History Funny / TomWaits

-->[[Film/TwentyTwoJumpStreetAnd what was my name? It was Jeff]], [[PunctuatedForEmphasis JEFF!]]

* It may be meant as a scathing satire, but I'd still say "Frank's Wild Years" from ''Music/{{Swordfishtrombones}}'' is pretty damn funny.

* "Diamonds On My Windshield" from ''Music/TheHeartOfSaturdayNight'' has the lyric which contains the expression: "colder than a well-digger's ass". Notable in that it's his first overtly humorous lyric in overall discography.

* "Diamonds On My Windshield" from ''Music/TheHeartOfSaturdayNight'' has the lyric which contains the expression: "colder than a well-digger's ass". Notable in that it's his first humorous moment in overall discography.

* Watching a video that "lip"synchs his song to footage of [[Series/SesameStreet Cookie Monster]].

* Much of Waits' jokes and delivery during ''Music/NighthawksAtTheDiner''. ]

* He has a songf called "The Fall of Troy". Naturally, hardcore band The Fall of Troy named their first single "Tom Waits".

* Much of Waits' jokes and delivery during ''Music/NighthawksAtTheDiner''.

* The [[SpokenWordInMusic spoken word piece]] "Missing My Son" from "Orphans: Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards". - though it's just his own variation on a well-traveled [[http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/dupe/checkout.asp urban legend]] that he's stretched into a ShaggyDogStory, there's just something about his delivery, as well as the fact that the deliberately underwhelming punchline is followed by a brief pause and a deranged-sounding wheeze of a laugh.

** "Step Right Up", "The Piano Has Been Drinking" and "Pasties and a G-String".

* It may be meant as a scathing satire, but I'd still say "Franks Wild Years" is pretty damn funny.
* The spoken word piece "Missing My Son" - though it's just his own variation on a well-traveled [[http://www.snopes.com/embarrass/dupe/checkout.asp urban legend]] that he's stretched into a ShaggyDogStory, there's just something about his delivery, as well as the fact that the deliberately underwhelming punchline is followed by a brief pause and a deranged-sounding wheeze of a laugh.
* Watching a video that "lip"synchs his song to footage of [[SesameStreet Cookie Monster]].
* The name of his song "That Feel," thanks to MemeticMutation.

* The spoken word piece "Missing My Son" - though it's apparently just a variation on a well-traveled ShaggyDogStory, there's just something about his delivery, as well as the fact that the deliberately underwhelming punchline is followed by a brief pause and a deranged-sounding wheeze of a laugh.

* Watching a video that "lip"synchs his song to footage of [[SesameStreet Cookie Monster]].

* It may be meant as a scathing satire, but I'd still say "Frank's Wild Years" is pretty damn funny.

* The spoken word piece "Missing My Son" - though it's apparently just a variation on a well-traveled ShaggyDogStory, there's just something about his delivery, as well as the fact that the deliberately underwhelming punchline is followed by a brief pause and a deranged-sounding wheeze of a laugh.

**** For that matter, go to YouTube, search for "Tom Waits interview". Any one out of the whole bunch will contain a crowning moment of funny. The fireplace-shovel with the image of the devil on it, for instance. "It's like some kinda primitive e-mail."

* It may be meant as a scathing satire, but I'd still say "Frank's Wild Years" is pretty damn funny.

** It borders on CloudCuckooLander behavior, but -- another CMOF came during the episode he guest-starred on John Lurie's [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishing_with_John fishing show]]. The two spend a couple days in Jamaica fishing for snapper, and the first time Tom catches one, he gives in to the impulse to put it down his pants. And leave it there for a while.