Funny / Barenaked Ladies

• "Bank Job". That is all.
  "But how do you plan for a bank full of nuns?"
• "Why Say Anything Nice?"
  "Why'd you put your backpack on
  If you won't just take a hike?"
• This Rendition of "King Of Bedside Manor".
• "Crazy" is basically a string of one-liners based around slang for being insane.
  "The lights are on but nobody's home
  My elevator doesn't go to the top
  I'm not playing with a full deck
  I've lost my marbles!"
• The "Give me a break" in the background during the bridge of "Stomach vs Heart"
• The end of Enid:
  I can get a job, I can pay the phone bills
  I can cut the lawn, cut my hair, cut out my cholesterol
  I can work overtime, I can work in a mine
  I can do it all for you!
  [beat]
  But I don't want to!
  • The Depeche Mode-style intro is also unsettlingly funny.
  "The silence, the terror, the pain and the horror as your mom comes downstairs..."
• "Grade 9".
  Jim: They called me "Chicken Legs"
  Andy: They called me "Four Eyes"
  Steven: They called me "Fatso"
  Tyler: They called me "Buckwheat"
  Ed: They called me Eddie.
• On their Live DVD Talk to The Hand, Steven literally eats the mic during a pause in the middle of "Be My Yoko Ono", much to the amusement of everyone.
• "If you think of her as Catherine the Great, then you should be the horse to help her meet her fate."
• The otherwise sombre "Pinch Me" has this bit of comic relief.
  "I could hide out under there/I just made you say underwear"
  • Sometimes, the audience would throw underwear on that line, causing Ed to change the line to "I just made you throw underwear."
  • At least one live performance, "It's hard to tell if I exist" was answered with "That's 'cuz you don't".
• The entire video for "Odds Are, particularly as it contrasts so spectacularly with the lyrics of the video. There are quite a few bonuses for Rooster Teeth fans, too.
• Their rendition of "Jingle Bells." Few bands but BNL would actually commit to tape the famous "Batman Smells" verse.
  • The crowning moment must be when Steven Page starts corpsing in the third chorus due to his voice squeaking from the harsh high-pitched near-falsetto he uses for most of the song.
• Deck the Stills. Basically, replace all of the lyrics for "Deck the Halls" with the phrase "Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young".
• "Another Postcard". It's a List Song about how one of the band members kept being spammed with postcards with chimpanzees on them.
• Snacktime has "Crazy ABCs," a song where Ed tries to find "stranger" words that begin with each letter, such as "A is for aisle, B is for bdellium / C is for czar, and if you see him, would you mind telling him?" The goofy dialogue between Ed and Steven makes the song funnier as it goes on.
  Ed: P for 'pneumonia', 'Pterodactyl', and 'psychosis' / Q is for 'qat'—
  Steven: Okay. Q. 'Qat'. What?
  Ed: Yeah, it's, uh... 'q-a-t'; it's an evergreen shrub. It's a perfect Scrabble word because it's a Q with no U; there's not many of those.
  Steven: ...You have too much time on your hands.
  Ed: R is for 'argyle'--
  Steven: (singing the same tune) No, it isn't.
  Ed: ...Okay, you're right; I couldn't find a good "R" word.
  • The "Food Party" skit from the same album. Words really don't do it justice.
• "Light Up My Room" from Stunt is a beautiful, soulful paean to the singer's hometown... and then you start actually listening to the lyrics.
  There's a shopping cart in the ravine
  Foam on the creek is like pop and ice cream
  Field full of tires that is always on fire
  To light my way home...
• On the first track from Silverball, Get Back Up. we get this gem:
  Standing eight and I'm on the ropes
  Knees givin' but I won't lose hope
  Not the second coming of Muhammad Ali
  But can I get a "whoop" for the boxing imagery?
• The band's 2004 tour (as documented in the live album Everything to Everyone Tour Recordings) had hysterical Red vs. Blue intermissions.
• "Box Set" from Gordon is about a washed-up musician trying to get fans excited about the elaborate retrospective of the title ("I never thought I'd be regretful of all my past success/But some stupid number one hit single/Has got me in this mess..."). Among other amusing disasters, Disc Two would've contained new songs but is blank because "some other label bought 'em", and Disc Three... "Well this is really me/In my grade school play/I haddabout a hundred thousand lines and of course I forgot 'em..."
  • It gets worse. Disc Four was never released before "...and you can tell why. It's just some demos I recorded in my basement." Disc Five is entirely a computer voice due to being recorded while the singer was "hacking up a lung" while Disc Six is "a dance remix" that will "make you scratch your head and wonder where my taste went."
• "Upside Down" from Everything to Everyone is all about the singer's dramatic insistence that nothing exciting ever, ever happen to disturb his boring existence.
  Though I appreciate the aim
  Tell Andy Warhol's ghost that he can keep his fame
  I'd only use it to make everything the same again, so don't applaud till the end
  I'm not around
  Cos I will not turn my whole life upside down!
• "Second Best" from the same album finds a... questionable bright side to the fact that "Everything's a lie/We're all gonna die," adding:
  I admit it's bleak
  Still, I give it a week
  Until our friends the meek
  Give it back...
• "Flat Earth" from Detour de Force brings some rather creative insults that are bound to get a laugh.
  Now she's shootin' from the hip and slingin' slack words
  She's not speaking in reverse but everything is backwards!

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