The MarketWatch News Department was not involved in the creation of this content. "I Started a Joke" is a 1968 song by the English rock band Bee Gees from their album Idea, which was released in September of that year. "I Started a Joke" was parodied by a Radio Free Vestibule sketch in which a voiced-over commentary takes the lyrics completely literally, appeared on the film Zoolander as covered by The Wallflowers. I started to cry which started the whole world laughing. Live tracks recorded on 21 October 1997 at the Horden Pavilion, Sydney, Australia by MTV Australia. It's a great example of lyrical songwriting, and very much a love-it-or-hate-it song. "I Started a Joke" is a song by the Bee Gees from their 1968 album Idea, which was released as a single in December of that year. Coverversionen. I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes "I Started a Joke" was recited in The Fighter, when Dickie Eklund (Christian Bale) sings it in an attempt to console his mother Alice (Melissa Leo) following an attempt by him to hide his crack addiction. and I looked at the skies, running my hands over my eyes, and I fell out of bed, curseing my head from things that I'd said. [citation needed], This Town Ain't Big Enough for Both of Us, "I Started a Joke / Kilburn Towers by Bee Gees (Single, Pop): Reviews, Ratings, Credits, Song list - Rate Your Music", "Robin Gibb – Saved By The Bell – The Collected Works Of Robin Gibb 1968-1970", "Covers Revue, Vol. [6], The song reached #1 in Canada, New Zealand and Australia. I started a joke, which started the whole world crying, oh but I didn't see that the joke was on me, oh no. The greatest lie ever told was in the garden of Eden, when Satan lied to Eve, causing her to eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 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