Three Couches, No Waiting
Some of us are old enough to remember the Mel Brooks and Carl Reiner comedy album The Two Thousand Year Old Man. There's a strange fraternity of those of us who know it. All you need to do is mention the title to us, almost a half century later now, and we instantly start reciting the bits and guffawing with laughter. One of the classic routines was the interview with the psychiatrist on the flip side. Reiner, as the interviewer, asks about one of the doctor's patients. "She vass crazy," Brooks says in his loopy Viennese-Jewish accent that's impossible to capture in print. "She vass alvays ripping up paper." "So how did you cure her?" Reiner asks. "I told her," Brooks answers, "stop ripping up paper." It should be that simple.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:10 AM
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Larry Hart, Richard Rodgers incomparable lyricist of twenty five years, wrote this way back in 1936 for the show “On Your Toes”. I believe OYT was one of the first plays to satirize the then current craving amongst fashionabe people and their artistic pals for Freudian psychoanalysis. The song is called “Too Good for the Average Man”.
Psychoanalysts are all the whirl;
Rich men pay them all they can.
Waking up to find that he's a girl
Is too good for the average man.
Love your comment, il professore and great cartoon, John C.
Wished that I had heard that comedy album as they are two of my very favorite comendians. No one can do the Viennese-Jewish accent like Mel Brooks! In fact, no one can do comedy like Mel Brooks.
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