Lord Buckley was the original bebop hipster, a combination huckster/storyteller/comic. He presented himself as a hip aristocrat, incorporating 1940s and '50s black jazz musicians' slang into his reworkings of religious tales (most notably about Jesus, whom he called "The Nazz"), as well as literary classics like Poe's "The Raven." He was a tremendous influence on the Beat generation and the first generation of folk-rock bohemians.