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All fun and games until Longfellow Deeds showed up with a right cross.

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They all clumped together and bought an Island on Lake Bomoseen in Vermont. It is said to have been the site of much concern as unmarried women went there unchaperoned. 😮

A bunch of no talent hustling pushy Jews pretending to br wits

Is that Fred gynne’s voice?

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 great video

I had always looked for this documentary. It was worth the wait!

The 1st podcast.

Poor Dorothy. Libido ,with or without alcohol, is tough on a girl in her thirties in a crowd of interesting and horrible men laughing at all her jokes. Imagine an illegal abortion back then with them all in attendance advising her to stop trying to kill herself. Funny not funny, guys.

Brevity is the soul of lingerie. I put all my eggs in one bastard. Oh my.

Many self-absorbed people.

Didn't someone once say..?.."Those were the days"..😊

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culture and wit that never will be matched

Please stop the music

All is vanity.

This was FUN. What witty people they were!

Many thanks for this, Impropaganda.

Just about anyone who could string more than two sentences together seemed like a genius, right after WWI and just before talkies came in and the stock market bowed out.

There was a film made a few years ago entitled “Mrs. Parker and The Vicious Circle.” It sparked my interest in these people.

Have known about this story for years. 10 years EVERY day? No One is that funny or fresh. One of those legions that gets bigger than it ever was and actually ran out of gas about 3 years into it?

Now American literati are only functionally literate. The awful generation of ‘68!

This is obviously white privilege today. Amazing they allow it to be viewed. So sad today.

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all wars are bankers wars.

Robert Benchley was sent to Venice on assignment and he telegraphed his editor with this message - "Arrived Venice, streets full of water - please advise."

Thank you for this enlightening look at those interesting times and people. How much fun to have been if only an spectator then.

Wow... wit! Genuine wit....a long lost commodity in today's illiterate, hostile world. Thank you!

Dorothy Parker was married to a Campbell. Just like Tanya Tucker & Glen Campbell.

In her later years, [Dorothy Parker] denigrated the Algonquin Round Table, although it had brought her such early notoriety: "These were no giants. Think who was writing in those days-Lardner, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hemingway. Those were the real giants. The Round Table was just a lot of people telling jokes and telling each other how good they were. Just a bunch of loudmouths showing off, saving their gags for days, waiting for a chance to spring them ... There was no truth in anything they said. It was the terrible day of the wisecrack, so there didn't have to be any truth ..." Wiki

I read the "Big Joke" cover to cover each week. It's a chore more often than not. The "t" in "Often" is silent.

Thanks. I enjoyed the information re: that cohort of witticisms. In truth, I don't think they were as spectacular as they've been hyped. Talent, and nearly all journalists, who have a command of the English language, they were a group of writers in the right place at the right time. Waspish, acidic? Just a bunch of regular people using their command of language to "burn" colleagues. I had the same experiences in college and the Army, but we weren't published and quoted in 75 newspapers.

Witless doc.

A group of queers and closeted queers. Those were the days.

So much more fun than promising to follow social rules you never thought about yet.

Dorothy Parker, on Calvin Coolidge's death: How can they tell?

In the East was the Algonquin...at the same time in the west was W R Hearst's 'San Simeon'.

Ms. Parker was extraordinary in many ways. However, committing suicide was not one of them.

Radio wounded the newspaper trade and television wounded radio. The internet killed newspapers. With each fall they scrape off the unnecessary and opinionated columnists on "the arts" are easily expendable. The true artists found work elsewhere and the rest molded away.

I think this was made in 1987, been waiting that long to see the whole thing again, I only taped half on my VHS tape. 😊 Can’t believe it took 9 years to find it on YT.

So did they broadcast this thing on the radio or what?

Amazing how the most witless Anglo-Saxon nation on the planet has produced its greatest wits. The English have no excuse for not being witty. Tradition. But if you really want wit, turn to Jewish Americans. Mostly, Americans can't understand how funny they appear to foreigners. Oscar Wilde discovered this in the 1880s!

Kauffman & Hart wrote the play, The Man Who Came to Dinner on the premise if Alex Woollcott came to your house and couldn't leave.

Odd to keep hearing Herman Munster pop in. Fred Gwynne's voice is so instantly identifiable. :)

a somber reminder that even the greatest stars of society and tastemakers will all be forgotten within 2 generations In the end, just a bunch of high society snobs.

Where is America today...that proud, happy America after WW1? Where is the talent, wit and glamour? Broadway, Hollywood, the written word...all have succumbed to sleaze, vulgarity, "woke". Wouldn't those brilliant writers be stunned to hear "woke" used as it is today! Where is heard "Over There" with pride and joy in being an American? I could weep for our beloved country.

The animated take on the Al Hirschfeld caricature of the Round Table is just adorable. 🥰

Academy Award Winner for Best Long-form Documentary in 1988. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eJCwhIBmqN97rtU

HARPO MARX, "A TALKER AT LUNCH"? NOT SO! HARPO NEVER SAID ANYTHING. THAT'S WHY THEY APPRECIATED HIM. EVERYONE ELSE WAS A TALKER. HE WAS THE ONLY LISTENER.