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Few things are so fleeting as the fame of a professional humorist. In the ’20s and ’30s, Robert Benchley was one of America’s best-known comic writers, a founder of the Algonquin Round Table who ...

Among aspiring comedy writers, the would-be print humorist seems rare. Though The Onion, McSweeney’s, and The New Yorker are high-profile exceptions, it seems everyone wants to write for sitcoms, late ...

"Me Benchley. Benchley bad boy. Benchley go." Theatre critic and Algonquin Round Table founding member Robert Benchley was heard muttering the above words as he got up from his chair and walked out in ...

Above all else Robert Benchley was a humorist. He had a dry self-effacing kind of wit that people enjoyed. He is known by many today for his popular short subject film comedies he made in the 1930s ...

How many Broadway shows has Robert Benchley been in? Robert Benchley has appeared on Broadway in 1 shows. How many West End shows has Robert Benchley been in? Robert Benchley has not appeared in the ...

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 ...

Peter Benchley, who died Saturday at age 65, was the very model of a pulp writer. The grandson of Robert Benchley, the humorist and Algonquin troubadour, and the son of Nathaniel Benchley, the ...