Publicly asking President Barack Obama to appoint a Breast-Enhancement Czar would normally force your family to ostracize you.

That musical request earned Utah writers M. Spaff Sumsion and Robert Lund an award. Their song "Save Me, Obama" was named the No. 1 comedy song of the year by famed radio DJ Dr. Demento on his Dec. 27 broadcast.

The song, a nonpartisan parody set to the tune of the Beatles' "Lady Madonna," beat out entries from "Weird Al" Yankovich and Steve Martin to win the honor bestowed by the nationally syndicated Dr. Demento, a 2009 Radio Hall of Fame inductee who has been recognizing the funniest songs each year since 1977.

"I think we've done better ones," admitted Lund, of Holladay, who sang and performed the song. "We were in the right place at the right time," said Sumsion, of Bountiful, who wrote the lyrics.

Sumsion, a vice president of iTransact.com, a local Internet company, said he learned how to write lyrics from listening to Dr. Demento every Saturday night as a child, loving the DJ's penchant for playing novelty and humorous songs ignored by mainstream radio stations. Despite Demento's radio program no longer being broadcast in Salt Lake City, Sumsion wrote song parodies and sent them to family and friends just for laughs.

Lund, 52, and Sumsion, 41, have been penning songs together since 2002. That year, Sumsion's brother-in-law sent some Sumsion lyrics to local morning DJ Chunga. Lund, then working for Citadel Broadcasting, was given a copy and performed the song on air.

Since 2005, Lund and Sumsion have sent some 60 songs to Dr. Demento, and the DJ has played more than 50 of their submissions. Several times, the pair's songs have placed in the Top 5 of the DJ's year-end countdown, but this year was the first time they won the contest.

The song's genesis, Sumsion said, came from the reaction of the news media after Obama's election to the presidency. Rather than attacking Obama, the object of the sometimes-bawdy song is to take aim at both sides of the political spectrum and the expectations that the new president would cure everything from "terrorism to climate change to male-pattern baldness."

Lund and Sumsion contribute about one song a month to the Funny Music Project (thefump.com), a collection of comic songs that their good-natured competitors also contribute to.

After all, Lund and Sumsion just finished a song this past Monday, and it could become the best comedy song of 2010. It is called "10 Foot 2, Skin of Blue," a parody of the 1925 hit "5 Foot 2, Eyes of Blue."

"Avatar" filmgoers know exactly what the tune references.

dburger@sltrib.com