"FCC Song" is a deliberately controversial and explicit song by British-born Monty Python comic Eric Idle. Idle, who later became a resident of the U.S. state of California, recorded the song in early 2004 in reaction to a fine 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". Despite being aimed at the FCC, the lyrics primarily target well-known figures associated with the George W. Bush administration. Idle stated about the song that “PTV” is an Emmy-nominated episode from season four of the FOX animated television series Family Guy. ... Family Guy is an Emmy award winning American animated television series about a nuclear family in the fictional town of Quahog (IPA or ), Rhode Island. ... Monty Python, or The Pythons, is the collective name of the creators of Monty Pythons Flying Circus, a British television comedy sketch show that first aired on the BBC on 5 October 1969. ... A comedian, or comic, is an entertainer who amuses an audience by making them laugh. ... Eric Idle (born March 29, 1943) is a British comedian, actor, author and writer of comedic songs. ... Federal courts Supreme Court Circuit Courts of Appeal District Courts Elections Presidential elections Midterm elections Political Parties Democratic Republican Third parties State & Local government Governors Legislatures (List) State Courts Local Government Other countries Atlas  Politics Portal      A U.S. state is any one of the fifty subnational entities of the... Official language(s) English Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Largest metro area Greater Los Angeles Area  Ranked 3rd  - Total 158,302 sq mi (410,000 km²)  - Width 250 miles (400 km)  - Length 770 miles (1,240 km)  - % water 4. ... Year 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... FINE was created in 1998 and is an informal association of the four main Fair Trade networks: F Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO) I International Fair Trade Association (IFAT) N Network of European Worldshops (NEWS!) and E European Fair Trade Association (EFTA) // The aim of FINE is to enable these... Motto: (Out Of Many, One) (traditional) In God We Trust (1956 to date) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington D.C. Largest city New York City None at federal level (English de facto) Government Federal constitutional republic  - President George Walker Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence from... The FCCs official seal. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Not to be confused with clear channel radio stations, which are AM radio stations with certain technical parameters. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... A refrain (from the Old French refraindre to repeat, likely from Vulgar Latin refringere) is the line or lines that are repeated in music or in verse; the chorus of a song. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States, inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

"...it's dedicated to the FCC and if they broadcast it, it will cost a quarter of a million dollars".[1]

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

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. The Republican Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States of America, along with the Democratic Party. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ...

An earlier song, "I Bet You They Won't Play this Song on the Radio", written and performed by Idle on Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album (1980), touched on this subject, but with two major differences: It limited its scorn to radio programmers and it bleeped (using various sound effects) the various obscenities. Accordingly, many programmers did indeed play that song on the radio. I Bet You They Wont Play This Song on the Radio is a song performed by Eric Idle, a British comedian and member of Monty Python. ... Monty Pythons Contractual Obligation Album (or simply Contractual Obligation Album) is an album released by Monty Python in 1980. ... Year 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1980 Gregorian calendar). ...

Lyrics

(spoken) Here's a little number I wrote the other day while out duck hunting with a judge. Antonin Gregory Scalia (born March 11, 1936[1]) is an American jurist and the second most senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. ...

[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's 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

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See also

• Obscenity
• Decency
• Censorship
• Censorship in the United States
• Profanity
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of speech in the United States
• First Amendment to the United States Constitution
• Seven dirty words

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External links

• The FCC Song (in .mp3 format)
• Official Monty Python site
• Eric Idle's section at the Monty Python website
• Anti-Bush site with lyrics
• A Eric Idle Fan's Music Video to the FCC Song