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I discovered Tom Lehrer in high school. His transgressive black humor hooked me.

Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self ...

Tom Lehrer Dies: Musical Comedy Legend & ‘That Was The Week That Was’ Composer Was 97

Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, mathematician and political satirist, has died at 97. He passed away July 26 at his ...

Tom Lehrer shut up far too early

Tom Lehrer died on Saturday, aged 97. His album That Was the Year That Was records a live performance, including his ...

Here’s every mention of Harvard in the lyrics of Tom Lehrer

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.

Musical Impresario Cameron Mackintosh Pays Tribute To “Wickedly Witty” Tom Lehrer

In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, Sir Cameron Mackintosh remembers Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who died aged 97.
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A voice for his generation, Tom Lehrer found laughter even in the most sensitive aspects of Jewish life and history

The American Jewish singer-songwriter Tom Lehrer, who died July 26 at age 97, drew on Yiddishkeit in his sardonic ditties, although perhaps not always as explicitly as some Jewish fans might have ...

Tom Lehrer was the face of the real 1950s

There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms ...