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Stan Freberg: Clever Comedy

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Marc Myers
Dec 07, 2016
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Stan Freberg was many things. Dull wasn't one of them. He was an advertising copywriter and creative director, voice actor, radio personality, singer and comedian starting in the late 1940s. He also was the father of the send-up single and sardonic TV advertisement. Freberg, who died in 2015, also loved jazz, as many fans know from Three Little Bops, th…

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