Not long after we polish off those Thanksgiving turkey legs, out come the wreaths, snow flakes, and egg nog. Before you know it, you're making kissy faces under the mistletoe, all warm and fuzzy amidst the joys of Noel. Come Christmas season, radio stations are flooded with songs steeped in the spirit of the times. With no shortage of funny Christmas songs to choose from, AOL Radio listeners voted on the season's 10 best celebratory knee-slappers.
Written by Ray Allen, Sam Saltzberg, and Lou Monte, this 1960s funny Christmas song tells the tale of a donkey who helps Santa Claus bring presents to children in Italy.
After appearing on 'Designing Women' and 'The Tonight Show With Johnny Carson,' Engvall (best friend of comic Jeff Foxworthy) received the American Comedy Awards Comic of the Year.
An "extra gory" version of the song -- in which Santa is killed instead of imprisoned and the elves file for unemployment -- was released on Yankovic's 'Amish Paradise.'
The success of this funny Christmas song in 1953 gave the Oklahoma City Zoo the idea to start a fundraising campaign to "buy a hippo for Gayla," which the zoo needed at the time. Peevey clarifies that the song was not originally recorded as a fundraiser, although she was eventually presented with an actual hippopotamus (which she thereupon donated to the city zoo).
Rivers has appeared as an extra in two 'Star Trek Enterprise' episodes, including 'Zero Hour' and the series finale in 2005, 'These Are the Voyages...'
Foxworthy -- along with other celebrities Ashley Judd, Bob Barker and Johnny Depp -- was appointed with the title "Kentucky Colonel," an honor that is considered at "the same level" of Colonel Sanders of KFC.
A common source of laughs in comedy musician and Internet celebrity Lajoie's videos is the appearance of his friend Steve, who sports a beard and seldom speaks except to ask, "You want some of this, b----?"
Rivers once gained national attention for an eleven-day-long marathon during which he vowed to remain on the air until the Baltimore Orioles won a game (a promise he was able to fulfill).
In September 2008, Russian prosecutors filed a motion to ban the series based on complaints received about the episode, 'Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics,' which features all the music on a compilation album, including this funny Christmas song sung by Eric Cartman.
2. That is a rotten list. Elmo and Patsy? Lou Monte? Gayla Peevey? Come on! Especially "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas". That song is crap!
Try these ones on instead. You might like them better.
1. "If it Doesn't Snow for Christmas", Joe Pesci as "Vincent LaGuardia Gambini". Note: Explicit lyrics. Features a children's chorus! Amazing. 2. "The Twisted Chipmunk Song". One of the better efforts by the incomparable Bob Rivers. Mean-spirited fun. "Police Stop My Car" (Bob taking on "Feliz Navidad" as an impaired motorist at a DUI checkpoint) is also great. 3. "A Patrick Swayze Christmas", by the cast of "Mystery Science Theatre 3000". 4. "Christmas When You're Dead", Ralph Sinatra. Parody of traditional contemporary Christmas songs by long-dead artists. 5. "Christmas At Ground Zero", Weird Al Yankovic. Nothing flattens the "Wall of Sound" classic album "A Christmas Gift For You from Phil Spector" quite like this one. Spot-on parody. 6. "Stupid Christmas Song", Joel Kopischke. Vicious parody of Derric Johnson's "What a Merry Little Christmas Tree". 7. "This Present is Just Crap", American Comedy Network. Parody of "The Lady is a Tramp" by Frank Sinatra. 8. "O Holy Night", South Park. Not the version above, but the later one where Cartman is undergoing "electro shock therapy" in order to get the lyrics right. 9. "The Pretty Little Dolly", Molly Abboud. A "little girl" demands an amazing doll that is capable of doing everything a real girl can do, including going through puberty. 10. "We Wish You'd Bury the Missus", John Kassir (The "Crypt keeper" from the "Tales From the Crypt" TV show). Not exactly "We Wish You A Merry Christmas", but as close as you'll get from him.
Have fun listening to these Christmas songs, kiddies!
4. Let us not forget "Merry Christmas from the Family" by Robert Earl Keen (one of Texas's finest)! Also, I grew up with "I Want A Hippopotamus for Christmas" and loved it as a child! I still know all the words! Thanks for your list, Amber. I look forward to searching for them.
8. Here's one I didn't see mentioned. Sheriff Corky's Christmas. Seems the sheriff and his wife rented a video camera and tape player to make and view some "private" Christmas fun. Oops! When they returned the rental they left the tape in the machine.
Posted at 10:55AM on Dec 10th 2009 by John F.C. Taylor
9. Hey, how can you have a list of funny Christmas songs without Bah & the Humbugs?! http://bahandthehumbugs.com
13. Some of these are funny, but they have forgotton the really truely funny ones! Red Peter's Holy S**t! It's Christmas and what about the Cheech & Chong Santa & His Ole Lady or Mr. Hanky The Christmas Poo or Merry F**king Christmas from South Park?
17. Does anyone have the lyrics to a christmas song titled The Christmas Lullaby? I believe it was written about 1946 - 50's era. I know that Lorenz publishing had it out but I checked with them and they don't have it available anymore. Please let me know if you have any information about this song. Thank you.....God Bless... CJ
1. have u heard i farted on Santa's lap by the little stinkers, i think it is funny
Posted at 11:16PM on Oct 22nd 2009 by Amber