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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...