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> Tom Lehrer is a comedian who has found a large group of fans all over the world, but embarrassingly few good webpages. This page is supposed to be pretty good
by zem 11y ago
> Tom Lehrer is a comedian who has found a large group of fans all over the world, but embarrassingly few good webpages. This page is supposed to be pretty good. I even manage to update it from time to time. Thanks to everybody who's been sending me e-mail. I really appreciate it!
nice! i hadn't realised it, but he's absolutely right; given how popular he is among geeks, lehrer has startlingly little about him on the web.
- ghaff 11y agoHe pretty much dropped out of the public eye so long ago--and did it absolutely. In the late 70s, we tried a variety of good personal connections to persuade him to perform at MIT and the answer was a resounding no. Add to that a relatively small body of songs and there's just not a whole lot more to say past a certain point. Edit: That said, there have been a couple of in-depth articles relatively recently. I suspect the issue is that they needed a lot of research that went beyond easy-to-find sources.