{"id":33427,"date":"2025-07-28T09:51:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=33427"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:51:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:51:54","slug":"too-many-songs-by-tom-lehrer-with-not-enough-drawings-by-ronald-searle-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/07\/28\/too-many-songs-by-tom-lehrer-with-not-enough-drawings-by-ronald-searle-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer, With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Utterly dejected and a bit bereft to learn that Tom Lehrer (9<sup>th<\/sup> April 1928 &#8211; 26<sup>th<\/sup> July 2025) is no longer with us. The world will make even less sense than ever from now on, but without the potential surcease of a Master Wit at least making us laugh at all the horror and sadness of it all.<\/p>\n<p>Go listen to his music, buy his books, or if only cartoons exist in your world, revisit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2023\/05\/13\/too-many-songs-by-tom-lehrer-with-not-enough-drawings-by-ronald-searle\/\" target=\"_blank\">this <\/a>and relive the gibe-filled days of inglory&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Utterly dejected and a bit bereft to learn that Tom Lehrer (9th April 1928 &#8211; 26th July 2025) is no longer with us. The world will make even less sense than ever from now on, but without the potential surcease of a Master Wit at least making us laugh at all the horror and sadness &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2025\/07\/28\/too-many-songs-by-tom-lehrer-with-not-enough-drawings-by-ronald-searle-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Too Many Songs by Tom Lehrer, With Not Enough Drawings by Ronald Searle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-graphic-novels"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-8H9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33428,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33427\/revisions\/33428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}