Comedy music

And I think I know where this started.

And this started, well, there were always comedy songs in the charts when I was a kid.

You don't get them anymore.

But my formative years were the 60s and 70s.

Who was, of course, the songwriter of The Ruttles and did lots of stuff with Monty Python.

Of course, yes.

And what Neil Innes did was do the very rare thing of writing comedy songs that stood up to repeated listenings.

A lot of comedy songs, once you've got the joke and that's it, a couple of songs, you're sick of it.