Flight Of The Conchords
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Jonathan Coultan is my favorite singer-songwriter, ever. He's drifted away from "comedy" songs recently, but he's still fantastic. He's able to perfectly straddle funny and sad, somehow.
He's had a few brushes with more widespread notoriety, too: he wrote "Still Alive" and "Want You Gone" for Portal 1 & 2, the opening song to the show "Brain Dead," the theme song to RiffTrax, and a great cover of "Baby Got Back" that Glee ripped off without crediting him.
Highly recommend!!!
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The Arrogant Worms, and Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie. Canada stays winning.
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The Smothers Brothers, Tim Minchin, and Tom Lehrer
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I've always liked Steel Panther, good hair metal, just rude, crude and funny.
Ninja Sex Party is good value.
Flight of the Conchords are awesome.
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Weird Al, of course... he's an effing genius. But so is Tom Lehrer. He was a comedy musician popular through the '50s and '60s. He's also credited for inventing the Jello shot as a way to sneak alcohol onto his military base.
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Richard Cheese - a lounge singer doing some fun covers
Would the Bloodhound Gang be considered comedy? always loved Bloodhound Gang. sure they had that one song but the CKY videos introduced me to their other stuff which is quite good.
They had a pretty limited musical run (and a 1 season IFC show) but Garfunkel and Oates had some funny songs
Brental Floss (game music with goofy lyrics added) can be fun. A lot of it is profane or not funny though, so it's a mixed bag.
Smooth McGroove (VGM acapella) isn't comedy, but his angle is somewhat of a novelty.
Love Whitney Avalon! Her Princess Rap Battles are easily as good as some of the better Epic Rap Battles.
Da Vinci's Notebook is great too.
The Poxy Boggards are fun, but usually filthy
Richard Cheese just covers regular songs, but it's hilarious to hear his lounge singer take on them.
The Brett Domino Trio
Tripod
Here Come The Mummies.
Jon Lajoie
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Tenacious D isn't in this thread yet
Bo Burnham and Steven Lynch
Let's see... Nerf Herder (whose lead singer is Parry Gripp, famous for Raining Tacos and other songs), Sub-Radio, Rumahoy, and John Trubee (Blind Man's Penis).
I used to be a fan of NanowaR of Steel, but unfortunately they've got some transphobic songs that sour the rest of the band's music for me. That being said, Valhalleluja is a masterpiece and always will be even though Thomas Winkler is in it.
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Psychostick is probably my favorite. Ice nine kills is my least favorite.
Victor Borge has always been good for a laugh. Very Looney Tunes.
Piff the Magic Dragon.
Jonathan the Terrible
Tiny Girl Big Show.
Jacques Ze Whipper.
Gallagher isn't my favorite but idk if I've seen enough to say he's a dislike.
Steve 'N Seagulls, bluegrass covers of metal songs!
Agreed with Weird Al, of course.
Also, Tom Cardy.
This guy might be a one-hit wonder -- I haven't even checked out whatever else he might've done -- but I absolutely love that one video because I also played cello in school.
I hate to call them novelty or comedy because they're amazing musicians, but I'd suggest Ween.
Favourite: Frank Zappa Least favourite: One Day Fly or Tenacious D (too much Jack Black - he's not that funny)
Blowfly
Amazing musician, recorded some great funk / soul records under his real name Clarence Reid. Pioneer in making songs about appreciating women.
'Wierd world of Blowfly' is a worthwhile documentary about him if you're trying to get familiar.
The Doug Anthony All Stars as a most liked
Jim E. Brown
He's a young lad from the UK that has a degenerative disease that makes him look old.
I know this is meant for english speakers, but for francophones folks around here, Ultra Vomit is a great band if you're into metal and dumb jokes (like this song parodying the french Hokuto no Ken opening, talking about (Heine)ken beers).
John Kampen is pretty good, and Alice Boersma. I don’t like Jose van der Velde, his lisp gets on my nerves.
I only have favorites; I haven't heard any comedy band that outright sucked. 🤷♂️
Tenacious D
Garfunkle & Oates
Flight of the Conchords
Weird Al Yancovic
Gonna put stan ridgeway up for novelty. His songs are like strange tales of americana.
Lots of good acts in these threads, I haven’t seen them mentioned so I will throw out Trout Fishing in America.
Like: Nestor Pister, Metro, and McLean & McLean. Dislike: Hmph...can't think of anyone.
Adam Sandler
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