Freberg was one of the first to inject satire into commercials. In the 1950s and '60s, he created countless memorable ads using pointed humor. Mad Men had nothing on Stan Freberg, a genius of American ...

A satirist who brought humor to the world of advertising died today. Stan Freberg was 88. The New York Times once called him the Che Guevara of advertising. In the late 1950s, he created an ad agency ...

Satirist Stan Freberg, who influenced generations with his witty comedy albums and cartoon voices and memorable advertising campaigns, died Tuesday in Santa Monica. He was 88 and had been suffering ...

My Dad knew some interesting characters. One was Bob Harrington – a writer, jazz aficionado, and raconteur. Kind of a combination of Nat Hentoff and Ernie Kovacs. When we were kids, Dad would bring my ...

Stan Freberg was a comedian known for his skits and songs. During an interview, The Monkees‘ Micky Dolenz revealed how Freberg changed his life. Notably, Freberg once appeared on an episode of The ...

The goofy, spoofy radio commercials of Stan Freberg have moved a lot of Chun King Chinese food and Contadina tomato paste (“Eight great tomatoes in that little bitty can?”) into the stomachs of ...

Stan Freberg Advertising Collection, 1958-1991, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution. Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center ...

He lampooned cultural institutions in commercials, had hit radio shows and records and voiced many popular Looney Tunes cartoons at Warner Bros. By Duane Byrge Stan Freberg, whose freewheeling comic ...