# Paul Krassner, Father of Underground Press (1932-2019)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [July 22, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444 "2019-07-22T11:41:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444/1 "2019-07-22T11:41:35Z")

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[https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/paul-krassner-investigative-satirist-writer-and-radio-host-dies](https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/paul-krassner-investigative-satirist-writer-and-radio-host-dies)

I used to talk to him off and on for years… We’d always talk Mort Sahl. The crazy, crazy thing, is someone on Twitter quoted a section yesterday, and they quoted my thread on another movie forum, and sure enough, the Paul Krassner/Mort Sahl interview was the third thing I posted.

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**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444/2 "2019-07-22T13:44:15Z")

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I am so sad. I used to email him, and he would e mail me back. ☹

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**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444/3 "2019-07-22T16:05:06Z")

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Groucho Marx: “I predict that in time Paul Krassner will wind up as the only live Lenny Bruce.”

Now what?

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**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\
**Post date:** [July 22, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/paul-krassner-father-of-underground-press-1932-2019/837444/4 "2019-07-22T16:41:13Z")

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Farewell, Zen Bastard.