The funniest songs of all time

All Songs Considered

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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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"Weird Al" Yankovic helps curate a mix of some of the funniest songs of all time, from classics like Tom Lehrer's "The Elements," to more fringe discoveries from The Hazzards, Tonio K. and more.

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0:00.0	From NPR Music, It's All Songs Considered.
0:01.9	I'm Robin Hilton.
0:03.3	If you have spent any amount of time following the news
0:06.3	in recent weeks, you probably have a case of whiplash
0:09.7	from just trying to keep up with everything that's been going on in the world
0:13.9	because it has been a lot. So this week on the show we thought you know we could
0:18.9	all use a good laugh so let's play a mix of some of the funniest music of all time and we thought who better to guide us through these songs than We're Dow Yankovic
0:30.0	Right, right. Also to a much lesser extent Stephen Thompson from NPR Music, as always.
0:38.0	Robin, you know it's always a pleasure. So, um, I thought we would begin with a question.
0:43.0	Sure.
0:44.0	Assuming for the moment that comedy, and this is perhaps in a Miltonian sense, is the ironic discrepancy
0:48.8	between what is expected and what is delivered, could we safely conclude that Thomas Hobbs and his
0:55.7	masterwork Leviathan or perhaps even Descartes treat his passions of the soul were
1:00.5	they perhaps misguided in concluding that laughter was a sign of Pusladanimity?
1:05.0	When so much of it is out of our control, Stephen, we'll start with you.
1:08.0	I'm just sitting here thinking, I'm so glad he's doing this with that out and not me.
1:15.0	Totally kidding.
1:18.0	I have...
1:20.0	No, I appreciate the degree you leaned into what people think of when they think of NPR.
1:25.0	Yes, I left out all the assides.
1:28.0	And your passions of the soul, Descartes, treaties.
1:32.0	No, I'm totally kidding.
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