Founded: b. 1928 Headquarters: Santa Cruz, CA
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| - Founded: b. 1928 Headquarters: Santa Cruz, CA
- Tom Lehrer is an American satirist who managed to achieve remarkable popularity and impact on popular culture, despite having produced only three albums' worth of material in the 1950's and 60's before retiring to a life in academia as a mathematician. Lehrer's pieces often take the form of witty parodies of various popular song-forms. Other common themes in his work are disapproval of nuclear war, Cold War politics, and folk singing. Of course, he undercuts that last by putting forth as perfect a rendition of such songs as can be done with only a piano ("imagine that I am playing an 88-string guitar") as accompaniment.
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| - Founded: b. 1928 Headquarters: Santa Cruz, CA
- Tom Lehrer is an American satirist who managed to achieve remarkable popularity and impact on popular culture, despite having produced only three albums' worth of material in the 1950's and 60's before retiring to a life in academia as a mathematician. Lehrer's pieces often take the form of witty parodies of various popular song-forms. Other common themes in his work are disapproval of nuclear war, Cold War politics, and folk singing. Of course, he undercuts that last by putting forth as perfect a rendition of such songs as can be done with only a piano ("imagine that I am playing an 88-string guitar") as accompaniment. Lehrer is still alive, and occasionally performing. At the 80th birthday party of a fellow mathematician and friend Irving "Kaps" Kaplansky, he dusted off a handful of mathematics songs to an appreciative crowd of students and fellow mathematicians. "Weird Al" Yankovic cites Tom Lehrer as one of his inspirations. Lehrer's own inspirations notably include Gilbert and Sullivan and Cole Porter. Allegedly, he invented the Jell-O shot. Trope Namer for The Masochism Tango. Quotes from Mr. Lehrer's works are used at the top of the following pages:
* Alma Mater Song
* Anti-Christmas Song
* Arab-Israeli Conflict
* Beat Still My Heart
* Competition Coupon Madness
* Deep South
* Eating Contest
* Ensign Newbie
* Ethnic Menial Labor
* Football Fight Song
* Funeral Tropes
* Gilbert and Sullivan
* Lensman Arms Race
* Mummies At the Dinner Table
* Mystery Meat
* Plagiarism
* Protest Song
* Oedipus the King
* Short Lived Big Impact
* Something About a Rose
* South Africans With Surface to Air Missiles
* Southern-Fried Private
* South of the Border
* The Dragon's Teeth
* Teen Genius: He earned a bachelor's degree in Mathematics from Harvard. At 19. Yeah.
* The Masochism Tango
* The Rest of the Nuclear Club
* The Ultimate Resistance
* Vaporware
* Wacky Fratboy Hijinx
* We Are Not the Wehrmacht
* This very page, oddly enough And for the picture captions of the following pages:
* Four-Fingered Hands (Note: These lists may not be complete. As you can see, he's quite popular on this wiki).
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