i don't have a hammer.

Comics with a frat boy following and an extensive library of dick jokes have roughly the same amount of credibility to me as Arctic Monkeys. Oh. Yeah. I don't care for Arctic Monkeys. The point is that America is at a sort of renaissance of comedy, where a thinking man can now have a variety of "favorite" comedians. Case and point: no one is awake's "week of comedic proportions." But all of our tastes had to originate somewhere. While I could sit and try to recall some credible names in comedy to cite as the firsts to impact me, the truth is that one of such funny men was Stephen Lynch.
You remember, he had that Comedy Central special, where he stood in front of a gigantic book, and he played guitar and sang censored and watered down versions of songs that made him a hit on Opie & Anthony-type radio shows. Slightly over a half a decade later, and Lynch is playing Adam Sandler's character in a Broadway rendition of The Wedding Singer. I'm sure that's good. ...Sometimes even type can drip with thick juicy sarcasm.
But my point is that Stephen Lynch's twisted songs of cringe-worthy topics made shamefully funny have progressed into memorable pop songs. Rather than just the punchlines lingering with you for days, Lynch is able to write melodies that have the same lasting effect.
Get more information on Stephen's gig in The Wedding Singer or his new Wal-Mart only release, Stephen Lynch: Cleanest Hits, at his website. Or don't.
I'm anxious to kick start the weekend, so I'll leave it at that. Music is coming back next week, so enjoy a few more days of laughs.



Stephen Lynch's "Vanilla Ice Cream"
& "Baby"
from The Craig Machine

Stephen Lynch's "Love Song"


Stephen Lynch's "If I Were Gay"