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Funniest Broadway Song?

broadwayaddict2
#25re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/25/08 at 11:57pm

How about "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life" from Monty Python's Spamalot?

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little_sally
#26re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 12:22am

You Won't Succeed on Broadway from Spamalot


A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

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musicaltheater1
#27re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:14am

some funny ones...
- The More You Ruv Someone, Avenue Q
- The Internet Is For Porn, Avenue Q
- Deep Love, Young Frankenstein
- Agony, Into The Woods


"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

gypsy4
#28re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:33am

dance ten looks three form a Chorus Line originaly known as tits and ass.

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ray-andallthatjazz86
#29re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:42am

"Glitter and Be Gay"-CANDIDE (particularly as performed by Barbara Cook)
"Bosom Buddies"-MAME
"One Hundred Easy Ways"-WONDERFUL TOWN
"A Little Priest"-SWEENEY TODD
"The Song That Goes Like This"-SPAMALOT

Just to nitpick, the song from WOMAN OF THE YEAR it's actually called "The Glass Is Always Greener," and it is indeed performed with brilliant comic timing on the OBCR, Marilyn Cooper steals the show from under Bacall though.


"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 8/26/08 at 01:42 AM

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BigFatBlonde
#30re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:52am

YOU CAN'T GET A MAN WITH A GUN

TO KEEP MY LOVE ALIVE

ADELAIDE'S LAMENT
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wc9xDFTe0AE

CLASS


What great ones do the less will prattle of
Updated On: 8/26/08 at 01:52 AM

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ray-andallthatjazz86
#31re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 3:18am

Ah, yes, "Adelaide's Lament" is quite fantastic and funny. Although I find "Marry the Man Today" and "Take Back Your Mink" almost as funny, and sometimes even funnier--depending on who's performing it.


"Some people can thrive and bloom living life in a living room, that's perfect for some people of one hundred and five. But I at least gotta try, when I think of all the sights that I gotta see, all the places I gotta play, all the things that I gotta be at"
Updated On: 8/26/08 at 03:18 AM

Janelle188
#32re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 4:06am

I second "Love is My Legs." That song is absolutely hilarious! I love it. Especially the way NLB and SRS sing it. They are brilliant.

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Smaxie
#33re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 4:24am

The right song with the right performer...

Dolores Gray's version of "If" from Two on the Aisle (Styne/Comden & Green)
Elaine Stritch's "Useful Phrases" and "Why Do The Wrong People Travel?" from Sail Away (Noel Coward)
Florence Henderson's astounding "Coconut Girl" sequence from The Girl Who Came to Supper (Noel Coward)
Madeline Kahn's "Babette" from On the Twentieth Century (Coleman/Comden & Green)
Carol Channing's "Calypso Pete" from Show Girl (Charles Gaynor)
Barbra Streisand's "Miss Marmelstein" from I Can Get It For You Wholesale (Harold Rome)
Dorothy Loudon's "Vodka" from Song of the Flame on the 1983 Tony Awards (Gershwin/Stothart/Harbach/Hammerstein)
Phil Silvers and Rose Marie's "A Word a Day" from Top Banana (Johnny Mercer)
Dody Goodman's "Someone's Been Sending Me Flowers" from Shoestring Revue (Sheldon Harnick)
Shirley Booth's "He Had Refinement" from A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Schwartz/Fields)
Barbara Harris' "Movie Star"/"Gorgeous" from The Apple Tree (Bock/Harnick)
Carol Burnett's "Lila Tremaine" and "You Mustn't Be Discouraged" (with Tiger Haynes) from Fade Out-Fade In (Styne/Comden & Green)
George S. Irving's "The Butler's Song" from So Long, 174th Street (Stan Daniels)
Patti Perkins' "Things Were Out" from Tuscaloosa's Calling Me... but I'm Not Going (Beebe/Heyer)


Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop.
Updated On: 8/26/08 at 04:24 AM

brochatkid
#34re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 9:00am

So many songs from Falsettos.

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madbrian
#35re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 9:12am

My first thought was Bride's Lament from The Drowsy Chaperone.


"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

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doodlenyc
#36re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 9:21am

"Die Vampire Die"
"What Kind of Girl is She?"
"Secondary Characters"

[title of show]


"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

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FelineofAvenueB1025
#37re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 12:26pm

I Got Life from Hair
Climbing Uphill from The last five years (the audition verse)


And when the night has finally gone, and when we see the new day dawn, we wonder how we wandered for so long, so blind. The wasted world we thought we knew, the light will make it look brand new, so let it shine..." --ntn

Jon
#38re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 12:51pm

"Repent" from ON THE 20TH CENTURY - as performed by Imogene Coca.

here it is Updated On: 8/26/08 at 12:51 PM

DefyGravity777
#39re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:19pm

There,Right There from Legally Blonde. I think it's funny...LOL.


Don't believe everything that you hear! Only the peeps involved know the truth!

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felineofavenueb
#40re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 1:32pm

"A Little Priest" - Sweeney Todd
"Getting Married Today" - Company
"Agony" - Into the Woods
"All About Ruprecht" - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Oklahoma?" -Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
"Dance Ten Looks Three" - A Chorus Line
"Nothing" - A Chorus Line
"Marry the Man Today" - Guys and Dolls
"Take Back Your Mink" - Guys and Dolls
"No Me Diga" - In the Heights
"Old Fashioned Wedding" - Annie Get Your Gun
"Her Is (Reprise)" - The Pajama Game
"I'll Never Be Jealous Again" - The Pajama Game
"Three Bedroom House" - Bat Boy
"Christian Charity" - Bat Boy
"Comfort and Joy" - Bat Boy
"Act 1 Finale" - Urinetown
"Don't Be The Bunny" - Urinetown
"Follow Your Heart" - Urinetown

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GlindatheGood22
#41re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 3:43pm

"Costco" - Next to Normal
"Two Ladies" - Cabaret


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FuturePenny2
#42re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 6:26pm

It Sucks to Be Me- Avenue Q (just add all the Ave Q songs hah)
Show You a Thing or Two- Bat Boy
Christian Charity- Bat Boy
Tits and Ass- A Chorus Line

:)


He's so nurturing! - Penny Pingleton, Hairspray

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Foomle
#44re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/26/08 at 7:48pm

Internet Is For Porn
Everyone's a Little Bit Racist
Betrayed
Heil Myself


Formally Spellingbeefan4ever

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maninchair.com
#45re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 7:30pm

"My Simple Wish" from Listen to My Heart.

I've heard it a gazillion times and it still makes me laugh!


Eric M. Cole
www.maninchair.com

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je veux te voir2
#46re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 8:07pm

every single "lament" that has graced broadway is on this board. lol.

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sally1112
#47re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 8:34pm

Up here in Heaven, from Martin Short's "Fame Becomes Me"

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TheatreFreak05
#48re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/28/08 at 8:52pm

"I am Aldolfo"- The Drowsy Chaperone

"Hello 12, Hello 13 "- A Chorus Line

A lot of songs from The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee

puppet
#49re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/29/08 at 12:25am

If You Were Gay - Ave Q
Those Were The Good Old Days - Damn Yankees
It Sucks to be Me - Ave Q
My Girl Friend Who Lives in Canada - Ave Q

Almost anything from AVE Q


Updated On: 8/30/08 at 12:25 AM

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AKDPerformer
#50re: Funniest Broadway Song?
Posted: 8/29/08 at 12:39am

"My Girlfriend Who Lives In Canada"

Basically all of Avenue Q...period.


"We need people not to come to Broadway shows wearing shorts and flip-flops. We are working hard up here folks. Find a pair of socks."-Joanna Gleason "I hear L. Ron Hubbard is gonna blow the ladies...and all that jazz! C'mon babe! We're gonna unicorn hug, I bought some NyQuil down....at Wal-Mart?!"-Bebe Neuwirth singing ATJ to Musical Mad Libs at DQYNJ :)


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