You're listening to Nakedly Examine Music, a podcast about songs and songwriters.

My name is Mark Linsonmeyer.

This is a discussion episode where I bring back some familiar guests to talk about a topic in music.

And today the topic is humor in music.

You're right now, as I am speaking, hearing a song by one of my three guests, Don Ralph, from the band

Life in a Blender. I interviewed him for episode 139, and pretty much all of his lyrics are funny.

You will also hear from another singer-songwriter, David Heatley, perhaps better known as an

animator. And in fact, I have not yet had him on this podcast,

but I did bring him on for the discussion of Peanuts,

as in Charlie Brown for Pretty Much Pop.

That's Pretty Much Pop.

Episode 116.

Finally, you will hear from Dave Dawson,

aka Diggy Dawson,

the author most recently of Pop Idol, ID-L-E, 30 years on the road as a professional

singer, but I spoke to him on pretty much Pop, episode 142 from 2023, about his books attributed to

Dave Philpott and his father Derek Philpott, such as Dear Mr. Kershaw and Dear Mr. Popstar,

where they would write letters to rock and roll stars, purposely misunderstanding the content of their lyrics,

and they would get these pop stars to reply and include those replies in the book. So it is very funny.

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patreon.com slash nakedly examined music. Either way, you will find links to the material by these

guests, and I will link to some of the particular songs and artists we

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