When I was a kid, there were radio shows dedicated to comedy. They played a lot of Tom Lehrer and some Bill Cosby and a lot of Mike Nichols and Elaine May. I liked their delivery, but I didn't understand a lot of their humor till I got older. Then I learned that the team had broken up years before and that he had become a director. She had become a writer and director too, but I didn't see any of her work till later.
Nichols directed all sorts of movies in all sorts of genres. I didn't understand
Catch-22 till I read the
Mad Magazine version. I didn't see
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? till I was older. I didn't understand a lot of
The Graduate till I got older. Angels in America was my favorite recent work.
I never got to see any of the plays he directed.
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