Thomas Andrew Lehrer (April 9, 1928 – July 26, 2025) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, satirist, and mathematician, who later taught mathematics and musical theater. He recorded pithy and humorous, often political songs that became popular in the 1950s and 1960s. His songs often parodied popular musical forms, though they usually had original melodies. An exception is "The Elements", in which he set the names of the chemical elements to the tune of the "Major-General's Song" from Gilbert and Sullivan's Pirates of Penzance.

Lehrer's early performances dealt with non-topical subjects and black humor (also known as dark comedy) in songs such as "Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"

In 2003, Lehrer commented that his particular brand of political satire is more difficult in the modern world: "The real issues I don't think most people touch. The Clinton jokes are all about Monica Lewinsky and all that stuff and not about the important things, like the fact that he wouldn't ban land mines ... I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirize George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporize them." Earlier, he had said: "Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."

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Ghislaine Maxwell meets again with Todd Blanche, Trump's former lawyer, as the Epstein case continues. After two days of interrogations, Maxwell reportedly gave up 100 persons of interest. Is another chapter about to begin in this legal drama?

“Jeffrey Epstein's accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sex-trafficking sentence meets for a second time with Donald Trump's criminal lawyer turned Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche to see if the FBI and the Justice Department might have also needed her to commit suicide. Maxwell's lawyer, David Oscar Marcus, saying after the interrogations, Ghislaine Maxwell gave up 100 persons of interest. But the New York Times cautions that those 100 people could be a combination of victims, accomplices and other men who sexually abuse the victims.

This, as Speaker Mike Johnson, shuts down the entire House of Representatives for the summer insisting he will not be bullied by Democrats into forcing a vote on demanding to see the Epstein files. Instead, Mike Johnson prefers getting bullied by Donald Trump into buying more time before the White House can figure out how to bury this story. Perhaps bombing the Middle East again?”

“Ladies and gentlemen, it's understandable, if not excusable, that the felon-in-chief is trying to distract us, you, me, everybody else, Republicans, Democrats, MAGA people, from the metastasizing story regarding Jeffrey Epstein. But he's trying to distract us with the wrong things.

Clearly, the 2020 election was rigged. Obama was somehow a traitor. He tried that.

These aren't working, because they're old. Much like the fel— No, sorry. That's ageist.

But I'd like to help out by suggesting one thing he could distract us with, if he cared to. There have been reports this week, there was one on CNN, of famine in Afghanistan. There was a report on the BBC this week, of famine in Gaza.

And there have been reports, from several other international media, that there's a famine in South Sudan. There's famine all over the world, ladies and gentlemen, in the 21st century. Our attention could be directed to that.”

South Park co-creator Trey Parker had the briefest of responses on Thursday to anger from the White House over the latest season premiere, which showed a naked Donald Trump in bed with Satan.

”We’re terribly sorry,” Parker said, followed by a long, deadpan-comic stare.

One of my favourite punchlines

To be clear, I think the news is great! But the image and title make it seem like their arms were removed so they could have robot fights?

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25843340

I think it must be defective

EDIT: removed the previous image with the word "nipples" censored.