The series in which readers answer other readers’ questions explores the sounds and music that play on repeat mentally – and how to escape their aural clutches ...

Read a conversation with Bobby about the show and Tom Lehrer’s comedy legacy. How did you initially discover the work of Tom Lehrer? I was introduced to Tom Lehrer at such a young age that I cannot ...

Fame is a drug, fed by attention, applause and money. Those who become addicted sometimes have a desperate need to hold on, even as the talents that brought renown begin to fade and eventually ...

Lehrer, who died July 26, wrote numerous satirical songs, including "Pollution" and "The Vatican Rag." In the latter half of his life, he also taught math at Harvard and MIT. This is FRESH AIR. Tom ...

Two of the heroes of my youth died this past week, one at 97 and the other at 103. The youngster was Tom Lehrer. A math genius who wrote and performed naughty patter songs with elegant rhyming schemes ...

Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self craved. Good morning. Here’s how I came to love the music of Tom Lehrer, the ...

“Satire in America is…at best a fragile plant, and never more so than now…Yet, when it works, satire is in the first instance a source of permanent pleasure, and offers the long echo of laughter, as ...

Tom Lehrer, a musical satirist and mathematician, died July 26, 2025, at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, home. His friend and executor, David Herder, confirmed his death. He was 97 years old and had ...

Last week, "South Park" showed President Trump in bed with Satan — his genitalia showing — and barely rated a shrug. That's why Tom Lehrer, the most wicked political satirist of his generation, closed ...

Tom Lehrer, a Cambridge-based scholar and songwriter with a knack for political satire, died Saturday, July 26 at 97. But his zany songs live on. Lehrer got his comedic start at Harvard University, ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Lehrer, the popular song satirist who lampooned marriage, politics, racism and the Cold War, then largely abandoned his music career to return to teaching math at Harvard and ...