As a break from work (the more work there is to do, the more I seem to need such breaks) I have been joyfully wandering through YouTube watching old performances, many I’d never seen before, by Sid Caesar, Victor Borge, Vera-Ellen, Ernie Kovacks and other greats from more or less sixty years ago.
It was an astonishingly rich world, and you can become totally pulled into it. Traveling through it is a bit like having your own time machine.
To take just one example, there has never been comedy before or since quite like the Nairobi Trio. In fact, it deserves a link.