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minus-square@profdc9@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink17•1 year ago“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Tom Lehrer
minus-squareFlying SquidOPlinkfedilink9•1 year agoYou know what’s great about Tom Lehrer? A lot of his songs are really dated, and yet still very funny. Also, he released his entire catalog of songs- sheet music, lyrics and audio- to the public domain.
minus-squareNaja Kaouthialinkfedilink5•1 year agoI just shared a link this morning to his song about Werner von Braun. Absolutely brilliant.
minus-square@iHUNTcriminals@lemm.eelinkfedilink5•1 year agoYeah you can just use it as a good news site now.
Huh… this one wasn’t The Onion.
The Onion got usurped by reality a while back.
“Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.” - Tom Lehrer
You know what’s great about Tom Lehrer? A lot of his songs are really dated, and yet still very funny.
Also, he released his entire catalog of songs- sheet music, lyrics and audio- to the public domain.
I just shared a link this morning to his song about Werner von Braun. Absolutely brilliant.
Yeah you can just use it as a good news site now.
Hard to satire reality when reality feels like satire.