A belated response, but the song Liz quoted from all those posts (and three years) back was not "Fight Harvard Fight" but "Bright College Days". They are both great songs.
   I recall my introduction to Tom Lehrer came at a Downes and Beer gig. Paul sang "The Masochism Tango," with its wonderful opening couplet, "I ache for the touch of your lips dear/But much more for the touch of your whips dear." I went to the record shop to discover more.
   "I hold your hand in mine," is in such monumentally bad taste but it is screamingly funny. It takes someone a bit special to bring that off.
   I was thinking about the satirist whom Fionn was trying to recall from the David Frost Show. I believe that Julie Felix did appear. However, if he is recalling a humorist who improvised calypsos, he may be recalling Lance Percival on That Was The Week That Was.
   Tom Lehrer was prodigiously clever and funny though. I think only Shel Silverstein, who was essentially rather gentler, produced as many lastingly funny songs.