> From Oxford, no less (Queen's College).

There are quite a few famous comedians with an Oxbridge connection, leading to the following throwaway gag in the Burkiss Way:

"In today’s profile on comedy we visit the new one night show at Her Majesty’s Theatre by Siberian salt mine workers in aid of people all over the world who are, for one reason or another, Oxbridge comedy geniuses. Also, later on in the show, Wither Rowan Atkinson. A blast furnace manufacturer shows how it’s possible."

Tom Lehrer is still alive and his musical career is doing as well as it ever did even if he hasn't produced a new piece in decades, he will be around for another 100 years or more. His songs have staying power well beyond the norm and his career will only truly end when the last person plays the last of his songs and no longer gets them.