"Situation Comedy Blues" by Momus (full lyrics)
Posted Wed Nov 8 10:17:46 GMT 2000 by 'Jon'
Situation Comedy Blues
What's a laugh?
The sound of common-sense falling apart
What's common-sense? A million unthinking hearts
At the end of the working day
And who am I?
Call me the barman standing waiting for the workers
To drink their work away
I'm the man who serves the laughter
To the drunkards of disaster
After they've got plastered on the news
And I've got the situation comedy blues
What's the situation?
This man has been abandoned by his woman
What's the reason?
He's lost his sense of humour
This man is sober
And so he s gone to bed with another writer's scripts
And his wife has had to move in with her mother
And the man who serves the laughter
To the drunkards of disaster
After they've got plastered on the news
Has got the situation comedy blues
He's been devising a new series
Where the first man to appear is
Pakistani and the second is a queer
Who rings the bell in tights and biker's gear
And he tells them that he's sorry to disturb them
But the sari that the wife had on today was out of sight
And could he maybe borrow it tonight?
And the man who serves the laughter
To the workaholics after
They've got drunk on the disasters of the news
Has got the situation comedy blues
So the Paki asks the queen in to his brilliantly-lit kitchen
Where he demonstrates his do-it-yourself tools
He's the type who doesn't gladly suffer fools
But he electrocutes his finger in his biggest Black and Decker
When his wife appears in towel and rubber hat
And the bath she s running floods the neighbours' flat
I've been sitting here unhappily
Trying to write this comedy
When I hear a sudden laugh in the next room
And thinking it's my woman who's come home
I call her name expectantly and, glad that she's come back to me,
I throw away my trivialising pen . .
And then the television laughs again |~
Marie come back to me ]
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Posted By 'Jon' on Wed Nov 8 11:39:16 GMT 2000:
The track is on "The Poison Boyfriend" album (1987). The music is a pastiche of the theme music to various 80s sitcoms.
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Posted By 'Nunuf Urbuznuz' on Wed Nov 8 13:36:50 GMT 2000:
Nice. I have the stirrings of recognition within me, Jon.
PS. Is there any way of getting your email address? I feel we could swap gossip endlessly...
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Posted By 'Jon' on Wed Nov 8 13:39:17 GMT 2000:
Well, I did offer it to you once in the past...
[email protected]
I should warn you that I don't work in media or comedy, so the only gossip I ever get is the stuff I read here.
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Posted By 'Anonymous' on Wed Nov 8 16:49:46 GMT 2000:
What *is* your job? You seem to have a lot of browsing time.
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Posted By 'Unruly Butler' on Thu Nov 9 00:43:32 GMT 2000:
When I used to work in a bookshop, I once served an American tourist who wanted to know if we had any books by Momus, since she was a massive fan. I found her a book of the collected lyrics and started chatting to her about his music. She looked utterly confused. She thought he was a poet, and had no idea he made records.
I thought that was rather sweet.
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Posted By 'Jon' on Thu Nov 9 08:23:30 GMT 2000:
Apparently he makes loads of money on the side writing novelty records for the Japanese market, that are huge hits.
McGee didn't see fit to include him on the Creation compilation (see Forum, passim.) despite him being the 2nd longest serving Creation act, after Primal Scream.
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Posted By 'Nunuf ' on Thu Nov 9 12:44:49 GMT 2000:
Thanks for the addy, Jon.
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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Fri Nov 10 17:58:08 GMT 2000:
er if this is a real song where can I get it/hear it?
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Posted By 'Jon' on Fri Nov 10 19:56:14 GMT 2000:
[Sigh} As explained above, it is a track on the album "The Poison Boyfriend" by Momus (a.k.a. singer-songwriter Nick Currie), which was released in 1988 (I got the date wrong above), and you can buy it in big record shops, though probably not your local Our Price.
I copied the lyrics from a Momus website - there are several.
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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Fri Nov 10 20:00:41 GMT 2000:
ta
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Posted By 'Radiator Head Child' on Sat Nov 11 10:09:09 GMT 2000:
can I just sing this to the tune of Pills And Soap?
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Posted By 'Jon' on Sat Nov 11 13:28:21 GMT 2000:
No one would try to stop you. On the original, Currie simply says the words rather than trying to sing them. Come to think of it, he does that with all his songs.
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