FCC Song - Definition

The FCC Song is a deliberately controversial and explicit song by British-born Monty Python comic Eric Idle. Idle, who is now a California resident, recorded the song in early 2004 in reaction to being fined by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for saying "fuck" on a Clear Channel radio station. The song is also known by its refrain "Fuck you very much". Besides being aimed at the FCC, the lyrics target most well-known figures associated with the Bush administration. Eric Idle stated about his song that

"...it’s dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars".

(This calculation is based on the fine Idle had to pay for his use of the popular expletive.)

Eric Idle has made the song freely available for download at the Monty Python website. The lyrics' strong anti-Republican stance has prompted numerous anti-Bush websites to link to the song or to mirror it. The word "fuck" occurs 14 times in the song.

Here are the lyrics

(spoken) Here's a little number I wrote the other day while out duck hunting with a judge.

[QUACK]

Fuck you very much the FCC

Fuck you very much for fining me

Five thousand bucks a fuck

So I'm really out of luck

That's more than Heidi Fleiss was charging me.

So fuck you very much the FCC

For proving that free speech just isn't free

Clear Channel's a dear channel

So Howard Stern must go

Attorney General Ashcroft doesn't like strong words and so

He's charging twice as much as all the drugs for Rush Limbaugh

So Fuck you all so very much

So fuck you very much dear Mr. Bush

For heroically sitting on your tush

For Halliburton, Enron, all the companies who fail

Let's send them a clear signal and stick Martha straight in jail

She's an uppity rich bitch, but at least she isn't male

So fuck you all so very much

So fuck you dickhead Mr. Cheney too.

Fuck you and fuck everything you do.

Your pacemaker must be a fake

You haven't got a heart

As far as I'm concerned you're just a pasty-faced old fart

And as for Condoleezza she an intellectual tart

So fuck you all so very much

So fuck you very much the EPA

For giving all Alaska's oil away

It really is a bummer

When I can't fill my Hummer

The ozone's a no-go zone now that Arnold's here to say

"Ze nuklear vinter games are going to take place in LA"

So fuck you all so very much

So what the planet fails

Let's save the great white males

And fuck you all so very much

[QUACK]

External links

• The FCC Song (http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/FCCSong.mp3) (in .mp3 format; explicit lyrics)
• Official Monty Python site (http://www.pythonline.com/)
• Eric Idle's section at the Monty Python website (http://www.pythonline.com/plugs/idle/index.shtml)
• Anti-Bush site with the lyrics' full text (http://onegoodmove.org/1gm/1gmarchive/001318.html)