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Parody/Comedy artists

So I thought that this would be appropriate now that an SNL frontman is getting into the music scene (see: I'm on a Boat). This thread is for posting about your favorite musical comedy artists.
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  • edited February 2009
    Tom Lehrer was a wonderful satirist, not to mention a very charming man.



    This next song is called "Smut", and the spoken intro (which was cut out of the video) goes like this:

    "I do have a cause though; It is obscenity. I'm for it. Unfortunately the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it owing to the nature of the laws as a matter of freedom speech and stifling of free expression and so on but we know what's really involved: dirty books are fun. That's all there is to it. But you can't get up in a court and say that, I suppose. It's simple matter of freedom of pleasure, a right which is not guaranteed by the constitution, unfortunately. Anyway, since people seem to be marching for their causes these days, I have here a march for mine..."

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