Saturday, May 16, 2015

Stan Freberg --- will never die

Stan Freberg Dead: Acclaimed Satirist Was 88 - Hollywood Reporter:
(April 07, 2015)
Stan Freberg, whose freewheeling comic career in advertising garnered him worldwide acclaim and whose satirical entertainments abounded on TV, the radio and on records, has died. He was 88.

Stan Freberg did more with words and your imagination than the movies and television ever did; he kept the spirit of radio alive even after my parents bought their first television (a Packard Bell in Danish Blond ... to compliment Mom's Orange Deep-Shag Carpet and Mint Green Sectional, I Kid You Not!)

Mister Freberg lives on in You Tube.  Here are two of my favorite skits:



Elderly Man Rivers and Who Listens to Radio;





1 comment:

Mark said...

His satire "Green Christmas" is still one of the best ever.