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The audience usually has to be with you, I'm afraid. I always regarded myself as not even preaching to the converted, I was titillating the converted.

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Tom Lehrer
Age: 96
Born: 1928
Born: April 9
Lyricist
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University Teacher
New York City
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Thomas Andrew Lehrer
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