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

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In September 1921 The Omaha Daily Bee of Omaha, Nebraska printed a short article which credited a local person with an instance referring to golf:⁴ In 1920 the periodical “American Economist: Devoted to the Protection of American Labor and Industries” published the following anonymous filler item. The statement used “don’t” instead of “doesn’t”. Boldface added to excerpts by QI:² 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. Indeed taking the health aspects further, greater emphasis is being placed on providing facilities for those who want to walk, run or cycle to work – with changing and showering facilities being provided. We’ve even seen small gyms being incorporated so that workers can take out their frustrations on the weights or the treadmill rather than the boss!

In September 1934 a newspaper in Springfield, Illinois printed the following using the word “nut” instead of “crazy”:¹¹ Jun: You don’t have to be crazy to play this on a saxophone, but it helps a lot. (Crossword clue in “Judge” magazine)

I spent two months sending scripts to Galton and Simpson and their new agency Associated London Scripts They partnered me with Speight, this gruff man from the East End. Ray [Galton] and Alan [Simpson] seemed more steady,” Antrobus says now. “They were wonderful writers who did a great job week after week. But even they would sit in silence for days until they had an idea verifyErrors }}{{ message }}{{ /verifyErrors }}{{ 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. Spike’s manic depression is well-documented, and me, I escaped alcoholism 35 years ago. I spent time in a drying-out clinic – at least that’s what you would call it today. They were mental hospitals in those days. But I saw myself as a political refugee in there.

He wrote: “Do not believe the reports of the glamorous life of an alcoholic. I would not trade my best day drinking for my worst day sober. Question for Quote Investigator: I first encountered the following quip many years ago. Here are two versions:

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In July 1932 a columnist for a Knoxville, Tennessee newspaper credited Albert Allison with an instance:⁹

It was an inauspicious, and unlikely, birthplace for some of the finest comedies this country has ever produced.Sep: You don’t have to be a nut to go hunting and fishing, but it helps. (Columnist Hank in Springfield, Illinois newspaper) 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 One of the business men of this city remarked last year, when certain fellows were trying to organize a golf club, that “A man don’t have to be crazy to play golf, but it helps a great deal.” That man now carries a golf bag and he plays the game with the rest of the fellows … It is, we suppose, one of those slightly quaint British phrases that in some way tries to infer that the office in question is a frantic, fast and terribly exciting place to work, fuelled by crazy (as in fun) people and exacting deadlines. The general rule however seems to be the more mundane and sedate the office, the more likely you are to see the sign. Go figure, as the Americans say. It perhaps wasn’t the best time to be on the radical left. As Antrobus explains: “The war had only been over ten years and the BBC was full of bomb-happy ex-Army types who thought they were still in Burma

You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps,” one Disney employee explained. And that’s the slogan of almost every Hollywood technician. You don’t have to visit too many offices, before you will see or hear some reference to the well-worn phrase, ‘You don’t have to be mad to work here, but it helps.’

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Hopefully rather than having to be mad to work for you they’ll be keen to work for you and increase productivity along the way. And that’s what Antrobus is making up for now. He has already written memoirs of his time with the tormented Milligan, called Surviving Spike Milligan, in which he touched on his drink problem. Not to mention the already overly discussed government tax on migratory bird hunting licenses. Oh well, you don’t have to be a nut to go hunting and fishing, but it helps. Now you have this insidious political correctness. Johnny Speight’s work is hardly shown these days, and that’s why this play is dedicated to him