Do you play any "joke" songs in a regular set?

[The Bard Rocks]

I always have a couple in a set. Everyone likes to laugh.

[Ruppster]

Two that usually get a good reaction:

I Wanna Be Like You - The Jungle Book

Movie' On Up - Theme from TV show the Jeffersons

[dwasifar]

Originally Posted by 6L6

Not per se.

However, in my days of solo gigging when it was time to take a break I would play the guitar chorus part of "Alice's Restaurant" and insert the name of my client or his business in place of "Alice".

People always love that guitar piece and get a chuckle out of the free advert.

Yeah, I have a friend who sings "Margaritaville" as "Marijuanaville." He also changes the line "and soon it will render" to "[person]'s a great bartender" to ingratiate himself with the bar staff.

[rllink]

Jimmy Buffett has a song, Were You Born An Azzhole. I keep that one handy when I'm busking. I've used it a couple of times on hecklers and gotten a great response from the rest of the people listening and watching.

[rmp]

Originally Posted by Coop47

For someone who's written a ton of heart-wrenching songs, John Gorka is a really funny guy. Super nice too.

yes he really is a great guy. My wife and I go any time he's within an hours ride. Probably have been to 6 or 7 of his shows so far.

If you want to chat with him after a show, he tells people just to hang around..

I have about 3 cds that I bought at shows that he's signed, I still have them in the shrink wrap.. One show we went to I brought my J200 guitar strap, left in in the car, but after the show asked him if he would sign it.. He didn't even hesitate.

[PHJim]

Tommy Thompson's I've Got Plans
Stephen Walters' The Remember Song
Martin Mull's Normal
Sheldon Harnick's The Shape Of Things
Loudon Wainwright III's Pretty Good Day
Mark Graham's I Can See Your Aura
Sam M. Lewis / Joe Young / George W. Meyer"s Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?
Arthur Smith's Foolish Questions
Billy Connoly's In That Old Seaside Town Far Away
John Prine & Fred Koller's Let's Talk Dirty In Hawaiian
Mose Allison's My Brain

I didn't realise I had this many. I wouldn't do them all at one gig, but I like doing them.

[reeve21]

I'm always up for Spiders and Snakes or Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road when they come on the radio. I've yet to hear anyone cover them. Animal humor, I guess

[dwasifar]

There's a song by Martin Mull, title starts with "I've Played Some..."

I can't post the rest of it because of forum rules, but that one might be fun to learn. And maybe even play, at someplace I don't want to be called back.

[DungBeatle]

Everything I play sounds like a joke.
~Bob

[Slothead56]

I don’t do them regularly but I can pull a couple Paul Thorn songs out if needed. Someone already mentioned It’s a Great Day (to Whoop Somebody’s *****, but also I Guess I’ll Just Stay Married.

[DaveKell]

https://youtu.be/M5HiS_quueA
Here’s an original called The Trespasser. I played it awhile back in a restaurant and a lady there was about to fall off her chair. Her laughter after every verse could be heard over everything going on. When I ended it she loudly commented “that’s cute!”. I skipped my other song written as a result of a funny song writing challenge. She was too easily amused!

[rllink]

I do some busking and I'm not a particularly non confrontational person. There is a Jimmy Buffett song, Were You Born an A Hole. I've pulled that one out of mine a few times when I got one heckling me. It works pretty well. Everybody always laughs anyway.

[Bob Womack]

I used to open my show with Joe Walsh's "Rocky Mountain Way." I even picked up a talk box to be able to do do the middle part. If you've ever seen Joe do it, the faces in the middle make it a great joke. One band I worked in made up a one-verse joke song about going on break with three-piece harmony and played it as we went on break.


Bob

[James May]

My three piece oldies band does this one after I transcribed it as accurately as I could. It's fairly challenging, vocally. Those studio singers made it seem easy.

[MrDB]

We play Dead Skunk and Cover of the Rolling Stone, both semi humorous.