Humorists from Robert Benchley and Woody Allen to Ian Frazier ... that worked about as well as you’d expect. Writing my first book, a history of college pranks, the question arose whether ...

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Robert Benchley (1889-1945) has not aged well — at least as a cinematic wit and raconteur. While I don’t know about his comic essays published early on in the pages of the New Yorker, and I am not ...

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