RIP Tom Lehrer

[Michael_ Gee]

The great satirical songwriter is dead at 97.Put all his songs in public domain. Said, "political satire became meaningless when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize" and pretty much quit writing.

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[Ookpik]

RIP.

 

[waterytart]

Two, four, six, eight
Time to transsubstantiate

He was so clever. RIP

 

[Jake from State Farm]

 

[DanOregon]

I didn't know he spent most of his time since his heyday as a math professor.

 

[Inky_Wretch]

 

[TrooperBari]

 

[TrooperBari]

 

[Typist Clerk]

That is spectacular.

 

[terrier]

PBS run of a 1967 concert has sat in my DVR too long.
One of my Providence Newspaper Guild Follies castmates pilched Vatican Rag to write a Sheldon Whitehouse number for our show about 15 years ago.