Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield spend an hour each week of On the Media engaging in probing conversation of important issues. So naturally, when we needed two people to reenact a vicious drunken argument, they came to mind immediately. For thelatest installment of our American Icons series, producer Trey Kay asked Bob and Brooke to perform a parody published in Mad Magazine of Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. They take on the characters of George and Martha, best known from Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton’s portrayal of the unhappiest theatrical couple this side of the Macbeths. We think Brooke and Bob more than hold their own against Liz and Dick, if we do say so ourselves.
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