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For some HN relevance, it's worth pointing out that he has a masters in electrical engineering and sort of lucked into becoming a comedian.
by kevin_thibedeau 4y ago
For some HN relevance, it's worth pointing out that he has a masters in electrical engineering and sort of lucked into becoming a comedian.
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y agoFrom Oxford, no less (Queen's College). Not too shabby. Tom Lehrer used to teach mathematics at MIT. I think he went back to that, after his musical career.
- jacquesm 4y agoTom Lehrer is still alive and his musical career is doing as well as it ever did even if he hasn't produced a new piece in decades, he will be around for another 100 years or more. His songs have staying power well beyond the norm and his career will only truly end when the last person plays the last of his songs and no longer gets them.
- iggldiggl 4y ago> From Oxford, no less (Queen's College). There are quite a few famous comedians with an Oxbridge connection, leading to the following throwaway gag in the Burkiss Way: "In today’s profile on comedy we visit the new one night show at Her Majesty’s Theatre by Siberian salt mine workers in aid of people all over the world who are, for one reason or another, Oxbridge comedy geniuses. Also, later on in the show, Wither Rowan Atkinson. A blast furnace manufacturer shows how it’s possible."