Welcome to My Weekly Mixtape, a podcast that
takes the classic mixtape approach to building
a modern playlist. I'm your host, Brian Colburn.
Joining me once again tonight as guest curator
is my former Toon Styles co -host, Jay Sweet.
Jay, welcome back again, my friend. Thanks, man.
It's great to be here. It's good to have you.
And I am excited because tonight we are going
to go down a road that I actually don't think
in all the years we've podcasted together, we've
truly... Doven into, which is comedy and novelty
songs. Yeah. When you originally pitched this
to me, I thought, OK, this is great because I
lived on Dr. Demento forever and we can get into
it organically when we get there. But, you know,
I have great stories about almost every novelty
song ever written that I've ever heard. So I'm
looking forward to talking about this for sure.
Me too. And I was actually kind of shocked. That
a lot of the novelty songs that I picked actually
in some way, shape or form, be it here in the
U .S. or overseas, charted. So some of these
songs are actually in the top 100, sometimes
in the top 40 discussion here, even though they're
not serious. So believe it or not, people can
actually laugh. I didn't know if you knew this,
but apparently. at some point in time, people
were able to laugh at things. Yeah, not so much
these days, but, you know, it's okay. We're going
to bring it back. We're taking it back. Yeah,
exactly. And I think we could use a good laugh
tonight. Now, I am going to go on record and
say that a lot of the songs we're going to be
talking about tonight are not safe for work,
at least from my bank of songs, I could tell
you right now. So while we'll do our best, To
keep it as PG as the show normally is, I make
zero guarantees on this episode because some
of the songs I picked this evening, let's just
say it's kind of hard to keep PG, no matter how
you try. But we'll do our best. All right. I
can get behind that. There's a lot of stuff that
a lot of these songs in my bank were written
with kind of a dark streak. And if you are a
fan of the Dr. Demento, the Funny 25 or even,
you know, Dr. Demento's whole entire show, those
kind of songs, you kind of get a little bit of
that. Oh. That's dark. Oh, all right. We're going
to talk about that. Well, I think I'm going to
balance your dark out because I don't think any
of my songs are dark in any way, shape or form.
Mine are as over the top as you could possibly
get. So I think we're going to strike a balance
here. But let's see as we go down that road tonight.
As I mentioned at the top of the show, Jay and
I are going to be curating the ultimate comedy
and novelty songs mixtape. And we'll use the
old cassette deck approach. Jay, as my special
guest, will begin Side A with his first song
choice, and then I'll add a song that I feel
best follows up that choice. We'll then flip
-flop choosing songs until we've mapped out 10
songs for Side A. We'll then give our mixtape
a proverbial flip, and we'll map out Side B,
only this time I'll kick things off with Jay
choosing second. Our overall goal for the episode
is to craft the best comedy and novelty songs
mixtape possible through only 20 songs. At the
end of the show, you can take our conversation
to the next level by visiting the episode page
at myweeklymixtape .com where you can give our
final mixtape a listen via the embedded playlist.
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a few of the mixtapers chimed in with the songs
they would use to kick off our comedy and novelty
songs playlist. And I want to give a few quick
shout -outs. Ben from the Too Vague podcast chimed
in with Tom Lehrer's New Math. Tom Hutchinson
chimed in with Mr. Baco by Adam Sandler, saying
it cracks him up every time he hears it. Philip
Bergman chimed in saying, true story, they're
coming to take me away, ha ha, is actually the
first song on one of his oldie mixtapes that
he recorded off the radio, but for a lead off
for the ultimate. comedy mixtape. He is going
to go with the Water Buffalo song from VeggieTales.
Chad LaMassa, on a completely different note,
is chiming in with King Missile's detachable
penis. Can't believe we went from VeggieTales
to King Missile, but that's where we are right
now. Brandon from Virginia is going way back
to a deep cut for his choice, Dickie Goodman's
Flying Saucer Part 1. Seeker chimed in from Australia
with Bad News, which is a British spinal tap
-like mockumentary made by the guys behind The
Young Ones. And while some people might be familiar
with their version of Bohemian Rhapsody, Seeker's
going with Hey Hey Bad News, which was recorded
live at the 1986 Monsters of Rock performance
in Donington as the band was booed off the stage.
And finally, Sean Goff said he's pretty sure
this is a novelty song and is chiming in with
Psycho Sticks. This is not a song. It's a sandwich.
And if that doesn't count, he's going to go old
school with Stranded in the Jungle by the Cadets.
Once again, if you'd like to chime in for future
My Weekly Mixtape episodes, join the Mixtaper
community at patreon .com forward slash My Weekly
Mixtape. And now, Jay, I need a good laugh tonight.
So I'm going to officially press the record button
on our mixtape and expect some laughter out of
you. So what song is going to kick off the festivities
for this evening? Well, we are going right to
the Dr. Demento show. And if you like I mentioned
earlier, if you are a fan of novelty records,
if you are a fan of Weird Al Yankovic. You know,
Dr. Demento, because that's kind of where Weird
Al got his became Weird Al. He got his start
there and took off to being one of the most prolific
and funniest comedy writers, songwriters of all
time. You know, if you're asking me, but we're
going to start with Dr. Demento. And what I used
to do is listen in on W .A .Q. X. Manly is Syracuse.
When I was growing up, 95 X used to run on, I
believe it was Sunday nights. Dr. Demento show
late at night, like I think at nine or 10 o 'clock,
I remember going to bed, get ready for school
in the morning. And that was what I would listen
to. I mean, that's still late at night now, if
you think about it. I mean, for us, it really
is. No, it really is. So when I first heard this,
I, this song cracked me up so much and it goes
right to that dark heart that I talked about.
There was a group called Ogden Edsel, and actually
they shortened that from Ogden Edsel Wahalia
Blues Ensemble Mondo Bizarro Band. And they've
been around since the 1970s, the early 1970s.
And in 1977, they put out a song, the last track
on the first side of the record, which was called
Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun. With lyrics like
my puppy died late last fall. He's still rotting
in the hall. Dead puppies aren't much fun. Mom
says puppies days are through. She's going to
put them in the stew. Oh, God. But this is and
talking about who's that had Tom Lehrer that
mentioned Tom Lehrer. That was Ben from the Too
Vague podcast. Yeah. Ben from the Too Vague podcast.
Tom Lehrer. So 1959. You got to think about that.
Back when rock and roll was still. brand new
novelty records have been around for forever
they literally have i i'm sure that your fine
listeners brian who subscribe to tiktok or facebook
reels or instagram have come across these videos
with these oldie timey 1930s 1940s kind of brassy
big band songs about double entendres like really
really on the nose double entendre stuff And
those are novelty records, and they've been around
for a very long time. Tom Lehrer had a song called
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, I think in 1959?
Question mark? Yes, 1959 was on more of Tom Lehrer,
but this Ogden Edsel was 1977 that song came
out, and it was on the album Stuffed. That's
how we started off. We're going to go down a
hole and we're going to be on a roller coaster
ride all the way through this. I'm going to say,
and hopefully not offending too many people who
never heard it, but it's an older song. And if
you get Dr. Demento's style of humor, it's actually
not far removed. I've listened to this song before.
It's definitely one that kind of just keeps building
and building and building and getting weirder
and creepier. And it is. just off the wall. And
it's everything that encapsulates what Dr. Demento
was. I mean, there's a certain sense of humor
that if you are a Dr. Demento fan, you immediately
get it. But if you're not a Dr. Demento fan,
it's either going over your head, offending you,
or you're just kind of staring at the radio blankly.
And I'm kind of none of those. I find Dr. Demento's
humor pretty hysterical. Absolutely. And I mean,
if you like you said, if you are familiar with
what Dr. Demento has done without Dr. Demento,
we don't have Bob Rivers, right? We don't have
the 12 Pains of Christmas, which was one of the
greatest Christmas parody songs ever written.
You don't have Bob and Tom, you know, radio show
hosts and ONA and even Howard. I mean, Howard,
for the most part, Howard Stern. You don't have
those funny gags, those radio gags. And Dr. Demento
kind of brought all of that to us in a lot of
ways. And in fact, if you remember, we're talking
about this. And like I said, I'm full of stories
about this stuff. But there was a song that Dr.
Demento would play in regular rotation. One of
them was Star Trekking. And being a sci -fi nerd
that I am, that was a hilarious song for me.
But there was also, there was the Dead Puppy
song. Then there was the Tom Lehrer stuff. And
all of the Weird Al stuff. And there was a song
by Kipler called Wet Dream. And it was 100 %
based on double entendres for, he pulled his
car into the shop because he had blown a seal.
And he said, shut up and fix the thing and leave
my personal life out of it. Like those kind of
things. Just hysterical. The double entendres
are great. I kind of, you know, this occurred
to me this very day, Brian. I think that music
was funnier when you had songs that were creative
around the topic they were singing about. Shebop
by Cyndi Lauper, right? Instead of today's modern
era, you're going to get, what were you doing?
I was sitting at home, you know. In the early
80s, up until I think around the early 90s, something
tectonically shifted in music in terms of self
-censoring. And they were less, I think they're
less creative about it. I think it suffered a
little bit. Yeah, it's a little bit more on the
nose for sure. And when I listen to Dr. Demento,
I think of songs like Tim Kavanaugh's I Wanna
Kiss Her, parentheses, but she won't let me.
However, when you sing the song, it's I wanna
kiss her, but. She won't let me. Again, all it
takes is the way you sing the song in the phrasing.
And it changes it completely. As a kid, I laughed
at that. You said kiss her butt. But at the end
of the day, punctuation matters. And you know
what, Jay? Back to Ogden Edsel. Dead Puppies
was the most requested song on Dr. Demento's
radio show ever. So this is not really a deep
cut if you're a fan of Dr. Demento. And it remains
the only song to hit number one on the annual
Funny 25 countdown two years in a row, which
was 82 and 83. That's right. So, I mean, that's
as good as a Grammy as far as I would be concerned.
But I'm going to steer right into this Dr. Demento
thing and scoop you right away. Because you know
there's going to be an elephant in the room.
And we could sit here and push this all the way
to the end of the episode. But let's just get
it out of the way first. This is the big shocking
reveal. Weird Al. Oh, yeah. We're obviously going
to talk about him. We've done a full episode
of My Weekly Mixtape on Weird Al Yankovic. Hell,
you and I did episodes on Weird Al back on the
Toon Styles days. It was done on Playlist Wars.
I'm always talking about Weird Al. Let's just
get it out of the way and get him in. And I'm
going to go with the title track to the first
ever Weird Al album I ever owned, 1985's Dare
to Be Stupid. And for nerds like you and I, Jay,
it was also featured on 1986's Transformers,
the movie soundtrack as the double A side to
stay on Bush's the touch. I mean, as much as
I love this song and I hear lyrics like burn
your candle at both ends, look a gift horse in
the mouth. Mashed Potatoes could be your friend.
In the back of my head, I'm still picturing Rekar
and the Junkins having their battle during this
song. I remember sitting in the movie theater
having my mind blown because I had that album.
So the Transformers were crossing multiverses
in my brain at that time, which I absolutely
love. And the song is still in popular culture
as 2024's Night Bitch with Amy Adams. features
the song in the movie. Oh, I have not seen that.
I think I may have to watch that movie. Just
for that alone. Absolutely. Oh, Weird Al. I mean,
as you said, we could gush on about Weird Al
Yankovic and the fact that he's not in the Rock
Hall of Fame is criminal. And Weird Al Yankovic
was my first concert ever off the Deep End Tour.
Got to go to the Landmark Theater at Syracuse
with my bestest buddies in the whole wide world.
And we all kind of convinced my dad, nope, it's
not a rock show. It's weird out. It's going to
be amazing. We're going to have a great time.
And I got to go. And we had a fantastic time.
I think I mentioned this a number of times with
you as well. My dad was in an orchestra. He was
the band leader for an 18 -piece orchestra. And
he had a lot of friends in the city who were
musicians. He's played with almost everybody.
And one of his friends was my sister and I, my
younger sister and I. My dad's friend Barry had
two kids, Chip, who was a little older than me,
and got me turned on to Weird Al Yankovic. He
had the entire discography right up as long as,
you know, when I first met him. And we went back
and listened to those records, and that was what
we did when we first met. And they were, I mean,
they're just, it's Weird Al. How do you go wrong?
You can't go wrong with Weird Al, and I'm actually
taking it a step further and taking the entire
family this summer to Madison Square Garden for
Weird Al and Puddle's pity party. Nice. And this
will be the kids' first time seeing Weird Al,
and I am so excited to watch the show through
them seeing him live for the first time, as well
as enjoying it for myself. That'll be awesome.
All right. We could go on about Weird Al for
an entire hour, but let's save that for another
night. What are you following up dead puppies
and dare to be stupid with? Let's go direct into
comedy. And one of the most hilarious comedians
taken far too soon. And this video was all over
MTV and you could not get away from this song.
Sam Kinison's Wild Thing featuring a whole bunch
of musicians in the video. I think, was it Joe
Perry and Steven Tyler were in that movie or
in the video? Oh, here, here, here. Because I'm
just going to interrupt you and let you know
that you scooped me, bastard. But the video not
only featured Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith,
it also featured Rodney Dangerfield, Jon Bon
Jovi, Jessica Hahn, Motley Crue's Tommy Lee.
Journey or Bad English, depending on what point.
I think it was Bad English at this point. It
was Jonathan Cain and Dean Castronovo. You had
Richie Sambora and Alex John Such of Bon Jovi,
Slash and Steven Adler of Guns N' Roses, Robin
Crosby and Warren Demartini of Rat, CeCe DeVille
of Poison, Rudy Cesaro of Quiet Riot, and Billy
Idol. Can you imagine the mounds of cocaine at
this video show? Because the video is one big
party. I mean, let's be honest here. Yes. This
was the height of hair metal being exploited
for comedy. And kids, a little PSA here. Do not
do cocaine. Don't do cocaine. No. Not good for
you. But back to the 1980s when I don't think
it's a far fetch to say that there was some maybe
on this video shoot. No, that wouldn't be a stretch
at all. I mean, Jay, realistically, this song
could fall under several playlists for me because
yes, it's a comedy song, but it's also, if you
really want to be honest about it, it's kind
of a straight ahead cover. There's some humorous
moments in it. Like at the end when. Kinison
just starts kind of going off on his rant, saying
like the rant guys that are going to use you
like you used me and take that money out of your
purse and crawl out a window. And he's just doing
his scream. But at the end of the day, it's just
a straight ahead cover and it's a great cover.
So I have actually used this song on my comedy
playlists, on my cover songs, playlists, and
on my eighties hair metal playlist, because of
that massive list of musicians we talked about,
they're all playing on it. Or in the music video.
So yeah, it counts as hair metal as well. Absolutely.
So following that up, I think I'm going to stick
with the harder, heavier vibe, but I'm going
to jump ahead a couple of years here. And Jay,
as soon as I say the name of this song, I know
you're immediately going to laugh, but I'll start
by saying the song reached number 17 on the US
Billboard Hot 100, hit number five in the UK,
number six in Australia, number eight in Ireland.
number three in Sweden and was a number one hit
in New Zealand. And Jay, if you want to split
hairs here, this is a song that technically you
and I both play in the band of, at least if our
interview with William man speaker means anything,
I am going to go with green jellos, three little
pigs off of 1992 serial killer. However, Instead
of me going on about the song, Jay, I actually
went back and pulled a little clip of Bill talking
about Three Little Pigs that you have not heard
in probably seven years. And I thought you'd
get a kick out of this. So you and I are going
to listen to Bill Mann, speaker of Green Jello,
talking about Three Little Pigs and the Serial
Killer album. Which I will also add, if there
was any part of this episode that is not safe
for work, this is it. So, yeah, put those headphones
on for this one. Well, the challenge was actually
doing it because, you know, lying about doing
it was really easy. I just simply told this gigantic
fish story where not only did I have the world's
worst, crappiest band, but that I could also.
make 11 music videos for a super cheap price
at 60 grand. And the reality was, is I was just
talking out my ass. I didn't know how to make
any videos. I worked at E! Entertainment Television,
you know, as a runner. You know, hey, somebody
needed coffee or a donut, I was the guy that
got it. But somehow I elaborated on my job and
made it sound like I was some sort of video producer,
director, whatever it was to get the money. And
then all of a sudden I got the money and I'm
like, realizing like, oh fuck, I got to do this
shit now. And so I went and, you know, I got
11 music videos to do. So the first one I start
off is a song called Serial Killer. And it literally
took me two months, two months of filming, two
months of lighting, two months of editing, two
months of stress. By the end of it, I thought
I was going to fucking die. And I still had 10
more to go. I was like, oh, fuck my life. What
was I doing? Why did I tell these people that
I could do this? I hate this. Oh, my God. And
so finally, it just came to this choice. It's
like I could no longer hopefully just make all
these music videos on the weekend with my friends
that I would have to actually quit my job and
focus and actually do this. So on March 17th,
1992, I quit my job. And every day, all I did.
nonstop was I shot videos, I lit videos, I edited
videos, I directed videos, I produced videos.
By the end of June, I had made 11 music videos.
And the last one that I made, I shot it in the
morning and I edited it in the afternoon and
it was done by the end of the day. And that was
called Electric Harley House of Love. So now
I had all my videos, except for one, Three Little
Pigs was missing because they were still animating
it. So I hand them all in, record company president
calls the whole office in, like 50 people, forces
them to watch 50 minutes of shit, man, and cow
gods are tripping on ecstasies. And after it
was all done and over, it was complete fucking
silence, not a clap, not a laugh, not a you who,
nothing. And I proudly, I boldly said. I got
one more. I got one more. One more to be ready
in a couple days. And that was it. And it just
went brrrr. Like there was no hoorah. And they
didn't care I had one more. So I called up the
guy. I was like, dude, man. He was fucking blue.
This is it. We're got the last one, man. You
got it ready? He's like, no, I'm nowhere near
ready. How much more did you got? You got a minute
and a half. A minute and a fucking half. Fuck
my life. So I took that minute and a half and
I stretched that motherfucker so long, so hard.
And I brought it into the record company and
I threw it in there. I said, this is it. This
is it. This is the one. Totally looked at me
like I was completely nuts. Press play. And by
the end of it, he was like, ah, that's your motherfucking
hit song, Willie. This is your million. You fucking
did it. And within months, 14 million. generated
over 25 million dollars within one year and i
could say that my money's part of that bunch
so you're welcome in that thank you thank you
for me not having a job since 1992 well there
you go well there you have it jay there's a little
blast for the past there he has a potty mouth
I was going to say any chance of this episode
going PG has gone right out the window. However.
No, I mean, the guy set out to make the world's
crappiest band, right? That was his goal. And
I mean, if you hadn't heard that episode, what
a story. Oh, yeah, man. I completely agree. And
I think, you know what? This summer, I'm going
to throw up the full interview with. Bill Mann,
speaker of Green Jello, as a bonus episode on
the My Weekly Mixtape feed, because even though
it's not safe for work in any way, shape or form
for an episode, it's a fascinating interview.
Absolutely. Absolutely. And that song, that video
was something else for sure. And that song was
just when you listen to it, you go, the song
is awful, but it's. fan frigging tastic it's
the three little pigs you know the song i mean
it's you know the story you know the song you
know it's perfection it really is all right so
what are you following that up with ah all right
let's go to let me think this would be 1994 Picture
it. Syracuse University, 1994. I'm a young, scrapping
kid looking for a radio gig. And I connected
up with the morning show host. And I'm not going
to use the names because the story is god awful.
But it's so great. The morning show host was
dating the news director at the time. And they
broke up very, very badly. And he calls me. I'm
in the production room, right? I'm just the producer
for the morning show. Not even the executive
producer at this point. I was just the producer
for the show. And he calls me from the production
room. He goes, can you come in for a minute?
And I said, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, they had
just finished the news at the top of the hour.
So she had gone out to the newsroom to write
the next 15 minutes story or whatever. And he
closes the studio door and he goes, listen. I
feel really awful for what happened between her
and I. And I'm going to, I got, I got this song
and I'm going to play it for her. And, and it's
gonna, it's going to bring her back. I know it's
going to, it's going to win her over. And I said,
okay. So he drops Adam Sandler CD. They're all
going to laugh at you. Oh no. And he queues up
at a medium pace. Oh Jesus. This song, I'm so
sorry. This song is not safe for work by any
stretch of the imagination. About four seconds
into the song. That's all you get. This gorgeous
acoustic guitar intro. And then he starts singing.
Put your arms around me, baby. Can't you see
I need you so? Hold me close against your skin.
I'm about to begin loving you. That's all you
get after that. Do not play that song anywhere
near human beings ever. And I heard, I just started,
I mean, you know, like. when you're in morning
radio and you just eat whenever you can. Well,
I had milk coming out of my nose, Brian, because
I was drinking a carton of milk and it had, I
was dying. I'm like, Oh my God, what did you
just play? And he took the CD out and I went
home and listened to that CD on loop and laughed
harder every time I heard it. I think we're going
to show our age here because you definitely scooped
me on it. 1993s, they're all going to laugh at
you. I mean, that album for years became a staple
that's quotable by anybody that kind of grew
up with Adam Sandler, that era of SNL. And here's
the thing. It had the SNL hits on it. It had
the Thanksgiving song. It had Lunch Lady Land.
So it sucked a lot of us Saturday Night Live
fans into buying the album. Then you get to add
a medium pace and it's not Saturday Night Live
friendly at all. Not even close. And we're not
going to go down that road. If you want to listen
to the song, it's going to be on the playlist
at myweeklymixtape .com. But the show takes no
responsibility. If you happen to listen to it
at work and you get in trouble, that's on you.
The warning is coming from us. Do not listen
to this song at work. You will get in trouble.
However, the first time I heard this song, I
laughed so hard it hurt. And I cannot tell you
how many people I sat there and said, I got this
new ballad and it is so good and you need to
hear it. It's just such a beautiful song. And
then right when you get to, I'm about to begin
loving you and the look on people's faces. I
loved watching people's reaction to that song
for the first time so much because it was so,
convincing that you were about to just get a
soft acoustic ballad. And it's just wonderful.
I'm so happy you picked it because you definitely
scooped me. And I think we did a good job of
finding a way to talk about the song without
actually talking about the song. You have been
warned. And with that being said, I am going
to follow that up with a song that also comes
from Saturday Night Live lore because we're in
that realm right now. But I'm going to fast forward.
A decade and a half. We're going to go to 2009.
Obviously, if you're talking Saturday Night Live
and music, the Lonely Island's going to come
up. And there's so many songs we can go with
here. However, there's one that I could listen
to for the most part with my kids, at least my
oldest. And we could still laugh at this one.
Because as long as you've got your swim trunks
and your flippy floppies, we're going with T
-Pain, I'm on a boat. from 2009's Incredibad
hit number 56 on the US Billboard Hot 100. This
was a top 100 hit. It hit number 62 on the Canadian
Hot 100. And it also hit number 14 in Australia
and number nine in New Zealand. I mean, all the
Lonely Island stuff is hysterical. I could have
went with. natalie portman's rap i could have
went with lazy sunday i could have went with
captain jack sparrow jack sparrow mother lover
favorites three -way d in a box but i'm on a
boat there's something that's a little less not
safe for work it's not safe for work but it's
not not safe for work at the level of adam sandler's
at a medium pace it's just not safe for work
at a different level but Still hysterical nonetheless.
And every time I get on a boat, I hum it. I don't
care. It's too funny. You have to. Very, very
funny story. My friends got married in Orlando
and they got married on a boat. And every time
that. that Janelle would tell us that she was
getting married to Mark, the wedding venue was
on a boat and she would sing it. I'm on a boat!
It's great. I'm like, well, you guys win. You
win weddings. I don't know what to tell you at
that point. But The Lonely Island, it's another
one of those great. I thought for a minute you
were going to go with Wayne's World with Aerosmith.
Oh, that was good too. Mike Myers and Dana Curry.
Yeah, that was great. That's great too. Great
stuff. If you do not like it, you're a sphincter
boy. But no, Lonely Island is, I think Lazy Sunday
was the first, right? With Parnell. Lazy Sunday
was the breakout hit for them. If you want to
quote unquote call it a hit. Yeah. And then they
did D in a Box with Timberlake and everything
went crazy meteoric for them. All four of those
albums. And then I watched the movie Popstar
Never Stop. That movie is hysterical if you haven't
seen it. I died laughing. I died laughing and
then it had to be reincarnated and laughed again.
It's just. But Captain Jack, Michael Bolton being
Michael Bolton. Hilarious. But yeah, T -Pain,
where they're sitting around at the beginning
of the video and they're sitting around eating
breakfast. And he's like, oh, hey, I just want
to cruise for me and my two of my closest friends.
Who are you taking? I'm taking you and. It's
like just randomly sitting there enjoying breakfast
cereal. Okay, perfect. He goes, word. That's
so great. Oh, that's so great. Wow. Where do
we go from? Wow. All right. 2013. We'll speed
it forward a little bit. I had taken a gig at
Fox at the time. And because of that fact and
the timing, you couldn't throw a stone in any
direction without hitting this song. It was everywhere.
And YouTube, I mean, most downloaded video on
YouTube for 2013. I know where you're going with
this. Yes. And it is the stupidest song ever
written. It really is. It can't get much worse
than Ylvis' The Fox. I love it. You know what
it is, Brian? It is our kid's version of bird
is the word. A hundred percent. And I'll say
this. I sent that video to my oldest's godfather
the first time I saw it because I couldn't breathe.
I was laughing so hard. And he responded saying,
I don't know if I should thank you or hate you
because it's stuck in my head. And I can't lie.
We've watched it five times in a row where it
was hypnotic. And here's the thing. At the time,
We went to the kindergarten dance, and guess
what the song of the night was? The Fox. And
these kids loved it. Of course it is. But guess
what? It was still on the radio. My parents thought
it was funny. This thing crossed generations.
It was so dumb, but it was so needed that generations,
kids to grandparents, laughed at this song. It
reached number six. On the U .S. Billboard Hot
100. That's bananas. Number 19 on the Canada
Hot 100. Number 17 on the U .K. Singles Chart.
Number 9 on the Australia Aria Chart. And it
was a number one hit in both South Korea and
Norway. This song, believe it or not, recently
came on in the car when I was with the whole
family. And I went to skip it and both my girls
said, Dad, what are you doing? They still think
it's funny. They still think it's funny 12 years
later. Absolutely. All right. I'm going to go
with one that I actually played them recently
because my youngest is in that age where butts
are funny. Brian butts are never not funny. I
was going to say, I think I'm still in the age
and I'm in my late forties, but I digress. We're
going to go back to 1999 for this one. And this
is one that you and I talked about. Back in our
radio days in the early 2000s. Because it kept
popping up in popular culture. Because Eminem
in 2000 released a song called The Real Slim
Shady. And in 2002 he released a song called
Without Me. And both songs interpolated this
1999 song from Tom Green. And I am going to go
with Lonely Swedish, The Bum Bum Song. The song
actually became a hit on MTV's total request
live or TRL as the kids remember it. However,
MTV actually pressured Tom green into retiring
the music video because newsflash TRL was not
always live. So they had already taped the following
week's episode and the producers had no idea
that the bum bum song. hit the week prior. So
they ignored it. So what happened was they just
retired the song as it hit number one so that
Tom could basically go on air and say, and I
quote, I'm retiring it because it's not fair
to 98 degrees. But believe it or not, the song
was on the ascent. And here we are 26 years later.
And there's documentaries going out about Tom
Green now. He's putting out stuff on Amazon.
And he's doing new specials. And this is part
of what made Tom Green a superstar at that time.
You don't get Freddy Got Fingered if the Lonely
Swedish Bum Bum song doesn't become a viral,
at the time, viral hit. It was viral prior to
the word actually meaning something. Absolutely.
And it's a toss up. Which one is more stupid,
the Fox or the Lonely Swedish? But holy cow.
I mean, these cultural phenomenon that just kind
of lightning in a bottle. I never meant for that
to happen. And now I had they called me from
MTV and said, listen, you got to retire the song.
And he's he's done a whole bit about it. And
it's it's fantastic. I love the song. And I love
when these moments happened because they happened
naturally. They happened because of the fact
that at the end of the day, the songs are funny.
Whether they're offensive or not, they're funny.
It could be stupid. It could be offensive. But
if enough people laugh, it becomes something
that gets shared and passed around. Nowadays,
it happens via, you know, a text or sharing it
on social media. But back in the late 90s, early
2000s, it was phone calls. It was reaching out
to your buddies. It was burning it onto a CD
and bringing it in your car. So, Jay, what do
you got for track nine? Wow. I want to go to
one of the greatest, highest overrated. That's
a new word. I just made it up. Highliest overrated
guitar player in musical history. And I don't
say that lightly, but. You wouldn't think of
it because every song this guy wrote was just
out there. Whether it be solo records or with
the Mothers of Invention, Frank Zappa is a huge
name. I mean, the entirety of Joe's Garage is
such an underground cult following record. With
some amazing, the entire second record of that
is just amazing guitar work. And Zappa wrote
some crazy stuff. And one of them was featured
on the Dr. Demento show as well as a whole movie
named after it. And that is Valley Girl. Nice.
From 1982's Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a
Drowning Witch. The song reached number 32 on
the U .S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 18 on
the Canada RPM top singles chart. I just want
to say this. Lyrically, Frank Zappa was very
much and dove in and out of novelty. However,
make no mistake, Frank Zappa was a musical genius.
No question. One of the greatest composers of
rock music. He did things. That were completely
unheard of in music, incorporating jazz and progressive.
And there are stories about him having the black
page one. And it was basically one of the hardest
drum compositions ever. And Terry Bozio, who
is a phenomenon on drums, talks about how complicated
this is. The guy is a goddamn genius for music.
And he just happens to have a twisted sense of
humor that plays out. in a novelty sense, but
make no mistake about it, take no respect away
from Frank Zappa's music. He was so good, he
could be funny and impressive simultaneously,
which doesn't happen often. That's right. And
this song featuring his daughter, Moon Unit Zappa,
was an actual, like he woke her up in the middle
of the night. That's according to the biography.
Woke her up in the middle of the night, took
her down to the recording studio to recreate
a conversation that she had had with some friends
in school. Right. And it was all the Valley girl
slang like, oh, for sure. Like totally the way
we all talked in the 80s. And then Terry Motormouth
Young, he's a DJ nightjack on Philadelphia's
WCAU FM. And this is one of those those radio
pranks that's like. Yeah, right. It's like when
you walk into a diner, you pump a bunch of quarters
into the jukebox and you hit the same song over
surfing bird, for example. This guy played that
song 10 times in a row. He got suspended for
it. So. We could go down a whole rabbit hole
with Zappa, but Zappa was very instrumental in
that whole PMRC thing too on Capitol Hill where
Tipper Gore and the parties were trying to pass
the parental advisory lyrics. That's where that
all came from. And Zappa was very vocal in DC
about that underpinning and about how that, that
led to a very, it could lead to a very difficult
slippery slope. yeah here we are yeah i mentioned
at the top of the show yeah i think they've taken
all the fun out of the creative part of it and
it's kind of the music has suffered a little
bit for it but zappa was he's a you're right
he's a genius he's a pioneer but the band in
and of itself and the musicality of frank zappa
the mothers of invention you can't overstate
the contribution that they've made to the music
industry not at all and i think to close out
Side A. I mean, there's no way musically to reach
the heights of Frank Zappa because he is one
of, like we said, one of the greatest musicians
ever. So instead of paying tribute to one of
the greatest musicians ever, we'll just pay tribute
to one of the greatest songs ever. Because even
though it's not the greatest song in the world,
it's just a tribute. 2001 Tenacious D. Did I
say tribute enough times? And while it didn't
chart in the U S it actually hit number one on
the UK rock and metal chart, number four in Australia
and number nine in New Zealand among others.
So once again, the U S gets it wrong because
tribute is a fantastic comedy song. And I'll
just be honest with you. I actually have it on
my two thousands playlist because at the end
of the day, even though it's funny, It's still
just a damn fun song. It's fun to play. It's
fun to sing. And it's a good song. I mean, Wonder
Boy or Tribute. I could have went either way,
but I think coming out of Frank Zappa, Tribute's
the way to go. No effort gently? Not on this.
I mean, you already, I figured you took care
of that without a medium pace. That's true. I
think you covered all the bases with that one.
The early 2000s on MTV were, we had some really,
good stuff come out of that. You had tenacious
D you had the flying, um, not the flying, the
flight of the Concords. I mean, the music out
of those fantastic. And you got tenacious D who
went on to do a couple of different movies. The
pick of destiny was great with Dave Grohl in
it. And, and meatloaf as his father, RJ Dio,
who, uh, who unfortunately, you know, passed
away, but what a great, you know, just speaking
live from the poster. It's so great. And again,
Stupid humor, dick and fart jokes all day long,
but funny. And again, it never stops being funny
because that's who we are. Well, there you have
it, mixtapers. Side A of the ultimate comedy
and novelty songs mixtape, which consists of
Ogden Edsel's Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun, Weird
Al Yankovic's Dare to Be Stupid, Sam Kinison's
Wild Thing, Green Jell -O's Three Little Pigs.
Adam Sandler's At a Medium Pace, The Lonely Island
featuring T -Pain's I'm on a Boat, Ylvis' The
Fox, Tom Green's Lonely Swedish, The Bum Bum
Song, Frank Zappa's Valley Girl, and Tenacious
D's Tribute. Head over to myweeklymixtape .com
to hear all the songs we've discussed in this
mix through the playlist embedded on the episode
page. And now, Jay, I get to kick things off
on side B, and I'm going to go with a song that...
Also harkens back to my high school and college
days, similar to the way Adam Sandler's. They're
all going to laugh at you did because these albums
came out in the same year. And I'm going to go
off of the 1993 album, no cure for cancer. And
I'm going to go with Dennis Leary's asshole.
Once again, it didn't chart in the U S because
the U S got it wrong, but it hit number 58 on
the UK singles chart. number 79 in Scotland,
number 22 in New Zealand, and number two in Australia.
I remember vividly, I was a huge fan of MTV Unplugged,
and we talked about this on the Unplugged episode
of My Weekly Mixtape, but Dennis Leary has an
episode of MTV Unplugged, and if you look it
up, it's really, really funny, and they do a
version of Asshole on it, and it's great. And
I mean, the song is getting a resurgence here
in 2025 because, Dennis Leary just performed
the song on Jimmy Fallon, which introduced it
to a whole new generation of TikTokers and Instagrammers
and YouTube short people because it went viral
again, like everything Jimmy Fallon does. That's
right. And they're realizing that a song that
is 32 years old is still funny. When I hear that
song, I am immediately back in the backseat of
my buddy Mike's grandma's oldsmobile and back
in the 80s and 90s general motors put out top
of the line audio systems like the bass was booming
that car with i mean we didn't need hydraulics
the bass was hitting in that car so hard but
i remember being in his gram was taking us somewhere
and he's like here pop this in and he put the
tape in and we're just everybody And we're just
cracking up. And his grandmother is just like,
oh, I don't know that I like that. So great.
I'm telling you, I got it. I got stories for
all of this stuff. Because again, these are Mike
and me and my friend Tim and Stan, Charlie. We
all grew up in this tight group all the way through
high school. We would listen to Dr. Demento every
week. And it was great. And that song, it just
brings you right back to that car. And I'm telling
you, his grandmother is great. She was a saint.
I was going to say, it's not the kind of song
I would normally think to play in front of my
grandmother. But, you know. You wouldn't think.
Folks, I'd like to sing a song about the American
dream. But instead of doing that, Jay, I'm going
to pass it back to you for track two. This one
comes from the sub cockles. Maybe even the cold.
So in middle school, my grandparents picked up
a summer home on the St. Lawrence River in Cape
Vincent, New York. And my uncle and my aunt had
just, I think they just got married or they were
about to get married. Timeline's a little jumbly,
but he had an eight track player and a bunch
of eight tracks. And one of those eight tracks
had a, uh, had a, uh, it was a novelty eight
track. It wasn't a Dr. Demento one, but it was,
it had a whole bunch, like it had nervous, nervous
on it. It had Ray Stevens on it, the streak,
which is fantastic song, but it also had a song
from Johnny Cash. And Johnny Cash did a couple
of Shel Silverstein songs, like the boy named
Sue, but he also wrote a song about this car
that he used to work at the factory at the. Cadillac
factory and he would bring home a piece of the
car at a time and he put the car together. And
at the end of the whole thing summed up with,
I would get all sorts of weird looks, you know,
as I drove it down the road, it was a 57, 58,
59, 63, like, but one piece at a time by Johnny
Cash, a song about his first car. And it hit
number 29 on the U .S. Billboard Hot 100. So
top 40 hit. Hit number 40 on Canada's top singles
chart and topped the country charts in both countries.
It also hit number 32 on the U .K. singles chart.
What I love about this song, Jay, is if you've
ever heard of the subgenre Psychobilly, meaning
groups like the Cramps, the Reverend Horton Heat,
and Tiger Army, that all comes from this song.
So you can thank Johnny Cash for the term psychobilly,
which I love. I think that's great. Well, we
have so much to thank the man in black for. And
I think that's just one beautiful thing about
it. Well, I think to follow that up, I'm going
to stay in this country vibe here and go with
another country song. And I'm going to give a
little bit of a hat tip to our friends up in
the great white north as this group hailed from
Alberta, Canada. And I'm going to go off their
1980 album, Welcome to the Rodeo. Now, this is
kind of a deeper cut, but I'm going to go with
Gary Lee and Showdown's The Rodeo Song. 13 years
later, due to extensive airplay on BBC Radio,
this song actually charted and hit number 43
on the UK singles chart. But the reason I am
familiar with this song is every time, and I
don't know if this is just a regional New Jersey
thing. But every time I have ever been to karaoke,
the rodeo song is played. And the rodeo song
is one of those songs that you might not think
you know it, but you might actually know it.
Well, it's 40 below and I don't give a, got a
heater in my truck and I'm off to the rodeo.
And for some reason, every single time I went
to karaoke, this song got played. It's just a
silly, funny. offensive country song that for
some reason, if you, I'm curious, it's been a
long stretch since I've done karaoke in New Jersey.
I'd be curious if this is still getting the airplay.
It did back when I would do karaoke all the time.
I don't think I've ever heard this song at a
karaoke. I've heard it at a couple of bars. Really?
But not karaoke. I don't think I've ever heard
of anybody karaoke in New Jersey. Maybe it's
a New Jersey thing. I don't know. It might be.
Yeah. Again, he has a potty mouth, very potty
mouth. Yeah. We're not going to talk about the
lyrics here. No, no, I don't think I like that.
Um, was this ever on Dr. Demento? It was part
of Dr. Demento as it was featured on the Demento's
mementos album in 1982. Ah, very nice. All right.
All right. The only difference, if my childhood
memory serves me correctly, is that this version
had beeps on it. And if you get the actual original
version from Gary Lee and Showdown, you get the
uncensored version, which is probably what more
people are looking for anyway. But I digress.
Well, let's see. Let's go back to Saturday Night
Live. And no, I'm not going to go with Wayne's
World. This actually, when I say the artist's
name, again is one of the brightest spots of,
of standup comedy. Steve Martin, one of the most
prolific comedic actors in the eighties and early
nineties, just great, great stuff. And he wrote
a song called King Tut. Yes. It's a song born
in Babylonia, moved to Arizona, King Tut. So.
That is, he's my favorite honky. So great. But
he had a whole dance with it and everything.
Very, very funny guy. Steve Martin is a very,
very good funny guy. He's also a wild and crazy
guy, which is the name of the album that came
from. That's right. And it was performed by the
Toot Uncommons, otherwise known at the time as
members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Oh, no
kitten. I'll see that. I didn't know. Yes, it
was part of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band performed
the song. It reached number 17 on the U .S. Billboard
Hot 100, number 23 on the Canada Top Singles
chart. If you want to hear a fantastic version
of it, in 2011, Steve Martin put out an album.
It was a bluegrass album by Steve Martin and
the Steep Canyon Rangers. It's called Rare Bird
Alert. It also features guest spots by Paul McCartney
and the Chicks. However, the album closes with
a bluegrass version of King Tut. And it's incredible.
Incredible. Oh, that's fantastic. I will be checking
that out for sure. All right. So we're going
to veer out of country because I even brought
another bluegrass reference there. And we're
going to come up a couple decades. We're going
to go to the 1990s because I think at least over
the last 25. nearly 30 years and change, you
really can't talk about comedy and not bring
up South Park in some aspect. So I'm going to
go to a song that was originally featured on
the show, but then was released in 1998 for the
Chef Aid, the South Park album. And I'm going
to go with Isaac Hayes, Chocolate Salty Balls,
P .S. I Love You. This song reached number one
on the UK singles chart. And it also claimed
the top spot in Scotland and Ireland. It also
hit number 14 in Australia. But once again, the
U .S. showing that it had no sense of humor.
It did not chart here. But a fun fact about the
hysterical song, the song and the album as a
whole was produced by Rick Rubin. Wait a minute.
What's this man? I mean, look, the fact that
they were able to get Isaac Hayes, because Isaac
Hayes is a serious artist. The fact that they
were able to get him because he performs the
song as serious as he would any other Isaac Hayes
song. And I think that's what's so funny about
it. There is zero comedic tone in Isaac's voice.
He delivered that as if it was any Isaac Hayes
song. And I think that's the brilliance of why
it's so damn funny. Absolutely. He doesn't play
to the laugh at all. No. And you could have gone
with the chef aid album. You could have gone
in any different direction because was it now
is the time for making love with Meredith Baxter,
Bernie? Yes. And then he has, uh, the, is that
the one with meatloaf where meatloaf starts going
off on the Jim Steinman? Like, and he goes, That's
not what we're talking about, man. We're just
talking about making love with Meredith Baxter
Booney. So great. So great. I think, you know,
unfortunately, the way that that relationship
soured between Isaac Hayes and Trey and Matt
is a very, very sad kind of a, you know, fallout
and how they kind of wrote Chef out while funny
was kind of, oh, oh. You guys were cool for like
15 years at that point. It's a shame because
they made some hysterically funny moments throughout
the show and in song, obviously. That's right.
All right. So that's a hard one to come out of.
All right. Let's go back to some stand -up comedy.
And another fantastic comedic actor who also
was briefly with Saturday Night Live, if I'm
not mistaken. And see, a lot of these comedy
people I heard. So I don't know if you know,
Brian, Richard Marks has a podcast. He just started
up and stories to tell. Giving him a shout out
with if you want to sponsor this, feel free to
contact Brian. No, but he had Chelsea Peretti
on. From Brooklyn Nine -Nine. She's a stand -up
comic. And she made a comment about, they were
talking back and forth about performing on stage.
And she said, you know, I think that musicians
want to be funny. And comics want to be rock
stars, right? Stand -up comics want to be rock
stars. And so there's a lot of overlap in those
two kind of sub -genres of the entertainment
field. And I think that when we talk about someone
like a Sam Kinison or a Dennis Leary or Steve
Martin and this artist, you kind of see that.
Where Billy Crystal had a song called You Look
Marvelous. Based on a character that he did on
Saturday Night Live called Fernando, right? And
don't be a schnook. It's not how you feel. It's
how you look. And darling, let me tell you, you
look marvelous. And that is my middle of the
pack for Side B. Just looking into your eyes,
darling, I can tell you have the legs of a dancer.
I mean, this song is basically it's a skit put
to music and it works so well. And I'm not going
to lie. I, as soon as you said that song, I knew
exactly where I was going because it's the exact
same style of comedy. It is this person's standup
routine just put to music. And it happened two
years earlier. Although this guy was not on Saturday
night live. I think he's hosted, but he was never
on as a cast member. And I am going to go off
of the album of the same name, 1983. Rodney Dangerfield
rapping Rodney. Very nice. Written by J .B. Moore
and Robert Ford Jr., who were the same songwriters
who worked on The Breaks with Curtis Blow. This
was basically a rap song where Rodney Dangerfield
did his stand -up routine and made it rhyme.
And it worked. It hit number 83 on the U .S.
Billboard Hot 100 and earned him a Grammy nomination
for Best Comedy Recording. I had this on cassette.
probably wore this damn thing out because I thought
it was the funniest frigging song I'd ever heard
in my life. And I actually have it on CD. Now
rapping Rodney is not on CD. However, Rodney
put out an album of all love songs, like a serious
album. What? Yeah, dude, it came out in 2005
and it's called Romeo Rodney. And it's actually
kind of a serious album. All right. I mean, He
does strangers in the night. He does fools rush
in. He does. They say you're laughing at me,
but at the end they plugged rap and Rodney on
at the end. So I had to have a copy of it. Oh,
that's hysterical. Awesome. And I still love
it to this day. Oh, that's so good. Again, it's,
it's the eighties. Everyone was on cocaine and
the movies were reflective of that caddy shack
and back to school. Oh God. What, what was it?
Easy money. Easy money. That's the one I was
thinking of. He's fantastic. I don't get no respect.
He's so great. And the delivery, it's all about
the delivery and the frenetic energy that he
brought to the stage. And it was just, it was
great. Yes, and a delivery, which unfortunately
you did not have in that impression. I did not.
That was terrible. Terrible, sorry. So Jay, what
are you going to follow up Robin Rodney with?
All right. So I talked to, we've done some standup
comics who crossed over into music as well. And
this kind of was a thing that happened with radio
stars as well, who also were actors in a lot
of cases and also did some music. And in fact,
this is is a double whammy. So we talk a little
bit about Casey Kasem and he was a radio DJ,
but he was also the host of America Top 40 and
then went on to the weekly Top 40. But he was
also a cartoon voice for so many cartoons. Scooby
Doo being. the biggest, Transformers. He was
the voice of Cliffjumper in Transformers. He
was also Robin in the Justice League, Super Friends
in the Justice League. But when he stopped doing
America's Top 40, then Rick Dees took it over.
And Rick Dees wrote a song in 1976 called Disco
Duck because disco is so popular that he just
wrote this goofy, awful, terrible, horrendously
fabulous, funny song. So that's where I'm going
to come out of Rodney Dangerfield with Rick Dees.
I'm going to kill you. That was, you totally
scooped my last song pick of the night. Reach
number one on the US Billboard Hot 100, as well
as the top spot in Canada. It also hit number
six on the UK charts and number four in Australia,
among others. I had this 45 growing up. I honestly
thought it was Donald Duck as a kid. And I thought
this was the Donald Duck dance song. And I thought
it was the greatest thing in the world. Yeah.
Before we had the barking dog singing jingle
bells, we had Disco Duck. And as bad as, oh God,
the song was great. I'm sure I'm part of the
reason. Absolutely. It was number one. Absolutely.
I remember Z100 did something called the jukebox
from hell. And it was always like they always
put the worst songs ever. And they always would
include Disco Duck in there. I'm like, come on.
This song is great. I love Disco Duck. It's like,
but people who think that We Built This City
is the worst song ever. Stop. Oh, they're wrong.
Get the hell out of here. I love that song. Get
out. Unapologetically. Plus, it was in the Muppets
2011 movie as a montage. Hell yes. So there will
be zero We Built This City hate on my weekly
mixtape. But dude. Oh man, you're killing me.
Now I got to go through this list. Man, you suck.
Cause I got to close out with something else
now. All right. We talked about some of the songs
that have like a, they're funny, but they also
just are awesome on top of being funny. I'm going
to go with a song to close out. That is so awesome.
It's been covered by corn scatterbrain. the Rollins
Band, Soundgarden. Wow. And the two live crews
sampled it for Dirty Nursery Rhymes on As Nasty
As They Wanna Be off of their 1974 album, Cheech
and Chong's Wedding Album, Earache My Eye. There
you go. Reached number nine on the US Billboard
Hot 100, number 26 in Australia. I mean, let's
be honest. The song is funny and it's stupid,
but... It kind of rocks. I mean, at the end of
the day, the song's awesome. That's another one
of those artists, Cheech and Chong, who late
70s, early 80s movies were, I mean, just hilariously
stupid funny. And they did the comedy record
bits, right? They did Sister Mary Elephant and
Dave's Not Here. And then, of course, you've
got Eric Maia where they come out on stage at
the school and they do the whole song. It is
just... The reaction is, oh, this is ridiculously
stupid. These two stoners are just going off
on the school. It's great. It's perfect. Yeah,
I love, love, love Up in Smoke. It's a classic
70s comedy. All right, you get to take us home,
man. We've got 19 funny songs. What is the 20th?
I'm sure that there are people who are screaming
at their car stereos right now or their Spotify.
Because we could go in a hundred million different
directions. I mentioned great artists like Nervous
Norvis and Kipler and Tom T -Bone Stankus from
the Dr. Demento show talking about, you know,
we really didn't add any Tom Lehrer stuff in
there. We have a volume two. Let's just be honest.
We definitely have a volume two here. And even
Ray Stevens with The Streak, which is just, again,
it's one of those. It's criminal we didn't make
it. I apologize right now. I am sorry. Yes. I'm
just going to say it because by the tone of your
voice, you're not going to go with it. No, I'm
actually going to go. I'm going to our neighbors
to the north. And in fact, we're going to take
off to the great white north with Bob and Doug
McKenzie featuring Geddy Lee of Rush. Hilarious.
I mean, there's another one of those Second City
Television. Joe Flaherty and Rick Moranis' characters
created a great movie with Strange Brew. Just
a stupid movie, and it's so funny. And that song
is fantastically funny. They did the 12 Days
of Christmas Canadian style. And a beer? It feels
like something else had to be in there, right?
To just kind of fill it out, right? Take off,
eh? It's great. It's excellent. From 1981's The
Great White North, reach number 16 on the Billboard
US Hot 100 singles chart. And Jay, I'm about
to blow your mind here. Take Off reached five
spots higher than Rush's highest ever US charting
song, New World Man. On one hand, I'm not. How
in this world does that happen? I'm thinking
it has something to do with different genres,
but. that is criminal right i mean i love take
off don't get me wrong but i mean the fact that
that charted higher than any rush song ever blows
my mind but it also unsurprisingly hit number
one on canada's chum charts so at least that
makes perfect sense yes but with that mixtapers
We conclude side B of the ultimate comedy and
novelty songs mixtape, which consists of Dennis
Leary's Asshole, Johnny Cash's One Piece at a
Time, Gary Lee and Showdown's The Rodeo Song,
Steve Martin's King Tut, Isaac Hayes' Chocolate
Salty Balls, P .S. I Love You, Billy Crystal's
You Look Marvelous, Rodney Dangerfield's Rappin'
Rodney, Rick D's Disco Duck, Cheech and Chong's
Earache My Eye, and Bob and Doug McKenzie featuring
the incredible Geddy Lee, Take Off. Head over
to myweeklymixtape .com to hear all the songs
we've discussed in this mix through the playlist
embedded on the episode page. Well, Jay, this
has been a hysterically fun episode. Thank you
so much for joining me again on My Weekly Mixtape,
and I look forward... to our volume two on this,
because at the end of the day, we could all always
use a good laugh. I call the streak. I think
we got to start with that. I think the next one,
you have to start with that or else you gotta.
Yeah, for sure. All right. So we'll, as people
remember from the two styles days, put a pin
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