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Comedy singers and musicians have entertained audiences with clever and hilarious song lyrics for decades.

Songs performed by comedic artists sometimes contain original lyrics and music. And other times, the artist might borrow the music from a well-known song and write parody lyrics to create a comedic song.

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Back in the 1950s and ’60s, musician, singer, songwriter, satirist, and mathematician Tom Lehrer, now 97, entertained a more cerebral crowd on his piano.

You might find a YouTube video out there somewhere of him performing one of his songs about math or his classic song, “Poisoning Pigeons in the Park.”

Comedian Allan Sherman had a huge hit in 1963 with his comedy song “Hello Muddah, Hello Fadduh (A Letter From Camp),” which won a Grammy Award and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The next year, during Beatlemania, Sherman had another humorous novelty song, “Pop Hates The Beatles,” sung to the tune of “Pop Goes the Weasel.”

Legendary rock star had a novelty hit song

Rock and roll legend Chuck Berry, who wrote and performed some of the most influential rock songs ever like “Johnny B. Goode,” “Sweet Little Sixteen,” and “Rock and Roll Music” in the 1950s, had his only No. 1 hit with a novelty song, “My Ding-A-Ling” in 1972.

In the 1960s, Ray Stevens had some hit novelty songs like “Ahab, The Arab” and “Guitarzan,” before hitting No. 1 in May 1974 with his biggest hit, “The Streak.”

Comic actor Martin Mull, who passed away in June 2024, recorded seven comedy music albums with original music and lyrics from 1972 to 1979.

After performing his act in clubs for several years, Mull got his break on the Norman Lear series “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” in 1976 and its spin-offs “Fernwood 2 Night” in 1977 and “America 2 Night” in 1978, in which he played talk show host Barth Gimble.

As the 1980s began, Mull stepped away from recording albums, but still performed live concerts at clubs and on the college circuit, as this writer witnessed.

Mull began to spend more time acting on the big screen, as he took a lead role in the 1980 comedy film “Serial” and other motion picture roles in films like “Mr. Mom” in 1983 and “Clue” in 1985.

But the most popular comedy recording artist ever is still performing to sell-out crowds after over 40 years in the business and is finishing a major engagement.

Singer Weird Al Yankovic closes his Las Vegas Strip residency.

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Weird Al Yankovic closes Vegas Strip residency

Legendary comedy rock star “Weird Al” Yankovic closes his popular sold-out residency in the Venetian Theatre at the Venetian Resort Las Vegas with a final show on June 21.

Weird Al Yankovic scheduled five shows at the Venetian Theatre for June 13, 14, 18, 20, and 21, back in September 2024, to kick off his 73-show Bigger & Weirder 2025 Tour, with plans to perform his iconic hits and some never-performed-live-before fan favorites. The tour ends Sept. 25 in Clearwater, Fla.

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Special guest Puddles Pity Party, the 7-foot singing sad clown, opens all of the shows. Puddles has performed shows at San Francisco’s Palace of Fine Arts Theatre and London’s Soho Theatre, as well as a residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas.

A review of Weird Al’s tour page shows that VIP tickets for 49 of his shows are sold out; tickets for six shows, including the final Vegas show, are sold out; and joining a waitlist is required for 25 shows on the tour.

Weird Al, who has won five Grammy Awards, rocketed to fame in 1984 with his Michael Jackson “Beat It” parody song “Eat It” and Greg Kihn Band “Jeopardy” parody “I Lost on Jeopardy.”

He is considered the biggest-selling comedy recording artist of all time, according to the Grammy Museum.