Country music may be known for its "tear in my beer" sad songs, not to mention its tunes about trucks, dirt roads and Southern living, but the genre also has a helluva sense of humor. Some of ...

Typecasting country artists as flipping ... that leaves out the ever-presence of humor within the genre. By the 1960s, Nashville reigned as Music City USA, and many of the town’s biggest stars ...

The singer combines the genre’s enduring themes of heartbreak and self-destruction with camp humor and a distinctly Irish sense of the absurd. Country music has long been popular in Ireland.