Time marches on!

Have you ever contemplated that everyone on “I Love Lucy” — including the audience that’s heard laughing — is dead.

When I watch “The Benny Hill Show,” I have to remind myself that most of the men, from Benny to little Jackie Wright (slap slap slap) to Henry Mcgee, are all dead — and all those nubile female dancers are dead, or in their 80s using walkers and wheelchairs now.

I always have a moment of sad pondering when I watch “Young Frankenstein” because Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman, Madelyn Kahn and Peter Boyle are all in graves somewhere.

I have stood at Feldman’s grave.

Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, The Three Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Abbott & Costello, all belong to the afterlife.

I’ve also stood at Keaton’s grave. I have always found strolls through cemeteries very calming, and humbling.

Nearly everything that gave my childhood a sense of wonder or joy, has either faded, or been labeled obsolete by the current generation of frenzied tail-chasers, and trampled into the dust with our hurried advance over the cliff.

I once asked a young waitress if she knew who Laurel & Hardy were. She answered “who?”

You can occasionally get the same response asking if they know The Beatles. Sigh. One of my favorite questions to ask members of our current younger generation: Who was President in the year you were born? For me it was John Kennedy. “Do you know who John Kennedy was?” “Who?” SIGH. Nothing illustrates the slipping away of time like each new Monday morning. As I age I realize a few things that help me not to worry so much — there are truisms in life that we should all learn to just accept, and move on:

1. You’ll never really have enough stuff.

2. There will always be the risk of messing up.

3. You can have anything you want in life, but you won’t live long enough to have ALL of it.

4. Nobody knows everything. Few people truly know anything.

5. The final word will not be yours or mine.

6. You’ll never be too old for acne.

7. The survivors of Armegeddon will all get together afterward at Denny’s — only they’ll still probably have to social distance.