History Funny / JonathanCoulton

--> '''Princess''': "Hey Adam, tell me if this sounds like a phone hanging up!"
--> (Click)
--> '''Prince''': "[[WhatAnIdiot Yeah, it totally does]]! [[LateToThePunchline H-hello]]?"

-->[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson Shoeless Joe]] left baseball and [[NamesTheSame became a]] [[Music/JoeJackson famous popstar]]

* "Kenesaw Mountain Landis", a song about the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenesaw_Mountain_Landis First Commissioner of Baseball]], opens with a claim that he was "seventeen feet tall and had a-hundred-and-fifty wives" [[CriticalResearchFailure and only gets more baffling from there.]] The real kicker is the final verse:

-->A little [[Main/StarWars Darth Vader]], a little [[Franchise/{{Transformers}} Optimus Prime]]...

* At his "Best. Concert. Ever." show, Jonathan performed a version of "Mr. Fancy Pants". In place of the normal guitar solo, he began playing disjointed audio bytes from the song over a base line. Depending on the listener, it's either annoying or hilarious to hear him say the word "Pants" over and over again... and then he plays them so that they form a coherent statement: "Chances are you're/best in/everybody's/pants!" The entire audience erupted into laughter.

* At his "Best. Concert. Ever." show, Jonathan performed a version of "Mr. Fancy Pants". In place of the normal guitar solo, he began playing disjointed audio bytes from the song over a base line. Depending on the listener, it's either annoying or hilarious to here him say the word "Pants" over and over again... and then he plays them so that they form a coherent statement: "Chances are you're/best in/everybody's/pants!" The entire audience erupted into laughter.

** A number of fans were inspired by this song to create-in a strange, fantastical hybrid of this trope and CrazyAwesome-the "First of May Olympics." You can probably guess what that entails.

* "First of May". Full stop.

*** And, as of recent shows, has been incorporating the SuperMarioBros theme. And even ''more'' recently, he's been using said theme as a transition to his next song... [[spoiler:"Want You Gone", from Portal 2]].

** A number of fans were inspired by this song to create- in a strange, fantastical hybrid of this trope and CrazyAwesome- the "First of May Olympics." You can probably guess what that entails.
*** [[AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering But how do you get a red-breasted robin]] [[ComicallyMissingThePoint to sing "ooh, child"?]]
* "I'm not a monster Tom...well, technically I am... I guess I am!"
** "And we'll put this thing to bed...when I bash your head open!"

* At his "Best. Concert. Ever." show, Jonathan performed a version of "Mr. Fancy Pants". In place of the normal guitar solo, he began playing disjointed audio bytes from the song over a base line. Depending on the listener, it's either annoying or hilarious to here him say the word "Pants" over and over again...and then he plays them so that they form a coherent statement: "Chances are you're/best in/everybody's/pants!" The entire audience erupted into laughter.

*** And, as of recent shows, has been incorporating the SuperMarioBros theme. And even ''more'' recently, he's been using said theme as a transition to his next song...[[spoiler:"Want You Gone", from Portal 2]].

* After ''Series/{{Glee}}'' used his arrangement of "Baby Got Back" without his permission, Coulton recorded a "cover of ''Glee'' cover" as a TakeThat.

-->She lost the real ones in the robot war.

*** At PAX 2009, the song takes a wonderfully meta twist by breaking off into the bridge of TheyMightBeGiants' "Particle Man", which is itself often replaced by covers of other songs when TMBG preforms "Particle Man" live.

** And then all the YouTube users started commenting on how "no doll tells me how I make my tea".