The Sex Life of the Polyp

Yesterday was the birth anniversary of Robert Benchley, whose brand of humor is an acquired taste, and for me generally works best in smaller doses, as when Alfred Hitchcock used him in Foreign Correspondent. But in looking him up on my blog, it seems that the one video I embedded has since been taken down. So with that in mind, I've decided to post a video of one of Benchley's earliest talkies, the short The Sex Life of the Polyp. This one rarely if ever shows up on TCM, and with them not listing the shorts on their schedule any more, who would be able to find out when any future airing would ever be to get a heads up? Interestingly, Benchley would remake The Lex Life of the Polyp a decade later as The Courtship of the Newt, made when Benchley was under contract to MGM and so more likely to show up on TCM.