How to Sleep

Lest you lose sleep from eager anticipation of the next televised display of modern American political debate, a viewing of this short film from the late, great writer and actor Robert Benchley is in order.

Mr. Benchley won an Academy Award for this short film in 1935. If you are unfamiliar with his work — or the work of the many other American wits who lunched at the famed Algonquin Round Table of the 1920s — you have an adventure in learning ahead of you.

Robert Benchley’s “How to Sleep” (1935)