David Tanny Comedy and Dementia MP3s and CDs

David Tanny Biography

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David Tanny had some songs and stuff played on terrestrial radio stations in 2006. Stupid Audio 3.0 was featured on the Friggin' Here show in October and November of 2006. One cut from Stupid Audio 1.0 was featured on Dr. Demento in July 2006. The Christmas song "I'm Doing Nothing For Christmas" was featured in December 2005 on Oldies 1520 in the Delta Valley.

David Tanny is an Internet podcast and streamcast host as well as a comedy music parodist and sketch creator, as well as a web master, news blogger, and commentator.

Tanny also writes, produces, and engineers dementia music and sketch comedy from his home with a computer. Topics of his dementia and comedy material include reminiscing of the old times; topics also include video games from the 80s: "Centipede" and "Pac-Man"; some adult cartoons: "South Park" and "Space Ghost"; about sexuality: "What if Your Wife was a Man" and "Girl, You Drive Me Wild"; numerous TV shows: "Beverly Hills 90210", "Eight is Enough", "All My Children", "Jeopardy!", "Hollywood Squares", and "Pokemon"; salutes to demented icons of the past: Cheech and Chong, Bob and Doug McKenzie, Napoleon XIV, Odgen Edsl, and the Not Ready for Prime Time Players; break-in interviews whose style was originated by Dickie Goodman; famous celebrities: David Hasselhoff, Alyssa Milano, Britney Spears, Hilary Duff, Lindsay Lohan, Mariah Carey, Valerie Bertinelli, and Sarah Michelle Gellar; fast food such as Papa John's, Kentucky Fried Chicken, and Taco Bell; other topics include commercial parodies, beer, Michigan J. Frog, Wacky Packages, and many more recorded since 1998.

Tanny's parodies are part of a long line of funny musicians and hobbyists who make fun of the lyrics of the original songs by writing up a new set of lyrics to go with the melody, thus, he's been on the same line of work from everybody from Allan Sherman to "Weird Al" Yankovic to Bob Rivers to Insane Ian and beyond.

Since 1998, Tanny has released six homemade CDs, including a 30-minute break-in interview recorded in 1980 using analog tapes, back in the time before digital editing and recording took over. In 2008, he released his first professionally-manufactured CD "Yes Parking Anytime."

Back in 1966, Tanny unwittingly created a song parody in first grade. While his class was standing up to salute the United States Flag, they recited Pledge of Allegiance, sang The Star Spangled Banner, and in between, the song he parodied, Flag of America. The first grade teacher wasn't impressed when Tanny substituted the word "Bank" for the word "Flag" so that he was singing about a "Bank of America", because that's the place where his parents banked back then. Thus, a parodist, whether he knew it or not, was born. That song will be on a future album.

In 1972, he got a tape recorder and recorded excerpts of TV shows while doing an Ed Sullivan impression to introduce the next recorded track. His favorite topics were The Electric Company, Zoom, The Mouse Factory, and The Flintstones.

In 1998, he recorded the first songs that would later become part of his Stupid Audio CD series, which were first released in 2004 on CD, and before that, only to select funny music shows on cassette in 2000 since the CD burner in his old Sony VAIO computer didn't do the job of burning audio discs right.

In 2000, he created two funny music streams off of a streaming provider that doesn't need to be mentioned. When that company started charging for its use in 2002, Tanny closed down a channel and kept the one going through mid 2007 when his funds to operate it ran dry and the economy sagged severely.

In 2004, he released his first CD modestly titled "Stupid Audio 1.0", and released four more until he discontinued the "Stupid Audio" line in 2008.

In August of 2008, he released his first CD for commercial release "Yes Parking Anytime" sold on Amazon and other web sites. In 2009, he released three more CDs that are produced on-demand. They are "This Side Up", "No Static on Channel 3", and "Demented Music and Other Delights."

In 2010, he plans to release his upcoming on-demand CD "Oh Happy Boy!" For Amazon and other web sites, he plans to release comedy collections based on original material (no parodies or samples) specially for Amazon and featuring re mastered editions of earlier comedy recordings.

Trivia

Tanny maintains a web site about a TV show [http://www.eightisenough.com Eight is Enough] since 1997.

Tanny got air play just once so far on the Dr. Demento Show on July 2, 2006: "Mariah Carey's Screamin' Hits" featuring excerpts of Mariah Carey's screaming in some of her songs. It was repeated one more time on the July 23, 2006 show.

Tanny's favorite TV shows in 2008 include mostly the adult cartoons found on Fox-TV and Cartoon Network's Adult Swim, as well as Comedy Central's offerings like South Park. He also tapes both Jay Leno's and David Letterman's late night shows and watches them the next morning back to back.

Tanny's favorite TV shows of the past include anything from the genres of variety, comedy, game shows, cartoons, and sitcoms.

Tanny's favorite music artists include The Rolling Stones, "Weird Al" Yankovic, The Beatles, Frank Zappa, Led Zeppelin, Bob Rivers Comedy Corp, Van Halen, Spike Jones, Monty Python, and Mariah Carey.