Movies

A candidate has laryngitis, so his assistant must make a speech in his place. Both the speaker and his audience are soon befuddled.

In this screwball comedy a WW2 US pilot bombs a Japanese aircraft carrier, is assumed to be dead, and then is misquoted in the press as fondly...

In this comedic short, a psychoanalyst encounters a patient who eerily resembles himself.

Benchley, in his own unique way, starts to drive his wife crazy. First he waits until just as she is serving dinner before he goes to wash his hands...

Two men working below a manhole cover wonder what they would do if a woman was to fall in. This leads to one of the workers saying that Robert...

Joe Doakes, like most men, is unable to cope with personal emergencies or those in a position of authority (real or imagined).

A lecturer tells the audience that it is National Take Care Week. He tells the story of a man who gets stung in his garden and the problems the man...

A police officer alerts his audience to the fact that inanimate objects can be as dangerous as human criminals. He then displays several offenders...

A New York magazine sends its editors to South America to find beautiful girls.

A bookish husband tries to win back the affections of his horse-breeding wife.

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

A Braodway playwright wants to keep on writing plays for his wife to star in, but all she wants is to retire to Connecticut and, following a few...

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

When Joe Doakes listens to a quiz show on the radio and knows all the answers, his wife encourages him to go on a quiz show himself. He appears on a...

As Joe Doakes is reading the newspaper, he begins to talk to himself. Questioned by his wife, he explains that he is disturbed by the paper's account...

Robert Benchley's wry forerunner to "Father of the Bride" detailing his perspective of the upcoming nuptials.

This film gives a fictionalized version of how the popular real-life radio program of the title began.

An anthropologist unwittingly takes a man disguised as a "primitive man" back to New York as a specimen.

Humorist Robert Benchley illustrates the fine points of attending an American football game.

This Robert Benchley 'How To' comedy short attempts to teach us how to profile criminals by physical characteristics.