"FCC Song" is a deliberately controversial and explicit song byBritish-bornMonty PythoncomicEric Idle. Idle, who later became a resident of theU.S. state ofCalifornia, recorded the song in early 2004 in reaction to afine by theU.S.Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for saying "fuck" on aradio station. The song is also known by itsrefrain "fuck you very much". Despite being nominally aimed at the FCC, the lyrics primarily target well-known figures associated with theGeorge W. Bush administration, includingDick Cheney andJohn Ashcroft among others. Idle stated about the song that
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 tomirror it. The word "fuck" occurs 14 times in the song; the words "bitch" and "dickhead" also appear once each.
An earlier song, "I Bet You They Won't Play This Song on the Radio", written and performed by Idle onMonty 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.