Heh. Bit've an argument going on in here. I'm never sure if I should come in and spell out intent to clear up the confusion or not. I think we get into trouble because some of our comics are really blunt and stupid while some of them require knowledge of obscure references.
Also, Accordion Noir, please do link us in your podcast! Yay!
What are some of you talking about? An Organ grinder does not play the accordion. An organ grinder is the operator of a handle-powered organ. Hence the name!
I think you're rather over analysing things - they are cymbal-playing monkeys at a a party for cymbal-playing monkeys. One of them turns up with, horrors, a different instrument. That's it.
Piers: And yet, Wierd Al is a well respected master of the instrument.
The joke is not the obvious one of spotting the differences between the monkeys, but more that the Organ grinder makes the monkey dance to the tune of the accordion for coins. Perhaps the point could have been driver home with a change in attire for the estranged monkey. Maybe something in a red vest with hat?
I love Accordion Monkey! If you think accordions are terrible, you haven't lived. Or you've lived next to some terrible accordion players. It's the rage now, all the hipster bands have accordions. The culture has finally forgiven/forgotten Lawrence Welk and moved on. We got your back Accordion Monkey. Tamboreen monkey will come around because he can't play melody or bass or anything but "cling, cling, cling" and that gets old.
The forces of accordion righteousness are amused. We'd love to link to Accordion Monkey in our podcast. www.AccordionNoir.org
I think it's less about the one outsider monkey and more about how terrible an instrument the accordion is - worse even than the unbearably annoying sound of a mechanical cymbal monkey.
i thought this one was weak, actually, if the only joke is that the one monkey has an accordian and everyone else has cymbals, then you can definetly do better then that man.
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