British Comedy Guide

Happy 85th to Tom Lehrer

Rare interview with the legendary satirist on Radio 4-

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01rqb1w

enjoyed this, Lehrer was a satirical genius, not the so called satire of today, but incisive satire full of wit and bile, in a way that can only be performed and written by a mathematician with a mind like a razer.

Not completely foreign... He contributed to The Frost Report...

His style of humour always struck me as being very British. I hope you all know what I mean by that.

Is he still alive? I remember him when Frank used to do his Muir on... series and he'd play clips on a certain theme. Love "Poisoning pigeons in the park". The song - not the act.

I love both the song and the act.

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