A Thousand Clowns

Herb Gardner

1962

Act I

Murray:

People fall into two distinct categories. Miss Markowitz; people who like delicatessen, and people who don’t like delicatessen. A man who is not touched by the earthy lyricism of hot pastrami, the pungent fantasy of corned-beef, pickles, frankfurters, the great lusty impertinence of good mustard—is a man of stone and without heart. Now…

Please login or register for free access to Posen Library
Register
Already have an account?
Engage with this Source

Creator Bio

Herb Gardner

1934–2003

Herb Gardner was born in Brooklyn, New York. He was a playwright, screenwriter, novelist, and cartoonist. Many of his comedies, with their eccentric characters, have been adapted into feature films. Gardner received the Tony Award for Best Play, the Writers Guild of America Lifetime Achievement Award, and nominations for Academy and Emmy Awards.

You may also like

I’m Not Rappaport

Nat:Look at you! Look what you’ve become! Queen of the Condominiums, peasant skirts for two hundred dollars, betrayer of your namesake—Clara:Goddamn name—Nat:Clara Lemlich, who stood for something—Cla…
View Source

My First Day in the Twentieth Century

The truth, the mathematical truth, is that a new century begins on January 1 of the year one of the new hundred-year time span. But it is the custom to celebrate a new century on January 1 of the last…
View Source

Are You

Are you Avraham’s, Yitzhak’s, Yaakov’s? Are you my mother’s god? What’s mine of all this? What did I take by force of hand and why am I alone in a city meant to be my city on account of a mother born…
View Source