Robert Benchley
Robert Benchley
Robert Charles Benchleywas an American humorist best known for his work as a newspaper columnist and film actor. From his beginnings at the Harvard Lampoon while attending Harvard University, through his many years writing essays and articles for Vanity Fair and The New Yorker and his acclaimed short films, Benchley's style of humor brought him respect and success during his life, from New York City and his peers at the Algonquin Round Table to contemporaries in the burgeoning film industry...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth15 September 1889
CityWorcester, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Then it's merrily, merrily, merrily, whoa! To the old gray church they come and go, Some to be married and some to be buried And Old Robin has gone for the mail
A great many people have come up to me and asked me how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated. My answer is 'Don't you wish you knew?
The free-lance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps.
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous
As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.
Perfectly Scandalous" was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly
There is something about saying "Ok" and hanging up the receiver with a bang that kids a man into feeling that he has just pulled off a big deal, even if he has only called the telephone company to find out the correct time
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
England and America should scrap cricket and baseball and come up with a new game that they both can play. Like baseball, for example.
Consider the number of young people all over the world who are getting married, day in and day out, for no other reason than thatsomeone of the opposite sex looks well in a green jersey or sings baritone, and then tell me that divorce has reached menacing proportions. The surface of divorce has not even been scratched yet.
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world; those who constantly divide the people of the world into two classes and those who do not.
The problem of what to wear while lolling about the house on a Sunday afternoon is becoming more and more acute as the fashions in lolling garments change. The American home is in danger of taking on the appearance of an Oriental bordello.