Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.Benchley tries his best to demonstrate the routine one should follow to start the day right.
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- TriviaThe Sunday Daily News, dated June 13, 1937 boasts having 12 pages of comics. In the days of cities having multiple newspapers, comics were one of the big selling points on which paper to subscribe. In today's world of newspaper consolidation, contraction, demise, and on-line subscriptions, comics (and comic strip artists) have suffered. Readers are quite lucky if they get four pages of comics on Sunday.
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Not Bad but Not the Best
How to Start the Day (1937)
** (out of 4)
Entry in MGM's "How to..." series with Robert Benchley playing your average man. In this episode (as the title tells you) he teaches us how we should go about starting the day so that we arrive at work refreshed and on time. This includes the best way to wake up in the morning as well as the best way to get dressed and brush your teeth. This is a pretty weak entry because the narration is so incredibly bad and unfunny that it quickly grows on your nerves and not in a good way. There are a few funny physical gags running throughout the film but they're all pretty much ruined by the narration. Whenever Turner Classic Movies plays this short I'd highly recommend turning the sound off and just pretending you're watching a silent film. Benchley does a pretty good job in terms of the physical stuff but the screenplay really lets him down. This short isn't as bad as HOW TO VOTE but it's not as funny as HOW TO EAT or HOW TO WATCH FOOTBALL.
** (out of 4)
Entry in MGM's "How to..." series with Robert Benchley playing your average man. In this episode (as the title tells you) he teaches us how we should go about starting the day so that we arrive at work refreshed and on time. This includes the best way to wake up in the morning as well as the best way to get dressed and brush your teeth. This is a pretty weak entry because the narration is so incredibly bad and unfunny that it quickly grows on your nerves and not in a good way. There are a few funny physical gags running throughout the film but they're all pretty much ruined by the narration. Whenever Turner Classic Movies plays this short I'd highly recommend turning the sound off and just pretending you're watching a silent film. Benchley does a pretty good job in terms of the physical stuff but the screenplay really lets him down. This short isn't as bad as HOW TO VOTE but it's not as funny as HOW TO EAT or HOW TO WATCH FOOTBALL.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jul 23, 2009
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