20140203 10:13:50 Jane and I got mixed up with a television show  or as we call it back east here: TV  a clever contraction derived from the words Terrible Vaudeville. However, it is our latest medium  we call it a medium because nothing's well done. It was discovered, I suppose you've heard, by a man named Fulton Berle, and it has already revolutionized social grace by cutting down parlour conversation to two sentences: What's on television?" and "Good night".  Goodman Ace, letter to Groucho Marx, in The Groucho Letters, 1967