Song as Punchline: 10 Movies That Use Music for Laughs

6:33 PM PST 12/6/2010 by Shirley Halperin

After our fun and enlightening chat with Semisonic’s Dan Wilson about how his band’s 1998 hit “Closing Time” became a pop culture punchline, we scoured YouTube for more examples of films that feature a song as a gag. Truth be told, there were so many hilarious scenes, we had a hard down narrowing them down to 10!

Semisonic’s “Closing Time” in Friends With Benefits (2011)

In the red band trailer for the forthcoming movie Friends With Benefits (due out in June 2011), Justin Timberlake is made to sing Semisonic’s last call anthem “Closing Time,” which is mockingly attributed to Third Eye Blind, mid-coitus.