Tummler

About Tummler

Tummler? According to Dictionary.com:

1. A male entertainer, as formerly employed by resorts in the Catskill Mountains USA [aka the "Borscht Belt"], who combined the duties of a comedian, activities director, and master of ceremonies to keep the guests amused throughout the day. 

2. Any lively, prankish, or mischievous man. 

Tummler writes On the Other Hand for Warc, a fortnightly column offering a contrarian and tongue-in-cheek view on matters of the moment. You can read his pieces at warc.com/tummler.

He draws on a long and varied career, which he latterly spent as a marketing journalist, consultant, publisher and writer. He also founded and for nine years helmed a marketing logistics business servicing a bluechip, multinational clientele.

Other lowlights in Tummler's checkered career include military conscript, plongeur, office factotum, space salesman, copywriter, and boy actor on Broadway in 1948.