Robert Benchley Movies

Joe Doakes tries to take a day off.

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

In this Robert Benchley instructional video, he demonstrates the pitfalls of a homebody husband attempting to take a vacation apart from his wife.

Lesson No. 1 is a 1929 comedy short.

Benchley shows how to budget one's time during lunch hour to get things done efficiently. Unfortunately, things don't go as planned.

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

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

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...

A brief, illustrated lecture on digestion. Aburdist humor is the hallmark of this pseudo-scientific description of biting, chewing, swallowing, and...

Furnace Trouble is a 1929 comedy short.

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...

Robert Benchley revamps his pre-code classic "Sex Life of the Polyp" for a new generation.

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

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

Benchley fills in for a music critic on a radio show. His performance is less than stellar.

Assistant Treasurer Benchley reports on the annual expenditures of the club for its home for "boys between the ages of 14", and other projects.

Humorist Robert Benchley discusses the issue of food and how different situations can affect one's ability to consume and digest food, using his...

Clip-filled promotional short by MGM Studios celebrating the body of work by producer David O. Selznick.

While his wife is away, Frederick Stumplefinger lets his kids go out jitterbugging on a school night, only to have his wife return early.

After some investigation, Robert Benchley finds his nerves are in a bad state. He has the jitters so bad he can't hold his cup still enough to drink...