Tom Lehrer - That's The End Of The News - The Frost Report

[lolmaker777]

and once again it has been proven i was born about 50 to late to hear real music

[MichaelHoover1994]

It is amazing how much the world has changed!

[laudevecchi]

Gosh I love him :-)

[candycar23]

Genius of musical satire, Tom Lehrer graduated Magna Cum Laude in Mathematics, @ 19 w/AB from Harvard; Masters Degree, Phi Beta Kappa, too. Taught Math at Harvard, Wellesley, then with political dept. at MIT, retiring from academia after teaching math to Liberal (of course) Arts students, additionally theater arts, UC Santa Cruz. Much under appreciated man of INFINITE talent, his last course was on the subject of 'Infinity.' My politics do not align w/ his, but

I so appreciate his gifts to us

[UglySean]

OMG he's in blurry colour! I don't think I've seen that yet. Really cool.

[cs1maniac]

The guy at the end looked down because Mrs.Massin was his mom

[RatPfink66]

The song is timeless and so is Tom's performance.

[ThePianoMuseum]

Interesting performance. Shame the song has been been amaricanised and pretty much re-written. The Joyce Grenfell version is MUCH better and more in context as the song is really about the absurdity of the British Ministry of Information's efforts to keep public morale up during and imediatly after WW2.

[silverandcopper]

@ThePianoMuseum Yeah, how dare any foreign artist adapt a song. Joyce Grenfell's version is unpleasant to listen to - mainly as a result of her high-pitched warbling. Although Lehrer's voice (at least in his younger years) was quite nasal, it's still easier to listen to than hers is. As for context - I'm sure that was really important to the audience of a satirical television show filmed 21 years after the end of the war. Oh no, wait...they laughed.

[falvo244]

@ThePianoMuseum

You've got me curious. I've tried searching for the Joyce Grenfell version, but to no avail. If you have a recording of it, might you consider posting it, please? I'd quite like to hear it.

Thank's & have a great day!

Sincerely yours,

Ed Falvo.

[MarkJSau]

@ThePianoMuseum It wasn't so much Americanised as adapted to the topic of the Frost Report on Medicine in which it was performed. And. like Ms Grenfell's version, it was based on Coward's "up yours" to the Ministry of Information :-)

[wastemind]

What makes this song so great is, apart from it obviously having great lyrics and Tom Lehrer being an exceptionally good pianist and singer, that you can see how much he enjoys what he does. He's having so much fun singing his dark humour songs, it's amazing!

[herzogsbuick]

Thanks for posting this!

[angela1894]

I wish he sang more of the song, rather than reciting the words without singing.

[whiteathame]

Google-up Tom Paxton. Paxton is only nine years younger than Lehrer but he's still doing his parody thing.

[beatlesopera]

I wish Tom Leherer had played King Gama in Gilbert and Sullivan's princess ida.

[rachjay4]

Of course there is no Tom Lehrer of our time. There has only been one Tom Lehrer of anyone's time. His songs are timeless.

And I totally agree with wilus: both Lehrer and Coward are geniuses. We need more people like them.

[johnnytweaker]

A stunning example of genius on the spot.

I think that there is no Tom Lehrer of our time.

[wilus1969]

Tom Lehrer sings Noel Coward - what a find!

[Veroxen]

I love this guy. This one is one of my favorite songs! Thank you for posting the video of it! :)

[Lindsayjane42]

Thanks for posting!!

[P1votG33k]

After all, who cares about Iraq and the econonic crisis?

[hairwire]

he has got the most beautiful, lovely, lovely smile! I love it. Tom Lehrer is a freakin genius. A talented, not-heard-of-enough genius.

[Lafayettebluesman]

I totally agree. Mr. Lehrer is absolutely hilarious!

[soccerlvr8221]

@hairwire Tom Lehrer is too underrated.. :(

[RickOnTheKeys]

so so so so so far ahead of his time

amazing

[antispamdinista]

Brilliant! Thank you so much for sharing this rare treat.

[irinaatcolumbia]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting!

[eversoplucky]

Coward and Lehrer. The masters of cruel humour.

[ignorantpom]

LOL with a capital A

[patroclus1979]

A true gem.

[lawwellsy]

The only result of aunt Maw's operation

Has been gales of wind at the least provocation!

Oh THAT is gold!

[OofusTwillip]

The only better one I've found is:

"And after the turnipectomy,

I held his hand and asked him to ex-plain

His turnip-giving, with respect to me."

[Chub4ChubsRule]

YAY!!!!

[MichaelPorter1983]

awesome!