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micky 
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 Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:43 |
 Teaflax wrote:
I grew up on Zappa, but I never really found him all that funny. Good, yes, but not laugh fodder.
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hahah that's alright Teafax... a lively sense of humor was not amoung
the many impressions I've gleaned about you from your posts hahah 
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The Pedro and Micky Experience - When one no longer requires psychotropics to trip
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bhikkhu
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 09:55 |
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"Is that a real poncho, or is that a Sears Poncho?"
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Chicapah
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 10:44 |
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A great collection of his humor can be found on the "Strictly Commercial" album. It includes "Dirty Love," "Montana," "San Berdino," "Be in my Video" and several others that are downright hilarious in their send-ups. He was one of a kind.
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"Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain
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pepo
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 12:01 |
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Bobby Brown goes down and why does it hurt when I pee are two of the funniest songs I remember. Perhaps too much coarse for a refined taste. Also there's this long blues called the torture never stops. I heard lots of songs with the panting woman background but this is the most explicit one. Must be heard with headphones or otherwise there'll be problems.
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maani
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:20 |
I'm with Heirophant and others: Apostrophe. Don't Eat the Yellow Snow, Cozmik Debris, Stinkfoot, Uncle Remus - every one a gem, and among the most hysterical lyrics and musical motifs Zappa ever created.
"Take your medications and your preparations, and ram it up your snout!"
Peace.
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stonebeard
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:21 |
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I think that the most hilarious CD release must be Apostrophe/Overnite-Sensation. ALL the songs are hilarious! |
Though "Billy the Mountain" is pretty funny. Such a draft-dodger that silly mountain... 
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Man With Hat
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:36 |
Thing Fish.
Honerable mentions goes to:
Apostrophe
Joe's Garage
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Dig me...But don't...Bury me
I'm running still, I shall until, one day, I hope that I'll arrive
Warning: Listening to jazz excessively can cause a laxative effect.
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con safo
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:42 |
We're Only In it For The Money
or .. Roxy & Elsewhere
both hilarious. "the evil drug pusher now cut's up a gym sock once owned by Carl Zappa, and still damp"
oh, and Studio Tan - The Adventures Of Greggery Peccary 
Edited by con safo - June 24 2006 at 13:43
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fuxi
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:45 |
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No doubt about it:
'The Illinois Enema Bandit', on ZAPPA IN NEW YORK.
And apart from everything else, it's a terrific performance from all concerned!
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Cygnus X-2
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 13:53 |
stonebeard wrote:
MikeEnRegalia wrote:
I think that the most hilarious CD release must be Apostrophe/Overnite-Sensation. ALL the songs are hilarious! |
Though "Billy the Mountain" is pretty funny. Such a draft-dodger that silly mountain... |
The Howard Kaylan/Mark Volman years are the funniest to me.
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Sacred 22
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 15:50 |
micky wrote:
Teaflax wrote:
I grew up on Zappa, but I never really found him all that funny. Good, yes, but not laugh fodder. |
hahah that's alright Teafax... a lively sense of humor was not amoung the many impressions I've gleaned about you from your posts hahah
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WOW, not that is funny and who can forget, ram it, ram it, ram it up yer poop chute.
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chamberry
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 18:18 |
My favorite album to laugh at is Sheik Yerbouti. Not only you can laugh by the cover + the name, the music is hillarious too (Broken hearts are for a*sholes, Bobby brown goes down, I'm so cute, Tryin' to grow a chin and others) Apostrophe is a good one also. The first songs of the album are laughing marathon (laughathon?) 
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Snow Dog
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Posted: June 24 2006 at 18:22 |
Dr4Wazo wrote:
What do you think is Zappa's most hilarious release?
I'd say "Uncle Meat" (with the second disc) or "Roxy & Elsewhere", but I got to hear you and think about it more!
One thing is certain to me, I woudn't say "Joe's Garage", talking about
blowjobs and sex doesn't make you funny... especially when you're 40
years old (talking about Zappa here not myself)... Kids use to laugh
about this!
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I would say Joe's Garage, or maybe Sheik Yerbouti.
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mrdurganator
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Posted: June 25 2006 at 07:44 |
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i prefer the random/satirical humor of the first three albums, absolutely free is hilarious, especially 'brown shoes don't make it'. i always crack up at the ridiculous sound effects after the line "she's rocking and rolling and acting obscene"
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is there anybody out there?
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acheron
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Posted: June 25 2006 at 14:38 |
Apostrophe is pretty damn halarious
i love putting that album on for people who have never heard of Zappa,
"he took a dog doo snow cone and stuffed it in my right eye"
genious
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aprusso
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Posted: June 25 2006 at 14:41 |
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THE ITALIAN LESSONS IN uNCLE mEAT
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The Wizard
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Posted: June 25 2006 at 14:42 |
The Mothers of Invention albums are the best in terms of humor. I never fail to crack up after hearing 'Motherly Love', 'It can't happen here', 'wowie zowie', 'What's the ugliest part of your body', 'idiot b*****d son', 'absolutely free' and all those classics.
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mrgd
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Posted: June 26 2006 at 01:16 |
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OVER-NITE SENSATION,for the whole album. However it was immortalised for me when in live performance back on Halloween-eve 76 at Maddison Square Gardens he did unmentionable things to his crotch area with a fluffy stuffed white poodle [ for obvious reasons to devotees of this album].
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Looking still the same after all these years...
mrgd
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Jim Garten
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Posted: June 26 2006 at 07:24 |
fuxi wrote:
No doubt about it:
'The Illinois Enema Bandit', on ZAPPA IN NEW YORK.
And apart from everything else, it's a terrific performance from all concerned! |
Good call, fuxi - although from the same album, I'd go for 'Punky's Whips'; Terry Bozzio's finest comedy moment .
Incidentally - I just got back from Gran Canaria, where my wife & I were relaxing by the hotel pool in 35 degree heat with a cold beer (or 9); the pool bar was playing the usual mix of 1980s rubbish & current Euro-Crap, when out of nowhere, they played 'Bobby Brown' - this was the cue for Vicky & I to look at each other, nearly spray the surrounding area with the beers we were drinking, then look round to see if anyone was actually listening...
Most people were ignoring the song, apart from one German couple, who collapsed in hysterics.
Ah - the unexpected Zappa song; you can't beat it
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Teaflax
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Posted: June 26 2006 at 07:39 |
micky wrote:
Teaflax wrote:
I grew up on Zappa, but I never really found him all that funny. Good, yes, but not laugh fodder.
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hahah that's alright Teafax... a lively sense of humor was not amoung
the many impressions I've gleaned about you from your posts hahah
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Odd. I find I have a fun time here, and anyone who doesn't get
too enraged by someone pointing out the obivous should be able to see
the rather humurous phrasings I occasionally use - hey, I used to be a
standup comic, so...
Either way, I find Zappas humor, such as it is, to be too scatological
and silly to not be overpowered by his considerable musical
accomplishments. It's so irrelevant to the whole as to fade into the
background.
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