Before Mike Nichols became a famous director of the 'The Graduate', Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?', 'Working Girl' and many other great movies, he was a comedian on the Chicago improv scene.

He soon partnered up with a fellow member of the Compass Players comedy troupe, Elaine May, and the duo appeared as Nichols and May in the late 50's and early 60's.

The two produced memorable skits which earned them a Grammy award as well as a Broadway show.

One of their most popular skits was on the topic of a nagging mother in a conversation with her aerospace engineer son. It's title is 'Mother and Son' and it still holds up, because after all, who can't relate to having an aerospace engineer as a son?

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