Category: Song Parodies - Dan Fiorella: Writer @ large

Dan Fiorella

Sketchy Tales: 12th Day of Christmas Edition

1/6/2019

Well, time and Yuletide wait for no man (that's a line from my book). This is Little Christmas, Three Kings Day, The Epiphany, the Twelfth day of Christmas. Screw it, I'm going to wind up the holiday season by repeating myself. Here' s the Prairie Home Companion production of my song parody, the 12 Days of Christmas!

If you liked this bit of holiday fun, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! Yule be glad you did!

On the 10th Day of Christmas...

1/4/2019

There once was a show called Second City TV. Then it became SCTV. And then a couple of characters created on the show took off (inside joke) big time! For a while Bob & Doug McKenze were everywhere; TV, SNL, movies, music charts and the radio! They had a hit "song" off their hit album, "The Great White North." Lesser known was this bit that was on the record as well, to be played only for the holidays. It instantly went on my Christmas mixtape! The Great White North version of 12 days.

If you liked this bit of post-holiday fun, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! Yule be glad you did!

On the 9th Day of Christmas...

1/3/2019

This was a goofy bit I remember hearing on the radio years ago. So naturally I had to seek it out on the web. And there it was. This is some groups lip-synch of it, but the song works as it starts as pure parody and then veers off into outright comedy but remaining in the perimeters of the song.

If you liked this holiday bit, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! I'll be glad you did!

On the 8th Day of Christmas...

1/2/2019

This may be the first time I heard a parody of 12 Day of Christmas. I recongnzied the voice, it was that "Hello Mudder, Hello Fadder" guy. I listened to this and started to realize that it was possible to play around with standards and such and have fun with them. I mean, this is a rough song to parody, you're either going to go the distance or not. It's like deciding to do a parody of "A 100 Bottles of Beer on the Wall." A some point, people are just going to lose interest. But Sherman committed, he cheated when he could and he plowed right through! Good for him!

This bit of Holly-Jolliness is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy Christmas comedy mystery! It's a Christmas-tery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon! It's more fun than a barrel of elves!

Skit Happens: New Year's Edition : New Year, New Year

12/31/2018

Another song parody, one of those titles I'm shocked hadn't been done when I wrote this in 2011. Maybe it has been done since, but not by me. And it's not like there's a ton of New Year's song parodies around, either. But my radio peeps declined it, so here it is...

We present this holiday comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the post-holiday rush!

New Year, New Year

Skit Happens: Christmas Caroling Edition 3

12/23/2018

Well, the "Red Christmas" is very recent, written earlier this month for TMI: Hollywood. I just saw it as a quick little cold opening number; sing while the photos were displayed. I submitted it with the note telling them I couldn't decide to send it then, because it was the big news story (for about an hour) or wait until the following week for the TMI Christmas show because it was Christmas. I would let them decide. As far as I know, neither happened. Since then, there's been a ton of "Red Christmas" parodies, so I just want to get mine out there. "Dissing" is an older bit that went out to the radio people without a hit, so we present it here...

This edition of Skit Happens is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy comedy mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon!

Red Christmas I Saw Mommy Dissing Santa Claus

Skit Happens: Christmas Edition - Caroling 2

12/21/2018

Song parodies can be exhilarating or excruciating. Sometimes the whole thing just tumbles out of your, the words scan the song beautifully. Other times it's like pulling teeth. With the 'net, it's a lot easier, with rhyming dictionaries and such, but I have a lot of files that are catchy, punny song titles and not much else. Again, Christmas is something that can be evergreen, unless you use the a pop song that's going to fall out of circulation until the next oldies station decides to focus on the 2010's. But a lot of times, it's the perfect way to nail current events. Or, here, just to have fun for the holidays.

If you liked this holiday bit, you'll love my book, Lost Claus, the story of a tough PI and an elf who have to save Christmas. It's over at Amazon. Buy a copy today! I'll be glad you did!

Coal Me Maybe Snow Angel

Skit Happens: Christmas Caroling Edition

12/19/2018

Writing Christmas song parodies out of actual Christmas songs is easy. Just try writing Christmas song parodies out of other Top 40 pop song hits. Then you got something. And what I got is a lot of song parodies that didn't go any where, except here.

We present this Christmas comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the holiday rush!

Christmas Day Christmas!

Sketchy Tales: Christmas Edition - Secular Christmastime

12/17/2018

I've posted this and lamented about this bit before...
While I was attempting to mock the "War on Christmas" as if some smug atheist was gloating about his lawsuits making headway. The news always seems to focus on the few people out there who go out of their way to cheer on the banning of ANY religious aspect to the celebration of the BIRTH OF CHRIST. Like, just in the recent news, banning candy canes from school because the principle thinks candy canes are the letter "J" for Jesus instead of candy in the shape of a CANE. Anyway, it got rewritten...

This edition of Sketchy Tales is brought to you by "Lost Claus" the snappy comedy mystery! Leaping Yule Logs, Santa's missing! And only one man can find him, Nick Flebber, PI. Get your copy today at Amazon!

Secular Christmastime

Sketchy Tales: Christmas Edition - Song parodies

12/11/2018

Song parodies are tough sells; on one hand, they are perfect for radio content, short and sweet. On the other hand, if you can't get them on the radio, there's very little chance it'll go elsewhere. Comedy troupes don't really do song parodies (at least that's what they started telling me). And I don't play an instrument or sing well, so doing it myself wasn't an option. Also, I have no friends, so I can't get them to do it. So, I'll put them here!
"Polar Vortex" was written for one group, hence the lead-in to the song. It was the first winter they started talking about weather conditions being created by the Polar Vortex over the Arctic. And a lot of people were denying it existed and was a "made-up" term. "Coal" was written back in my ACN days because they were always open to a decent song parody and they loved holiday content. And "Only the Good Die Young" kinda merged nicely with the "Yes, Virginia" story. Also, it was easy to write holiday stuff well ahead of time to submit.

We present this comedy to remind you that my Christmas Comedy Caper, Lost Claus is available over at Amazon. So buy your copy today and avoid the holiday rush!

The Polar Vortex Only The Bad Get Coal

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