{"id":57516,"date":"2025-07-30T11:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=57516"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:04:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:04:15","slug":"poisoning-pigeons-in-the-park-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/?p=57516","title":{"rendered":"Poisoning Pigeons in the Park"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tom Lehrer just passed away, and I&#8217;m having a hard<br>time posting this.<br>There has never been anyone quite like him, he was<br>one of a kind.<br>A supremely talented songwriter, his lyrics are top shelf,<br>his performances even better.<br>Musician, mathematician, professor, and one of the most<br>irreverent comedians to ever grace a stage!<br>Not a flaw in his game, everything he did was superb, and<br>very much ahead of its time.<br>He will be SORELY missed by all who appreciate humor<br>and satire.<br>I will be playing him a lot on the show in the next few weeks.<br>Starting off with this irreverent gem, just him and his piano.<br>The fully orchestrated version will come later.<br>R.I.P. Mr. Lehrer, you WILL be missed\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Tom Lehrer - Poisoning Pigeons In The Park\" width=\"625\" height=\"469\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yhuMLpdnOjY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Lehrer just passed away, and I&#8217;m having a hardtime posting this.There has never been anyone quite like him, he wasone of a kind.A supremely talented songwriter, his lyrics are top shelf,his performances even better.Musician, mathematician, professor, and one of the mostirreverent comedians to ever grace a stage!Not a flaw in his game, everything he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57516"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57517,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57516\/revisions\/57517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/comedy101radio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}