Has me in stitches every time!

Classic comedy.

The brothers had you guys dying

The comedy... Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's direct, sometimes it's silly... They truly were the greatest!

🤣🤣🤣

Gets better with age, right?

@@Juliaflo It's just so great.

@@thecursor1 Actually, it has been just over eighty or so years.

@@Juliaflo: I think that's close enough to safely say "nearly 100 years."

I laughed the first time I saw it; a bit less the second time. On the 1,476th time I merely smile at its cleverness.

Did you ever get the reply "there ain't no sanity clause!"?

@@allenjenkins7947 YES! On those very rare occasions when someone on the other negotiating side got the joke! Most of the time I just got stares. 😩

@@jonfungg he's still reading it.

@@adespade119 Thats because he knows theres no such thing as sanity clause, everyone knows that.

@@ThunderAppeal LOL \

... and the amazing thing is that most of the dialogue from Groucho was "unscripted and sheer ad-lib", according to the various directors of the Marx Bros. films.

Only times that Grouchos the straight man is when he interacts with Chico...lol

@@DonVideoGuy007 I remember watching a show about the Marx Brothers once and it the host told the following story. The Marx Brothers rarely followed the script. While filming one of their movies, the script writer grabbed the director and said, "Wait a minute! I think I heard one of my lines." Ad-lib was the trademark of the Marx Brothers.

And he hasn't been in Canada for years.

These guys were pros - and like Daniel says above, still LOL hilarious. By the time they made their first movie, they had honed their act and their personas on the live stage - you can kind of pick up on that once you know they were on the stage for years before The Cocoanuts was made.

The party of the ninth part? That is one complicated contract.

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Oh absolutely!! This whole scene is hilarious, and yes unfortunately there were time when business negotiations went exactly as this. Just mind boggling!!!

I was seriously just wondering about that! thanks!!!!

I'm an insane Marx brothers junkie who owns every film, and has been a fan since the early 1970s, However despite all this, I did not know that little factoid. So a huge thanks from me.

@@manningbartlett522 The Dionne Quintuplets were a very early example of news hysteria, basically. The media was constantly checking up on them and what they were doing, and they even had something that was basically a human zoo dedicated to showing them off, despite the fact that they were pretty much totally normal outside of looking identical. At the time, the thought was that it was an "uplifting" story and the Depression was still ongoing, so they would rather write about some beautiful little girls than thousands of people losing jobs or dying of starvation. Then the fad passed, and it turned out that the Quintuplets had been taken from their parents and treated like circus attractions to make money, and most of them ended up feeling traumatized by the whole experience. Real mess, that one.

@@misterbadguy7325 Interestingly, it was the Ontario government who made the Quints a ward of the state after their father attempted to put them on display at the Chicago World's Fair. Then the government promptly put the Quints on display! There was never any admission charge to Quintland--where they were housed and put on display--but the area reaped millions in tourism dollars.

and his "I wouldn't know about that. I haven't been to Canada in years." as in _'I didn't go to Canada and get a nice Canadian girl pregnant.'_

Henderson: You live here all alone? Otis B. Driftwood: Yes, just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit. Henderson: Oh, a hermit... I notice the table's set for four. Driftwood: That's nothing, my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing.

bahahahahah

.....wait a minute...eight o'clock divided by four at the table equals two....two,subtract the table equals one....one hermit...I get it now

LMAOOOO

he means he set his clock at 8

am sure that what the Marx Bros. were referring to in the "..blind for 3 days ' comment, was the fact that 'home-made' booze, or bath-tub Gin was readily available 'proverbially' on nearly every street corner and was usually of such poor hygienic quality that many a soul got deathly sick from drinking it.

It was not one take.

How do you know how many "takes" it has?

A lot of these bits were just them doing routines from their days as a vaudeville act, so they knew them by heart.

Exactly. I can see where the cuts are. @@shabbysnubtide3339

I think they mean it's only one continuous shot.

My dad says this taught him all he needs about contracting.

Don’t forget the sanity clause. Ah, there’s no such thing as a sanity clause. 🤣

LOL

stan ochocki the "pee-u" wow so you're so clever and witty I wish I was that funny :( you make such a great considered argument too.

Dave Alexander very funny....so true...

René Artois There's been many an insanity clause since.

@René Artois To quote Blackadder: "Nevermind I'll cross out the 'in'. Any history of sanity in the family? None, whatsoever."

You should say that again.

100%

This is one of the greatest comedy scenes in film history@@CoconutDreams123

Johnny Cardinale Totally agree. He was by far my favourite brother. He was what made the movies great I think. When I was a kid I had a hamster named after him.

Chico was my favorite Marx. Carouser, musician, and conman. My kind of guy.

@@tnargskoorb1 So weird! I had a hamster named Chico too :)

As Groucho said, "Chico brought Gonorrhea to the Vaudeville circuit."

Is he underrated ? I never knew that

Hello beautiful, how are you doing

The (forgotten) master joke writers had an important part in helping the comedy team be as memorable as remembered! I always thought the scriptwriters were where the storyline and verbal gags came from. Finally, The Dick Van Dyke Show highlighted how important they were in his 1961-66 tv series!

@@freeguy77 That's certainly true, but I think Grouch, Harpo and Chico did a lot of ad-libbing in their films, too.

@@rickkinki4624 I know there was some ad-libbing, but most of the original dialogue was tightly scripted for the gags and jokes. I just did not want people to forget a film starts with the scriptwriters and frequently before any actors were hired to say the lines!

@@freeguy77 I can't argue with a thing you say! One of the great comedies of all time, "Blazing Saddles," had comic geniuses such as Richard Pryor to write the script.

Their first 2 movies from Paramount, "The Cocoanuts" (1929), and "Animal Crackers" (1930) were from their Broadway routines, so they had plenty of practice in those movies before! Those two were filmed in NYC's Astoria section, before the Marx Brothers moved to Hollywood.

Thumbs up is almost at 39!

Aw, there ain't no Sanity Clause!

Maybe they're not the party type.

I saw sandy claws on a cat at the beach.

One of the AFI’s top 100 quotes for good reason!

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That one, and "shadow-day"!

Definitely the longest set-up for a worthwhile punchline in Hollywood history!

@@lukehauser1182 PLUM FACE- SAMA IZ A BABOON, HOORAY 4 CAPTAIN SPAULDING

The greatest punchline, with the longest build-up.

They weren't necessarily so clean but at least they weren't vulgar, weeell, maybe they were a little vulgar.

Cheeky, is what we'd call it, they often came close to going too far, but they pulled back at the last second. Brilliance !

What do you mean, “clean?” They tore up paper and left it lying all over the floor. That’s littering, ya know. And if they stayed any longer they’d be loitering.

But not corny

I had a teacher named Loiter once....she always made me hang around after school

"So called altunative"?

@@john.premoseI thought there was something fishy about that too.

Same can be said for the musicians today. Not a one of them can carry a tuna to save their lives.

Sure they were ahead of their time, someone told them to watch their backs and they took it literally.

Groucho and Mae West should’ve done a movie together. It would be so funny to see them try to outdo each other.

and the eyeroll!

You got the wrong clip, friend. You need the KZfaq clip guidebook, that’s-a ten dollars.

the king I agree 😂

I'm sorry, I had to do it... *their *than *their

I can't bear to tell him

"who" are alive

im 25 bro, the marx bro love is strong

Ginga Jedi I'm 22, but I remember seeing this when I was 10! I laughed my ass off at this joke 😂😂😂😂😂😂

I was going to respond similarly, but I'm 22 as well!

23, can I join the club?

iwashungry4hands can I join? I'm 55 now you know.

We'll give ya ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in twelve worth. I'll take 5 and 10 at Woolworth.

graham downey Thanks God ! Kids with common sense ! ... and sense of humour (strange quality in nowadays kids).

Here is another one I will make notation to you. I work with young people in their 20s. Now they're so used to rap and the bullcrap. So here in philly they play on 98.1 street corner sundays. Guess what one of the guys loves to hear it. Isn't that something? He goes to me and says Hey steve when do they play the 1920s??? I am like what??? ctfu.

Comedy is subjective

Psychoderelict01 The Dione quintuplets. LOL

You would have had to have been born under a rock not to know that.

@@The_Vincening Time passes and surviving quints aren't national news. And Groucho was blind for three days because of bad [wood] alcohol during prohibition.

@@The_VinceningMost people don't remember the Dionne Quintuplets. It was about 70 years ago and it's mostly remembered now as a) an early example of news media focusing more on fluff than news, b) child abuse, and c) that thing South Park referenced.

@@misterbadguy7325 The Qunits--or at least their stories--are still well known in Canada after all these years. My maternal grandmother was a student nurse in Toronto at the time. For a time she was responsible for packaging bottles of iced breast milk to send by train to the Quints in northern Ontario.

M Mcgann I bet she struggled to keep from bursting out laughing.

JAZZ MAN - As I recall, Ms Dumont is known to not have understood their humor.

"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."

SenileImbecile - That's an urban legend. Ms. Dumont understood the humor just fine, but she made it a point to never break character because she was a veteran stage actress and took her role as a 'straight lady' seriously. In fact, Groucho once referred to her as 'practically the fifth Marx brother'.

Ugh-Fudge Bwana Gummo was the fifth Marx brother.

Same for The Three Stooges and others of that golden movie era!

filidorable what is it that eight wheels & flies? Huh? Two corporation dust carts. I thank you...

Python and The Marx Brothers are my favs too

Hello pretty lady, how are you doing

Their parents were performers and they were literally bred into performing and grew up together to be four person comedy act. Three funnymen and straight man who unfortunately wasn't so keen on performing so it was reduced into three funnymen. They were absolute masters of their craft and brilliant improvisers which makes them even better.

Unbelievable. I can't imagine such a person.

sarcastic pain I'll Moida da bums...when I seez dem on da streets......moida!

@@joebittman5039 okay Joe, one quart a scotch 1 quarta Rye... hey! For the last time, you can't come in here unless you say swordfish!

Darn millennials who probably get offended by stuff like this. They probably need to sign a contract with a sanity clause, even if there ain't no Sanity Claus.

It's a long way to go

What's in all the other cases?? If it brief cases, send it to an underwear factory.

Hell' I'm glad they're available to me & I'm only 82 years young.

35 here. Don't think many of my peers know of them; too bad!

Did someone call me Schnorrer?

The Maurice Chevalier bit is quite another sustained bit of slapstick comedy.

Hello beautiful,how are you doing

Pretty soon it might be removed for offending parties and sanity clause around Xmas time.