Robert Benchley
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Sep 21, 2026
Terrence McCauleyHOST
yeah
Johnny ShawGUEST
um i love i actually love that robert benchley's oh no no i'm thinking that's foreign correspondent but like uh that's all the sewer stuff at the end it's just it's so beautiful and it's just so
Terrence McCauleyHOST
good
Johnny ShawGUEST
um Yeah, that is, I mean, I went to film school, so I was lucky to see a bunch of stuff on the big screen.
JayHOST
And I just want to share it with you guys.
JayHOST
To quote Robert Benchley, having a dog teaches a boy fidelity, perseverance, and to turn around three times before laying down.
JayHOST
Such are the shortcomings of experience.
JayHOST
Nevertheless, it's a good idea to review past mistakes before committing new ones.
speaker_10NARRATOR
End of footnote End of Answer to the Question, What is Enlightening? By Immanuel Kant, 1784
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
Bicycling the New Craze by Robert Benchley This is a LibriVox recording.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Bicycling the New Craze by Robert Benchley There is a new sport this season which bids fair to have great popularity among the younger sets.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
A sport imported, as are so many of our outdoor games, from England, where it has had a great vogue for several years now.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
This sport is called bicycling and derives its name from the instrument on which it is practiced, the bicycle.
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Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
People may poke fun at you for taking up with the first crazy fad that comes along, and you may not like it at first, but remember that no one ever does anything who is not willing to lead the way and take a chance.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
And I am sure that the results in improved circulation and general health will more than repay you for the embarrassment of being a pioneer and a cripple.
Anita Sloma MartinezNARRATOR
Foster Read by Anita Sloma Martinez
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
The Most Popular Book of the Month New York City, Including All Boroughs Telephone Directory New York Telephone Company New York, 1920 Eight Volumes Twelve Hundred and Eight Pages From Of All Things by Robert C. Benchley This is a LibriVox recording.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Read by Dale Grothman The Most Popular Book of the Month by Robert C. Benchley In picking up this new edition of a popular favorite, the reviewer finds himself confronted by a nice problem in literary ethics.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
The reader must guess what it is.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
There may be said to be two classes of people in the world.
8 MINS LATER
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
The conclusion is obvious.
Dale GrothmanNARRATOR
Aside from this point, the book is a success.
Andy BrownVOICE_ACTOR
Thank you.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Join us again next week at this same time for the Amos and Andy Show, at which time the boy's guest will be that self-styled expert on marriage problems, Mr. Robert Benchley.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Our thanks to Miss Ginger Rogers for being our guest tonight.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
The Amos and Andy Show is shortwave to all our armed forces overseas.
speaker_3NARRATOR
End of footnote End of Answer to the Question, What is Enlightening? By Immanuel Kant, 1784
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
Bicycling the New Craze by Robert Benchley This is a LibriVox recording.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Bicycling the New Craze by Robert Benchley There is a new sport this season which bids fair to have great popularity among the younger sets.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
A sport imported, as are so many of our outdoor games, from England, where it has had a great vogue for several years now.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
This sport is called bicycling and derives its name from the instrument on which it is practiced, the bicycle.
7 MINS LATER
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
People may poke fun at you for taking up with the first crazy fad that comes along, and you may not like it at first, but remember that no one ever does anything who is not willing to lead the way and take a chance.
Amy DunkelbergerNARRATOR
And I am sure that the results in improved circulation and general health will more than repay you for the embarrassment of being a pioneer and a cripple.
John LienhardHOST
Now we took all that and let it both move and talk to us.
John LienhardHOST
Robert Benchley's sardonic commentaries on the absurdity lurking in everyday life.
John LienhardHOST
Each of James Fitzpatrick's travelogues took us for nine minutes, one at a time, to countless countries.
John LienhardHOST
we never knew from one week to the next what delights would almost outweigh the featured movie we were there to see of course all this magic content seems to lose its luster when we compare it with the vastly larger meal that our electronic media now feed us That comparison was not there to be made.
Mark LavonierHOST
I'm your host, Mark Levonior.
Mark LavonierHOST
In this hour, true history with the wonderful world of Robert Benchley.
Mark LavonierHOST
Listen now to a profile of the famous American humorist on biographies and sound, heard on NBC on May 8th, 1956.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
Not long ago, yet if you measured time in years, but yet Long enough ago that it exists mostly in memory, there was a wonderful world.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
Inevitably, they all came together, almost as members of a club.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
And we will hear them as they remember one of their most beloved members and...
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
The Wonderful World of Robert Benchley.
Ernest ChappellNARRATOR
© BF-WATCH TV 2021 This is Biography in Sound.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Good evening.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
The makers of the new Rinseau bring you the Amos and Andy Show with their guest tonight, Mr. Robert Benchley.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
The Kingfish is apparently confronted with a domestic problem because with his friend Andy, he has gone to call on that eminent authority on domestic relations and the author of that well-known book, Harmony in Marriage, Robert Benchley.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
The boys are at Mr. Benchley's office now to discuss the Kingfish's problem.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Well, I'd certainly be glad to help you if
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Sapphire StevensSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I's leaving that woman, Chaser, this very day.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Well, the kingfish's wife has moved out.
Harlow WilcoxNARRATOR
Right now, we find him and Andy again consulting that master of marital problems, Mr. Robert Benchley.
speaker_4NARRATOR
There is a very good precedent for such a bargain between the two countries.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Robert Benchley in After 1903, What? When all seems lost in England, there is still Stilton, an endless after-dinner conversation piece to which England points with pride.
speaker_4NARRATOR
For a sound appreciation of this cheese, see Clifton Fadiman's introduction to this book.
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Taleggio and Bel Paese.
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