Groucho talks about dirty entertainment

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Add "&fmt=18" for the high-resolution version. Groucho praises Carrie Snodgrass but makes no mention of Carrie Nye. From THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. May 25, 1971.

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@micahphilson 5 жыл бұрын

"I don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I care?" -Groucho Marx

@janeyrevanescence12 11 жыл бұрын

"I' don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?" Truer words could not have been spoken, God bless you, Groucho Marx. Although I bet he would probably turn his grave upside down if he saw what was showing on TV/movies these days.

@AceripXF 2 жыл бұрын

& today too!

@Nay-kp6uu Жыл бұрын

I was gonna say, What the hell are you talking about? Then realized this comment is 9 years old so you're probably dead by now. I'll probably be dead by the time anyone responds to this if ever

@1870Coppelia 8 ай бұрын

@Nay-kp6uu Haha are you dead yet? (in all seriousness, I hope you’re alive and well 👍🏻)

@patfromamboy 7 ай бұрын

@@Nay-kp6uuit’s been 10 years now.

@firdausHITMAN 10 жыл бұрын

Say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian. Groucho you were the best!

@davidormsby9439 2 жыл бұрын

When I hear him say that I think he would've loved Seinfeld.

@soylentteal 4 жыл бұрын

Groucho's favorite joke was clean: A woman's husband dies. She has him cremated and puts the urn with his ashes on her coffee table. When guests come over, they think it's an ashtray, so they flick their cigarette ashes in it. After a few months, her sister comes over and says, "Looks like your husband's putting on weight."

@sonsneezer 3 жыл бұрын

Haha good one!!😀😁 Hey do you post comments on any vedic astrological channels ??? That name seems familiar...🤷‍♂️

@the-sandman8027 9 жыл бұрын

he makes a very good point when he says that being dirty and funny is easy and being clean and funny takes a comedian.

@meganburns4027 6 жыл бұрын

I just listened to Jerry Seinfeld and Norm McDonald talking about this very thing

@warrenlightning8137 6 жыл бұрын

The-SandMan - That's why I appreciate Sinbad.

@jimcoleman4435 6 жыл бұрын

It makes me laugh when people call Vince McMahon of WWE a genius, why for having half naked women on tv, or smut storylines that get big ratings from the low IQ imbeciles? Wow, what a genius, put him right up there with Einstein. SMH

@lucynewlin9544 6 жыл бұрын

The-SandMan A

@TheBigMclargehuge 5 жыл бұрын

On the other hand Red Fox was filthy rich off it.

@donaldkoelper5807 5 жыл бұрын

Groucho Marx was born in 1890. By the time he appeared on Dick Cavett's show in 1969, he was 79 years old and his anachronistic views of then-evolving standards in entertainment reflected his age. His heyday in Hollywood was also the period in which the heavy-handed Motion Picture Production Code, aka the Hays Code, limited what could and couldn't be said and shown onscreen. As it was, Groucho worked around the Hays Code and became one of the true masters of the double entendre in comedy, as well as a founding father of the art of improv.

@BayareaGuy06 10 жыл бұрын

R.I.P. Groucho Marx (1890-1977). Man he makes so many good points about comedy and humor being dirty now a days. It even applies to today.

@Neville6000 9 жыл бұрын

BayareaGuy06: His 'points' were full of crap, and he showed how the Hays Code has messed up art and film-making. If you believe this, you're as stupid as he is (but then again, many neocons Americans are.)

@tommyrock69 13 жыл бұрын

On a recent rainy day, I watched "A Day at the Races" with my 7 1/2 year old son. He was laughing so hard during several scenes (especially the intercom scene), I had to pause the movie so he could catch his breath. A 75 year old movie still has it's potency! Great comedy is timeless and for all ages.

@salaciousbum1161 2 жыл бұрын

Crazy, this comment it 10 years old. Your son is now almost a 18 year old. How time passes so quickly.

@kacklemackle1660 9 жыл бұрын

This is still relevant today, props to Groucho for being ahead of his time.

@winogirlll 10 жыл бұрын

When you could smoke during an interview shows the age of this clip plus knowing Groucho has been gone since 1977. I am 44 and loved him and his brothers movies as a child. Dick Cavett is s calm and soothing which makes his guests feel as ease and open up. Dick is a walking Xanax pill.

@quaid667 7 жыл бұрын

Johnny Carson was pretty good aswell.

@debmccann8359 6 жыл бұрын

winogirlll 99

@kuntskinte2670 6 жыл бұрын

so in other words a soothing dick makes the world better.

@winogirlll 5 жыл бұрын

Kunts Kinte you know it!

@vernonweatherbe119 7 жыл бұрын

The greatest comedian of all time.

@baldilocks1914 3 жыл бұрын

I think George Burns was and he didn’t need his brothers to be funny.

@robertklose2140 27 күн бұрын

@@baldilocks1914 Neither did Groucho. Did you watch this clip?

@baldilocks1914 27 күн бұрын

@@robertklose2140 it’s an old joke that burns told.

@acousticguitarfan55 10 жыл бұрын

well said groucho..so applicable today...that's why i love old movies....TCM is my channel!

@rlyle5804 7 жыл бұрын

"Anyone can say something dirty and get a laugh, but say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian" "It doesnt require talent to be dirty" Groucho Marx

@MarkLipka 6 жыл бұрын

And, yet his humor was often very risqué on You Bet Your Life. He famously had a phrase he'd say right after saying something that he knew would have to be edited out of the show for being too ribald. I LOVE Groucho. He was the greatest comic mind ever.

@albenmurcia4716 6 жыл бұрын

R Lyle i disagree, you can say something dirty and not be funny at all while otgers are dirty and still genius. Just because they curse or whatever does not mean they are not good comedians

@kathyturman1118 6 жыл бұрын

Crude humor and even shock humor is the laziest form of humor. If Jerry Seinfeld can be clean and surpass Carlin and Proyr with notoriety to the general public then that takes true talent.

@youtold7727 3 жыл бұрын

@@kathyturman1118 ....You think Carlin and Pryor didn’t have talent? I never cared for Seinfeld and there are a helluva lot more people like me. Seinfeld couldn’t be Carlin or Pryor if you think it’s easy. Love and peace ☮️

@gopherman96 12 жыл бұрын

"And they spent 80 minutes of the movie in the sack. I don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?" Love that quote, love Groucho.

@ricardocantoral7672 7 жыл бұрын

Groucho knew dirty jokes. Many comedians of his age told dirty jokes but it was never on stage because of what Groucho said, it's too easy. He objected to the laziness.

@TakersMissy 11 жыл бұрын

"Say something CLEAN and get a laugh... that requires a comedian!" EX-actly! One of my strongest convictions affirmed by one of the greatest verbal comedians of all time. :-|)

@txvoltaire 10 жыл бұрын

4:43 Well, that prediction certainly didn't come true!

@wisesmilingowl 10 жыл бұрын

Groucho at that time was defending an age of excellence not only on acting but also in the written sense of film making. The age where you had to have talent and brilliance in your performance a performance in brilliance where the movies where magic as and end result of the actors and actresses hard and thoughtful work. And the entire show business where great names like Alex Guinness Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter ustenoff, Sophier Lorene and especially Julie Garland the greatest actress ever who she could warm you and make you feel a part of what she was doing. All of that is gone by the sorry display of the one wage of talentless performers who relied on Graphics to subsidize thee lack of talent. But there is still hope that writers like myself can bring back the real magic to film making.

@koryandrews1665 6 жыл бұрын

You know jemimallah, it's funny how you bashed the previous guys sentence structure. Yet what you failed to do yourself is put an apostrophe in the word "you've."

@koryandrews1665 6 жыл бұрын

jemimallah no thanks, I'm not into dudes.

@koryandrews1665 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, common troll. Stick to 1 insult even if it has no relevance to anything that was said. Lol go take some lessons on trolling Junior. You are only showing your stupidity.

@elizabethhestevold1340 5 жыл бұрын

Wise/so well said. Generations today is robbed off something beautiful ❤️relating to Wise, not you! Sorry.

@richardbullis6263 4 жыл бұрын

Peter Ustinov, Sophia Loren and Judy Garland

@roberthayes9842 3 жыл бұрын

Crazy but it's 2021 and he's still one of my favourite comedian's, simply brilliant

@FaFaFoFoBawth 8 жыл бұрын

Gilbert Gottfried's impression of senile Groucho is CLASSIC.

@bustergoldenrod 7 жыл бұрын

lol I just came here to see the comparison.

@jbellsworth1006 7 жыл бұрын

Same here. Came only cause of Gilbert

@AvidiaNirvana 5 жыл бұрын

@Beetlejuice goo for Gilbert.

@erin6924 5 жыл бұрын

If Groucho felt this way in 71 I can only imagine what he'd say today. Sometimes watching old clips of these comedy legends back when television makes my heart hurt because I believe we've lost a good portion our dignity and class when it comes to true entertainment. I think if we had more pure, simple humor the world just might be a little happier.

@ThomasDeLello 10 жыл бұрын

Groucho Marx came up at a time when there were two venues of itinerant entertainment, Vaudville, which was clean and Burlesque which wasn't and that's the way it was. No ratings.

@davesnyder7488 6 жыл бұрын

Thomas De Lello fuck... that explains so much and so little about his wit and humor

@michaelfleming8490 5 жыл бұрын

“In my day, if you wanted to talk to someone in another area you had to use a telephone. A telephone was something you’d punch numbers into and the numbers corresponded to another telephone in another area where the person who you wanted to talk to was located.”

@paulmiller6420 3 жыл бұрын

I like the part when he said that men and women shouldn’t tell dirty stories while in mixed company!

@membear 4 жыл бұрын

It's crazy to think they movies were filmed in the 30s so it's less than 40 years after when this show was filmed but it's almost 90 years ago now.

@JohnnyCardinale 6 жыл бұрын

Wow, what an amazing person and talent.

@themaulers3953 7 жыл бұрын

cursing while doing comedy is looking for a cheap laugh by being outrageous....grouchos right about this one...

@Industryscorpio 10 жыл бұрын

I don't necessarily hate dirty humor, I just think entertainment has put it into everything just to put it there. I have seen many obscene jokes and material that is artistic, that has a purpose, that is hilarious if it is written well. We've reached a time however, where shock value means more than an actual story, an actual plot.

@roymerritt6992 7 жыл бұрын

The movie he was talking about is "Diary of a Mad Housewife" with Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgrass.

@1870Coppelia 2 ай бұрын

Ah ha! I was looking for this comment. Thanks! 🎥 🎞

@maxcohen13 9 жыл бұрын

Gilbert Gottfried does a dead-on impression of Groucho during this period.

@charlesware5767 11 жыл бұрын

THE COMIC LEGEND SPEAKING THE ETERNAL COMIC TRUTH!!! HE SAID IT PERFECT! GROUCHO THE LEGEND....

@Brassfinz 12 жыл бұрын

It's awesome how easily Groucho basically hijacked his own interview. Cavett was all "I'm gonna ask this dude some questions about his career or whatever!". But Groucho was all "Shaddup. I got somethin to say." Groucho owned that interview.

@SogekingFirebirdStar 8 жыл бұрын

How sad is it that movies and theatre have gone in the opposite direction Groucho expected. This man was truly funny, one of the best. Things such as Family Guy and Jackass, not funny. At all.

@soeffingwhat 8 жыл бұрын

+SogekingFirebirdStar Family Guy is hilarious. Diary of a Mad Housewife was a tame Movie, not filthy at all. Groucho Marx was undoubtedly funny but he was from a different era. I wonder what he would've thought of Emmanuelle.

@Vector_Ze 8 жыл бұрын

+soeffingwhat I probably shouldn't respond at all because I've got very little sense of humor, and what I do have is definitely on the dry side. Actually, it seems to me that NEARLY ALL humor is based on belittling someone, or some group, or some idea. It seems to serve the purpose of making the audience feel superior in one way or another to the object of the 'humor' ... and that's not funny to me. Obviously, what is funny and what is not is utterly subjective. Family Guy, Bevis & Butthead, and their ilk ... not the slightest funny TO ME. Bathroom humor. Cheap laughs based primarily on rude language, rude behavior, burps and farts. Someone just read "burps and farts" and laughed. We can rack that up to the recognition of a fact and how absurd it is. I'm not saying things should be squeaky clean to be worthy, neither would Groucho say that. Heck, he frequently made the racy double entandre. You can't be brain dead and and "get" the humor. Whereas with some of the more current fare you can actually BE brain dead and still guffaw, if you're aware enough to recognize the sound of a raspberry.

@soeffingwhat 8 жыл бұрын

smart451cab I do understand where your coming. I admit I enjoy Humour like Family Guy and South Park also. South Park also tends to have more of a story or "meaning" to each of its episodes. I like some Crude Humour, but only certain types and if its done well, as it were. Too much is just annoying. For example I cannot STAND the Jay and Silent Bob films. I think they're utter Garbage, as is the Film MacGruber, which is meant to be a comic style pisstake of MacGyver from TV in the 80s. It is absolute Patronizing Trash, stupid Drivel. There's also a Scottish Stand up Comedian called Frankie Boyle whom I do not like cos he's just a crude stand up Comedian who pretty much swears all the time and sometimes goes ott with his insults...... but all that said I love the film Guest House Paradiso, starring the late Rik Mayall, cos its a deliberate re-hash of some older TV stuff he did with Adrian Edmonson (they were both in the Young Ones, you might have seen that?).. and the Film was intended to be nothing more than just slapstick cartoon style Humour, totally unrealistic and fictional and not meant to be taken seriously at all. I do enjoy that cos its not patronizing its audience, whereas some others of that ilk do, like the afformentioned MacGruber Film. Hope that makes sense?

@EpicMickey777 8 жыл бұрын

There is some good dirty humor in rare cases.

@soeffingwhat 8 жыл бұрын

Josh Thomas very true.

@EdWeibe 7 жыл бұрын

saying something clean and get a laugh requires a comedian.

@OscarBravoUSA 10 жыл бұрын

I don't care what Groucho talks about. Just to hear his New York yawp makes it all worthwhile.

@lestergreen7740 11 жыл бұрын

I remember watching this clip years ago, only to come back to it after hearing Gilbert Gottfried's impression of Groucho towards the end. "It felt like a western."

@sitizenkanemusic 10 жыл бұрын

So wise and funny graucho was. He reminded me of my grandfather. He's so right that it is easy to get a laugh when you say something dirty and filthy (Lisa Lamponelli in a nutshell)... But to say something clean and get a laugh- that's a true comedian.

@dububud 10 жыл бұрын

I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt. Groucho Marx

@lynneferencik1378 7 жыл бұрын

the one, the only groucho !

@thejimmydoreshow 10 жыл бұрын

first of all, loved Victor Borge. Being able to feel comfortable watching him with your children is a nice thing, but it in no way makes him superior to other performers.

@LacoSinfonia 3 жыл бұрын

Damn, back when Jimmy had time to comment on random KZfaq videos rather than be the sole person fighting for M4A.

@janeyrevanescence12 11 жыл бұрын

how about Victor Borge (God rest his soul)? He was a classically trained pianist who not only wasn't afraid of poking fun at himself but he kept his jokes/humor very clean and he had people of all ages in tears of laughter.

@joseantoniot9312 4 жыл бұрын

He was a genius and one of the best comedians someone who I had liked to know

@diana.diamond 10 жыл бұрын

oh how times have changed

@matthewsteele6666 3 жыл бұрын

Little did he realise that this world would continue to spiral downwards into the cesspool we have today

@cindymaceda2999 5 ай бұрын

This is the episode in which Truman Capote comes on later as a guest & he is in such awe of Groucho, Truman could barely get a word in edgewise.

@badmuthahubbard 12 жыл бұрын

"We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed." -Groucho Marx I recall Bob Hope telling Larry King the opposite about dirty humor; Larry expected him to go all Steve Allen, but he was like, "Well, Larry, you haven't heard some of the jokes I've told in locker rooms."

@5speedMax 11 жыл бұрын

I'm too young to remember Groucho as anything but an old comedian I used to see on late night TV in the 1970's but, thanks to the internet and sites like KZfaq I can see with new insight what I either didn't understand or just missed. It's too bad there aren't many guys like him around any more. The world is an intellectually (for lack of a better word) poorer place because of it.

@heckyu 11 жыл бұрын

tonight i discovered Groucho Marx... thanks internet

@bananabo 10 жыл бұрын

Groucho rules. What's up with the worlds most inept (possibly drunk) BOOM OPERATOR? That goddamn thing creeps into the frame as much as Groucho does.

@Rube2zday 12 жыл бұрын

Amen & he said that in the early 70's :D) ohhh for the flash back to 1949- - - :)

@pa41980 11 жыл бұрын

great man, superb genius, absolute legend

@davidllaney 12 жыл бұрын

by far the funniest man ever on the planet

@radoslavjovanovic9692 9 жыл бұрын

Groucho is great i love him favorite character in Dylan Dog :)

@Llama212ify 11 жыл бұрын

I've watched him too. Great stuff.

@MNBluestater 12 жыл бұрын

This guy's advice should have been taken long ago !

@takineko 13 жыл бұрын

If I didn't respect Groucho enough before, seriously. I couldn't have said it better.

@cjaquilino 7 ай бұрын

The irony that this comment section doesn't get is that Groucho was considered pretty randy in his own day.

@mrbasic86 7 жыл бұрын

hahahha the Gilbert impression is amazing

@cflo1386 6 жыл бұрын

Legend

@joebrokenstrang7537 7 жыл бұрын

Groucho's passing, three days after Elvis, went largely unnoticed, due to Elvis' early death. It's a shame, really.

@seanedington8323 6 жыл бұрын

Truer words have not been spoken. It’s so much easier to get a laugh using vulgarity. I have great respect and admiration to anyone who can get a laugh without lowering themselves to gutter humour.

@ThankGodTV 12 жыл бұрын

I respect what he says so much. I have a lot of respect for Groucho. A great man.

@ja1756 Жыл бұрын

An amazing old man

@TryTheBLT 11 жыл бұрын

Dirty humor is funny, but I think I understand his point. A dirty joke will almost always get a laugh because of the "uncomfortable" factor, just like a little kid laughing at a fart. But it doesn't require talent to do it. Groucho didn't really stick to only "clean" jokes because a lot of his one liners were double entendre. But they did require talent in terms of knowing what to say and how to say in a way that any audience would find funny at any time or place.

@kuntskinte2670 6 жыл бұрын

gilbert Gottfried's Groucho impression bought me here 😂 and he's spot on

@krisscanlon4051 Жыл бұрын

Groucho loved him like a son...very interesting...absolute devotion from Cavett

@shinymensdressshoes 11 жыл бұрын

I like how Groucho says that after dinner, men used to go off and tell dirty stories, and women would go off and tell dirty stories, and there was no mixing of the sexes when it came to that. I think we can all learn from that in this day and age where there's no respect for sex anymore. Nothing is sacred anymore.

@joepic19 10 жыл бұрын

he was 80 years old here

@falariem 11 жыл бұрын

Amen!

@AlamoCityCello 7 жыл бұрын

Iconic

@firdausHITMAN 13 жыл бұрын

Thats too easy - that kind of laughter; anybody can say something dirty and get a laugh but say something clean and get a laugh - that requires a comedian. Wise and true words from one of the most wittiest and greatest real comedian of all time, fact is sadly today most comedians are not funny at all and lack complete talent and do nothing but irritate and bore you to death.

@saltedllama2759 7 жыл бұрын

Such a master. Take a tale about a movie that he thinks is dirty, then proves just how dirty he is with the punchline.

@DrLeePercussion 6 жыл бұрын

This is classy stuff. I wish I was born then but i was born in 70's so ya i'm a 80's teenager. LOL

@ixat00 14 жыл бұрын

"I do think it's had its day, I think they're going to go back to clean movies and clean plays on the stage." Little did the poor fellow know.

@markdrinkard4150 7 жыл бұрын

What an intence look in his eyes

@lubeskieanist 12 жыл бұрын

That hat. I want it. ^o^

@JeffGR4 13 жыл бұрын

I love Groucho Marx...he reminds me of my Granddad.

@williamebertz8828 10 жыл бұрын

Dat deadpan tho

@AceripXF 2 жыл бұрын

when cavot said he heard groucho say that b4 about not liking dirty comedy all i can think of is the line in "Hurray for capt spaulding" when he says "i hate a dirty joke i do unless it told by someone who....knows how to tell it!" lol

@clintoncavallaro9249 16 күн бұрын

I love the fact that Groucho Marx lights up a cigar on stage. I miss those days......... not! 😅

@TakersMissy 11 жыл бұрын

I'm not in a "time bubble", wiseguy... I just prefer non-dirty humor. I otherwise do find George Carlin clever and intelligent; I don't know who Louis CK is and don't really care. Buster Keaton and Curly Howard - now there were two men I consider funny - they've made me laugh out loud and uncontrollably! ;-)

@MooPotPie 11 жыл бұрын

Cigarette commercials were banned from TV and radio on April 1. 1970, a little over a year before this broadcast.

@moodswingy1973 Жыл бұрын

3:32 The dirty play he is talking about is "Oh! Calcutta!"

@julianmarsh1378 3 жыл бұрын

The difference between Groucho's day and our own isn't that old timers didn't use sex in their performances; but they did not cross the line. It was enough to suggest sex...

@alexiscole1982 14 жыл бұрын

you can't beat the old time films and comedians, they relied on talent and alot of hard work...... things are alot easier now with technology and more choices!! Whether you like the marx brothers or not you must respect the talent they were way ahead of their time.!!

@wetfart1387able 11 жыл бұрын

Minute 3:25, what show is he talking about?

@RollOnToVictory 11 жыл бұрын

i don't know, of all the old things I try to get my peers to watch, most fails to get a reaction, even the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and such, but the Marx Brothers.... especially Groucho, is still hysterical because he translates well to today's cynical and sarcastic humor. His wit is quick and fast and brilliant.

@farswept 11 жыл бұрын

he kept a natural one since "You Bet Your Life" went to TV and the producers wanted him to bring back the mustache for easy recognition

@thejimmydoreshow 10 жыл бұрын

just goes to show that even Groucho had a little Margret Dumont in him. How ironic.

@Frankincensedjb123 7 жыл бұрын

I couldn't agree with him more. I did stand-up professionally for seven years. I remember one guy in Boston simply conjugating the "f" word. And I've seen guys who even use cuss words on a regular basis. I found none of them that funny or interesting very quickly. I'm also very uncomfortable watching movies with sex in them, especially at the theater, so I don't see them. I agree with Groucho 100% The funniest and best comics always work clean. I certainly don't mind the occasional cuss word or implied joke, but a steady diet is for the ignorant and crass, lacking both substance and merit. And I'd rather not.

@sereenahenderson1739 7 жыл бұрын

Couldn't agree more...

@sinane.y 6 жыл бұрын

Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Doug Stanhope, Dave Attell, Louis CK... not exactly "clean" comedians

@alfcarjackstheclown7849 7 жыл бұрын

ALRIGHT! WHOSE ON THE BOOM MIC?

@YouzTube99 7 жыл бұрын

LOL!! A frustrated actor who really wants to be on stage.

@PinkLaffs 7 жыл бұрын

Groucho's mind began to go by now. He started suffering small strokes around this time.

@farswept 11 жыл бұрын

"Oh! Calcutta!" The British drama critic creator was Kenneth Tynan (the first person to say "fuck" on British television).

@cmdavis72 12 жыл бұрын

I love how Grouch lights up on camera, try that shit these days

@MajorDumperoo 2 жыл бұрын

Gilbert Gottfried's impression is spot on.

@hurrahfortrees3067 9 жыл бұрын

Class.

@deanguando9950 5 жыл бұрын

He is right in what he says. He is a real comedian.

@fullbag50 4 жыл бұрын

'Back in my day...'

@rosihantu1 10 жыл бұрын

Back in my day.............

@TheSeanoops 6 жыл бұрын

6:37 I know exactly what he’s talking about. It’s still like that at my house, the men go into the billiards room with the bar to smoke, drink and tell dirty stories; while the woman hang around the dining room table to do pretty much the same.