Critic Fatigue
Abie's Irish Rose became a fixture on Broadway in the 1920s, running for more than five years. That was bad news for Robert Benchley, who had to think up a new capsule review of the play each week for Life magazine.
Benchley tried every angle he could think of, but eventually he simply ran out of things to say. In despair he finally wrote, "See Hebrews 13:8."
That verse reads "Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and today, and for ever."
