Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor

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The Robert Benchley Society Award for Humor is given annually by the Robert Benchley Society in honor of the great American humorist Robert Benchley, who with his pals Dorothy Parker and other members of the famed Algonquin Round Table created humor in the 1920s and 1930s. is award for humor. The Robert Benchley Society is headquartered in Boston, Mass.

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[edit] Past and Present Judges for the Award Include:

Dave Barry; Bob Newhart; Horace J. Digby; Gordon E. Ernst, author of Robert Benchley An Annotated Bibliography; Kevin Fitzpatrick, Chairperson of the Dorothy Parker Society of New York, and author of A Journey into Dorothy Parker's New York; MIT genius, Steven Jens; gifted writer and Renaissance woman, Eileen Forster Keck; Robert Benchley Society officers David and Sharon Lyon; celebrated puzzle designer, Chris Morgan; Tom Saunders, an on-air radio personality for the A3 Radio Network out of Ann Arbor, Michigan; Robert Benchley Society Chairperson, David Trumbull and others.