#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.
that explains why Wierd Al has been in the public eye for so long!
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Doh, I pooped my pants
Thanks for the tip!
I prefer Stephen Lynch…
Stephen Lynch FTW!
no wonder my wife always wants me to take her to the dualing piano bars too!
Damn - I hate being a cliche - I’m throwing out my Richard Cheese as of now.
I’m not sure if satire on satire works.
No wonder I see so much of this on Comedy Central. I especially like those four country dudes. Who are they? Larry the Cable Guy and that dude from “Are You Smarter than A Fifth Grader?”
You forgot dennis leary
You forgot Adam Sandler. He does it too and it is stinkin’ hilarious
I like me some Blowfly
11th!
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That’s true, whenever we have retreats for work, all the white people wanna to a funny remix to a song and somebody usually has a guitar in their car!
This blog is normally hilarious, but I get the sense that the authors are running out of ideas. This one was kind of lame. Actually, everything after gentrification seems like they were really searching for ideas.
LOL… dope
do you guys really read the comments or just skim for inspiration? do you even need inspiration I feel like this can go on forever
Thanks for that information! I’m sure it will come in handy one day. This site is interesting! I had to blog about it!
Don’t forget Liam Lynch… jokes, music and puppets!
Rock
That GG Allin guy is pretty fuckin’ funny, too!
Zach Galafankis from his comedy central special. Fricken hilarious!!!
And of course Steve Martin.
Sean Cullen rules all. (Yes, I’m odd)
Dear Author of this Blog:
I request the having of your babies.
KTHNXBYE.
Also, Sarah Silverman is NOT funny, and white boys need to stop with that shit. Any white girl will say “vagina.” Silverman is not special in this regard.
c’mon, are you guys running dry after just a few weeks? you can do better than this.
This could perhaps be extended to the entire musical theatre genre as well. I’ll just mention one in particular: Rent. Musical theatre, personal awareness, cause awareness, and NYC. The trifecta. I don’t know what the word is for four things.
Oh yes, and traumatic breakups too.
I just realized that white people also like snarky websites like “stuffwhitepeoplelike.wordpress.com.” Ergo, (white people also love dead languages) white people are responsible for this website. Hope you guys are satisfied.
Don’t forget mc chris!
http://mcchris.com/
Demitri Martin is good. I am so white.
This blog is starting to lag. Pick it up authors.
White people like music in which the singer does not repeat his/her name repeatedly throughout the song.
Phoebe Buffay - “Smelly Cat”
To echo #2: Stephen Lynch. Hands down.
A co-worker (that has fit every single entry I have read on this blog so far) called me into her office to show me the Sarah Silverman and Matt Damon song that was showed on late night. she then showed me the new “revenge song” (whatever that is).
It is a total of 15 minutes that I will never get back.
Seve:
White people like music in which the singer does not repeat his/her name repeatedly throughout the song.
Then explain the relative popularity of KMFDM!
I just began to cry dragon tears. Which as we all know turn into jellybeans!
Dont’ forget Stephen Lynch!! Response #3 is on the ball. He’s Hilarious!!!
I thought everyone loved Tenacious D…
I can live with that
The only thing I hate about Tenacious D is that they believe that their jokes matter more than their music.
Their music is amazing, they should be touring all around the world.
White people love to be “first” ex: i was the first of my friends to discover stuffwhitepeoplelike, i was the first to have pink flowers at my wedding, now everyone is doing it, i was the first to cut my hair like posh spice, now everyone is doing it, or i was the first to discover American Apparel.
And then you have to blog about it so everyone knows you were the first.
Reminds me of Bob Saget who sang at the end of each of his shows and yes he’s the dirtiest comedian there is. Song title: Danny Tanner is not gay
I echo #2 and #30; Stephen Lynch. A funny singing white man with a guitar.
Weird Al Yankovic (there’s no frickin ‘H’ in his name!) is a funny singing white guy with an accordian. He also made great gobs of money for a little song called “White and Nerdy”.
@ gaypicnic
The word you are looking for is quadriplegic. Especially in regards to the musical theater genre.
Again, I am very guilty of this. It’s like your in my head!
you forgot a seminal band of the genre, “They Might Be Giants.”
ideas for next posts:
“the Pacific Northwest”
“Lesbians”
“Accapella (groups with stupid pun names)”
….ex: every college and “rockappella” (former house band for game show ‘where in the world is carmen sandiego?’
#41 is on to something with Lesbians.
There have been some really good suggestions for new topics in the replies to posts…. the authors need to look at those and pick some better ones, because this post was just stupid. Really stupid.
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Possible future topics:
1)Going to Hookah Bars
2)Knowing all the words to 80’s Rock songs
3)Owning a boat used for watersports.
4)Tennis
5)Country Clubs
I think Jews loved musical comedy first.
Exodus was originally conceived as a duo featuring Mel Brooks and God.
To the commenters of late who have noted the decline of this site in the last few days: My personal theory is that stuffwhitepeoplelike will stop publishing after tomorrow, and will be revealed as an experiment in how to get white people to really think about race during Black History Month. And, I think it’ll be seen as a great success! I’ve read more on this site about some realities of race in America, and more honest evaluation by white people about how race works, than in any other venue.
I won’t be surprised to see the book version published soon, and I’ll be very interested in how many undergrad papers are written about the site, and maybe even a few dissertations. Hooray, authors, for getting (some) white people in America to think about race! Well done (and I’m not being ironic)!
i’m glad i found this blog. really clever.
I enjoyed your segment on NPR, thanks for the fun.
idea for a future blog:
White People love giving referrals!
White people love Will Smith
White People love time shares!
White people love standing in long lines for new technology i.e. i-phone, xbox360, ps3, wii
white people like The Office (US)
The 30 minutes since I found your site have been 30 of the richest, most satisfying minutes of my life. You are quite possibly the funniest person alive.
Carry on.
Speaking of music comedy, Ive got this hilarious musical comedy of a the state of the London Underground here:
http://theworldofm.wordpress.com/2008/02/23/fatcats-and-piss-and-sweat/
Perhaps non-british people might not find it funny, but who knows? I showed it to a non-english speaking person and she laughed her head off, probably because she picked up all the cursing and wearing and was laughing at those.
I was at a U of M graduation where the head of the Human Genome Project picked up a guitar and did a humorous rendition of Sinatra’s “My Way.”
He was surprisingly good.
Unfortunately, most amateur music comedians make my ears bleed. ESPECIALLY the corporate kind.
And finally, I’d just like to add Lemon Demon, Adam Samburg, and Dynamite Hack (for the white version of “Boyz-N-The Hood”
to the white comedy musician greats.
This site is amazing. I never realized I fit into so many white stereotypes until now. Nobody has been able to make fun of white people so well before. Thanks for the laughs, and the hookah bar idea is mint..
soho_freelancer,
I hope you’re wrong. “We just found out this place exissssssteeeeeed.” /singing
Flight of the Conchords = epic comedy FAILURE.
Demetri Martin is only funny when he doesn’t sing. oh and five years ago before he bagan repeating his material..
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I would like to ask you all one question:
>>>>>would you call Uncle Ruckus a racist?
Ha, funny blog. May I suggest wine tasting as a future post? Damn, white people get off on showing how much they can get out of a sip of fermented grape juice.
This is hilarious!
I am an African-American male and now I have a place of reference when I am trying to figure out the latest white folks do.
White people like to wear flip-flops or sandals in the coldest a** weather I know. As long as there is no snow.
So young and so Canadian! The Smothers Brothers were the singing Daily Show of the 1960s.
Oh god, it’s true.
Well, I like Flight of The Conchords. I couldn’t care less about the other examples.
wow. white people are the most boring people on earth.
If you ever laughed at SNL’s “Dick in a Box” or “Lazy Sunday” sketches, this one applies to you. I am guilty.
Stephen Lynch and Dmitri Martin- not only are they musical comedians, they are white musical comedians. +2 points.
Under normal circumstances, I would include Zach Galifiniakis, but unfortunately, he has we already established himself as an “alternative” comedian (See #52). White people love being categorized, and it is impossible for them to embody more than one classification simultaneously. If Mr. Galifiniakis decides he would like to be considered a musical comedian, he will have to relinquish the “alternative” category.
i heart arlo guthrie. nuff said.
DaVinci’s Notebook, too. Quite possibly the whitest band ever…even a song about Bill Gates. But really funny.
Oh, and the Roches. Really white.
i don’t see this list on the list, so i probably don’t like it.
This is one of the few times I don’t fit in.
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I hate singing comedians.
soho_freelancer,
white people like to think anything satirical declines in quality as more people find out about it and “get it” too.
satire doesn’t fly over the head of masses as much as white people like to think it does.
IMHO of course.
For the inside-the-Beltway political wonk crowd, there’s the completely unfunny Capitol Steps and Mark Russell.
White people like:
networking
brewhouses
get-togethers
outdoor clubs (ties in get-togethers and networking and going to brewhouses! its a three-fer!)
saying things like three-fers
One thing about this blog…I love it…it’s very on-target, but I think the main irony (I know, I know, this has already been pointed out countless times) is that the author is obviously very much a product of the upper-middle class lifestyle. Some of these, like “knowing what’s best for poor people”, or the patronizing nature of “white trash night” are good criticisms. Although I will say that here, it goes both ways: I’ve heard a great many “working class” people ridicule the upper-class, too, and consider them stupid for, say, not knowing how to fix a car. Many of the others are just observations, and are less “bitter”. Like Wes Anderson films (yes, films). Do I like them? Yeah. Are they formulaic? Very much so. But do I like them because I’m supposed to? No. I like them because they’re always entertaining. He’s a good director, even if all his films are similar. I also love coffee, but I hate when people don’t shut up about it. I tend to like the more expensive coffees, but not simply for the sake of being elitist, but because they (usually) tend to have more flavor. Same with expensive sandwiches…sorry, but a well-made and visually-appealing real turkey breast and provolone with red-pepper sauce on a baguette just tastes better than a processed turkey with American on white bread. It’s not like I wouldn’t eat the latter, but if I have the money, I’ll always pick the former. Upper middle class culture is the most acceptable to ridicule, because no one is going to object to it, even they themselves (self-deprecation is also a hallmark of the culture.) The mindsets and lifestyles of the working class, or black culture are easier to ridicule because the inconsistencies are easier to point out, but we’re not supposed to do that, at least not explicitly. Am I ashamed of being an upper middle class member of society? Not in the least. It’s who I am, it’s where I came from. As everyone knows, everyone conforms. AND every one and every culture is hypocritical. It’s inescapable. But I’d rather conform to a culture that at least attempts/professes to value humanities education, a large vocabulary, proper grammar, fine art, proper nutrition, etc. rather than a culture that regards those pursuits as “pompous” or “unnecessary”. And yes…I realize how arrogant and elitist I sound. I’m just being honest.
On a side note, I think that the one thing that unites all people in pointless conformity is the love of professional sports. Nothing to say to the guy at the party? Mention how much you liked that play at the end of the game, and what they did right or wrong, or assess the qualities of different quarterbacks. This will afford you great respect and admiration. Offer him a beer. If you happen to be “well-off”, make sure it’s an organic microbrew with “just enough hops”. If you’re working class, doing this would result in you being laughed at. In this case, make sure it’s a Bud Light or Miller Lite or Coors Light…be careful though…even though all those beers taste virtually the same, people are usually loyal to one kind and “won’t touch” something that tastes exactly the same. Doing these things will go a long way to show that you’re just “a regular guy”, and there’s nothing more important than that.
Don’t forget Rodney Carrington. More like white trash people, but close nuff.
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