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Maybe your childhood inspiration was a movie star or an athlete. Mine was #Tom_Lehrer (1928-2025). I tracked down & studied the sheet music to his songs, memorized all of them (including "The Elements"), and started writing & performing my own satiric ditties.
Lehrer could have done standup with the best lines he used in between his songs. Probably the best-known of his nonmusical quips: Satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
But there were others.. -
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Maybe your childhood inspiration was a movie star or an athlete. Mine was #Tom_Lehrer (1928-2025). I tracked down & studied the sheet music to his songs, memorized all of them (including "The Elements"), and started writing & performing my own satiric ditties.
Lehrer could have done standup with the best lines he used in between his songs. Probably the best-known of his nonmusical quips: Satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
But there were others.. -
Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
https://apnews.com/article/tom-lehrer-son-satirist-mathematician-dies-9caa7ee01faf4fbfb793d7ba984c179d
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Tom Lehrer, song satirist and mathematician, dies at 97
https://apnews.com/article/tom-lehrer-son-satirist-mathematician-dies-9caa7ee01faf4fbfb793d7ba984c179d
#ycombinator #Tom_Lehrer #Cameron_Mackintosh #Stephen_Sondheim #David_Herder #Mathematics #Massachusetts #General_news #MA_State_Wire #New_York_City #Rhode_Island #CA_State_Wire #RI_State_Wire #New_York_City_Wire #California #New_York #Notable_Deaths #NY_State_Wire #Arts_and_entertainment #U_S_news #Barry_Hansen #Education #Stan_Freberg #U_S_News