Wednesday, March 18, 2026
Celebrating the anniversary this week of the March 1987 filming in NYC of (IMHO) the most joyous 1980s pop music video, the seminal Whitney Houston classic "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Wh…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:10AMMonday, March 2, 2026
Some optimism for our "Last Starfighter" musical - an official "Last Starfighter" movie screenplay sequel, though in comic book form
It's an official Last Starfighter sequel in comic book f…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:22PMFriday, January 2, 2026
LOOKING BACK AT 2025: SOME PARODIES OF 2025 BROADWAY EVENTS
JUST IN TIME - Since Jonathan Groff himself has such open fun making fun of his own sweating and spitting, we did a parody-t…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:01AMThursday, December 18, 2025
The idea of a Celine Dion parody show like TITANIQUE, that started small and (one assumes) is ready to charge Broadway premium prices of whatever the market will bear, is a joy to contemplat…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:11PMTuesday, November 25, 2025
Lin-Manuel Miranda is a really generous person, and will even give a nod to lesser-known writers, in much the same way that Stephen Sondheim did.
Even in responding to online comments …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:12AMThursday, November 20, 2025
It's the 100th heavenly birthday of Kaye Ballard, who was the first person to record "Fly Me to the Moon" - which is one of my favorite songs ever to parody.
This is my Newark Airport s…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 04:22PMSaturday, November 8, 2025
Celebrating the birthday week of "Carolina in the Morning" writer Gus Kahn -
From 2012 -"Nothing Makes me Gladder Than To Be an All-That-Chatter in the Morning"https://www.youtube.com/watc…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:27PMFriday, October 24, 2025
Costs keep going up as overall profitability of Broadway for the investors looks less likely, and yet there's big money if a show has stars and the potential for screen and streaming.
Perf…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:18PMThursday, October 16, 2025
With the affordability crisis being such a part of life (and the mayor race) in New York City, and meanwhile a three-actor Broadway play like "Art" having grossed $1.7-million last week, it …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:40PMSunday, September 28, 2025
Here's "Comey, Make Believe" - Parody of "Only Make Believe" from SHOWBOAT
POLITICS LOOKBACK TO WHEN PRES. TRUMP ACTUALLY CALLED JIM COMEY A "SHOWBOAT"
This is the YouTube link.
https://…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:59PMSaturday, September 20, 2025
Considering the worldwide talent search promised by the new DREAMGIRLS -
Do they really intend to do a revival without some really really big names in this mid-2020's star-crazy box off…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:05PMMonday, September 15, 2025
Some new parody YouTubes about goings-on in New York:
Here's our YouTube for The Waldorf Astoria's $2-billion renovation/reimagining. (As they say, a billion here, a billion there, so…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:58AMThursday, August 14, 2025
Here's the Amazon link for my new (mainly theater-related) parody lyric book - the 6th book in my 21st Century Oldies parody lyric series
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FLPRB2Z7?ref=ppx_…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:49AMFriday, August 8, 2025
My new (mostly theater-related) parody lyric book coming soon - the 6th book in my "21st Century Oldies" series.
More advance information is here, along with some promo parody vide…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 03:13PMSaturday, June 28, 2025
Starting to look back on the first quarter century on our YouTube parody timeline, gearing up for my upcoming parody lyric book
21st Century Oldies, The First Quarter Century: What a One…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:59AMMonday, June 2, 2025
A show tune parody lookback - On ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo's apparent political comeback -
There IS very real precedent for a Governor resigning in disgrace in a sex-related scandal where it re…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:35AMWednesday, May 28, 2025
With the Tonys coming up, I offer our parody video rundown salute to the 2024-25 season's Tony nominations:
OUR TOWN - Best Revival nominee - We didn't dare do a parody of this production…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:39PMTuesday, May 13, 2025
In the "Presidents say the darnedest things" department -
Here's our YouTube parody take on that "Kids can just have two dolls instead of 30 for Christmas" concept. (At least, the Pres…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:26PMMonday, May 5, 2025
A cautionary Broadway parody fable for anyone buying tickets to go to the theater with Mom for Mother's Day -
Remembering the controversially-titled critically acclaimed Broadway play whose …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:45AMFriday, May 2, 2025
In parody tribute to the reviews about Tony frontrunner (and Tony winner last year) Jonathan Groff as Bobby Darin in "Just In Time,"
"Mack the Knife" Parody on YouTube
https://youtu.be/R…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 08:34AMTuesday, April 15, 2025
For Katy Perry singing "What a Wonderful World" in space -
Offering in tribute-parody a reprise of our 2025 regular-person take
"What a One-Percent World!"
https://www.youtube.com/watc…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:08AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
Since arguably the biggest New York entertainment news story
this past week has been Scott Rudin,
Some of our respectful parody-tributes
related to some of Scott Rudin's shows.
N…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:08AMFriday, March 28, 2025
Here's our "no bells and whistles" YouTube on the current Broadway screen star vehicles, on the huge grosses for limited run name-star vehicles Othello, Good Night and Good Luck and Glengarr…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 02:54PMSaturday, March 22, 2025
Some of the YouTubes from this blog's Sondheim-themed parodies - remembering Mr. Sondheim on his birthday in the way this blog usually does
The producer of a few CDs I'd worked on, Bruce K…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:44AMSunday, March 9, 2025
As we're being reminded, this week is five years from when Covid hit us, and when on a theater-specific level, Broadway closed.
This was my YouTube channel's musical snapshot of where w…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 11:41AMMonday, March 3, 2025
With this year's Oscars notable for more men than usual dressing up in flashy finery -
Thinking back to our channel's "Hollywood Gown" music video series, when one of the favorite Oscars…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:26AMThursday, February 27, 2025
WHAT A ONE-PERCENT WORLD!
https://youtu.be/5kjivj2eNMY
Feb. 2025 parody version -
Parody of the song WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD
Parody lyric by Fred Landau.
Many thanks to Shere…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:10AMThursday, February 20, 2025
A possible "Mary Poppins"-"1776" parody crossover -
Felt like an OK time to upload our YouTube to the upcoming 250th anniversary of U.S. independence!
The U.S. will celebrate our "Semiquinc…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 10:35AMSunday, February 16, 2025
Inspired by the recent Times article "Off Broadway, Labor Tension Heats Up"
With many of today's off-Broadway tickets costing $400 to $500 and up - remembering in a musical parody-tribut…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 09:12AMFriday, February 14, 2025
Posting this at this time for both Bernadette Peters and Danny Burstein being back on Broadway in Sondheim shows -
This was a tribute to the glorious Danny Burstein going from playing o…
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 07:55PMTuesday, February 11, 2025
With the new Hugh Jackman show setting records at Radio City Music Hall, reprising our parody-tribute to how we feel about buying pricy tickets to a Hugh Jackman show!
“I RAID MY KEOGH” …
SOURCE: Music and Comedy at 06:19PM 
