Tom Lehrer

“When I was in college, there were certain words you couldn't say in front of a girl. Now you can say them, but you can't say 'girl.'”

“Apart from that Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?”

“San Francisco is a city of twenty-something millionaire white kids named Doug.”

“Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.”

“I'm not tempted to write a song about George W. Bush. I couldn't figure out what sort of song I would write. That's the problem: I don't want to satirise George Bush and his puppeteers, I want to vaporise them.”