HIlarious Male Songs?
HIlarious Male Songs?
RyRoth
Swing Joined: 8/5/12
#1HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 5:26am
Hi! I'm competing in an acting competition this year, and I need a drop-dead hilarious song to perform. It doesn't necessarily need to be from a musical, it can be something from a song cycle or just written in a contemporary musical theatre style. Most importantly, it needs to be FUNNY, and, if possible, have some great belty moments. Songs such as "To Excess" by Kooman and Dimond or "Contemporary Musical Theatre Song" by Andrew Byrne are good examples of what I'm looking for (I've already used both, just FYI). Also, it's high school, so songs such as "The Sensitive Song" or "Wall Lovin'" won't work. It can be a little inappropriate if it makes it funny, it just can't the whole focus of the song. I know this is really specific, but if anyone can think of something I could use I would really appreciate it!
Updated On: 8/5/12 at 05:26 AM
#2HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 7:44am
Make 'Em Laugh from Singin' In The Rain (or wrong kind of humour?)
or
Painting By Heart from Betty Blue Eyes.
#2HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 7:54am"Mama Says" from Footloose. It is a belty song and the audience loves it. :)
Musicaldudepeter
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/18/10
Liz7
Understudy Joined: 9/1/09
Nettik
Featured Actor Joined: 6/4/10
#5HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 2:49pm
If you weren't concerned about the appropriateness of the piece, the first song that came to mind was "Chip's Lament" from Spelling Bee.
I second "Mama Says" from Footloose.
A few other suggestions would be:
"The Schmuel Song" from The Last Five Years (though it's a bit seasonal)
"Grow for Me" from Little Shop of Horrors
"Alone at the Drive-In Movie" from Grease
"Les Poissons" from The Little Mermaid
bwaylvsong
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/28/05
#6HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 3:46pmOr, you can do a pop song that's totally inappropriate for your type- for example, I've been toying with adding "She Bangs" by Ricky Martin to my book.
Skip2
Featured Actor Joined: 12/17/04
#7HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 3:58pm
There's always "I Really Really Love You":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zMlU0xCzHE
Inigomontoya
Featured Actor Joined: 6/24/07
#9HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 4:44pm
To Excess is my favorite stalker song(if we already talked about "I really, really love you)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iq7j2setNYU
Writing by the super talented Michael Kooman and Christopher Dimond
Be sure to check all the songs they written, they have tons of great ones.
Another great song:
The name of the song is "I'm gonna like this play" and you sing it as if you are Abe Lincoln
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcTDq54-Lk
#10HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 5:15pm
Have you considered "Way Ahead of My Time" (a.k.a. The Caveman Song) from "The Taxi Cabaret" by Pete Mills?
Bryan Batt: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhpyQst780
Additional audio and sheet music available from http://www.pcmills.com
#11HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 7:37pm
Many comedic songs rely on a surprise twist or revelation in the lyrics. They can be funny if the audience doesn't already know the song--the problem is most auditioners have heard them all.
Remember, funny lyrics don't mean a funny performance. It's much more important that your performance is funny and shows off your particular sense of humor. Most cabaret specialty songs were written with a particular performer in mind. What works for them might not work for you. You have to be a pretty funny person to begin with to make "Taylor the Latte Boy" funny. You get real laughs when you take your audience by surprise; you get polite laughs when you sing a joke lyric.
I think the best comic song auditions involve a not-necessarily-funny song performed in a new context that makes it funny. That way it's yours alone. I knew an actress in her 40s who used to do a well-known, peppy ingenue song as a jaded, tired 40-something, leaning on the piano with a cigarette hanging out of her mouth. She killed every time because no one expected it, and she got a few big jobs with that song. It was more risky than singing "Adelaide's Lament" but who wants to hire an actor who doesn't take risks?
Break a leg!
#12HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 8:00pmIf you've got the voice, I saw a student win such a competition with "C'est Moi" from CAMELOT. It's very funny in a way that won't offend anybody at a high school.
#13HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 8:36pmI'm forgetting that this is high school we're talking about! Much of my post really applies on a more advanced level, but I still think that how you do it is more important than how funny the lyrics are.
#14HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/5/12 at 8:43pm
"Man Up" or "I Believe" from Book of Mormon.
"Agony" from Into the Woods.
"Anybody that goes to the theater, I think we’re all misfits, so we ended up on stage or in the audience.” --- Patti LuPone.
#15HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/6/12 at 12:52am"The Legacy" from ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY is great fun.
#16HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/6/12 at 12:57amExplore some of the songs in CLOSER THAN EVER especially "What AM I Doing?"
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
#17HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/6/12 at 9:25am
"Natasha" from A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine has funny lyrics and gives the singer a chance to clown around a bit.
Also -- not sure what style exactly you are going for - but I have had success in the past with "Where is the Life that Late I Led" from Kiss Me, Kate.
"You pile up enough tomorrows, and you'll find you are left with nothing but a lot of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering." --Harold Hill from The Music Man
Updated On: 8/6/12 at 09:25 AM
ErinDillyFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/14/06
#18HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 8/6/12 at 1:51pm
"I'm Not That Smart" from Spelling Bee
"My unfortunate Erection" from Spelling Bee
"Confession To A Park Avenue Mother" from Parade (Jerry Herman)
"Son Be A Dentist" from Little Shop of Horrors
"The Brain" from Young Frankenstein
"Plant A Radish" from The Fantasticks (this is a duet, but I think could be sung as a solo)
Some folk/pop tunes that are funny and may met your requirements.
"Elderly Man River" by Stan Freberg
"When Did We Have Saurkraut" by Lou & Peter Berryman
"Don't Use The F-Word With Your Mother" by Lou & Peter Berryman
"My Baby Loves A Bunch of Authors" by Moxy Fruvous
Updated On: 8/6/12 at 01:51 PM
henrikegerman
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/29/05
#20HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 9/2/17 at 10:42am
not at all sure these all rise to "hilarious" but FYC...
much of the scores of Howard Crabtree's WHOOP-DEE-DOO and WHEN PIGS FLY
Those Were the Good Old Days from DAMN YANKEES
Was I Wazir? from KISMET
Where Is the Life that Late I Led from KISS ME, KATE
I Don't Remember Christmas from STARTING HERE STARTING NOW
In Praise of Women from A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC
Why Can't a Woman? from MY FAIR LADY
I Feel Like I'm 90 Again from TWO BY TWO
The Butler's Song from SO LONG 174th St.
and if you are an expert (don't try it otherwise!( tongue twister with crackerjack diction, nothing can probably beat Tchaikovsky from LADY IN THE DARK
#21HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 9/2/17 at 11:42pm
Tho this might be a little too adult for high school, it's still funny. By the way, I was in the audience when Bryan Batt sang "Way Ahead of My Time: The Caveman Song." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uhpyQst780
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'" (Beatrice Lillie)
@z5
Broadway Legend Joined: 11/30/15
#22HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 9/2/17 at 11:43pm
I DON'T UNDERSTAND THE POOR -- A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Jefferson Mays.
#23HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 9/3/17 at 12:25pm
The king of Broadway
We can do it
To seek revenge may lead to hell yet everyone does it but seldom as well......
#24HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 11/2/17 at 11:46pm
Bumping this because I am in need of something truly hilarious, laugh out loud funny to use. Not just a chuckle-to-yourself kind of song, but something even irreverent or whatever. Open to songs from shows or stand alone new MT songs. Thank you!
#25HIlarious Male Songs?
Posted: 11/3/17 at 10:27am
TimesSquared said: "I'm forgetting that this is high school we're talking about! Much of my post really applies on a more advanced level, but I still think that how you do it is more important than how funny the lyrics are."
I wasn't correcting you, TS, but even the most clever lyric can kill, land or flop--depending on how it is delivered.
Some other possibilities for young men:
"And Her Mother Came, Too"
"Making Whoopee"
"It's Delightful, It's Delicious, It's Delovely"
"Franklin Shepherd, Inc."
"Let's Misbehave"
"The Country's in the Very Best of Hands"
"Everything's Up to Date in Kansas City"
And many, many others.
