5 Funny Songs by Tim Minchin
June 22, 2008 by Michael Nugent
If You Open Your Mind Too Much by Tim Minchin.
I’ve just added Tim Minchin to my directory of famous atheists. Minchin is an Australian comedian, composer, songwriter, pianist and actor whose songs include the politically incisive Peace Anthem for Palestine, the inanimate love song Inflatable You, the environmental mega-anthem Take Your Canvas Bags and the self-deprecatory career-crisis confession that is Rock N Roll Nerd.
Minchin is also responsible for probably the most comprehensive atheist-related song lyric in the history of atheist-related song lyrics:
‘And if anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.’
Tim Minchin on YouTube
Here are four more Tim Minchin classics from YouTube:
Peace Anthem for Palestine by Tim Minchin
Inflatable You by Tim Minchin
Take Your Canvas Bags by Tim Minchin
Rock N Roll Nerd by Tim Minchin
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5 Funny Songs by Tom Lehrer
June 7, 2008 by Michael Nugent
The Vatican Rag by Tom Lehrer.
Tom Lehrer, who is eighty this year, is an American mathematician who wrote and performed musical satire in the 1950s and 1960s. Best known for his darkly comic Poisoning Pigeons in the Park, his political and social satire also included the Vatican Rag, National Brotherhood Week, Who’s Next and We Will All Go Together When We Go.
Lehrer is in my directory of famous atheists. In 1996, he said that, while he was not a spiritual person - “I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don’t get me started!) without having to worry about God” - he believed that to be an atheist was almost as arrogant as to be a fundamentalist. However, by 2000, he had told Cosmik Debris magazine “I used to think atheists were arrogant, but now I am one and I like it.”
Tom Lehrer on YouTube
Here are four more Tom Lehrer classics from YouTube:
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park by Tom Lehrer
National Brotherhood Week by Tom Lehrer
Who’s Next by Tom Lehrer
We Will All Go Together by Tom Lehrer
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5 Very Funny Comedians
June 1, 2008 by Michael Nugent
Here’s some very funny stand-up comedy from Demetri Martin on his new useful pajamas, the late Mitch Hedberg on why B is an unlucky letter, Jimmy Carr on hearing voices in your head, Eddie Izzard on French monkeys in trees, and Steven Wright on speed-reading accidents…
Demetri Martin
Mitch Hedberg
Jimmy Carr
Eddie Izzard
Steven Wright
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