Mike Nichols & Elaine May

In the wake of Shelly Berman’s successful sit-down-on-a-stool vignettes, it had been inevitable a male/feminine duo would emerge in the pack mining similar turf, as well as the team of Nichols & May embodied it perfectly. Ultimately breaking up by the first ’60s, Elaine May became associated with the Broadway movie theater audience while Nichols carved out an effective career being a motion picture movie director.