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Tom Lehrer

Quotes from interviews, Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
Context: Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good.
I have become, you might call it mature — I would call it senile — and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided.

“I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.”

Tom Lehrer

Quotes from interviews, Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)
Context: You can make fun with Saddam Hussein jokes … but you can't make fun of, say, the concentration camps. I think my target was not so much evil, but benign stupidity people doing stupid things without realising or, instead, thinking they were doing good.

People , Stupidity , Thinking , Evil

“Yes, he loved his mother like no other,
His daughter was his sister and his son was his brother.
One thing on which you can depend is,
He sure knew who a boy's best friend is.”

Tom Lehrer

"Oedipus Rex"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)

Love , Boy , Sister , Dependency

“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 landmines.”

Tom Lehrer

Sydney Morning Herald interview (2003)

People , Thinking

“Andrew Wiles gently smiles,
Does his thing, and voila!
Q. E. D., we agree,
And we all shout hurrah!
As he confirms what Fermat
Jotted down in that margin,
Which could've used some enlargin.”

Tom Lehrer

That's Mathematics (verse added in 1993 to celebrate the achievement of Andrew Wiles)