I love Wird Al's "I want a new duck" and "Bimbo Number 5"

Heard Paul and Storm on one of the Nerdist podcasts and really enjoyed listening to them.

Of course, have to throw in my support for Weird Al. Have listened to him since I was much younger.

@thedogma: Yes he does!

@budrose: Oops, my bad. I thought that was Weird Al that did that one. I believe the confusion is that Weird Al did, in fact, do a Bimbo #5 but it has different lyrics than the one I like:

http://www.lyricstime.com/weird-al-yankovic-bimbo-number-5-lyrics.html

@cengland0: nope.. still not Al.

So many were attributed Al for so many comedy songs during the peer to peer days because it was a funny song and Al was the only mainstream comedy music performer they could think at that moment.

http://www.com-www.com/weirdal/notbyal.html

The Demented Music Database is a great source for comedy

http://dmdb.org/
Of course Al has his own reference page ;-þ
http://dmdb.org/al/

Tenacious D. A tribute to the Greatest song in the world!

@budrose: I'm not too sure about that. I listen to that song nearly every day when I'm at the Gym. It's on my phone and it plays randomly. The lyrics from all the sites are NOT the same that I listen too.

There's a sentence in the song that says something like, "on January 20, 2001 I have to work only have a day." I cannot find that sentence in any of the lyrics that are online and attributed to Weird Al. The one from "The Woody Show" is mentioned but I cannot find the lyrics to it. Can you?

Flight of the Conchords haven't been mentioned yet. I like them, although I haven't really listened to them outside of their short-lived HBO show.

@tossthedice: Of course Victor Borge counts! (And in your head you should be hearing the sound of the exclamation point.)

And how can there have been so many comments thus far without one having mentioned Tom Lehrer, far and away the grand master of the genre? Now excuse me while I go out and buy some pigeon poison.

This is very weird (no pun intended with Weird Al). I know I have a song called "Bimbo #5" but it does NOT match the lyrics I can find online. The first three lines online are:

One, two, three, four, six (notice it misses #5)
Everybody in the car, let's go have sex,
To the hotel around the corner,

The song that I have has these first three lines (transcribed by me):

1 2 3 4 5
In just about a year I can ditch my wife
I gotta a funky crib…
[cannot understand the name]
she says I can stay there but I don't wanna. It's just like my senior prom -- I really don't know how it all went wrong.

So who sings the version that I have?!?!? And can anybody find the lyrics to this version?

MCPlus+

@budrose: Exactly! That's the one I'm referring to so who is responsible for singing/writing that one?

Weird Al was my start. Bad Hair Day was probably the first album I put in a CD player, and I still love Weird Al! I actually get chances to see him fairly often...he plays at the OC Fairground, and tickets tend to be somewhere between cheap and free.

I like a lot of Lonely Island's stuff. Bo Burnham is kind of a guilty pleasure sometimes. My late childhood included an album called Chipmunks Roasting on an Open Fire by Bob Rivers.

Yeah, I like comedy music!

Denis Leary's @$$hole will always be my favorite!

I'm a fan of Jonathan Coulton (Code Monkey, Creepy Doll, Skullcrusher Mountain, etc).

Rodney Carrington's "show them to me". Gotta see it live to get the full effect.