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:

And so the legend begins. Michael "ToTs" Heagerty has officially beaten all you slackers to setting the world record for "Most Potato References in a Rap Song." The song is called "Crispy," the first single off his Kickstarter-funded debut album, The Coup de Tots, to be released later this year. But why, Michael Heagerty, why do you rap about potatoes and not their delicious, incredibly underrated cousin, yams? He responds only with a question: "If you can go back 10 days, can you tell me the truth and say you haven't had a potato in some form?"

Well, shit. Listen to "Crispy" after the jump: