Don White's "MTV Love Song"

My friend Don White has posted a bunch of videos on his YouTube site, www.YouTube.com/lumperboy16 -- some great stuff about parenting, the Red Sox, and this, his "MTV Love Song," which has long been my favorite of his songs. White has a way of making family-friendly comedy pointed and personal, avoiding the same old cliches about family strife and put-upon dads to get to something much more satisfying. This song is a good example of that. He could have just written a song about a grumpy old guy watching TV and yelling at kids to get off of his lawn, but he didn't. There's a story here, with depth and subtlety.

And if you like this one, take a look at the others and link and embed freely. I know White is looking to spread these videos around a bit, and this is my effort to help that.

Random Notes: Don White, Lisa Lampanelli

In the years I have known musician/comic storyteller Don White, I have found him to be a charitable man – especially when I moved to his home town of Lynn in 2006. He’s written songs about this town and captured it in his book, Memoirs of a C Student,” and tonight, he’ll help out My Brother’s Table, a local soup kitchen, with a benefit show. The show will take place tonight at 7:30 PM at the First Lutheran Church, 280 Broadway, Lynn. You can find the details on his Web site or in this article from Lynn's Daily Item… And on the other end of the spectrum, both Lisa Lampanelli shows at the Comedy Connection Wilbur Theatre are sold out. You can two completely different takes on this self-professed “Queen of Mean” on the Bay Windows site or the Boston Globe.