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
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
One cubic foot less of space and it would have constituted adultery.
Streets full of water. Please Advise.
In Milwaukee last month a man died laughing over one of his own jokes. That's what makes it so tough for us outsiders. We have to fight home competition.
[Reviewing the New York City Telephone Directory] But it is the opinion of the present reviewer that the weakness of plot is due to the great number of characters which clutter up the pages. The Russian school is responsible for this.
If you think that you have caught a cold, call in a good doctor. Call in three good doctors and play bridge.
Why don't you get out of that wet coat and into a dry martini?
There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them.
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Opera is where a guy gets stabbed in the back, and instead of dying, he sings.
Most of the arguments to which I am a party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about.
I can't seem to bring myself to say, "Well, I guess I'll be toddling along." It isn't that I can't toddle. It's that I can't guess I'll toddle.
Perfectly Scandalous" was one of those plays in which all of the actors unfortunately enunciated very clearly
There are two kinds of people in this world - those who divide everything into two and those who don't