Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody Puff and the Incredible Mr. Nobody is a 30-minute animated television film loosely based on the song "Puff, the Magic Dragon" by Leonard Lipton and Peter Yarrow. This film is produced by Fred Wolf Films. The title character was voiced by Burgess Meredith, and the film also featured the voice of David Mendenhall. The special first aired May 17, 1982 on CBS. This was the last "Puff the Magic Dragon" special. Puff finds a young boy named Terry who has an overactive imagination, and who therefore has trouble making friends with other children, instead
Puff, the Magic Dragon popular secular tune. Both tune and elements of the lyrics were adapted in the controversial parody "Barack the Magic Negro", written and recorded by Paul Shanklin for Rush Limbaugh's radio program, after the term was first applied to then presidential candidate Obama by movie and culture critic, David Ehrenstein, in a "Los Angeles Times" op ed column of March 19, 2007. Yarrow condemned the act as "shocking and saddening in the extreme," stating that "taking a children's song and twisting it in such vulgar, mean-spirited way, is a slur to our entire country and our common agreement to move beyond