Robert Benchley and TCM – why do you do this to me?

When I hear the opening refrain of the jingle “Come one, come all/ We’ll have a ball…”, I groan inwardly.  First, the song is incredibly annoying – not as annoying as the voice that brays, “This week in Hollywood historrrreeeee!”, true, but naff none the less.  Second, the One Reel Wonders shorts that TCM use as inter-film filler invariably feature Robert Benchley, least when I am watching.
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