Robert Benchley: How to be a Detective
November 12th, 2011
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This is fantastic!
@rustydog1236 Peter Benchley was Robert’s grandson? I didn’t know…. interesting.
@diddymuck I get the distinct feeling that you probably don’t understand exactly what he’s mocking here. Benchley is great, he and a few others and responsible for changing popular comedy from schlocky lowest-common-denominator vaudeville routines to genuinely intelligent wit and satire.
Lame.
This was Pretty funny in my opinion. I’m only 12 but this was good!
@rustydog1236
His grandson, Peter Benchley, wrote the book that the movie ‘Jaws’ was based on.
@diddymuck
Be mindful what people found humourous in 1936 does tend to age well.
They were quite well received when new.
Do you find the 1976 episodes of Saturday Night Live are still as funny as their reputation?
Not everyone likes Benchley’s delivery. It was another time–slower–and very wry and dry. I’m not sure Hollywood knew what to do with him.
For those who don’t like his pace–please READ the short humorous pieces that he wrote for The New Yorker and other publications. He was the Woody Allen of his day.
One of the great humorists of the 20th century. Laugh out loud funny!
this guy ain’t funny, in spite of his reputation.
1 star
Does anyone know the name of the ‘artist’ in the beginning? I was wondering if that was Gluyas Williams… My favorite book of Benchleys is the ‘The Worm Turns’. LMFAO reading it. Trivia: His Grandson wrote the book that the movie ‘Jaws’ was based on…
this is so goofy XD lol
Robert Benchey’s short story Nothing But the Tooth is one of the funniest things you’ll ever read! :->