The Village Voice, April 19th, 2006
Robert Benchley and the Knights of the Algonquin Kino It's a lost art-the short comedy talkie, produced by the hundreds during Hollywood's so-called golden age as nothing more than bonus gifts for audiences still schooled on the packed, bang-for-your-buck vaudeville experience. The definition of skit comedy for several generations, shorts like those written by and starring Robert Benchley seeded the soil for Steve Alien, Ernie Kovacs, Monty Python, and Saturday Night Live. Of course, as epitomized by this selection, the jokes are subtler, the rhythms are more relaxed, and the topics, however...
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