Comedy Songs.....
Comedy Songs.....
#1Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 4:07pm
Hello, was wondering if anyone could help me? I am looking for some great comedy numbers and seem to be a bit lost when it comes to Laugh Out Loud moments.
I am working on a musical compilation revue and what something different than the average Mr Cellophane and Little Girls.
The songs don't have to be from musicals but they need to be standout.
I am looking for either solo's, duets or trio's with 2 females and 1 male.
The only great new song i have heard is No One Let's You In The Opera If Your A Country Star by Kelli O'Hara.
Thanks for your time
PennybankBill
Stand-by Joined: 11/1/10
#2Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 4:41pm"You were dead, you know" is, in my opinion one of the funniest songs in CANDIDE.
Liz7
Understudy Joined: 9/1/09
#3Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 4:50pmI like "The Creation of Man" from The Scarlet Pimpernel
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#6Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:06pmThats defiantly one thats on my list! completely forgot about she loves me!
#7Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:09pmYou should check out Alto's Lament. Also, if you have someone who can pull it off, maybe Whatever Happened To My Part, from Spamalot.
"It does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are 20 gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket, nor breaks my leg."
-- Thomas Jefferson
#8Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:11pm
Look up The Temp and The Receptionist by Kooman and Diamond. It is yet to make it into a musical, but it is very funny.
Alternatively, look at the tracklisting for Christ Thatcher's Jesus Christ Superstar http://www.amazon.co.uk/Jesus-CHRIS-Superstar-Chris-Thatcher/dp/B0085MHEOA
There are a few skits on it, but several are full musical theatre numbers, all are hilarious.
#9Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:15pmI love chris his song I'm In Love is insane! But I fear there would be a heart attack from the blue rinse brigade at the song lol Thanks for the suggestions so far guys they are so helpful
#10Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:18pm"Model Behavior" was the only part of WOMEN ON THE VERGE that's worth pilfering for future use. It's a pretty tremendous comic tour de force for the right actress.
Words don't deserve that kind of malarkey. They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good anymore…I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.
#11Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 5:45pmLook at Fame Becomes Me by Shaiman and Wittman for tons of hilarious comedy numbers.
#12Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 6:57pmI find "Everyone's a little bit racist" from Avenue Q, beyond hillarious.
#13Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 7:17pm
Sondheim's "Love I Hear" (FORUM) is very funny if done well. It's a solo.
The same writer's "We're Gonna Be Alright" is the funniest duet written for musical theater if you get the original lyrics (used in SIDE BY SIDE BY SONDHEIM).
TheGingerBreadMan
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/7/12
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#15Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 8:01pm"The Country's in the Very Best of Hands" from Li'l Abner could be done in a tongue-in-cheek manner
#16Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 8:08pm
The Sensitive Song from Cops (you can find it on the NEO concert album).
To Excess which is on the album "Out of Our Heads" is VERY funny.
Hi, Shirley Temple Pudding.
After Eight
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/5/09
#17Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 8:21pm
Always True to You in My Fashion, Where Is the Life That Late I Led (Kiss Me, Kate)
I Sleep Easier Now (Out of This World)
Monotonous, Boston Beguine (New Faces of '52)
April in Fairbanks (New Faces of '56)
Hungry (New Faces of '68 )
Naughty, Naughty Nancy (Little Mary Sunshine)
Emma White
Featured Actor Joined: 2/11/13
#18Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 10:38pm
Gee, Officer Krupke from West Side Story comes to mind.
A lot of the numbers in Candide are hilarious if done well (see Patti Lupone's "I Am Easily Assimilated" or all of "Life is Happiness Indeed")
Have an Eggroll, Mr. Goldstone from Gypsy
"Nice is different than good."
willep
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/20/08
#19Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 10:50pmThe first one that came to my mind was "Comedy Tonight" but that may find most of its comedy in the staging.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
DustyC
Understudy Joined: 1/22/13
#21Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 11:05pmThe Tony Award song from [Title of Show] though short is a good one. Anything from Silence! And Serious from Legally Blonde has me rolling every time I hear it.
#22Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 11:18pm
I Can Cook Too from OTT (Ok maybe only funny if really delivered right)
One Hundred Easy Ways from WOnderful Town
#23Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 11:24pm
Im Breaking Down (Falsettos - and In Trousers)
I Never Do Anything Twice (Sondheim for hte movie 7 Percent Solution)
#24Comedy Songs.....
Posted: 3/6/13 at 11:55pm
Big Ass Rock from Full Monty is a very funny song but for three men.
You Rule My World from the same show is also super-funny and a duet.
I Just Baptized Her from Book of Mormon is a funny duet for one male and one female.
When You Love Someone It Makes You Want To Kill Them from Avenue Q is a duet for two females.
The Song That Goes Like This from Spamalot for a man and a woman.
I Hmmnnnnn You by Pasek and Paul
15 Pounds is a very funny song for a woman by Heislr and Goldrich.
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