Stan Freberg, RIP

[the G-man]

Stan Freberg, beloved genius of radio, comedy and advertising, dies at 88: http://m.washingtonpost.com/news/mo...s-of-radio-comedy-and-advertising-dies-at-88/

 

[urbandefault]

Turn off the bubble machine.

RIP, Stan.

 

[Kor]

I used to love listening to "When Radio Was" back when he was the host.

Kor

 

[J.T.B.]

Changed radio, changed comedy records, changed advertising. And was hilarious. As a kid I would cassette-record his parodies from the Dr. Demento show and borrow his albums from the library and my friends and I would listen to them before class and laugh uproariously. Sorry to see him go.

 

[The Old Mixer]

A beloved part of my holiday playlist:

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBph8e8JlG8[/yt]

 

[Melakon]

Freberg did some of the most brilliant television commercials during the 60s.

 

[Velocity]

the Jeno's pizza roll commercials were my favorite because those pizza rolls were a treat for my little sister and I. He was one of the greats.

 

[BoredShipCapt'n]

Oh, man, so sad. Our last link to the Golden Age of Radio.

And he did a lot of great (mostly uncredited) work in the Warner Brothers cartoons.

 

[publiusr]

Sad indeed