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Tom Lehrer's last (math) class (2001)

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  His sudden withdrawal from a successful musical comedy career was a mystery to many. Well, the official explanation was that Henry Kissinger's winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 made musical comedy obsolete: "It was at that moment that satire died," says Lehrer. "There was nothing more to say after that." http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_kissinger_profile.shtml http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/feature_...