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There’s also Voltaire’s “Candide”; Charlie Chaplin’s capitalist critique, “Monsieur Verdoux”; Walt Kelly’s comic strip, “Pogo,” with its animalizations of Joseph McCarthy and Spiro Agnew; humorists Stan Freberg, Tom Lehrer and Beyond the Fringe; Mad magazine, the Onion, and on and on.

Watching Tom turn that into sharable, pull-apart monkey bread made me wonder: if a croque monsieur could get the Bundt-pan treatment, why not a funeral sandwich too?

A session that glides effortlessly from bouncy, laid-back romantic anthems like “Playaplaya” to stellar duets with the likes of Mon Laferte, Monsieur Periné and Café Tacvba’s Rubén Albarrán deserves a place in the race for album of the year.

His “Música Para Verse Bien” was one of the best albums of 2023, including “Agujas en el Pecho,” a glorious duet with Monsieur Periné singer Catalina García.

Croque monsieur is a French sandwich served hot with gooey, melted cheese.