Better Than: Any stand-up comedian you could've seen tonight

Todd Snider never says "I wrote this song"; it's always "I made this up." Crucial distinction. He takes his craft too seriously to use so formal a word as "write" to describe the genesis of, say, the song that includes the lines "You know the number-one symptom of heart disease? The number-one symptom of heart disease is sudden death." Or the one he swears he made up in the split-second between realizing he was about to crash his rental car in a Nevada snowstorm and actually crashing it. (He apologizes for this song only having one chord -- "I was pressed for time.") Or "Money, Compliments, Publicity," which includes the following quasi-zen koan: