Sidney Myer @ The Laurie Beechman Theater - New York City Article

Chuck Jones, the great animation director - and Bugs Bunny auteur - often spoke of two different kinds of comedians, making a distinction between one “who opens a funny door” and the other who “opens a door funny.” Sidney Myer, singer and comic (and bon-vivant) is both: he can sing a song written for laughs, like “Good Advice,” and milk it for all the comic mileage that composer Allan Sherman intended. Yet he can also take a song that was written as something completely, you should forgive the expression, straight, like “It’s So Nice to Have a Man Around the House,” and turn it into a comic tour-de-force. Mr. Myer is among the funniest comedians working today, and it’s a testament to his remarkable individuality that he uses the medium of music, rather than the more predictable format of spoken jokes, as his punchline delivery system. Mr. Myer is so overwhelmingly funny, that whenever he appears, I laugh so hard that milk inevitably comes out of my nose - even when I haven’t been drinking milk to begin with.