I\'ve mentioned this one a few times before, in a few different contexts, but General Laughter is a funny, if not unnerving episode. It\'s got Mercedes McCambridge. If you\'ve not heard it before, it\'s the story of an actress who tape records her suicide as it happens, but she just can\'t keep from making mistakes, and telling jokes along the way. It\'s mostly her in the episode,
but Mandel Kramer and Sam Gray are also in the show. I won\'t give much more away, but when reading Mercedes autobiography The Quality Of Mercy, she did say that the nails thing, which you\'ll have to listen to the show for, actually did happen to her, when she tried suicide on New Year\'s Eve in the early sixties. Because Elspeth Eric was a friend of Mercedes, I\'m quite sure that this episode has been based on maybe more than just that one nails thing. Another member of this group, when I mentioned General Laughter last time, said he wondered why he felt uncomfortable when listening to this episode, while another said he was laughing with the jokes. See what you think. It\'s February 25, 1976.