The only thing experience teaches you is what you can't do. When you start, you think you can do anything. And then you start to get a little tired.

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Nichols structured the material for their skits and May came up with most of their ideas. Writing
Elaine May received an Oscar nomination for updating Here Comes Mr.

She is a two-time Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and also the mother of Oscar nominee Jeannie Berlin. She achieved her greatest fame in the 1950s from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichols.