Urinetown, I love the part in "Mr. Cladwell" when Hope sings "Daaaaaaaa, Da-da, da-da, Daaaaaddddy! THAT'S MY DAD!" It cracks me up. I'm really easily amused.
sambaflora
Chorus Member Joined: 5/27/03
#24re: re: re: re: Most Humorous Song
Posted: 11/18/03 at 7:28pm
'Candide' takes the cake for me when it comes to humour + wit.
From 'Oh, Happy We!' to 'Glitter + Be Gay' to the ode to syphllis in the 'Auto-Da-Fe' (Oh my darling Paquette, She is haunting me yet with a dear souvenir I shall never forget.....").
As well, I guess it doesn't hurt for the lyrics to be attached to that top-drawer score.
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