History Funny / BobDylan

* Dylan is evidently quite fond of cracking [[IncrediblyLamePun dad jokes]] on his Never-Ending Tour. [[https://www.expectingrain.com/jokes.html This page]] collects a number of them up to 2009.

** They turn the StylisticSuck UpToEleven on the OdeToIntoxication "Bourbon Street". Bob cheers on a painfully bad trombone solo (probably played by Rick Danko): "Play it pretty now, boys! Sounds MARVELOUS!...A ton of joy! I can't take it no more!"

You can pass on by my window pane, but you can't get by my .44 [[ItsPronouncedTropay again]]!''

* Most of ''The Basement Tapes'' songs have some funny turns of phrase ("the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus."), but a couple can be classified as full-on comedy and are absolutely hilarious: a doo-wop parody called "I'm Your Teenage Prayer" and a bit where Dylan and Music/TheBand [[StylisticSuck deliberately slaughter]] a Mexican ballad.

-->''I make love to Elizabeth Taylor\\
Catch hell from Richard Burton''
* In Scorsese's ''Rolling Thunder Revue'', the 78-year-old Dylan trying to explain what the tour was about. And clearly pulling the audience's leg more than once.

-->And you ask why I don't live here - Honey, how come YOU don't MOVE?

-->I fell down to my bended knees
-->Saying, "I dig farmers, don't shoot me please"
-->He cocked his rifle and began to shout
-->"You're that [[TravelingSalesman travelin' salesman]] that I have heard about"
-->I said, "No ! No ! No ! I'm a doctor and it's true
-->I'm a clean-cut kid and I been to college too."

-->He looked straight into the sun and said "Revenge is mine!"\\
...But he drinks, and drinks can be fixed.

-->Yeah, up on the stage they'll be tryin' to get water out of rocks
-->A whore will pass the hat, collect a hundred grand and say "thanks."
-->They like take all this money from sin, build big universities to study in
-->Sing [[AmazingFreakingGrace "Amazing Grace"]] all the way to the [[SwissBankAccount Swiss banks!]]

-->You got the same eyes as your mother does
-->[[MamasBabyPapasMaybe If only you could prove who your father was.]]

-->I've been through hell, what good did it do?
-->You bastard! I'm supposed to respect ''you''?

-->She said "Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt!"

-->I didn't know whether to duck or to run. So I ran.

-->'''Dylan:''' I don’t have any regrets, they can talk about me plenty when I’m gone!\\
'''Chorus girls:'''[[note]]Including his wife[[/note]] Oh YEAH?!

-->Then she says, “I know [[MistakenIdentity you’re an artist]], [[FanDumb draw a picture of me!]]”\\

She says, “You must be jokin’.” I say, “[[StealthInsult I wish I was!]]”

-->''I want to say hello to Greil Marcus, if he's here tonight. I think he's here tonight. Greil Marcus is one of the...I guess he's the top rock ‘n’ roll critic of the era. [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Whatever that means]]''.

-->The sun's not yellow - it's chicken!

-->I ran right through the front door like a hobo sailor does\\

He gave me his card and said "Call me if they die!"

-->I decided to flip a coin, like, either heads or tails\\

It came up tails, that rhymes with ... [[DirtyCoward sails]], so I made it back to ship

-->I make love to Elizabeth Taylor\\
Catch hell from Richard Burton

-->'''Dylan:''' I wouldn't say it was a, uh, traditional revue, but it was in the, uh, traditional... um...
form of, uh, of a revue. ({{Beat}}, laughs) That's all clumsy bullshit. I'm trying to get to the... To the core of what this Rolling Thunder thing is all about, and I don't have a clue, because it's not... It's about nothing. It's just something that happened 40 years ago. And that's the truth of it. I don't remember a thing about Rolling Thunder. I mean, it happened so long ago I wasn't even ''born'', you know?

-->''I want to say hello to Greil Marcus, if he's here tonight. I think he's here tonight. Greil Marcus is one of the...I guess he's the top rock ‘n’ roll critic of the era. [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative Whatever that means]]''.\\
* "The sun's not yellow it's chicken."

* "Brownsville Girl":
-->Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt (...)
-->I didn't know whether to duck or run. So I ran.

-->Even the swap meets around here are getting pretty corrupt

* Most of ''The Basement Tapes'' songs have some funny turns of phrase ("the comic book and me, just us, we caught the bus."), but a couple can be classified as full-on comedy and are absolutely hilarious: a doo-wop parody called "I'm Your Teenage Prayer" and a bit where Dylan and TheBand [[StylisticSuck deliberately slaughter]] a Mexican ballad.