EXCLUSIVE: In a tribute shared exclusively with Deadline, musical theater impresario Sir Cameron Mackintosh has remembered Tom Lehrer, the musical comedy legend, who has died at the age of 97. Lehrer died on July 26 at his home in Cambridge,

Lehrer, who died Saturday, was a Harvard-educated math prodigy whose satirical music was everything my nerdy teenage self craved.

If you’ve ever laughed at a satirical song, whether watching a panel show, a live comedy gig or on Radio 4, there’s a good chance that it would not have existed without Tom Lehrer, the brilliant mathematician and musician who has died at the age of 97.

Musician and satirist Tom Lehrer stuck his alma mater into his music. Here's all the times he was singing about Harvard.

There never was a time like the 1950s — not even during the 1950s. Not if you have in mind the decade of conformity, of moms in pearls and churchgoing families, of patriotic youth and apple pies cooling on the sills of tidy new suburban homes.

Tom Lehrer was a mathematician—and quite a good one, by all accounts. Which makes it all the more interesting that he was renowned mostly for sitting at a piano with a sly grin on his face. Always wearing a suit and horn-rim glasses, he would sing ...