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“Life is like a sewer - what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.”

Truer words have never been sung.



Those words haven't (so far as I know) been sung either: they're from one of his spoken preambles, not from any of the songs.

(The preambles are generally at least as funny as the songs, at least in my estimation.)



I wouldn't call what he does singing given the normal meaning of the phrase.


That seems unfair. He is (or at least was when he was doing it -- he's 96 years old now) a very competent singer and pianist. He's not particularly trying to make a beautiful sound, but there's more to singing than that.


Even he has said that calling what he was doing 'singing' would be generous.


Well, yes, self-deprecating humour is a thing, but there's a difference between Tom Lehrer pretending he can't really sing and someone else claiming he can't really sing.


mini-musical?




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