[an amused spectator]

Buchwald was funny thirty years ago. Reading his stuff is like eating stale grits straight from the box.

Make that "trying to read his stuff". I can't remember having made it past paragraph 2 in one of his recent pieces, and I've only tried a couple of times in the last ten years.

[metesky]

Buchwald was funny forty-five years ago when his column was written from France and he was mocking things French.

He ceased being funny when he returned to the U.S. before Ike left office.