Line #12 Funny/TheSmiths


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2	* From "Shakespeare's Sister":
3	-->I thought that if you had an acoustic guitar
4	-->Then it meant that you were a protest singer
5	-->Oh I can smile about it now
6	-->But at the time it was terrible.
7	* "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is about the persistence of depression, but it takes a far more [[BlackComedy darkly funny]] and self-deprecating perspective than it gets credit for.
8	-->I was looking for a job, and then I found a job
9	-->and heaven knows I'm miserable now...
10	** Later in the song, the narrator flees in terror from a woman who offers to sleep with him. What really makes it funny is how he makes it sound like it was the only ''rational'' thing to do.
11	* The narrator's absurd JustJokingJustification in "Bigmouth Strikes Again".
12	* From "The Queen Is Dead":
13	-->I say [[UsefulNotes/TheBritishRoyalFamily Charles]], don't you ever crave\
14	To appear on the front of the [[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers Daily Mail]]\
15	Dressed in your mother's bridal veil?\
16	--
17	-->So, I broke into the palace
18	-->With a sponge and a rusty spanner
19	-->She said, "Eh, I know you, and you cannot sing"
20	-->I said, "That's nothing, you should hear me play piano"
21	* "He killed a policemen when he was thirteen / and somehow that really impressed me..."
22	* The morbidly hilarious "Unhappy Birthday", in which the narrator matter-of-factly commits suicide halfway through.
23	** From the same song: "I've come to wish you an unhappy birthday / 'cause you're evil and you lie / and if you should die, I may be slightly sad /but I won't cry."
24	* Morrissey's reaction to Music/{{tATu}}'s cover of "How Soon Is Now?":
25	-->'''Interviewer:''' Did you hear t.A.T.u's version of 'How Soon Is Now'?
26	-->'''Morrissey:''' Yes, it was magnificent. Absolutely. Again, I don't know much about them.
27	-->'''Interviewer:''' They're the teenage Russian lesbians.
28	-->'''Morrissey:''' Well, aren't we all?
29	* The band's appearance on the kid's show ''Charlie's Bus'', which finds them joining a bunch of schoolchildren on board a double-decker bus. This scene is a particular standout:
30	-->'''Young Girl:''' Where are we going?
31	-->'''Morrissey:''' We're all going mad.
32	-->'''Young Girl:''' I thought we were going to Kew Gardens.
33	-->''(Morrissey turns to the camera with a smirk)''
34	* "Frankly, Mr. Shankly", where the narrator snarks constantly to their boss while talking about their desire for musical fame.
35	-->''"But sometimes I'd feel more fulfilled''\
36	''Making Christmas cards with the mentally ill''"\
37	--
38	-->''"Oh, I didn't realise that you wrote poetry''\
39	''I didn't realise you wrote such bloody awful poetry Mr Shankly"''\
40	--
41	-->''"Frankly, Mr Shankly, since you ask''\
42	''You are a flatulent pain in the arse''\
43	''I do not mean to be so rude''\
44	''But still, I must speak frankly, Mr Shankly, give us money"''
45	* "Vicar in a Tutu". Even title is funny in itself.
46	* "Bigmouth Strikes Again" is full of surreal humor
47	-->Oh... sweetness, sweetness, I was only joking when I said\
48	By rights you should be bludgeoned in your bed\
49	--
50	-->Now I know how Joan of Arc felt\
51	As the flames rose to her Roman nose\
52	And her Walkman started to melt
53	* Any of Music/{{Morrissey}}'s attempts at dancing.
54	** For those mercifully unaware, Morrissey's dancing can and may include: Morrissey lying down on the stage, Morrissey ripping off his shirt, Morrissey being hugged by stage-crashing audience members, Morrissey brandishing placards and Morrissey throwing flowers at the audience, as well as overdramatic gesturing, unnerving hip gyrations and a blatant disregard for anything ''approaching'' gracefulness. A classic example of Morrissey dancing is The Smiths performing "Still Ill" on The Tube.

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