One of the better ROBERT BENCHLEY shorts is about a man who enters a magic shop where several neat tricks are demonstrated. Trouble is, when he gets home, none of them work as they did at the store.
His skeptical wife thinks it's just a waste of time and so does his son who helps him go through a few of the tricks.
The joke is that the simple tricks don't work at all--but the difficult one--well, you have to watch the short to find out what that entails. It gives the whole piece a good punch line for an amusing closing shot.
Thankfuly, this Benchley short doesn't rely on his dry witticisms to provoke laughter and is good for a laugh.
His skeptical wife thinks it's just a waste of time and so does his son who helps him go through a few of the tricks.
The joke is that the simple tricks don't work at all--but the difficult one--well, you have to watch the short to find out what that entails. It gives the whole piece a good punch line for an amusing closing shot.
Thankfuly, this Benchley short doesn't rely on his dry witticisms to provoke laughter and is good for a laugh.