You Don't Have to Be Mad to Work Here: A Psychiatrist’s Life

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This remark fits the following template: “You don’t have to be crazy to X, but it helps” A family of expressions of this type is sometimes called a snowclone. Here is an overview with dates which depicts the evolution of the joke: In July 1921 an article in “The Phonograph” of St. Paul, Nebraska credited an unnamed local business man with an instance referring to golf:³

Adam Breede, invited to join a country club, responds somewhat enigmatically that while one does not have to be crazy to play golf, it helps a lot. And now Antrobus has created a new play based around those exciting, if often difficult, times, which he promises is more than a simple ‘tears of a clown’ melodrama or a slice of straightforward nostalgia.

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But not everyone in the chaotic Uxbridge Road headquarters was as troubled as he, or the manically depressed Milligan. In August 1926 a columnist called Percy the Pest in a Quincy, Massachusetts newspaper employed another instance:⁷ He said: “Comedy writers weren’t just creating jokes, they had lives, they had problems and they died. When you start it’s a great giggle. They were good days, but there was unhappiness to come.Slowly, though, things changed, in society and in comedy alike. “To get rid of censorship was great,” Antrobus recalls. “I worked on That Was The Week That Was, which was radical at the time.” But he’s not quite so keen on how attitudes have ended up. It turned our mind to what we believe really helps employees when it comes to their workplace. Many spend over eight hours a day, five days a week in this environment, trying to generate income for the company, hopefully trying to be the best that they can be. Increasingly staff eat on the go, so kitchens and eating areas are now high on the list. Some companies are now even working with outside suppliers to deliver healthy meals direct to their staff, often subsidised, not just as a perceived perk but also as they begin to realise that properly fuelled staff work better, are healthier and perform better.