Happy Mothers Day 2025
I'm still a bit bewildered that for all of the years I’ve been posting videos on Mother’s Day -- and for all the mentions and videos I’ve posted of Mike Nichols and Elaine May -- that I never thought of posting this on Mothers Day until last year. The two did a lot of mothers sketches, but this might be their classic. And happily, there’s not only audio of this from their stage show, but there’s actually video of when they performed it on TV.
Interestingly, the premise for the sketch came from a real phone call that Nichols actually received from his mother, where she began, “Hello, Mike. This is your mother. Do you remember me?” Almost better is that even with that as her greeting, he cut the phone call off quickly and said he had to call her back – because he immediately called May to say he had the premise for a comedy sketch. Which became this --
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