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Thread #165999   Message #3988241
Posted By: Rusty Dobro
19-Apr-19 - 01:43 PM
Thread Name: comedy songs - why do they get boring?
Subject: RE: comedy songs - why do they get boring?
'I had a binge listen to Ivor Biggun on Prime streaming a few weeks ago..

He strikes a fine balance between crude, clever, and crap...'

I played alongside Ivor in his Doc Cox persona for nearly ten years in a comedy covers band, and found that audiences were only too happy to welcome his songs as old friends, however often they'd heard them. I suppose it helps that he is an excellent musician, and an endlessly inventive lyricist. Luckily the crude and clever outweighed the crap.......