Trivia

Was the first person, besides Mel Blanc, to get a voice credit on a Looney Tunes cartoon, "The Three Little Bops". Before that, all Looney Tunes cartoons ended with the credit, "Voice Characterizations by Mel Blanc", even though other voice actors often were used in addition to Blanc. However, in this particular case, Freberg did all the voices in the "Bops" cartoon and successfully argued that it was ridiculous for Blanc to take credit for work he had no part in.

He's the one who popularized the phrase "We just want to get the facts, ma'am." on his parody album of Dragnet (1951), "St. George and the Dragonet".

Founded advertising agency "Freberg, Ltd. (but not very)" in 1957. The company motto is "Ars gratia pecuniae" (Latin for "art for money's sake"). The seal for the company was designed by Saul Bass and pictures a real seal, wearing sunglasses.

Got the idea for his classic, controversial satire on holiday commercialism, "Green Chri$tma$" (Capitol: 1958), from seeing an advertisement around Christmastime, 1957, of a family gathered around the tree, ecstatic at the sight of...four brand new snow tires. For Freberg, a Baptist minister's son, it was all too much, and he wrote the outline for the sketch that very afternoon.

He was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for Recording at 6145 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California.

American comedy would be significantly drier terrain without Stan Freberg, the merrily subversive pop culture parodist. A self-described "guerilla satirist," Freberg's work was truly ahead of its time. A prolific postwar figure in radio and advertising, Freberg released scores of successful comedy records, ranging from zany rock'n'roll spoofs to anarchic novelty skits and barbed political commentaries. Dubbed "the father of the funny commercial," he also shaped modern ads and lent his voice to dozens of classic Warner Bros cartoons.

Star of CBS Radio's "The Stan Freberg Show" (1957).

He was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.

Father of Donavan Freberg and Donna Jean Freberg

Ex-father-in-law of Todd Fisher.

Biography in: "Who's Who in Comedy" by Ronald L. Smith, pg. 169-170. New York: Facts on File, 1992. ISBN 0816023387