Mike Nichols and Elaine May, Part 2

Here's the second of four installments of Monitor radio sketches by Mike Nichols and Elaine May, "The King and Queen of Sophisticated Comedy."

This brief history of the team comes from The New York Times: "Nichols and May first did improvisational theater with the Chicago-based Compass Players troupe, which evolved into the Second City company. They began performing their own act in 1957, arrived on Broadway in 1960 and broke up in 1962 after feuding over a play that Ms. May wrote and Mr. Nichols starred in, "A Matter of Position," which closed in Philadelphia.

The last track isn't a sketch - it's Mike and Elaine as park of a round table discussion with Irv Kupcinet (or is it Mitch Miller? It's hard to tell those two guys apart from their voices). Favorite tracks from this second bunch: "The Air Conditioning Repairman" and "Edith and Osbert," which was written about international long distance calls, but works well today as a cell phone sketch.

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