I guess I had forgotten about Mr. Leher's songs until New Math was used in my daughter's school play.Now I have them all on my IPod and they make me smile when I run. What a brilliant guy.
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This is by far the best song he ever wrote, you guys. Not to take away from his other songs-they were all great-but you simply can't compete with this. It's too damn perfect.
At some point in the 50s/60s there was a tsunami of stupidity that hit western culture and swept the likes of Tom Lehrer away - I think it was called Rock and Roll.
Is it true that Glenn Beck is a Nazi? No more true than I am sitting on your privates. Am I sitting on your privates? No more true than I am tasting your grandmother. Am I tasting your grandmother? No more true than I am speaking Spanish to my thumb. Am I speaking Spanish to my thumb? No more true than a chickadee sniffs the wind. Does a chickadee sniff the wind? No more true than a railroad is a banana. Is a railroad a banana? No more true than the icebox licks flies. Does the
I know that this is totally not the point, but Oedipus was supposed to be a pretty good leader, which made it more tragic when he fell. This song is still freaking hilarious, though.
@mabarry3 So I'm a couple of months late, but hey. I'm pretty sure he didn't cough;rather, everybody that knew what Oedipus Rex is about understood where he was going.
@t0ej0b cough...I may or may NOT be old enough to have seen him (LOL). However, I would argues that it is NOT HALF his humour. The words are a googleplex greater imho :P
I remember one of my friends back in High School gave me a cassette tape of Lehrer's "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer". That was in '88. I've been a huge fan ever since! I must admitt that I hadn't realized how old the songs were. I grew up in Tampa, and we had a Sat. afternoon show called "Creature Feature". The host was Dr. Paul Berrer and he used to lip sync Lehrer's songs, so I knew "Poisoning Pidgeons" as far back as when I was 4 or 5. His stuff will always be funny and relevent! :D
When my Ancient Greek teacher was a professor at a different college, a woman who also worked there was given a $50,000 grant to do an interpretive dance full-length MOVIE version of one of Sophocles' Oedipus plays (Antigone, to be specific).
OEDIPUS. INTERPRETIVE. DANCE. FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.
(Lots of arm waving, short scenes of two men dancing each other to death, and copious close-ups of the actress playing Antigone... who also happened to be the same woman given the grant to direct the movie. XD )
Oedipus... you scre me... you with your incest... thats not the motherly love you want... shame on you boy... now your mother/wife hung herself... now go pull your eyes out.... and have your uncle/step brother take your children/siblings under... no go off into the woods... and die... shamefull mother lover
You must admit that compared to Tom Lehrer's level of musicality, Rock and Roll, particularly in the 50's, was juvenile and simplistic, sanitized blues music designed for consumption by white teenagers. It would be hard to label his comparison racist, since "Oedipus Rex" is a ragtime song, another, more sophisticated and musically complex take on African American music. He was, of course, an Ivy League grad and instructor, so "elitist" is probably a fair cop.
I teach Oedipus Rex and I actually SHOW the film version he's referring to. I'm trying to learn the song so I can play it for my students. AND NEVER ever present someone else's work as your own. That's just pathetic.
The response to his "Rock and roll and other children's records" line really dates this recording. I have been listening to An Evening Wasted with Tom Leher since i was in elementary school.
@Redward652 Yeah it was much BETTER than it is today. It was raw and still had it's roots in blues which is very simplified music played by people on the fringes of society. .mostly poor folks. So yeah, it is elitist.
That doesn't make it elitist. Blue jeans were once used specifically by only minors. Now they're popular amongst everyone. Does that make THEM elitist, too? No, it doesn't. Popularity does not equal elitism.
Rock n Roll is a totally different KIND of music now. It doesn't sound the same. Pop-country is closer to the old stuff than modern Rock is.
I don't get how it could be racist, considering Greece is a European country, and Lehrer is of European Descent, so he'd just be poking fun at a member of his OWN race.
This was taken from an album entitled "An Evening {Wasted| with Tom Lehrer". A friend of mine played it for me way back in the 1960's. Hilarious then, still funny after all these years. You might also want to check out the video "We Will All Go Together When We Go" this was also on the album. LOL
He's 81, for those who are curious. His website is tomlehrer, but there's not much there. He will ever be one of the funniest songwriters of all time.
eeek! Should have googled, I stand corrected and stunned. Music (look at Pete Seeger) seems to keep you alive and well (if it doesn't kill you in your 20s (JOKE) xoxoxoxoxo
why don't you make random little films to go with them? I'm sure Tom would approve of some animated vegetables or some random pissing about to illustrate his work.
rly i grew up w/ this played in my house 24/7 since i was about 6... im 15 see the generations arent too different... WE ALL LIKE TO LAUGH @ TRAGEDIES
I still can't believe he did these so long ago. They're such modern political satire. Come to think of it, they're much BETTER than most modern political satire. Bring back Tom!
does anyone know when this was recorded? I'm trying to figure out which film he's referring to, instinctively i'd guess the Pasolini version but wasn't that 1967 and hadn't he stopped touring by then?
I can't be certain as I can't find any direct information on the song
That said, i think it's likely he's referring to the 1957 version of the movie. Tom had stopped touring regularly by the early sixties and the 57 version was more of an accurate "arthouse" type film as he mentions in the intro.
However its not impossible he meant the Pasolini version as he did occasionally perform and VERY occasionally tour after that. either way its a very late song for him.
Yeah if you could get the actual video that would be great. otherwise try a slideshow but not one of those crappy slideshows where they repeat the same pictures.
well, obviously Disney could not touch the Odipus subject in a toon series geared for 3 to 11 year olds but Eric Idles Promethean Ditty is simply hilarious and Song Of Circe is dripping with innuendo, but something tells me youve never heard of these Disney tunes.
Dont worry, though, Im a huge Tom Lehrer fan and probably have been before you were born.
If anyone has a problem with this they should find a time machine, go over to Asia and burn your ideals into their brains..on that note I believe I'll retire to a site to visit some other folks mothers.
Do you think 16 people loved their mother a little more than was necessary?
anonUK 3 weeks ago
Song starts at 1:57
Skinkworks42 1 month ago 2
No one can make a song about having sex with your own mother as classy as he.
AndyisLazy 2 months ago 6
I really want to know what happens before, "May I have the next slide please." ARGHH
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hey this was uploaded in my birthday!! ^_^
ChuffBerry 3 months ago
"Ooooooooor, you might end up like Oedipus..."
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Ah, he loved his mother! :D
jack002tuber 3 months ago 3
I'm sending this to my english teacher. Maybe it will get me some more time on my Oedipus essay.....
glassesguy904 3 months ago 3
I guess I had forgotten about Mr. Leher's songs until New Math was used in my daughter's school play.Now I have them all on my IPod and they make me smile when I run. What a brilliant guy.
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pattykakes2 4 months ago
"But maybe you had better let it go at that"-LOL
laudevecchi 4 months ago
I grew up listening to this, thanks Dr. Demento!!!
daygroomer 5 months ago
@daygroomer You lucky bastard... I only get Justin Bieber...
GIASreviews 4 months ago 4
this many is amazing
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gkatselis 5 months ago
Hmmm. Oedipus Rex. There was a m0therfuck3r with issues.
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"Hmmm. Oedipus Rex. There was a m0therfuck3r with issues."
Wow...did you figure that out all on your own?
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MRafh979 5 months ago
He's more than a man,
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He's more than a man,
He's a shiny golden god.
MarkNie1 6 months ago 3
This is by far the best song he ever wrote, you guys. Not to take away from his other songs-they were all great-but you simply can't compete with this. It's too damn perfect.
He "loved" his mother...
ThatSlinkyBastard 7 months ago
That Was the Wit That Was. A genius.
jamesefarkas 8 months ago
Happy Mother's Day, everybody!
thexalon 8 months ago 10
'...rock 'n' roll and other children's music.'
:)
MrTrenchcoatguy 9 months ago 5
At some point in the 50s/60s there was a tsunami of stupidity that hit western culture and swept the likes of Tom Lehrer away - I think it was called Rock and Roll.
kevinastraw 9 months ago 9
I am blown away! This guy is probably the best and brightest lyricist of all time.
Greygower 10 months ago
i wonder what kind of people were those 15 who voted down ...
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SullivanKatie 9 months ago
@LadyofTalent * the sort of people with an oepipus complex! :P
SullivanKatie 9 months ago
A vicious and insensitive song which is extremely clever and funny.
kevinastraw 10 months ago
"You're way ahead of me"
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Is it true that Glenn Beck is a Nazi? No more true than I am sitting on your privates. Am I sitting on your privates? No more true than I am tasting your grandmother. Am I tasting your grandmother? No more true than I am speaking Spanish to my thumb. Am I speaking Spanish to my thumb? No more true than a chickadee sniffs the wind. Does a chickadee sniff the wind? No more true than a railroad is a banana. Is a railroad a banana? No more true than the icebox licks flies. Does the
parafleet 1 year ago
@parafleet What's the difference between a duck? A horse, cause a vest has no sleeves!
Loejyrrab 7 months ago
@Loejyrrab Buhzing!
parafleet 7 months ago
I know that this is totally not the point, but Oedipus was supposed to be a pretty good leader, which made it more tragic when he fell. This song is still freaking hilarious, though.
thecoloradanempire 1 year ago
Hum, got to remember to say this next time I get really angry on someone
YOU MOTHER F...OEDIPUS REX!
;)
meanmanturbo 1 year ago
1:58 if you just wanna hear Tom sing...
PSReldus 1 year ago 5
now who here wants to see that slide?!
Kesh789 1 year ago 272
@Kesh789 lol
Shaun17170 1 year ago
@Kesh789 I think that refers to the elements song, which he performed before this one.
ELeeming 11 months ago
I bought this record album in 1967 and don't have a working player any longer. Thank goodness for Youtube, I can still listen.
larry1012 1 year ago 5
This is wild....
jjlandry6a 1 year ago
i lllooovvveee tom lehrer <3
lewyftw 1 year ago 5
I love how they all clapped at "rock and roll and other children's records. LOL
mabarry3 1 year ago 82
I don't know why, but I want to see the video for this.
I think one reason is because when he coughed, everybody laughed, I want to see what he did.
mabarry3 1 year ago 4
@mabarry3 So I'm a couple of months late, but hey. I'm pretty sure he didn't cough;rather, everybody that knew what Oedipus Rex is about understood where he was going.
Vhazhiphor 1 year ago
@Vhazhiphor That does make sense though ... I never thought about that.
mabarry3 1 year ago
@mabarry3, @vhazhiphor
It's not about that he coughed, but about that he sang "rather grim" and, after that, attending to the fashion, he added a tune that's full of joy ^^
SimplyJustRed 9 months ago
You're way ahead of me ^^.
mabarry3 1 year ago 8
Oh, our Greek/Latin teacher played this to us in class >.<
HexReinette 1 year ago 2
@HexReinette And this is cringe-worthy because? I'd be the happiest person in the world if my teachers played Tom Lehrer songs during class! =D
rainbowheydrich 1 year ago 7
@rainbowheydrich Agreed! 8D
Gothicanime20 1 year ago
I Love Oedipus. simply my favorite play. Im a major lover of the trilogy
NecoMimi43 1 year ago 2
Elements is still my favourite. It's the only reason I passed chemistry/SAT and so on LOL RIP TOM :) Thanks for uploading this!
penguinmama88 1 year ago
@penguinmama88 What do you mean RIP? He's not dead, he's 82.
mabarry3 1 year ago 11
@penguinmama88 he's not dead
dravarian26 1 year ago 3
Gotta admit, it was pretty good.
mabarry3 1 year ago 8
Wish I could see his facial expressions as he performed this, that seems to be half of his humor.
t0ej0b 1 year ago
@t0ej0b cough...I may or may NOT be old enough to have seen him (LOL). However, I would argues that it is NOT HALF his humour. The words are a googleplex greater imho :P
penguinmama88 1 year ago
I love how everyone busts out laughing at the 1st solo, he was a guy who had fun.
MrCopperhead1861 1 year ago 3
Not-a-once did he rhyme it with sex.
Raydienz 1 year ago 18
I remember one of my friends back in High School gave me a cassette tape of Lehrer's "An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer". That was in '88. I've been a huge fan ever since! I must admitt that I hadn't realized how old the songs were. I grew up in Tampa, and we had a Sat. afternoon show called "Creature Feature". The host was Dr. Paul Berrer and he used to lip sync Lehrer's songs, so I knew "Poisoning Pidgeons" as far back as when I was 4 or 5. His stuff will always be funny and relevent! :D
AlexisPK13 1 year ago
When my Ancient Greek teacher was a professor at a different college, a woman who also worked there was given a $50,000 grant to do an interpretive dance full-length MOVIE version of one of Sophocles' Oedipus plays (Antigone, to be specific).
OEDIPUS. INTERPRETIVE. DANCE. FOR AN HOUR AND A HALF.
kizuna8 1 year ago 11
@kizuna8:
So, erm, how did she interpret...
anonUK 1 year ago
@anonUK Badly.
(Lots of arm waving, short scenes of two men dancing each other to death, and copious close-ups of the actress playing Antigone... who also happened to be the same woman given the grant to direct the movie. XD )
kizuna8 1 year ago
@kizuna8 Did no-one slap her and the people who approved this across the chops for being so damnably thick?
Misishaxi 1 year ago
@Misishaxi Maybe someone should go and do that retroactively...
kizuna8 1 year ago
Epic song. They still play Lehrer songs in Universities today.
bhunter007 1 year ago
Oedipus... you scre me... you with your incest... thats not the motherly love you want... shame on you boy... now your mother/wife hung herself... now go pull your eyes out.... and have your uncle/step brother take your children/siblings under... no go off into the woods... and die... shamefull mother lover
kaihillp2 1 year ago
The only other Tom Lehrer song I have heard is the Element's Song. This one is just as good. :)
taylorconscious 1 year ago
i bet someone has done a similar song like this, but no way will it be as ingenieus as this
yannabiz 1 year ago
lol that's horrible...but it's so funny! lehrer is good. XD
TheAngeltsubasa 1 year ago 4
crvorhees, Yes, it is dated, but please recognize the superb talent it takes to do this genre of musical comedy!
musicalrich1 1 year ago 2
Ahead of his time.
Beatnikzombie 1 year ago 9
kfjc plays tom lehrer's songs on the radio
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
You must admit that compared to Tom Lehrer's level of musicality, Rock and Roll, particularly in the 50's, was juvenile and simplistic, sanitized blues music designed for consumption by white teenagers. It would be hard to label his comparison racist, since "Oedipus Rex" is a ragtime song, another, more sophisticated and musically complex take on African American music. He was, of course, an Ivy League grad and instructor, so "elitist" is probably a fair cop.
renobrb1960 1 year ago 9
BEST STUFF EVAR!
Smart Guy! :P
Ravokias 1 year ago 5
i loved the play oepipus rex
the7stuges 1 year ago 2
songs about incest: always funny
yukikoforevernoise 1 year ago 5
@yukikoforevernoise
Particularly written from real life?
... Or not.
awesome87 1 year ago
only tom lehrer would be able to find a word that rhymes with "oedipus"
tarantinosnumber1fan 1 year ago 7
I teach Oedipus Rex and I actually SHOW the film version he's referring to. I'm trying to learn the song so I can play it for my students. AND NEVER ever present someone else's work as your own. That's just pathetic.
renobrb1960 1 year ago 4
It's the version with William Shatner as a member of the Chorus, right? I've seen it. HAW!
jonahbegone 1 year ago
But lobachevsky told me different! I'm so confused!
dalekprawn 1 year ago
The response to his "Rock and roll and other children's records" line really dates this recording. I have been listening to An Evening Wasted with Tom Leher since i was in elementary school.
crvorhees 2 years ago 15
.. to say nothing of the references to "hit movies of the past few years" as Ten Commandments, Brothers Karamazov, Incredible Shrinking Man etc.
NixonIn2008 2 years ago
@crvorhees Thats what I was thinking too. (Yeah, that rock n roll is for kids. Mindless, drooling, kids. Ricky Nelson is corrupting todays youth!)
CarlLikes 1 year ago 3
1:58
julieail 2 years ago 5
i wish we could see the slideshow.
iamalittlegreekgirl 2 years ago 3
@iamalittlegreekgirl
no slide show. He was Making a joke about the fact that he was a professor at Harvard.
crvorhees 2 years ago
@crvorhees I believe in the original performance this song came right after The Elements, hence the "next slide" joke.
wmooring 1 year ago
I need to make a 20- line poem in Social Studies for extra credit.. we are doing Greece... Should I?
zzzzoooommmmgggg 2 years ago 7
Your teacher will probably recognize it. Tom Lehrer is more well-known than you think.
CortneyMinusYou 2 years ago 7
He taught Math at UCSC as I recall.
accordeon 1 year ago
Lobachevsky would tell you to go for it ;-)
DrStrangelove346 2 years ago 2
this guy Rocks
pivotyboy 2 years ago 2
This guy is a genius
ArchitectOfEvil 2 years ago 5
Bringing Greek Tragedies to the Masses.
thanx...
tomwmloppe 2 years ago 6
Hold on -- he rhymed WHAT with WHAT??!
Harte4u 2 years ago 11
i love the playwrite oedipus rex. its brillant and fun.
NecoMimi43 2 years ago
Haha! This is some fine humor from way back. The late 60s?
My mum has the original album somewhere.
Thanx for sharing.
5/5 and fave.
wordreet 2 years ago
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I hate this man.
tokyohalogen 2 years ago
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racist..
ironman711 2 years ago
How is this song racist? It's not racist at all.
Quttan 2 years ago 7
It's not racist, but it's certainly elitist. Ooh wow, he compared rock and roll to children's music.
Jaylectricity 2 years ago
You forget that in the days he was making music, Rock n Roll was NOT the same thing it is today.
Redward652 2 years ago 2
@Redward652 Yeah it was much BETTER than it is today. It was raw and still had it's roots in blues which is very simplified music played by people on the fringes of society. .mostly poor folks. So yeah, it is elitist.
princesstamika 2 years ago
That doesn't make it elitist. Blue jeans were once used specifically by only minors. Now they're popular amongst everyone. Does that make THEM elitist, too? No, it doesn't. Popularity does not equal elitism.
Rock n Roll is a totally different KIND of music now. It doesn't sound the same. Pop-country is closer to the old stuff than modern Rock is.
Redward652 2 years ago
I never said it wasn't. What doesn't sound elitist or may not have even been meant that way becomes that if you look at it closely.
princesstamika 2 years ago
@Quttan no, he meant the person (tokyohalogen) that said "I hate this man".
That's totally racist.
princesstamika 2 years ago
I don't get how it could be racist, considering Greece is a European country, and Lehrer is of European Descent, so he'd just be poking fun at a member of his OWN race.
Redward652 2 years ago
Wow...it was a response to tokyohalogen..
YT needs to hurry up with the response posts to be under the person someone responds to...-_-
ironman711 2 years ago
Just awsome
convictedVILLAIN 2 years ago 4
"I'd rather marry a duck billed platypus..."
Genius.
Fyrebahl 2 years ago 105
@Fyrebahl isn't that redundant? or is it supposed to be?
MarkNie1 6 months ago
@MarkNie1 I don't get how it's redundant, besides being a quote.
Fyrebahl 6 months ago
@Fyrebahl well all platypi are duck-billed.
MarkNie1 5 months ago
@MarkNie1 That's their name, though. A Duck-billed Platypus. I guess the name is a bit redundant, I just didn't know what you were talking about.
Fyrebahl 5 months ago
Respond to this video... So, since it's their name, it is supposed to be redundant.
Fyrebahl 5 months ago
@MarkNie1 That wasn't supposed to have the "respond to this video..."
Fyrebahl 5 months ago
"Or you may find yourself with a quite complex , complex" It just doesn't get much funnier than that.
strongwilledwoman 2 years ago 9
Other than possibly 'buy her candy or some flowers or a brand new hat, but maybe you'd better let it go at that' :D
Squitchtweak 2 years ago 7
"Apart from Rock and Roll and other children's records..." I love Rock, but I love you more Tom Lehrer. You're just too funny for words.
strongwilledwoman 2 years ago 6
i would hack off everyone else arms to be able to write like this..
;-}~
monello198 2 years ago 6
Does anyone have the music for this?
3mtftw 2 years ago
This was taken from an album entitled "An Evening {Wasted| with Tom Lehrer". A friend of mine played it for me way back in the 1960's. Hilarious then, still funny after all these years. You might also want to check out the video "We Will All Go Together When We Go" this was also on the album. LOL
TheOtherRoger 2 years ago
song starts at 1:58
rocke4444 2 years ago 2
thx!!
Anidanka 2 years ago
I loooove this man so muuuuch lol <3
MmeLEnfer 2 years ago 3
Oh, a pot shot at Rock and Roll. Hahaha!
Tom Lherer is a master mind.
dcbandnerd 2 years ago 2
Amazing man and songs! I wish I...nevermind ;)
flyingtadpole 2 years ago 2
0.0
Leomidjungard 2 years ago
He's 81, for those who are curious. His website is tomlehrer, but there's not much there. He will ever be one of the funniest songwriters of all time.
Shaeniff 2 years ago 8
That was BRILLIANT.
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I don't get it, why is this guy so great?
Black Sabath, Pink Floyed, rolling stoens, those are good.
herbienbrian 2 years ago
Because he is funny.... smart funny, not stupid funny. n_n
pharnon 2 years ago 31
because this man is a genius when it comes to writing lyrics and songs hes briliant and his songs arnt just music they comedy as well
MoukDan123 2 years ago 8
I think you may have missed the point by a bit...
welcome2walmart 2 years ago
*sigh*
nosferatu55 2 years ago 4
FAN bloody TASTIC!!! He is still the best, put him up against anyone living (go ahead...lol) and he'd still SLAY me :)
penguinmama88 2 years ago 7
He's great--But I'm pretty sure he's still alive!
doboramma 2 years ago 2
Yup. Alive and (hopefully) well at around 87 the last time I checked.
DragonFire381 2 years ago 2
eeek! Should have googled, I stand corrected and stunned. Music (look at Pete Seeger) seems to keep you alive and well (if it doesn't kill you in your 20s (JOKE) xoxoxoxoxo
penguinmama88 2 years ago
You are correct there !
DandDskeeto 2 years ago
Anybody can write a song, but it takes a certain amount of style to rhyme "Oedipus" with "platypus".
bunnydoc57 2 years ago 180
Well his options were pretty limited. LOL Genius!!
billsaintkilda 2 years ago
@bunnydoc57
but they do rhyme? I don't get it...
ignorantpom 1 year ago
@bunnydoc57 Not really. It seems dragged in just for the rhyme.
heimdallhinfrode 1 year ago
Oedipus Rex, the original mo fo.
Bfdidc 2 years ago 21
Brilliant! what more can one say?
shibbydude123 2 years ago 7
why don't you make random little films to go with them? I'm sure Tom would approve of some animated vegetables or some random pissing about to illustrate his work.
waldinho69 2 years ago 2
I grew up with this in the early 1960's. In 1963, in 7th or 8th grade I wrote"Platypus Rex". The tragic story of a misunderstood misformed misfit.
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Platypus Rex probably sucked.
angela1894 2 years ago
I hope you get raped by baboons for your random uncalled for criticism.
Baboons with horse cocks.
I bet 'Platypus Rex' was an awesome saga.
Keylimedelight 2 years ago 2
rly i grew up w/ this played in my house 24/7 since i was about 6... im 15 see the generations arent too different... WE ALL LIKE TO LAUGH @ TRAGEDIES
awsomefullerestest 2 years ago 3
im 15 and this guy is a fucking legend :D
Plawranc 2 years ago 12
Indeed he is !
DandDskeeto 2 years ago 4
I still can't believe he did these so long ago. They're such modern political satire. Come to think of it, they're much BETTER than most modern political satire. Bring back Tom!
lillyahoo 2 years ago 80
@lillyahoo Were you thinking cloning, a time machine or some kind of Frankenstein machine?
UnknownEntryRetype 1 year ago
The very fist bit about the next slide was after he just sang the elements song.
tattieno1 2 years ago 4
does anyone know when this was recorded? I'm trying to figure out which film he's referring to, instinctively i'd guess the Pasolini version but wasn't that 1967 and hadn't he stopped touring by then?
RawPower 2 years ago 3
I can't be certain as I can't find any direct information on the song
That said, i think it's likely he's referring to the 1957 version of the movie. Tom had stopped touring regularly by the early sixties and the 57 version was more of an accurate "arthouse" type film as he mentions in the intro.
However its not impossible he meant the Pasolini version as he did occasionally perform and VERY occasionally tour after that. either way its a very late song for him.
Jourell1 2 years ago 4
This is from "An Evening Wasted with Tom Lehrer" and was released in 1959.
h100spfld 2 years ago 8
I have been a fan of Tom Lehrer and this is the first time I have heard this. Brilliant social commentary turned musical. Pure enjoyment!
MrCashGifter 2 years ago 5
Yeah if you could get the actual video that would be great. otherwise try a slideshow but not one of those crappy slideshows where they repeat the same pictures.
HilariousD 2 years ago 4
The very best of Mr. Lehrer. This song always makes me smile and laugh, even though I've heard it countless times.
LeftSock06 2 years ago 6
Oedipus Rex is a sad play, isn't it. The play was mentioned, NOT the song itself.
mermaidamp 3 years ago 4
I know....Disneys just fantastic!!
Taraterm2 3 years ago
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love the wit..if you enjoy this kind of humour do check out the Disney Hercules TV series...they have a lot of songs along that vein.
Taraterm2 3 years ago
There's no comparison!
frederickus 3 years ago 2
Dear God I would hope not.
typacsk 3 years ago
well, obviously Disney could not touch the Odipus subject in a toon series geared for 3 to 11 year olds but Eric Idles Promethean Ditty is simply hilarious and Song Of Circe is dripping with innuendo, but something tells me youve never heard of these Disney tunes.
Dont worry, though, Im a huge Tom Lehrer fan and probably have been before you were born.
Taraterm2 3 years ago
If anyone has a problem with this they should find a time machine, go over to Asia and burn your ideals into their brains..on that note I believe I'll retire to a site to visit some other folks mothers.
Maskedhaven 3 years ago