Bio

Steve Goodie
A Funny (Music) Business

• Showtime
• Comedy Central
• The Grand Ol’ Opry
• Funniest song of 2016 on the Doctor Demento Show
• Logan Award winner for comedy music 2016 “I Dropped My Phone In The Toilet”
• Logan Award winner for comedy music 2024 “The Sleep Disorder Song”
• House Emcee at the Bluebird Cafe in Nashville since 2007
• Howard Stern
• Sirius-XM
• The Bob And Tom Show
• The Edinburgh Fringe since 2022

For as long as songwriters and musicians have been plying their creative wares, it’s been understood that music is a funny business. For comedian/songwriter Steve Goodie, a slight twist might be more apt: “Funny is a music business.”

House emcee at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe for over a decade, and a favorite of the legendary syndicated radio host/producer Dr. Demento (who calls Goodie “One of our most talented 21st-century parodists”), his songs have also been played on morning shows nation-wide. His Youtube videos have been seen by millions, he’s won numerous awards (both for his songwriting and his technical artistry), has appeared on national TV, and performed onstage literally thousands of times. And he’s created an entire cottage industry writing and recording songs about Harry Potter.

In the thirty-plus years since Goodie first introduced himself and his hilarious parody songs, original compositions, and hysterically blunt observations about our society and the world-at-large, he’s put out a body of work rivaled by few artists of any genre. And, for the most part, he’s done it by himself.

In 2025 his “The Artist Eventually Known As Somebody You’ve Heard Of” album marked his thirty-ninth release. While a few of the projects (The Two Jew Revue, Falling Standards, Actual Size, Girlband, and The Wizenheimerz) have been collaborative efforts, most have been solo, with Goodie writing or co-writing every song, playing almost every instrument, engineering, producing, designing the CD packaging (cassette packaging at first), and even directing and producing his own videos.

A Chicago native who has called Nashville home for the vast majority of his career, Goodie – when not performing or recording his own projects – keeps himself busy with Quality Recording, his full-service studio highly in demand among Music City songwriters and artists.

Lately, Steve’s been working on a one-man homage to “Weird Al” Yankovic and Daniel Radcliffe (two of his heroes) entitled “AL! The Weird Tribute (And How Daniel Radcliffe Got Mixed Up In This Nonsense,” which has earned him rave reviews and standing ovations across America and at Edinburgh’s Fringe Festival.

As Ty Hager, a long-time friend and collaborator, puts it: “He’s like a f***ing creative Energizer Bunny, and makes all of us lazier musicians and comics look bad. That’s why no one likes him.”