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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
To take just one example, there has never been comedy before or since quite like the Nairobi Trio. In fact, it deserves a link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading “Time machine”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11658"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11660,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11658\/revisions\/11660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}