Question #151719. Asked by
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Last updated Sep 10 2024.
Originally posted Sep 09 2024 7:42 PM.
And before there were sleeping pills, there were cricket Test [international] matches that lasted longer than some marriages. The late, great Robin Williams sought to explain the game to his fellow Americans by declaring, "Cricket is basically baseball on Valium." William Temple, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the 1940s, once observed, "Personally, I've always looked upon cricket as organized loafing."https://www.calm.com/blog/a-cure-for-insomnia-lulled-to-sleep-by-cricket-the-game-not-the-insect
Groucho Marx, the legendary American comedian and most famous of the Marx Brothers, was once taken to a cricket match in 1950s London at Lords, the temple of cricket, and felt moved to exclaim, "What a wonderful cure for insomnia. If you can't sleep here, you really need an analyst."
This remark lends our new Sleep Story its title: A Cure For Insomnia? Cricket Explained ... to Groucho Marx. It is not, however, even the best-known Groucho cricket story. That honor belongs to the story of Groucho attending his first cricket match in London and, after an hour of observing the action, being asked by his host how he was enjoying it. "It's great," he replied. "When does it start?"
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