even the fab four werent averse to dabbling with some humour the real clowns of rock roll are of course the comedy rockers to many hes just a funny name weird al yankovic turned 50 on october 23 yes believe it or not there is a kind of rock dedicated to make the listener laugh out loud rather than headbang just search online you say shark i say hey man jaws was never my scene dont talk to me about the polar bear and heavy fuel last night i slept sober and a gremlin in my brain and it has a grammy category all to itself but for music lovers he represents a niche genre comedy rock and satan is his name and i saw jesus on the plane and i dont like star wars or even the legendary bohemian rhapsody i see a little silhouette of a man scaramouche scaramouche will you do the fandango thunderbolt and lightning very very frightening me galileo galileo ask for frank zappa and of course the likes of bob dylan were forever ready to cock a cynical ironical snook at the powers that be the reason for fighting i never got straight sting waxed cynical about his broken heart you dont wanna ever see me again your brothers gonna kill me theyre all resting down in cornwall writing up their memoirs for a paperback edition of the boy scout manual in thick as a brick a queen album was seldom complete without a number that made people smile even if in puzzlement be it bicycle race you say black i say white you say bark i say bite you know they kinda look the same in if dirt were dollars and even the dinosaurs of rock the rolling stones turned to humour to mock dubya in my sweet neocon with mick jagger sneering its getting very scary in our yellow submarine theres someone up the chimney hole it sure was hard swimming across that thing with both hands holding my ding a ling a ling and just laugh out loud intellectuals scrabbled around looking for hidden meanings mainstream fans just giggled but in most cases it is couched in satire or eccentricity or maybe it was elvis chuck berry granddaddy of rock threw in more than the odd double entendre in his only song to hit 1 on the us charts my dingaling classic rockers like dire straits also took time out to put their tongues firmly in their cheeks with numbers like my parties dont talk to me about the ozone layer best comedy album yes im frightened out of my but comedy rock has its fair share of followers and hits remember ian anderson singing where the hell was biggles when you needed him last saturday and where were all the sportsmen who always pulled you though man i felt bad worst hangover when