Watch: Olbermann, Shepherd: “A Box To Hide In”

Like Keith Olbermann, I love James Thurber. I first fell in love with him (Thurber, not Olbermann) in high school, when we did “A Thurber Carnival.”

The good news is that YouTube has a fair amount of Thurber available, as well as many similar offerings. Just search YouTube for Thurber and, enjoy.

Now, here’s Keith Olbermann doing Thurber’s “A Box To Hide In,” followed by Jean Shepherd’s narration with actual Thurber drawings of “A Box To Hide In.” If the voice sounds familiar, it should. Jean Shepherd narrated and co-wrote the 1983 classic, “A Christmas Story.”

(By the way, you did catch, ‘Olbermann’s “The Peaceable Mongoose” By James Thurber,” didn’t you?)