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Robert Benchley Quotes

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Robert Benchley’s wry commentary still tickles ears, and these five snippets show his knack for turning everyday absurdities into sharp jokes. You’ll hear the tension between his lazy delivery and the analysis of humor that even peers noted. For more, see Comedy Writing, Satire and Parody, and American Humorists.

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If Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker had teamed up to write epic fantasy, something like Split Heirs might have resulted.

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“There seems to be no lengths to which humorless people will not go to analyze humor. It seems to worry them." Robert…

Robert Benchley

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Many of the writers who have inspired me most are outside the genre: Humorists like Robert Benchley and James Thurber, screenwriters like…

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Robert Benchley has a style that is weak and lies down frequently to rest.

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Nobody ever wrote better about domestic things than Robert Benchley.

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