Photo Credit: Tom Lehrer in 1983 (Public Domain) Tom Lehrer, the musical satirist whose topical songs saw him influence acts like Weird Al and Randy Newman, passed away on Saturday. He was 97. Mathematician and […]
Tom Lehrer, an acerbic songwriter and Harvard-trained mathematician who rose to fame in the 1950s and ’60s by pillorying the sensibilities of the day, has died at age 97. Lehrer died at his home in […]
Kinky Friedman, who lived a colorful life as a country singer, satirist, and one-time Texas gubernatorial candidate, has died at the age of 79. “Kinky Friedman stepped on a rainbow at his beloved Echo Hill […]
Longtime political humorist Mark Russell, the wise-cracking piano player who skewered Washington’s elite with pithy one-liners and upbeat tunes, has died. He was 90. The irreverent satirist died Thursday at home in Washington, D.C., of […]