( The Hollywood Reporter ) Stan Freberg , whose freewheeling comic career in advertising garnered him worldwide acclaim and whose satirical entertainments abounded on TV , the radio and on records , has died . He was 88 . Freberg died of natural causes at a Santa Monica hospital , his son and daughter , Donavan and Donna Freberg , confirmed to The Hollywood Reporter . `` He was and will always be my hero , and I will carry his brilliant legacy forward as best I am able , '' his son wrote on Facebook . The godfather of humorous and irreverent commercials , Freberg lampooned cultural institutions and described himself as a `` guerilla satirist . '' The New York Times dubbed him the `` Che Guevara of advertising , '' and years later , `` Weird Al '' Yankovic called him a major influence on his career . `` Very sad to say that one of my absolute all-time heroes has just passed away , '' Yankovic wrote on Twitter . `` RIP Stan Freberg . A legend , an inspiration , and a friend . '' Freberg also was known for his musical parodies . `` Wun'erful Wun'erful , '' his 1957 spoof of `` champagne music '' — on which he collaborated with orchestra leader Billy May — lampooned `` The Lawrence Welk Show . '' He also parodied Johnnie Ray 's hit `` Cry , '' which Freberg rendered as `` Try . '' ( Ray was quite angry until he realized Freberg was fueling sales of his record . ) The Los Angeles native had hit records of his own , including `` St. George and the Dragonet , '' a 1953 send-up of the series `` Dragnet . '' His recordings were so popular that he landed his own radio program in 1954 , `` That 's Rich . '' Three years later , he presented `` The Stan Freberg Show '' on CBS Radio , where he regularly mocked commercials by advertising bogus products . Hollywood Reporter : `` Mad Men 's '' return . He won a Grammy Award in 1959 for best performance , documentary or spoken word for `` The Best of the Stan Freberg Shows . '' Earlier in the 1950s , Freberg helped create and write the Emmy Award-winning comedy `` Time for Beany , '' also working with puppets and performing on the show . Its droll , off-the-wall humor appealed to fans including Albert Einstein . During Beany 's early gestation , he and the other writers had no office , so they wrote in coffee shops at night as well as in an `` office '' in a condemned building . Not surprisingly , Freberg ruffled institutional feathers . Capitol Records balked at releasing his satires of radio-TV personality Arthur Godfrey and Ed Sullivan 's variety show `` Toast of the Town . '' Hollywood Reporter : `` Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles '' -- the untold story . Freberg disdained the hard sell . He created such classic comic ad capers as `` Nine out of 10 doctors recommend Chun King Chow Mein , '' and his Jeno 's Frozen Pizza campaign featured the Lone Ranger and Tonto . He skewered the greed of the ad business in `` Green Chri $ tma $ , which criticized the over-commercialization of the holiday . In 1958 , Freberg opened his own ad agency , Freberg Ltd. His slogan was `` More Honesty Than the Client Had in Mind , '' and he even had a corporate motto : `` Ars Gratia Pecuniae '' ( Art of the Sake of Money ) . Freberg , whose inspirations were Jack Benny , Fred Allen and Norman Corwin , worked in cartoons for decades , starting in the 1940s . He provided the voice for Junyer Bear in the 1948 Chuck Jones Looney Tunes cartoon `` What 's Brewin ' , Bruin , '' and he famously played the three pigs , the wolf and the singing narrator in another Looney Tunes classic , 1957 's `` Three Little Bops . '' He teamed often at Warner Bros. with the great Mel Blanc . Freberg also was the voice of Beaver in Disney 's `` Lady and the Tramp '' ( 1955 ) . For the feature Looney Tunes , `` Back in Action '' ( 2003 ) , he was heard as a baby bear . Survivors also include his wife , Hunter , and a granddaughter . ©2015 The Hollywood Reporter . All rights reserved .
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