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* In Music/{{Paramore}}, the band seem to really enjoy making jokes at Hayley's expense. In an unknown amount of clips, if one is being embarrassed or teased, its probably her. Possibly due to her status as FaceOfTheBand, possibly on account of being the smallest, or possibly being the only girl. Either way, they really enjoy locking her out of the stage door and threatening to kill her on camera.

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* In Music/{{Paramore}}, the band seem to really enjoy making jokes at Hayley's expense. In an unknown amount of clips, if one is being embarrassed or teased, its probably her. Possibly due to her status as FaceOfTheBand, front woman, possibly on account of being the smallest, or possibly being the only girl. Either way, they really enjoy locking her out of the stage door and threatening to kill her on camera.
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* Ruben Valtierra, who handles keyboard duties for Music/WeirdAlYankovic while on tour. In part because he's been with Al's band the least amount of time (which is still [[LongRunnerLineUp twenty years at this point]]), and in part because he does the least on the albums themselves (usually backup keyboards, with Al handling main duties), he gets mocked frequently on tour, humiliated as part of between-song skits, and teased reguarly on Al's website. He didn't get to appear on an album's liner notes at all until ''Running With Scissors''... and was then shown face-down with scissors sticking out of his back. His first non-humiliating appearance in the liner notes is 2011's ''Alpocalypse''.

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* Ruben Valtierra, who handles keyboard duties for Music/WeirdAlYankovic while on tour. In part because he's been with Al's band the least amount of time (which is still [[LongRunnerLineUp twenty thirty years at this point]]), and in part because he does the least on the albums themselves (usually backup keyboards, with Al handling main duties), he gets mocked frequently on tour, humiliated as part of between-song skits, and teased reguarly on Al's website. He didn't get to appear on an album's liner notes at all until ''Running With Scissors''... and was then shown face-down with scissors sticking out of his back. His first non-humiliating appearance in the liner notes is 2011's ''Alpocalypse''.
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* [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Flake Lorenz]]. Literally, as Rammstein's gigs often feature frontman Till Lindemann [[HoYay simulate anal sex on the unfortunate keyboard player with a squirting dildo]], and cook him in a pot before setting him on fire. Also doubles as the band's ChewToy. His [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_Lorenz#Rammstein entry]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki has more details.

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* [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Flake Lorenz]]. Literally, as Rammstein's gigs often feature frontman Till Lindemann [[HoYay simulate anal sex on the unfortunate keyboard player with a squirting dildo]], and cook him in a pot before setting him on fire. Also doubles as the band's ChewToy. His [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_Lorenz#Rammstein entry]] on Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki has more details.
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* Most [[DumbAndDrummer Drummers]] and/or [[NobodyLovesTheBassist Bassists]] out there. Keyboardists when there is one at all.
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* The novelty song "The Thing" is about a man who finds a box containing unidentified contents on the beach and being stuck with it for the rest of his life (and even longer). He tries to sell the box to a shopkeeper he knew who would buy most anything, but the shopkeeper responds to seeing the box's contents by kicking the man out of his store and threatening to call the police. After that, the man tries to give the box to his wife, but she responds by kicking her husband out and telling him to never return. The man then tries to give the box to a hobo asking for a handout, but [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt the hobo runs away as soon as he sees what's in the box]]. The penultimate verse has the man die and go to Heaven, only to be forced to take the box with him to Hell when St. Peter sees it. By the end of the song, the man tells the listener that they should never open any strange boxes they may find on the beach, warning them that nothing they can do will rid them of whatever is in the box.

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* The novelty song "The Thing" is about a man who finds a box containing unidentified contents on the beach and being stuck with it for the rest of his life (and even longer). He tries to sell the box to a shopkeeper he knew who would buy most anything, but the shopkeeper responds to seeing the box's contents by kicking the man out of his store and threatening to call the police. After that, the man tries to give the box to his wife, but she responds by kicking her husband out and telling him to never return. The man then tries to give the box to a hobo asking for a handout, but [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt the hobo runs away as soon as he sees what's in the box]]. The penultimate verse has the man die and go to Heaven, Heaven after being stuck with the box for years, only to be forced to take the box with him to Hell when St. Peter sees it. By the end of the song, the man tells the listener that they should never open any strange boxes they may find on the beach, warning them that nothing they can do will rid them of whatever is in the box.
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Not sure about the examples in the Music page covering real life people, but I do have an example of a song where the main character is a butt monkey.


** As of now, most of their records are no longer sold in record stores.

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** As of now, most of their records are no longer sold in record stores.stores.
* The novelty song "The Thing" is about a man who finds a box containing unidentified contents on the beach and being stuck with it for the rest of his life (and even longer). He tries to sell the box to a shopkeeper he knew who would buy most anything, but the shopkeeper responds to seeing the box's contents by kicking the man out of his store and threatening to call the police. After that, the man tries to give the box to his wife, but she responds by kicking her husband out and telling him to never return. The man then tries to give the box to a hobo asking for a handout, but [[EvenBeggarsWontChooseIt the hobo runs away as soon as he sees what's in the box]]. The penultimate verse has the man die and go to Heaven, only to be forced to take the box with him to Hell when St. Peter sees it. By the end of the song, the man tells the listener that they should never open any strange boxes they may find on the beach, warning them that nothing they can do will rid them of whatever is in the box.
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* Songs ''about'' butt monkeys are abundant in Punk. One butt-relevant example shall suffice. It comes from German polit punks "Abwärts" on "Ich seh die Schiffe den Fluss hinunterfahrn" and, minus the poetry, goes about "If shit turns gold, you would be born butt-less."
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* Most celebrities are butt monkeys of the famous rapper {{Eminem}}'s jokes in his songs (Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, etc.) One case, Dr. Dre, fits BitingTheHandHumor.

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* Most celebrities are butt monkeys of the famous rapper {{Eminem}}'s Music/{{Eminem}}'s jokes in his songs (Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, etc.) One case, Dr. Dre, fits BitingTheHandHumor.
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* [[Music/S Club 7]] - As the new millenium wore on, most of their record sales and their career started to wane and split up eventually in 2003.

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* [[Music/S {{Music/S Club 7]] 7}} - As the new millenium wore on, most of their record sales and their career started to wane and split up eventually in 2003.
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* [[S Club 7]] - As the new millenium wore on, most of their record sales and their career started to wane and split up eventually in 2003.

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* [[S [[Music/S Club 7]] - As the new millenium wore on, most of their record sales and their career started to wane and split up eventually in 2003.
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* When the Creator/RatPack would do their live shows at Vegas venues such as the Sands, Creator/SammyDavisJr would usually be the ButtMonkey, with Music/FrankSinatra and Music/DeanMartin heckling him offstage.

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* When the Creator/RatPack would do their live shows at Vegas venues such as the Sands, Creator/SammyDavisJr would usually be the ButtMonkey, with Music/FrankSinatra and Music/DeanMartin heckling him offstage.offstage.
* [[S Club 7]] - As the new millenium wore on, most of their record sales and their career started to wane and split up eventually in 2003.
** As of now, most of their records are no longer sold in record stores.
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* [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Flake Lorenz]]. Literally, as Rammstein's gigs often feature frontman Till Lindemann [[HoYay simulate anal sex on the unfortunate keyboard player with a squirting dildo]], and cook him in a pot before setting him on fire. Also doubles as the band's ChewToy. His [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_Lorenz#Rammstein entry]] on TheOtherWiki has more details.

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* [[Music/{{Rammstein}} Flake Lorenz]]. Literally, as Rammstein's gigs often feature frontman Till Lindemann [[HoYay simulate anal sex on the unfortunate keyboard player with a squirting dildo]], and cook him in a pot before setting him on fire. Also doubles as the band's ChewToy. His [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flake_Lorenz#Rammstein entry]] on TheOtherWiki Wiki/TheOtherWiki has more details.
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* Guitarist Jack Sherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members. Of particular annoyance to singer Anthony Kiedis was Sherman's insistence in using a guitar string lubricant called Fingerease, which was counterintuitive to the band's reckless style of playing.

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* Guitarist Jack Sherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers Music/RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members. Of particular annoyance to singer Anthony Kiedis was Sherman's insistence in using a guitar string lubricant called Fingerease, which was counterintuitive to the band's reckless style of playing.

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* Music/DanielAmos wrote two songs about ''being'' a butt monkey, on ''Music/VoxHumana'':
** “As the World Turns” has the chorus:
-->As the world turns, it slaps me hard\\
As the world turns, it tells me I’m weak\\
As the world turns, I drop my guard\\
As the world turns, I turn the other cheek
** “The Incredible Shrinking Man” describes the many ways that the world conspires to make the character (addressed only as “you”) feel powerless and insignificant. He gets belittled by women, [[JobStealingRobot loses his job to a machine]], gets held to impossibly high standards, and [[MutuallyAssuredDestruction dreams about a Russian nuke landing in his front lawn]].



* Jorma Taccone of ''Music/TheLonelyIsland'' comes off as one. This is most notable in "I'm on a Boat", where Andy chooses T-Pain to go on the boat with him and Kiv, rather than Jorma. The rest of the video is filled with shots of Jorm suffering or doing mundane things while the others are out having fun.

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* Jorma Taccone of ''Music/TheLonelyIsland'' comes off as one. This is most notable in "I'm on a Boat", where Andy chooses T-Pain to go on the boat with him and Kiv, rather than Jorma. The rest of the video is filled with shots of Jorm Jorma suffering or doing mundane things while the others are out having fun.

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* Music/JackSherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members.

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* Music/JackSherman Guitarist Jack Sherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members. Of particular annoyance to singer Anthony Kiedis was Sherman's insistence in using a guitar string lubricant called Fingerease, which was counterintuitive to the band's reckless style of playing.
** Sherman, Dave Navarro, and a few other ex-Peppers were also effectively Butt Monkeys when they were excluded from the band's Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame induction due to their not playing on multiple albums nor being original members.
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* Nick "Peanut" Baines, the keyboardist of KaiserChiefs, is the ButtMonkey of the band. Just look at what the singer said about him on his Wikipedia page; "He likes to go the front and clap, and while he was at the front clapping, we all went off. Left him there on his own."

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* Nick "Peanut" Baines, the keyboardist of KaiserChiefs, Music/KaiserChiefs, is the ButtMonkey of the band. Just look at what the singer said about him on his Wikipedia page; "He likes to go the front and clap, and while he was at the front clapping, we all went off. Left him there on his own."



* {{OFWGKTA}} members [[DreadfulMusician Jasper and Taco]] are often ridiculed in-song for their StylisticSuck {{Piss Take Rap}}s (particularly by Earl Sweatshirt), while Tyler often finds himself the victim of his own ComedicSociopathy.
* In {{Paramore}}, the band seem to really enjoy making jokes at Hayley's expense. In an unknown amount of clips, if one is being embarrassed or teased, its probably her. Possibly due to her status as FaceOfTheBand, possibly on account of being the smallest, or possibly being the only girl. Either way, they really enjoy locking her out of the stage door and threatening to kill her on camera.

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* {{OFWGKTA}} Music/{{OFWGKTA}} members [[DreadfulMusician Jasper and Taco]] are often ridiculed in-song for their StylisticSuck {{Piss Take Rap}}s (particularly by Earl Sweatshirt), while Tyler often finds himself the victim of his own ComedicSociopathy.
* In {{Paramore}}, Music/{{Paramore}}, the band seem to really enjoy making jokes at Hayley's expense. In an unknown amount of clips, if one is being embarrassed or teased, its probably her. Possibly due to her status as FaceOfTheBand, possibly on account of being the smallest, or possibly being the only girl. Either way, they really enjoy locking her out of the stage door and threatening to kill her on camera.



* JackSherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members.

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* JackSherman Music/JackSherman was this when he was in RedHotChiliPeppers due to having a completely different personality to the rest of the band members.
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* Most Drummers and/or Bassists out there. Keyboardists when there is one at all.

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* Most Drummers [[DumbAndDrummer Drummers]] and/or Bassists [[NobodyLovesTheBassist Bassists]] out there. Keyboardists when there is one at all.



* Most celebrities are butt monkeys of the famous rapper {{Eminem}}'s jokes in his songs (Kim Kardashian, Dr. Dre, etc.)

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* Most celebrities are butt monkeys of the famous rapper {{Eminem}}'s jokes in his songs (Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, etc.) One case, Dr. Dre, etc.)fits BitingTheHandHumor.
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* When the RatPack would do their live shows at Vegas venues such as the Sands, Creator/SammyDavisJr would usually be the ButtMonkey, with Music/FrankSinatra and Music/DeanMartin heckling him offstage.

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* When the RatPack Creator/RatPack would do their live shows at Vegas venues such as the Sands, Creator/SammyDavisJr would usually be the ButtMonkey, with Music/FrankSinatra and Music/DeanMartin heckling him offstage.
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* Most Drummers and/or Bassists out there. Keyboardists when there is one at all.
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Removing kpop examples as per NRLEP (many others likely don\'t fit either but I\'m not familiar enough with them to figure out if they\'re stage-persona/fictional or not).


* Jin and Jimin of Music/{{BTS}} share this role within the group.



* [[TheKlutz Onew]] from ''Music/SHINee'' often ends up as this, possibly something to do with his [[http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Onew%20Condition extreme clumsiness.]]

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