Desi Lydic, Jordan Klepper, Michael Kosta, and Ronny Chieng discuss their 12-time Emmy-nominated show and the state of late ...

Tom Lehrer retired from singing and performing in 1967. His idea was to perform to audiences and get a good recording of the ...

Tom Lehrer ( Obituaries, August 2) once said that satire died when Henry Kissinger won the Nobel Peace Prize. I fear the last laugh has now passed as well! With universal bereavement for Lehrer’s ...

I knew both of them. Political opposites, John Stone and Tom Lehrer, nevertheless had a similar characteristic that shaped ...

The satirical songwriter plays "Pollution" from his 1965 album "That Was The Year That Was." Aired Jan. 4, 1966 on CBC's The ...

That first album soon sold 350,000, fueled primarily by word of mouth, especially on college campuses. Most Chicagoans first ...

"Only Russell, like Lehrer, pierced political pomposities with a piano as his stiletto," Brady writes.

Thomas A. Lehrer ’47 — a beloved musician and mathematics instructor who set sardonic commentary to upbeat piano melodies — died on July 26. He was 97.

When Daniel Radcliffe performed an a cappella version on The Graham Norton Show – prefacing it by introducing Lehrer, correctly, as “the cleverest and funniest man of the 20th century” – it led to his ...

Satire can quickly become outworn and anachronistic but can also achieve enduring appeal — not only when its subject matter remains relevant and urgent but when delivered by a true master of the form, ...