Unfortunately, I remember him. While searching for lyrics almost a year ago, I found this-
Stop clapping, this is serious
March 1 2003
Illustration: Simon Bosch
"Tom Lehrer is still feisty and funny, but the king of sophisticated satire tells Tony Davis there's no place for his style of humour now: the world just wouldn't get it.
"'I'm not tempted to write a song about George W.Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them."
"The speaker is Tom Lehrer, arguably the most famous living satirical songwriter. And, in a roundabout way, the New York-born singer, composer and mathematician is explaining why he has been all but silent since 1965.
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/02/28/1046407753895.htmlThis guy Lehrer is like an early version of "satirist" Al Franken.
By the way, is he any relation to Jim Lehrer?