Comedian Tim Hawkins has audiences in stitches with his brilliantly funny song parodies that take the messy, exhausting, wonderful reality of raising kids and turn it into pure comedy.
There is something about a good belly laugh that just resets everything, and honestly, parenting gives us plenty of material to work with. Anyone who has spent five minutes in a car with bickering children knows exactly what that feels like.
What got Hawkins started down this road is actually pretty genius. His kids had completely tuned him out. Just stopped listening. So instead of yelling louder or repeating himself for the hundredth time, he flipped the script.
He took songs his kids already knew and swapped in his own lyrics. “They don’t listen to me talking anymore,” he says. And honestly, what parent hasn’t been there? You are mid-sentence and realize nobody in the room cares. Hawkins just decided to do something about it.
The parodies themselves are fantastic. He has one about being stuck at the mall while his kids beg for an iPhone for a solid hour. His response, set to music, is basically every dad’s internal monologue out loud.
“I’m not going to buy you an iPhone. You’re insane if you think I’ll pay for it.” That one hits home.
Then he channels John Mayer for a song about waiting in the car for his kids to fix their attitudes. “I keep on waiting for your attitude to change,” he sings.
If you have ever sat in the driver’s seat staring straight ahead while chaos unfolds in the backseat, you know this feeling in your bones.
What really sets Hawkins apart from a lot of comedians is that he keeps everything clean. No shock value, no crude jokes. Just real life turned up a notch.
WATCH: Tim Hawkins Sings What Every Parent Is Thinking and It’s Absolutely Hilarious
