#77 Musical Comedy
February 28, 2008 by clander
One of the more interesting things about White people is that they love singing comedians.
This style of humor involves a person or group singing a song but rather than singing about something serious, it has funny lyrics. It’s not any more complicated than that, but white people can’t get enough of it. Weird Al Yankovich, Tenacious D, Sarah Silverman (sometimes), Flight of the Conchords, Dennis Leary, and Adam Sandler are all excellent examples of the genre.
It’s a pretty good idea because when you have jokes that aren’t that great and music that isn’t that great, you can mix them together and create something that will entertain white people.
So how you can use this knowledge to your advantage?
If you find yourself at a corporate retreat where you have to put on a skit for the other employees in your office, it’s always a good idea to suggest doing a funny song. The rest of your group will get very excited and start work immediately on some clever lyrics. Do not worry about the music part, if you have more than two white males on your team, it is certain that one of them can play the guitar.
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[...] man, white people love musical comedy. Now I’m personally not a huge fan of musical comedy, but something about this music and [...]
Flight of the Conchords!
&& Tenacious D <3
Love This Site
I love Flight of the Conchords, but Tenacious D? Obnoxious. I love Demetri Martin who is also a hilarious comedic musician.
i would say that most musical comedy sucks, but flight of the conchords is pretty funny.
Um, this is kind of fun, but…
I checked the List carefully and couldn’t find any of the following items. Without these addenda, the list looks suspicously like “Stuff White Liberals Like That Make White Conservatives Feel Uncool.”
Here’s “Stuff the Other Half of White America Likes”:
1. Camo.
2. Furtively giving the IHOP a quick “demographic scan” before telling that joke.
3. Neighborhoods with no sidewalks.
4. A left-turn light in front of the SuperCentre.
5. Bumper stickers
…(oh, that’s already on the list, but the entry doesn’t include “Poor = Lazy” or “Drill Here, Drill Now” or “America Bless God”)
6. 50-mile commutes
7. Home-schooling in a good school district.
8. Israel (but not the actual Jews there!)
9. Hot sauce collections
10. Stockpiling canned food, in case the pre-millinnealists are right, not the post-millinnealists….wait, let me go check my Hal Lindsey library.
11. Pregnant white teenagers (not the other kind of pregnant teenager)
12. African immigrants (if they follow the right religion) as examples of industriousness and modesty.
13. Federal funding—from another region’s tax base.
14. Shopping centers that are less than 3 years old.
15. One-piece underwear (in Utah, mostly)
16. Gear that requires custom trailers
17. Trampolines
18. Race (not that kind, I’m talking about the Kentucky Derby, Daytona 500, etc)
19. Rude staring.
20. Pronouncing “One nation under God” as “One nationunder God”
21. Hockey
22. Softball
23. The Celtics (the team and borrowed Scottish pride)
24. Cherry-picking MLK quotes about hard work
I don’t get #20, but everything else is hilarious. Who knows, maybe you can start your own blog?
Anyway, as an Israeli I can say it’s frikkin hilarious that most Israelis would vote for the Democratic candidate, yet it’s the crazy evangelical types that are super supportive(Bush is frequently called President Busha which means embarrassment). I guess McCain might be different if no one is really aware of how much he changed, but I doubt anyone would vote for someone with Sarah Palin as VP…
^^ Yeah except maybe all the thousands of PUMAs whjo are now campaigning for the Republican ticket, people with special needs children, conservatives who were previously ambiguous about McCain, and the tens of thousands of people that show up at every rally she holds. Apart from them, probably no-one at all.
And of course anyone who lives on Avenue Q.
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