Looking for some quality comedy entertainment to check out? Who better to turn to for under-the-radar comedy recommendations than comedians? In our recurring series Underrated, we chat with writers ...

When I started my career as a young humor writer for the satirical magazine Spy, in the mid-nineteen-eighties, I heard this a lot: “So you want to be the next Dorothy Parker, eh?” I took this as a ...

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 ...

The writers, critics, actors and wits who made up The Algonquin Round Table during lunches at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City in the 1920s were known as “The Vicious Circle.” Evisceration was the ...

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 ...

Benchley was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, on September 15, 1889. When his mother got word of his brother Edmund’s death during the Spanish-American War, she blurted out without thinking, while ...

This year is The New Yorker’s eighty-fifth anniversary. To celebrate, over eighty-five weekdays, we will turn a spotlight on a notable article, story, or poem from the magazine’s history. The issue ...

1In the 1920s Robert Benchley pretty much invented the short humor piece. After a brief stint in business (“I am known as a bad businessman from one end of the country to just a little beyond the same ...