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I've decided that my performances will be more entertaining with a few funny songs. For example, I'm planning on doing this one:



and a jazz version of this one:



Any ideas of tunes that are funny or amusing and not too difficult to sing?

Fats Waller - Your Feet's Too Big

Cathy

Makin' Whoopee
Twisted
Safe, Sane and Single (Louis Jordan)
Don't Touch My Hat (Lyle Lovett)

If you want amusing songs, you should look at musical comedies.
How Much I Love You and The Trouble With Women from One Touch of Venus have great lyrics by Ogden Nash, his only adventure into lyric writing. Cole Porter had a good sense of humor: Never Be an Artist, I Hate Men, Brush Up Your Shakespeare. So did Bernstein: Officer Krupke, The Wrong Note Rag, Ohio, Let's Go to My Place.

Some songs are amusing when you hear the verse. I Guess I'll have to Change My Plans is really funny when you hear that the entire love affair was over before the singer even meets the girl. It makes me think of Bob Hope, who had The Road to Morocco and Buttons and Bows.

You have to know your audience to do Was I Drunk, Was He Handsome, and Did My Ma Give Me...

I'll Be Glad When You're Dead You Rascal You (Louis Armstrong)

Al,

There's a great bit called "Prinderella and Cince" that's hilarious - just google it. It's a storytelling of all spoonerisms accompanied by your piano. The best part, I think, was at the "moke of stridnight, when Prinderella slopped her dripper". Give it a try! Good luck!

Also, look up "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" . . .

Ira Gershwin and Kurt Weill wrote a song in spoonerisms for The Firebrand of Florence. I think the last lines were:
He: And so I offer wedless bliss.
She: I'd rather it were bedless wiss!

Look into Andy Razaf's lyrics, too. My Handyman had a sequel: My Handyman Ain't Handy No More. Ruth Brown did a great song, If I Can't Sell It about a chair, of course. I think that is Andy Razaf, too. Mr. Christopher Columbus certainly is.

Save the Bones for Henry Jones!..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2eusOFmOg8

Save the Bones -- that's the kind of thing I'm looking for.

The Handyman song is great, and so is the Chair song, but I don't think those are going to work for a guy singer.

One of the funniest songs ever written: I Crept Into the Crypt (Liz Anderson)

The lyrics on the page I linked to have a couple of errors.

You might check out some Mose Allison songs, e.g., Your Mind Is on Vacation (and Your Mouth Is Working Overtime), Somebody Gonna Have to Move, Your Molecular Structure, etc.

John Prine "In Spite of Ourselves"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5axlwCBXC8

It's a bit risque but funny. I saw John at a Portland Zoo concert a couple years back after he had recovered from throat cancer. His voice is still the same.

Y-y-y-you you tell her, cuz
I-I-I-I-I I stutter so;

There were a bunch of stutter songs around this time, including the more famous K-k-k-katy, beautiful Katie, etc.

"Let's Do It" by Cole Porter was risque-funny back in the day. Dave Frishberg's "I'm Hip" was a nice poke at the faux beatniks.

Err..

Don't forget the classic, "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park," by Tom Lehrer.

Actually, don't forget ANY song by Tom Lehrer. They'll all fit what you want to do.

How about Lydia the Tattooed Lady; I'm Lonely In My Saddle Since My Horse Died; Don't Pick Your Nose When the Next Car Comes (the hitch hiking song); I Don't Care if it Rains or Freezes, I am Safe With my Plastic Jesus, Riding on the Dashboard of My Car (I think the title might just be titled Plastic Jesus); The All Night Laundromat Blues; Drop Kick me Jesus Through the Goal Posts of Life; and last but not least, May the Bird of Paradise Fly Up Your Nose.