name songs which are funny which AREN'T comedy songs

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

.... responding to the lex on FT, who sez ALL comedy songs make him scowl (a not-unusual response to enforced jollity)

(and i guess i'm talking "laugh-with" funny rather than "laugh-at" funny)

to kick things off: i think Qb's OOCHIE WALLY is funny ---:0

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[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

I feel like dickmalone might be a good person to ask this of...

I'm a huge sucker for straight-up novelty songs, and most of the best ones that I've heard lately are coming from hip-hop, which can kind of have it both ways (e.g. YAHHHH not necessarily being considered a novelty/comedy song!).

I'd make an inclusion of Fiery Furnaces here, actually, just because their relationship to humor is very strange to me. It's maybe the only band I can think of where a sporadic connection to their music seems to be based mostly in different senses of humor. (Rare because it's hard enough to find ANY sense of humor, let alone one that I can't understand or click with -- I'm pretty open to hearing music as funny when it wants to be, provided it isn't trying way too hard [and failing].)

[skyecaptain.livejournal.com]

Not sure what series of typos produced that last parenthetical, but what I mean is that if a sense of humor is evident, I usually won't be put off by it being unlike my own sense of humor...