Brother Theodore

[porphyry]

Brother Theodore was probably the best commedian since...well, Aristophanes (Shakespeare has too much of New Comedy about him for my taste). Unfortunately his dialogues were very little filmed. The best film clip I am aware of was on the David letterman show in 1983, in which he uses the philosophy of Fitznan Bokanovsky (a colleague of Immanual Quatschkopf) to argue against the need to eat. This has rectly been posted to YouTube:

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[malkhos.livejournal.com]

I have almost that whole speech memorized. But the one time I was in New York was in the Summer when he was not performing.