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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by ghaff on Friday April 06, 2018 @03:59PM (#16776852)
There also used to be a show on PBS--someone Baker maybe? Too common a name and too long ago for the Google to ferret it out. Very much in the Tom Lehrer vein but with very occasional exceptions, just not in the same class.
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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by patpending on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:28PM (#16777090)
Could you be thinking of Mark Russell?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Russell

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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by ghaff on Friday April 06, 2018 @05:36PM (#16777666)
Yes. Not sure where Baker came from other than both being fairly common names. He could be pretty funny and I remember watching him fairly regularly. As far as I can tell, he doesn't seem to have ever gotten around to publishing a "best of" collection (which I would buy) although there are mentions of plans here and there.
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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by jhbadger on Saturday April 07, 2018 @04:02PM (#16782564)
It's interesting that Russell himself is 85. I always saw him as "the next generation Lehrer", but he is actually the same generation.
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Re:Tom Lehrer at 90: a life of scientific satire by gdavisson on Friday April 06, 2018 @04:32PM (#16777129)
Are you thinking of Mark Russell (http://markrussell.net)?
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