When writing parody songs, do you... Page 2

[quote name="Griff" post="227213" date="August 5 2008, 10:38 AM BST"]Agree there is no more depressing sight than a stand-up with a guitar.

Oy, Phillips, I'd say 'outside' if you weren't such a big geezer.

Signed
Dave Cohen
on behalf of musical comedy acts
Billy Connolly
Bill Bailey
John Hegley (and The Popticians)
Ronnie Golden
Boothby Graffoe
Jim Tavare
Japser Carrott
Tim Minchin
Tom Lehrer
Victoria Wood
and many more

PS - confetti, yeti, spaghetti, Serengheti, Peter Bonetti, petty, betty, jetty, Paul Getty - and I haven't even gone for the rhyming dictionary yet!

I'm just glad it wasn't Richard Digance.

#High on a pill, she called to me#

...flight of the conchords, rob deering etc etc.

Saw tim minchin the other day. he was superb. go see him.

I've found several good threads on the sort of sketches news revue and treason go for but i'd be really appreciative to see more songs that some of you are getting accepted into treason.

Also, can you add direction and props - like if you have something funny that they might be doing during the song or particular dress and makeup that adds more humour.
I generally loathe parody songs but i fondly recall Bremner, Bird and Fortune doing 'Firestarter'. There's bugger all lyrics to it but it was hilarious with Bremner acting like Keith Flint and Patrick Moore on xylophone.

Problem with these is that they take *aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaages* to do. I tried Gordon Brown doing 'Creep', Amy Winehouse doing '(I've finally got to go to) Rehab' and a song about Kaplinsky leaving for Channel 5 to the tune of 'Kalinka', but none of them were deemed good enough for either NR or Treason.

I sat there with the lyrics and worked my way through them, but could have written five or six decent sketches in the same time (if not more).

I was well-pleased with the 'Rehab' one though. Took me f**king ages and I had to listen to the original about 100 times!

Dan

But when you get it. it's so worth it.

imho, and I mean this in the nicest possible way - as someone who uses a guitar in his stand-up act and worked for years in a sketch show at the Comedy Store in manc - changing the words to songs is very lazy comedy.

Somebody just tell you that in one of your lectures?

Dan

Drunkenly hands Griff a fiver.

Hey play Lady in Red for the woman in corner, she's my wife and play it nice.

I'll never forget a parody of Sinatra's 'The Coffee Song' which went: "You look inside the papers/And it's full of football rapers"

Quote: Griff @ August 6 2008, 12:38 PM BST

And some song parodies are just fantastic comedy, like the Amateur Transplants London Underground song.

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Awesome parody. Perhaps better than the original, as it got the feelings of millions of commuters at just the right time.

Dan

Piano Man!!!

Billy Joel has a certain naff charm.

I've never had a job that involves tips, or even seeing members of the public.

Atleast none disabled members of society.

I could goto the same job centre as Quasimodo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErPywgiMb4k

Now that would be my choice.

Not that I know much about piano playing.

My old piano tutor had a bought of poor mental health after teaching me.

What about the Zygons?

And isn't he yesterdays man?

There's lots of BBC types hanging around Paddington.

How about a 10 Dr special with loads of CGI, and clips and the Meddling Monk.