Nick Grinde's Academy Award-winning "How to Sleep" comes across as the type of short that "Mystery Science Theater 3000" would've riffed. It features humorist Robert Benchley (the grandfather of "Jaws" author Peter Benchley) discussing ways of going to sleep and remaining in the nightly unconscious state. The humor is mainly derived from the protagonist's inability to get any sleep, even as he tries numerous poses in the bed.
It's not bad, but certainly nothing special. It must've been a shock for movie-going audiences in 1935 to go from this subdued humor to the Marx Brothers' anarchic humor.
It's not bad, but certainly nothing special. It must've been a shock for movie-going audiences in 1935 to go from this subdued humor to the Marx Brothers' anarchic humor.