Humor often involves social embarrassment, and few actitivties (except for the obvious) are as funny or embarrassing than dancing. As someone who looks like they are swimming when they dance, I’ve always done my upmost to avoid straying onto the dance floor.
Funny dancing, though, gives the non-dancer an opportunity to perform some moves while maintaining the pretence that they are not really making an effort. Maybe that is why I like them so much. Below, I have compiled a selection of what I believe to be the top four most funny dancing routines.

1) The Running Man – a street dance from the mid 1980s, performed most famously by Vanilla Ice and MC Hammer. This dance made a comeback during 2007 when Britney Spears performed it during a concert tour.
The Running Man is comprised of doing a hopping and sliding step so as to simulate running.

2) The Tootsee Roll – this funny dancing routinewas born from an American rap group called the 69 Boyz. They had their first major success in 1994 with the single ‘Tootsee Roll’.
For those of you unfamiliar with th Tootsee Roll, here’s how to do it:
-Move your right hand in a circle in front of you
-Stand up on your toes, keep your butt sticking out, then bend your knees and open and close your legs.
-When the song says “to the left”, move two steps to the left, and when the song says “to the right”, move two steps to the right.
-Step your right foot forwards, then back
-Dip your body by stepping to the right. Bend your knees and lower your butt down, then swoop up again bringing your feet together.
-Slide to the left, then back to the right.
-Keep listening to the song, it will give you directions to the step directions.

3) The Cabbage Patch – this involves putting the hands together in the shape of fists and moving them in a horizontal, circular motion. This funny dancing routine was popularised by the rap group N.W.A in 1987. The dance they made was featured in the song “The Cabbage Patch”. Soon after this, the song became very popular in clubs across America.

4) Macarena – a song by the Spanish group Los del Rio. It was a very popular song and dance routine in clubs in the early 1990s. The song was based on quick streaming and rhyming lyrics. The title of the song comes from a place in Spain, and is also a popular name for women in the Andalusia area. The funny dancing associated with this song requires good hip motion:
-Put your right hand out, palm down
-Left hand out, palm down
-Right palm up
-Left palm up
-Right hand to left shoulder
-Left hand to right shoulder
-Right hand to right back of ear
-Left hand to left back of ear
-Right hand to left hip
-Left hand to right hip
-Right hand to right buns
-Left hand to left buns
-Roll hips with hands on buns (three times)
-Small jump and turn a quarter turn to the right, hands still on buns and hips rolling.