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

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Reply from Quote Investigator: This joke has been employed by famous individuals. For example, in 1933 the entertainment entrepreneur Walt Disney received credit for the jest from his secretary:¹ 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! The two made an unlikely couple. Antrobus, a right-winger who had just quit Army officer training, and Speight, a straight-talking Stalinist from London’s East End. 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. Johnny Speight wasn’t racist. His work wasn’t racist. But Alf Garnett was racist. You have to write characters who are bigoted or blind, that’s comedy. Simple as that.”

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. 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 It was an inauspicious, and unlikely, birthplace for some of the finest comedies this country has ever produced. You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here explores these complicated questions from both sides of the doctor’s desk.We were so different. Stalin was his hero. He would say ‘purge the bastards’ and had a five-year plan for his career.” Sep: You don’t have to be a nut to go hunting and fishing, but it helps. (Columnist Hank in Springfield, Illinois newspaper)

Adam Breede, invited to join a country club, responds somewhat enigmatically that while one does not have to be crazy to play golf, it helps a lot.

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.

The combination of creative pressures, personality flaws and the gallons of alcohol consumed during the legendary lunchtime sessions in the haunts around Shepherds Bush all took their toll on the team. 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 Feb: It is not necessary to go crazy over the work, but it helps. (Engineering student at University of Michigan) Mr. Disney is never too busy to be genuinely interested in each individual. He often says jokingly: ‘You don’t have to be crazy to work here, but it helps!’” English professing, according to some friends of ours, is one of those things into which some men are pushed. Once in the English professing game, they find it is not necessary to go crazy over the work, but it helps.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 … In 1983 Douglas Adams and John Lloyd published “The Meaning of Liff”. The authors invented definitions for words such as “snitterfield”:¹⁶ 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.