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Stan Freberg is one of America's best loved humorists, satirists, and keynote speakers.  He is known worldwide as an award-winning composer, lyricist, singer, actor, writer and director.  His albums and CDs have sold millions, reaching multi-generations of fans.

Starting at the age of 18, he began a lifetime career as a voice over actor doing over 400 Warner Bros. cartoons.  He also was directed by Walt Disney himself, who chose Freberg to be the voice of the beaver in Lady and the Tramp.  Presently Freberg does several voices for Garfield on Comedy Central.

The beginning of Freberg's radio career started with him appearing in a small part, on the Jack Benny show and culminated a few years later with actually replacing Jack Benny with the Stan Freberg Show on the CBS Radio Network.

During the same time period he helped create the award-winning children's program "Time For Beany" ("Beany & Cecil"), which received an Emmy for Best Children's Show three years in a row.  He performed many characters including Dishonest John and the much loved Cecil the Seasick Sea Serpent. Professor Albert Einstein was one of the show's millions of fans.

The Capitol Tower was Freberg's next home.  During Freberg's Capitol years, he recorded such hits as "John and Marsha" (a take-off of the record appeared on Mad Men), "St George and the Dragonet" (featured on PBS Pioneers of Broadcasting), "Green $hristmas", and "Stan Freberg Presents The United States of America".  He is known as one of the handful of Capitol Legendary

Recording Artists and served on the founding Board of Governors of NARAS where he personally created the word "Grammy" in 1957.

Radio, television, and print advertising were next.  He is the original "Mad Man". There was no humor in advertising before Stan Freberg.  Advertising Age magazine called him "The Father of the Funny Commercial."

Feature stories about Freberg have appeared in TIME, People, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous trade pulications.  Interviews may also be found online at the Chicago Tribune and The Huffington Post.  He has been a frequent guest on television shows ranging from "The Today Show" to "The Tonight Show". 

His fans cut through all demographic and social boundaries.  Beatle Sir Paul McCartney and Bette Midler, actors Tom Hanks, John Lithgow, Billy Crystal and Sir Anthony Hopkins are but a few of the legions of Freberg fans.  Director Steven Spielberg said Freberg was his "muse" when he was growing up in Arizona. Freberg's many awards include four Emmys, a Grammy, the Venice Film Festival's Grand Prix, and 21 Clios (the Oscar of Advertising).  Freberg has been inducted into The Radio Hall of Fame, and The Animation Hall of Fame. He received the Governors' Lifetime Achievement from The Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has a star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame.

Hunter Freberg is a humorist, entertainer, and keynote speaker.  Her audiences have numbered in size from 500 to 5,000 and have ranged from top Fortune 500 companies to international associations.  She has been a correspondent on KRON-TV (S.F.), KNBC-TV (L.A.) and CNN, answering viewers' questions from around the country.  Her commentaries have been syndicated on over 300 radio stations across the country and she has served as co-host for ABC Talkradio.  Her no-nonsense, breezy, on-target style has even taken center stage at The Improv in Los Angeles.  Women in Communications' national convention voted her the most popular speaker.  Since marrying humorist/satirist Stan Freberg, audiences have declared it, "A comedy match made in heaven". They have appeared together at Disney, Wonder-con San Francisco, Comic-con in San Diego (where they have been regulars sine 2009) and co-keynoted the Las Vegas Book Festival, to name a few.  Previously Hunter has been Ambassador for the legendary international jeweler Harry Winston.