Tribute: Stan Freberg
Posted on April 7, 2015 at 7:03 pm
The world lost one of the funniest and most creative men in broadcasting, Stan Freberg, who died today at age 88. One of the great thrills of my life was seeing Mr. Freberg at Comic-Con, and seeing the wildly enthusiastic audience let him know how much he was loved.
During the Mad Men era, he was responsible for some of television’s most memorable ads, like these:
When I worked at my high school radio station, we used to play this classic Freberg demonstration of the power of radio.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPbvFv6BJvUFreberg provided voices for some of Termite Terrace’s classic cartoons, including Pete Puma.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8gQ-YdgeMUHis fresh, brash, innovative style inspired many of the most subversively delicious comedy of the next generation. The Beatles said they were fans. And so were parodists like Weird Al Yankovic, who paid tribute to Freberg on Twitter.
Very sad to say that one of my absolute all-time heroes has just passed away. RIP Stan Freberg. A legend, an inspiration, and a friend.
— Al Yankovic (@alyankovic) April 7, 2015
May his memory be a blessing.
Volume 2, including some nice extras like bumpers (the short clips before and after commercials) and some of the irreverent Clampett’s other work. I did not know until I heard him speak at Comic-Con that the hilarious Stan Freberg worked on “Beany and Cecil,” but it helps to explain the jokes that we had to think about a little harder to understand why our parents were laughing.