As part of their Valentine's Day coverage, Esquire asked some female comedians and writers to opine on the subject of romance. Included is this piece by The Office's and Bridesmaids' Ellie Kemper on the value of fresh breath. It's advice that's tough to argue with.
As noted in my recent piece on Bob Einstein's lost classic comedy book, the real comic genius in the Einstein family is little brother Albert, who took to the stage under the name Albert Brooks. A year after Bob's publishing debut, Albert made an even bigger splash in the print world in the February 1971 issue of Esquire magazine. (Side note: Oh, those truly were the glory days of publishing. The magazine was an astounding 10 1/4-inches wide and 13 1/8-inches tall — too big for my consumer-grade scanner to capture a whole page at once. How did it fit on a newsstand? And many of those enormous [...]
