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Comedy groups that are actually brilliant.

Started by bgmnts, August 07, 2019, 03:11:02 PM

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Sebastian Cobb

Quote from: NoSleep on August 15, 2019, 04:44:35 PM
I thought The Beastie Boys were a comedy group to begin with, especially the Cooky Puss EP and the second track on their Rock Hard 12", Party's Getting Rough (where they have an Alvin & The Chipmunks style argument with the producer halfway through).

I think they're fine to go in here. Basically some children from brooklyn who built a career out of pissing about and not taking themselves seriously, yet also managed to become musical polymaths and a respected hiphop group in the process.

Famous Mortimer

Quote from: alan nagsworth on August 16, 2019, 07:17:45 PM
Continuing from my establishing Ween as not being a comedy group, Dean Ween's side project Moistboyz definitely were a comedy group. The same blunt shtick fisted into every song: dumb, macho dick rock. It's great just how many fun ballsy riffs and amusingly aggressive lyrics they managed to flog out of that gimmick as well; five albums is a pretty good run, considering if you like some of it you'll probably like all of it. I can usually stomach about two of their albums in one sitting, and I usually hate that sort of one-note crap.
I just looked at the first available video ("Paperboy") and it was good, but I'm not sure of the comic legs of anti-Semitism and "porch monkey" references. Perhaps it makes more sense if I hear more of their stuff.

Sin Agog

The Fugs & The Holy Modal Rounders are two of my favourite bands, and two of the funniest.  Michael Hurley's parta the same sorta scene and he's a dry funny fucker n all.

studpuppet

Goldie Lookin' Chain are actually brilliant, and added to that, their lyrics and samples are always on point as well.
(Someone in the Glastonbury thread described Wu-Tang Clan as the US Goldie Lookin' Chain which made me laugh; maybe they should be in here too.)

The Badboy Limp

alan nagsworth

Weirdly enough I was listening to GLC just last night. They really are great. I bloody love "The Maggot"; the jaunty fiddle they sampled for the beat fully enhances the humour of the song.

"Like Sherlock Holmes bummin' Watson, it's elementary!"

studpuppet

There's also this:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/rap-on-the-knuckles-for-band-that-said-posh-was-a-nutter-505822.html

Love the Independent going into detail about the lyrics.

QuoteThe song describes a "gammy-eyed" woman "mad like cat's piss" who is besieging a poor unsuspecting rapper with 40 phone calls a day. She is a "pussy whipper" who "looks like Caprice" but is fond of "wrestling two police".

Able to "kill a man with her thighs" she is renowned for "flashing her bits" at nightclub bouncers. That is when she is not lobbing ashtrays at members of the bar staff.

Gurke and Hare


Quote from: Famous Mortimer on August 14, 2019, 01:11:09 AM
Eeh, this brings back many a memory. Mostly of teen me in my bedroom playing it, but still.

Blimey, they were on Top Of The Pops!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG79-FSQ7hQ

I loved Pump up the Bitter at the time.

Quote from: alan nagsworth on August 17, 2019, 06:17:43 PM
Weirdly enough I was listening to GLC just last night. They really are great. I bloody love "The Maggot"; the jaunty fiddle they sampled for the beat fully enhances the humour of the song.

"Like Sherlock Holmes bummin' Watson, it's elementary!"

Anyone seen Si Spex/Barry Beats on Youtube? The guy's a talented sampler/producer from Cornwall, I'm not sure to what extent he's even playing a character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ01O7IAN5Y

NoSleep

I know Simon and that's definitely an act, although the tuition is real.

Quote from: NoSleep on August 18, 2019, 06:46:26 PM
I know Simon and that's definitely an act, although the tuition is real.

What's he like? In my head I have his personality as similar to the videos, but the clothes/look as the act.

I've watched the tuition videos several times over, he's very interesting.


NoSleep

He's a nice chap like Barry Beats but without the nerdy dad aspect.

flotemysost

Quote from: studpuppet on August 17, 2019, 06:10:27 PM
Goldie Lookin' Chain are actually brilliant, and added to that, their lyrics and samples are always on point as well.
(Someone in the Glastonbury thread described Wu-Tang Clan as the US Goldie Lookin' Chain which made me laugh; maybe they should be in here too.)

The Badboy Limp

Yeah I've got fond memories of GLC, I think they started getting airplay/mentioned around the time my friends and I first started going to festivals, hence lots of us yelling 'YER MISSUS IS A NUTTER!' at each other pissed up on Strongbow.

Also used to enjoy this one, Half Man Half Machine https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3FA8SYAHEfc

I used to have Maggot's number on my phone - this was a few years later, they played at a student night and I spoke to him for a bit before throwing up everywhere and being kicked out (me, not him). Happier times.

the ouch cube

The Frogs, particularly the "My Daughter, The Broad" record

Dr Trouser

Have we mentioned Steel Panther?

As a lad brought up on 80s big hair metal they are very good musically, but not to everyone's taste I guess.

NoSleep

The Jimi Hendrix Experience were pretty damn good aside from their comedy output (EXP & The Stars The Play With Laughing Sam's Dice).

kidsick5000

Quote from: up_the_hampipe on August 08, 2019, 09:47:48 AM
Most likely.

Lots of the songs they did for Popstar were pretty hilarious, such as:
Equal Rights https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh07WlB46Gw
Finest Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr9Kaa1sycs
Fuck Off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jKtjgRZQY
Mona Lisa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dh2Lky730q0

I'm surprised they didn't include Fuck Off in the main film.
They are a talented bunch that Lonely Island

hummingofevil

Quote from: Better Midlands on August 18, 2019, 06:17:55 PM
Anyone seen Si Spex/Barry Beats on Youtube? The guy's a talented sampler/producer from Cornwall, I'm not sure to what extent he's even playing a character.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ01O7IAN5Y

Sorry to derail the thread but that sent me to this which is mesmerising. Just a guy paying bassists to play stuff for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzb15p8hWd0

This is his channel. See you on the other side.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgFvT6pUq9HLOvKBYERzXSQ



Pauline Walnuts

Don't Let the Bells End by the Darkness is as good as a Christmas Song since the Glam Rockers were on the Scene.

The Beardyman live streams on YouTube are very entertaining, both comically and musically

https://youtu.be/6gW4gqY7M-w