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 ...

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 ...

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 ...