A funny karaoke song is a gamble with a very specific failure mode. Done at full commitment it is the best three minutes of the night. Done sheepishly, at half volume, while apologising with your body language, it is the longest three minutes anyone in that room will experience.
So the honest advice is that the song matters less than the delivery. Every title here can work. Most of them will not, if you are visibly embarrassed to be singing it. There is no halfway.
Beyond that, two things separate the reliable choices from the risky ones. Whether the crowd already knows the joke, and whether it is short. A novelty song that outstays its welcome curdles fast, and the room will not tell you it has happened.
- 1 Total Eclipse of the HeartGroup Enormous, absurd and much harder than anyone expects. Its saving grace is that the whole room wants it to be ridiculous, so going too far is the correct approach. 4:27
- 2 Man! I Feel Like a Woman! Opens with a spoken line, which is the friendliest possible way into a song, and the chorus is pure celebration. 3:54
- 3 That Don't Impress Me Much Half of it is delivered as an eye-roll rather than a melody, and the joke does the work. 4:27
- 4 Summer NightsDuet A duet that is really a conversation, with a room shouting the responses between the lines. Almost impossible to ruin. 3:36
- 5 Believe The vocal effect on the record does something no human does, which paradoxically frees you: nobody expects you to match it. 4:00
- 6 WannabeGroup Mostly rhythm, half of it spoken, and every person in the room over thirty knows every word. 3:58
- 7 Sk8er Boi Almost entirely shouted, fast, and funnier now than it was at the time. 3:24
- 8 Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It) More chant than melody, and the choreography is what the room is watching anyway. 5:41
- 9 Poker Face More hook than melody, and the nonsense syllables in the chorus are the part the room is waiting for. 3:59
- 10 Shake It OffGroupTalk-sing Half of it is spoken and the rest is a chant. Almost impossible to sing badly enough to matter. 3:39
- 11 Girls Just Want to Have FunGroup Pure celebration with a chorus the entire room sings. Higher than it feels, but nobody is listening that closely. 3:58
- 12 Material Girl Light, bright and slightly arch, and the delivery matters far more than the notes. 4:01
- 13 VogueTalk-sing Almost entirely spoken. The famous section is a list of names, delivered deadpan. 4:51
- 14 Careless Whisper The saxophone gets the applause and you get a slow, low, comfortable melody. An unusually good deal. 5:00
- 15 Uptown Girl Relentlessly fast and much higher than anyone remembers. Enormous fun if you can keep up. 3:18
- 16 Twist and ShoutGroupTalk-sing Shouted from beginning to end. Lennon recorded it with a ruined voice, which tells you everything about how polished yours needs to be. 2:35
- 17 Come On EileenGroup Chaotic, joyful and impossible to perform seriously. The tempo change at the end is the whole point. 4:47
- 18 Don't Stop Me NowGroup Fast, joyful and much harder than its reputation. The words come quickly and the melody keeps climbing. 3:29
- 19 Y.M.C.A.GroupTalk-sing Nobody is listening to your voice. They are watching four letters being spelled with arms. 4:48
- 20 Take On MeGroup Everyone attempts the falsetto. Almost nobody reaches it. The attempt is, at this point, part of the tradition. 3:45
- 21 Baby Got BackGroupTalk-sing Entirely spoken, and the room delivers the opening dialogue for you. Requires no singing whatsoever. 4:23
- 22 Ice Ice BabyGroupTalk-sing Spoken start to finish over a bassline everyone recognises in two notes. 4:31
- 23 I'm Too SexyTalk-sing Seven semitones, mostly spoken, and utterly ridiculous. It only fails if you look embarrassed. 2:44
- 24 Barbie GirlDuet A novelty duet where both parts are deliberately silly voices, which removes any question of singing well. 3:20
- 25 Never Gonna Give You Up A famously incongruous voice and a chorus the entire internet knows. The joke is doing most of the work. 3:34
- 26 Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit of...)GroupTalk-sing A list of names over a horn riff. Barely sung, extremely fast, and the room shouts the names with you. 3:40
- 27 Bye Bye ByeGroup The choreography is the performance and everyone in the room can do the arm movement. 3:20
- 28 All StarGroupTalk-sing Every single person knows the first line, which means the room is with you before you have really begun. 3:20
- 29 Hey Ya!Talk-sing Rapped, sung and shouted in roughly equal parts, at a tempo that never lets up. 3:55
- 30 Umbrella The hook is a single word repeated, and the room supplies it every time. 4:36
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Funny karaoke songs: your questions answered
What are the funniest karaoke songs?
The ones the room already knows the joke to. Novelty hits from the nineties and early two thousands do this best, because everyone recognises them instantly.
Is a funny karaoke song a safe choice?
Only at full commitment. A half hearted novelty performance is the single worst outcome available at karaoke.
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Key, tempo and release data come from MusicBrainz and TheAudioDB. Difficulty, vocal range and the note against each song are ours. We don't reproduce lyrics.
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