Oh, wait. He actually is dead.
The amazing Lord Buckley in a 1949(!) TV appearance, chanelling his Inner Satchmo.
Buckley, in case you're unfamiliar with him, was a huge influence on the Beat Boom of the 60s on both sides of the pond; the Yardbirds named a song -- "The Nazz are Blue" -- after his hilarious hepster reworking of the Christmas story, and it was of course no accident that a certain band from Philadelphia featuring the young Todd Rundgren did something similar.
Another fav YT clip of his Lordship: His 1956 appearance on "You Bet Your Life":
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Hipsters, flipsters and finger-poppin' daddies,
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I came here to lay Caesar out,
Not to hip you to him.
The bad jazz that a cat blows
Wails long after he's cut out,
The groovy is often stashed with their frames.
So don't put Caesar down...."