So did I!

@@derekjohnston2780 Especially at this moment--Laughter is the best medicine, but don't tell the United States Pharmacopaea (sp).

John Drummond- I did too. 👍

So did I! I enjoyed every minute of it!

I too could stop watching. Absolutely fascinating and a complex man.

LOL!!!!!

Not that funny

Joe Ambrose - all your taste are in your salivary glands.

@@charlesstuart7290 Not that funny

Mark Twain quotation, not from Groucho.

Mine is "I wouldn't join a club that would have me as a member."

mine was when he was sitting with a lady at a restaurant...the bill came ,he grabbed the bill and said to the lady " this bill is outrageous, if I were you, I wouldn't pay it "

@@pavelthedog6939 there was a late Marx bros. picture ,where He's exiting a taxi, and I'd swear Charles Lane is the cabbie, but I'm not sure. he says" 18.75!" Groucho relpies "1875 .just what I thought. the 1940 models run much smoother."

“Then came the war, and I fought and I fought-but I had to go anyway.”

It was an insult for Queen to use those titles

@@michaelsalisbury1477 it was ultimate tribute

I was in Queen's fan club and they published a picture of the band meeting Groucho(at his home).I don't think he really cared too much either way as he was in his 90cs!

@Michael Salisbury when the thumbs-up you had came from yours.

Wasn't there a third album named after marx bros film?

But now, Donald Trump toppled that. He is the greatest clown for all.

Yola Montalvan ~Really?! Even here? Is that all you think about? Doesn't it seem a little unhealthy to frame your entire worldview on the whatever jerkoff is occupying the White House? Did you ever think a hobby might be a better choice? I'm starting to think it might be more interesting to know what is NOT ruined because...Trump. bet every month when you get your cramps, you curse Trump.

Juliaflo, Yola, Jeff, Love, and All -- we're all here, we're hoping for a laugh, for obvious reasons, and how funny, I hope, eventually as we discover we're all in the same clown family.

@Joe Smith Being said by someone with a fake facebook account

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Indeed

Well said

I'm also fond of the chico/talula Bankhead story

This is brilliance !!!!!!!!

🤗

All the Groucho's would get cancelled.

@@perniciouspete4986 Unfortunately, you're probably right, so thank the censors for leaving Groucho's on youtube I've heard this before, but it's alway refreshing to hear it again.

One would do.

Never happen....only one time do we get Groucho.

genius is 1% perspiration and 99% doing anything else.

amen

That is ridiculous. People haven;t really changed for thousands of years. You need to check your ego.

@@tonygrowley5275 you're right that people haven't changed much in thousands of years, but I never said they had, so your comment is pointless. What I said was "My children and grandchildren will never know the joy of seeing such performers LIVE IN THEIR HEYDAY [emphasis added]." The pioneers who created the movie and television industry, the Grouchos, Keystone Cops, Errol Flynns, Humphrey Bogarts, Ed Sullivans, Jackie Gleesons, Lucille Balls, Clark Gables, Walt Disneys, and all the rest who built the movie and TV industry are all gone now. I got to see many of them perform live when I was young. The industries are is now mature and actually in decline. Half of what you see is CGI and very little is original. Just look at all the sequels, remakes, and copycats! My children and grandchildren can still watch all those classics I grew up with, but they will NEVER be able to see those performers LIVE, nor when their movies and TV shows were IN THEIR HEYDAY. That's an indisputable fact ... but it didn't stop you from creating a "straw man" to try to dispute it. Hmmmm ........

@@PellmanSensei Back in their HEYDAY there was no competition, no internet where sad sacks like you could whine all day on KZfaq for entertainment. You are just a cranky old man pining for the past. Today's actors and comedians are just as good. You should have heard the shaman's jokes around the campfire in prehistoric times.. Your facts about the future are only your deluded opinions. HMMM......

"I never forget a face but in your case, I would make an exception." Classic Groucho!!

@ Rhobat Bryn... I heard a story concerning that line... I guess it was during the rehearsal of that scene and Margret Dumont asked what was the meaning of that joke and needed it explained to her... Groucho said they loved Margret and insisted that she be in their movies because she didn't get their humor and couldn't understand why people thought they were funny... she was the perfect straight man er woman

@@carlpen850 Good story. :-)

@@carlpen850 if you know anything about comedy and what a straight man or woman is oh, you would immediately know that Margaret Dumont certainly did understand the jokes. Otherwise she wouldn't know how to give those great reactions. Router did tell this story and he told her repeatedly and nobody that knew Margaret Dumont could ever understand why he said it. You have to have brains to have that kind of comedic timing and there are many instances where the straight man or woman is actually making the joke work as opposed to the comedian.

@@carlpen850Yeah unfortunately this isn’t true; not only did she get the jokes, there are many clips where she has to be a less restrained straight man and therefore is able to laugh freely, like the Hollywood Palace episode with her and Groucho

It’s more than a year since your post and I wanted to say I came across this simply because I admire another more recent character actor who has a deep love for the Marx Brothers which just goes to show how incredibly talented Groucho and his other brothers were. I’m 35 and I remember adoring A Night at the Opera when I was a kid.

@@MitzyDoodle13 I have that on VHS and a DVD VHS combo I will keep unless the VHS part fails. The VHS I have watched a few times since then.

it's now 2023... ditto...😂

I tried to memorize as many of his one-liners as I could. It's a shame I couldn't learn his timing.

I see life as a ladder one climbs up mine is broken and I blame the agency!

Uh, not to quibble, but that's five.

@@waynemarvin5661 I put vaudeville and theater into one form of performing. Technically, they are same form.

...not bad for a kid with a fifth grade education.

And radio

And radio.

time might have been ahead of me I was heading nowhere then time caught up with me by the time I caught up it was behind me! how time flies without leaving feathers!

He would have liked that one, lol

Myron Misdemeanors

I knew a man that knew a man that knew me I got a lot of self-knowledge!

7 days to post proof or I must call BS

Just as I thought

Believe it or not, a lot of rock stars hung out with Groucho. Alice Cooper and his manager Shep Woolley met him once and Shep offered to look at Groucho’s finances and found lots of money he was either owed or checks he hadn’t cashed. At one point, Groucho yelled “Shep! It’s been five minutes, you haven’t sued anybody!” Alice paid Groucho tribute by putting his face on the cover of his Greatest Hits album

@@joeambrose3260 Why does anyone owe you proof of anything?

In Pinterest I saw a picture of Groucho Marx and Charlie Chaplin

FAST, SO fast!!! I'm slow and would get a joke half way through the next joke, missing that joke, but that is why I watch him over and over!

That is how I feel watching him now, I’m young but this guys humor is timeless.

Agree. It was sad how little attention was paid to his passing... it was all about Elvis. Will probably get many thumbs down for this, but of the two I always thought Groucho far more talented.

@@ShmuelWeintraub U need help

@@joeambrose3260 if he does, it obviously ain't coming from you, mister Shinola

@@joeambrose3260 Peanut gallery comments aside, schmuck, Groucho did not lift his act lock stock and barrel from the black musicians of the south. He, along with his brothers, created his own entire category of entertainment. And he did so during the height of the depression when there was little money around, not in the post WWII baby boom when money literally seemed to grow on trees. Marx also managed to survive to a ripe old age without becoming a bloated drug addict. Elvis' music was very good - just like the black musicians of the south he learned it from

Yes, that Cavett line was the perfect ending.

Whatever happened to his kids I know that Melinda ran away from Hollywood and that this lady they interviewed seems like a nice ole gal and I think he had a son but I'm not sure if they are still living

Ditto on that!

64, I have 3 different collections of all their released movies with extra goodies included. An Evening With Groucho (Dick Cavett) LP set. Every time I watch the films, I'm seeing them the first time! I think you might be referring to "A Night At The Opera", aboard the ship where (it was already crowded with the boys) they order room service and proceed to let in everybody that knocks on the door of which finally bursts open, spewing out all of them tumbling akimbo!

Yes it was a night at the opera

when you stand close to a nearby wall, I won't speak to you!

and no moral lecturing

Ha, Groucho was constantly passive aggressive. That was his whole schtick. In other words, anger and hatred through constant verbal sniping and criticism. Plus he was clinically depressed over his lifetime. Nice try!

I want it on my tombstone :)

Who's going to sing Margaret amant's lines? " for my sake you must stay, for if you go away, you'll spoil his party I am throwing... "

i did

And that amazing scene where Chico, grinning maniacally,plays the piano faster and faster, harder and harder, gradually working up to totally destroying the piano!

I thought that was Harpo?

linshanhsiang YES.... the line of all lines after announcing there is a sanitry clause with the landlord.... the comedy was fast and sharp, Only a few comediens have come close to this quality, Morcambe and Wise......"I am playing all the right notes but not necessarily in the right order. Victoria Wood................."Two Soups" you gota watch this sketch, Julie Walters kills me with her old lady impression... Ricky Gervais..................Anything he does, The Office, Extras, Standup..... There are more....

Harpo had all the Best lines , pity he kept them all to himself .... 😀😃😄😁

@Shane come back My memory says Chico but I guess my memory took the Fifth.

I think I have gone deaf! don't I love the silence!!

When challenged to use "innendo" in a sentence: "Love flies out the door when money comes innuendo." That might have been in "Horsefeathers" but don't quote me.

LOL! Wouldn't you have loved to be a fly on the wall for THAT interrogation?!

With a line that good, it's worth it. One of my all time favorites

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣LOL!!!

A priest once thanked him for all the joy he brought into the world, without batting an eye Groucho replied “...and I’d like to thank you for all the joy you’ve taken out of it”

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no. he said " i'll never belong to a club who would have someone like me as a member". and woody allen used it later.

@@tomgardner8825 I agree and have corrected the error.

That line or something similar was reputedly in his letter of resignation from the Friar's Club, or some other exclusive club. It's purely apocryphal as the letter itself wasn't saved and his son, Arthur, gave varying accounts of the incident.

I have a vintage New York accent & I'm not even from N.Y. I'm from Oakland.

Sounds like my grandma

To be fair, was pretty nasty to his wives over the years though he doted on his daughter and grand daughter

I thought that quote was a Woody Allen line?

@@brucemacsr.6776 Woody Allen stinks

Love that one, too. (It's Woody Allen, BTW)

"that would have someone like me as a member"

Was your Dad a precision Engineer?

It was 17 children. And he said, " he loved his cigars, but he took it out of his mouth once in awhile."

Love it! That shows the love we still have for them!

+knight44441 You have good taste in comedy! but when you wrote about politics on youtube, that's where you really screwed up!!

L)

@knight: that was then. If Groucho were alive today, he would be considered a conservative republican, if not a libertarian. To quote Reagan, "I didn't move away from the democrat party, they moved away from me." I'm 100% certain Groucho would say the same today. To wit, and quoting from Wikipedia: *However, just like some of the other Democrats of the time, Marx also said in a television interview that he disliked the women's liberation movement. On the July 7, 1967 "Firing Line" TV show, Groucho said, "The whole political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence."*

@@demef758 Our illustrious leader might not appreciate Groucho's style, and I suspect likewise

Yes, it was very crass...[wiggles cigar]

I love him

I have adopted some adults pretty much the same scenario as purple I know your comment was a long time I'll go but the relevance fits

Two Harpo stories: Goucho's son said the only time he ever saw his father cry was at Harpo's funeral. Harpo's wife said, "My heart still leaps when I hear his footsteps."

@@bloggerccc sorry, but that was Chico's wife, not Harpo's, who said that, although I'm sure Susan would have echoed the sentiment.

I only found out about 20 years ago there was a sixth brother, Manny who died very young. It's amazing how you can learn something new every day

And given today's uber-sensitive snowflake generation, where EVERYTHING offends, don't expect to see another Groucho for the next 25 years either!

We still have a couple of "newer" comics who subscribe to that philosophy, but they are now getting near retirement age, too: Tim Allen and Jay Leno. Each has explicitly stated that they don't do dirty, and for good reason, as you cite. As the documentary says, Groucho didn't have to do dirty, he only had to raise his eyebrows and let your imagination fill in the blanks.

"Anarchic", "disrespectful," "irreverent".......i like that he was upright and respectful! What loll

@@demef758 Leno was never funny period. It's easy to be generally clean hosting an old tonight's show, though he still managed to tell 1000 Monica Lewinsky blowjob, cigar insertion, jizz jokes

He used insults.

Back then Dirty usually involved soil ...

Paul Everett I suggest you stay away from both. They both can be deadly. LOL

I would respectively take Berle out of the equation. He was like a bull in a china shop. Nothing cerebral or biting about his humor. Just pure slapstick.

Demef: I was just about to make exactly the same point. Berle was a bully - something Groucho never was. Well said.

@@michaelpaulsmith4619 Berle could be very overbearing. True. Berle was an egomaniac. True. He was also an incredibly shrewd judge of talent--he encouraged Henny Youngman to get into comedy, among others--he helped a lot of people get their start. And he practically shot TV into the mainstream because of his show in the 1950's. He helped break the color barrier on television. Jack Benny did as well. As for his humor, either you liked it or you didn't. Same deal with any of the other comedians, and Hope was not a particularly nice person, either, if the stories about him are correct. Burns and Allen, Lucille Ball, Benny--I've only heard great things about them. Marx? Probably the sharpest, most cerebral comic of all time. Steve Allen was a clever comic and very insightful about what comedy was, but Marx stands alone in that regard.

Burns and Allen, Lucille Ball,Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Phyllis Diller, Buddy Hackett,Sid Cesar and Abbott and Costello plus Laurel and Hardy some of the"biggies"in Hollywood were the best in their craft but Groucho Marx is the King of comedy (Sorry Bob Hope)

Not one of....THE greatest comedian, EVER !!!

😂👍

One of ? Groucho IS the greatest comedic genius of ALL TIME !!!

I n my 91st. Year, I miss him 91 times as much than ever!

Mary Etta Moose yeh be thankful you wasn’t one of his wife’s

Agreed!

True enough.

I once saw a piece that had Bill Cosby with Groucho but have never seen it since, a long time ago both of them smoking cigars.

Rodney Dangerfield

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