🥸 Why Groucho Marx was a GENIUS
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Groucho Marx’s brilliant reaction to a fellow actor’s mistake in ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930)
NOTE: Yes, we are aware the Chandler/Spaulding name mix-up was in the Broadway production as well. Apparently, as the story goes, this bit started as an actual mistake on stage, and was subsequently added to the script. Feel free to keep correcting us, though!
A clip from Prodigious Saps Podcast No. 31: "Can of Rabbit Hole"
• ⚛️ Revisiting Buck Hen...
NOTE: Yes, we are aware the Chandler/Spaulding name mix-up was in the Broadway production as well. We address this here:
ruclips.net/video/mIRPBBhaAuY/видео.html
Apparently, as the story goes, this bit started as an actual mistake on stage, and was subsequently added to the script. Feel free to keep correcting us, though! But seriously, thanks so much for all your comments.
I mean the Rosa Parks thing was also a restage of a previous event, that still counts.
haha..that's quite passive agg
loved the Marx' s Brothers moves and You Bet your Life.
In A Night at the Opera, Groucho's character is hiding fugitives in his apartment.
Detective: You live here all alone?
Groucho: Yes, just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit.
Detective: A hermit, eh? (looks at breakfast nook) I notice the table is set for four!
Groucho: That's nothing, my alarm clock is set for eight; that doesn't prove a thing!
@@montecristo1845 LMAO 😂
@@montecristo1845 hahaha!!! There are so many of those moments.. That’s why these movies can be watched over and over again. You get to hear the joke you laughed through the first 2 times.
The Woody Alan defense. ‘ Play it again Sam’. His mistress is sitting on the couch next to him and his wife walks in:” Who’s that woman?” “ Woman?. What woman?”
@@montecristo1845 LMAO 🤣
That's just good writing - as in most Marx Brothers films
We're way past tense, we're into bungalows now
Never gets old
Explain that one lol
@@kylethedalek way past tents, into bungalows now
"This is the mechanical age!"
I've got a roommate who always says "f***ing intense".
To which I once replied "so that's what you do when you're camping? You should be ashamed! The other campers don't wanna hear that and neither do I!"
Almost 100 years old and Marx Bros. Movies are still funny 😂😂 Groucho rules!!
@@MrLaurak12 ❤️❤️❤️Marx brothers.
Their movies are almost 100 years old but they started performing in 1905 so their performances are over and Chico would have been 138, Harpo would have been 137, Groucho, 135, Gummo 132, and finally Zeppo, 124 years old! ❤❤❤😢😢😢😢
THE GREATEST COMEDIAN EVER!!!!No one was quicker on his feet than Groucho. A comedic GENIUS!!!!MARX BROTHERS RULE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Agreed on all counts!
@@michaelgoldberg7127 disagree.
Robin Williams would have wrecked him
@@dcmastermindfirst9418 Yea, and then you woke up!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@dcmastermindfirst9418 Ah, no sir. No sir. I absolutely adore Robin, he was a brilliant man, but he couldn’t hold a candle to Groucho, and he would have been the first to admit it.
@@prodigioussaps I think I really like you!!!! Groucho's humor was SO much more intellectual. I loved Robin also. However I rate him behind his mentor Jonathan Winters also.
That mischievous grin of his alone lets you know that something good is coming.
Once on "You Bet Your Life" one of the contestants had impossibly high teased up hair. He said to her,
"I'd hate to sit behind you during a hair raising movie."
Yes! He was such a joy to watch, always. All the Marx brothers were a treasure. Cheers!
Marx Brothers movies a treasure trove of tiny jokes that you'll completely miss while you're laughing at the obvious jokes. I love all their movies!
Very true. I never get tired of watching them. Cheers!
This is the same to a much lesser extent to the 3 stooges.
I never liked their physical comedy.
But every once in a while they would slip in a joke that would kill.
You have to keep up to hear all the jokes, they come at you so fast!
This whole scen from beginning to end is the best scene in comedy. The fact that some of it was a improve fix makes it even more brilliant!
Groucho is my favorite comedian.😻Nobody was as quick witted and intelligent in his or her humor like the one and only, legendary Groucho Marx! ❤
And he revered Chaplin and thought Chaplin was the funniest comedian alive. Chaplin also loved and respected Groucho.
And they were all musically gifted also.
@@singsonggirl9267Both my favs!
Groucho never finished school, yet he had a very astute mind. He was a prolific letter writer and corresponded with numerous influential writers of his time. He also wrote a good number of well received books.
His letters were inducted into the Congressional library in the late 60s. They can be requested and read today by historians. That is an honor afford to very few pop culture figures.
Which tells you that for people with intellect, school never ends whether you're in an actual classroom or not. Doesn't matter. Groucho like all intellectuals read voraciously. That's what it takes :)
Never confuse formal education with intelligence. He was a genius.
School is simply the means to determine what job you're going to get, right out of high school. Many of the most intelligent people find their interest in academia developing well after their teen years.
On the contrary, he finished school. Much earlier than most, at age 14. Harpo finished school even quicker, at age 7.
Agreed! There are none like him today.
Robin Williams has likely been the closest, I'd say, certainly in terms of the quick wit in ad-lib response to anything suddenly happening or said around him.
@@dwightropp3014 Groucho's voice and Robin's voice aren't all that dissimilar in cadence
@@michaelzborowskyii4668- I get that, I must say.
Comedic timing/quick wit is a gift not many people are born with.
True story. Cheers!
You got that right!! Wish I had this gift, I borrow from Groucho!!!
I am so envious of that! What a gift!
Give the other actor credit as well for playing along with Groucho rather than quitting the scene anticipating the director´s call to ¨cut¨.
Yes, Louis Sorin! Absolutely it wouldn’t have worked without him. We’ve chatted about him elsewhere in the comments, and talked about him in one of our past episodes.
As far as I have ever been able to tell, Groucho had the sharpest mind of any human to exist during my lifetime. Sure, you have intellectual giants like Sagan and Hawking and so many others, but the sheer SPEED that Groucho could think at is what's so impressive. Someone says something, his wheels spin for a split-second, click, and he drops something genius, with perfect delivery, every single time. And his written work and scripts, where he had time to work things out more deeply, are nothing short of masterpieces. Annnd, that he manages to be the stand out figure against two brothers who were comedic gods... There have been a lot of sharp minds during my life, but none who could have matched wits with Chico and Harpo, especially together, and come out on top, save for Groucho. And certainly nobody I can think of could match him for verbal wit on the fly. Imagine, just imagine!.. Groucho hosting Jeopardy, or even Family Feud... That fast wit made him the ultimate host on his shows then, and would still make the him the ultimate host of any show now.
just imagine an improv show with Groucho and Robin Williams both in their prime... legendary.
Nice hyperbole. People still watch those shows?
@@declanp1 Yup. And people will continue to watch it for as long as the medium exists. These guys are one of the classic comedy standards for a reason
@stormgeist1766 ...That is why he hosted "You Bet Your Life."
@KevXRDuke Indeed. No canned laugh track necessary... The live audience literally sounds like they're about to piss themselves. For all the "try not to laugh" challenge videos on RUclips, I dare anybody to watch a compilation of highlights from You Bet Your Life episodes and not laugh. They are impossible to survive. And all of it improvised on the spot.
A truly great ad libber, as were all of the Brothers. There is a story that George S Kaufman, who co-authored the original play, was playing cards backstage during a performance. Suddenly, he told his friends to stop the game so he could listen. When they asked him what was up, he said, "I thought I heard one of the original lines."
Love it! Cheers
Ah yes, the first time I saw a Marx brothers film, I was instantly a fan. After that I was sitting on a shelf in the appliances section of the store.
Well, I guess I learned my lesson...
@@IanNason-qn9yw Brilliant Groucho-ism! 😂
groucho?
I see what you did there!
Nice. 😊
So sharp, so quick!
"If you take cranberry's and stew them like applesauce, they taste much more like prunes then rhubarb does. now ahh, you tell me what you know" - Groucho
Pure genius and he had a heart behind his sometimes acidic wit. I never tire of the Marx brothers' movies.
Amen to all of that. Cheers.
“The brain! The comedy brain”
Definitely 💯
I can’t get enough of Groucho!
U did a fine job here, big thank you!
🎉😊🎉❤
Thanks so much! Cheers
Brilliant! Watched The Marx Brothers with my father here in Belfast as a young child. Infectious 😂
I noticed that at a celebrity roast in the 70s, Don Rickles skewered everyone on the dais except Groucho. I think he knew he was no match for Groucho's comebacks.
LOL makes me want to watch them now! 😂🤣
Mission accomplished! Cheers
I love that in his old age he would form a friendship with his neighbour, who happened to be Alice Cooper. When Groucho couldn't sleep Alice would come over with a six pack of beers and the two would watch old Marx Brothers movies. There are photos of them hanging out together at various events in the 70s.
Yes! I love that story. I told a friend recently that someone should develop a screenplay based on that remarkable friendship. Could just be the two of them hanging out and talking, like "My Dinner With Andre".
@@prodigioussaps Oh, I'd pay to watch that flick.
AI may be able to copy the animation, the singing, and the dancing, but it can never replicate the soul and energy of man
I remember one of the early Godzilla movies where the guy in the 6 foot rubber suit stumbled and took out an entire square block of downtown Tokyo. Very much to the movie makers' credit they just kept shooting and it made the final cut.
A man in a rubber suit? You mean that was not a real dinosaur! Next you will be telling me that Father Christmas is not real.
@@VHKDK and Pro Wrestling is More Fake than Donald Trump's Hair.
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Absolutely so quick
I saw a quote once that said "Elvis died five years too late; Groucho died a thousand years too early".
Sad but true!
If you love Groucho, read "Harpo Speaks" = great book.
Yes, good call! I will do that. I have a couple of Groucho books as well, “Hello I Must Be Going” and “Love, Groucho”. Cheers 👊
I'm looking to order it soon.
Good book. I own it.
It's those years of live Vaudeville where you can't do retakes.
My second favorite Marx brother behind Karl
What about Richard?
No one ever wants to be behind "Skid" Marx! 😝
😂🤣
Surely you jest. And no, I didn't call you Shirley!
Out of an entire career of memorable scenes and quips, this is one of the ones I've remembered this one since I was a kid The fact that he breaks character essentially asks for a copy of the script and they left it in the movie is just great!
That and where he breaks character again to address the audience by saying something to the effect of
".... Not all the jokes can be funny. You've got to expect that sometimes".
Yeah I love that “not all the jokes can be funny” bit. Robin Williams nicked that line in his early routines.
@@prodigioussaps I've never read anything that confirms it but just watching both Robin Williams stand up and just general comedy style, it seems pretty obvious that the Marx Brothers were a huge influence on him.
Oh without a doubt. He would straight-up do Groucho impersonations sometimes.
Just catch any rerun of his tenure as host of "You bet your life". While some of his dialogue was prepare due to contestant interviews before putting them on air, most of his coversations with them was off the cuff. Which was what made him and his brothers such great comedic actors. They all had their own schtick, but being brothers they could work off of each other.
I didn’t realize this watching way back 😂
@@herculesmwp7983 me neither. My pop's Marx bros obsessed, and grew up with this stuff!
Groucho Marx, Don Rickles, Robin Williams, and Norm MacDonald walk in to a bar... no one walks out, because everything was roasted.
From Coconuts.....
Groucho: Now all along the river are levees.
Chico: That's the Jewish neighborhood?
G: Well we'll Passover that one. Now here's a little peninsula and a viaduct leading to the mainland.
C: Why a duck?
And so begins their classic "Why a Duck" routine.
In real life, Groucho's wife said, "The garbage man is here!" Groucho replied."Tell him we don't want any."
I just have one thing to say:
Whatever it is... I'm against it! Blessed you are, Groucho ❤🥰
PS: Bring wood! Bring wood! 🥳🥳🥳
Ha! God bless him indeed, crazy how relevant that song still is. Cheers Albert 👊
I was out to the coast the other day and saw a big piece of driftwood on the shore. I had an urge to write "Otis B..." on it. And only those who know would be fortunate enough to get a laugh outta that one.
FINALLY! RUclips is showing me something on shorts I’m actually passionate about… The Marx Brothers ❤
Groucho could ad lib like nobody else of his generation. During one of their Broadway shows, the author of the show, George Kaufman was backstage with a friend, when he said, "Wait a minute, I think I just heard one of the original lines."
I cracked up more with his brothers Chico and Harpo when they were cutting up on a piano in a store. Red Skelton, Harold Lloyd, the 3 Stooges, Laurel and Hardy were also my favourites.
Cool! They were all brilliant… cheers!
People don’t realize his influence on comedy. The absolute best!
Yes indeed! Cheers
This is not a mistake; it WAS a mistake on stage and they kept doing it to get laughs.
Yes, thanks man - someone else said this detail was revealed in a blu-ray commentary, can you confirm or is there another verifiable source? Cheers
To me the most important part of a good comedian is never never under no circumstance loose you nerve and get upset. Becouse of a mistake
And that is the challenge to be fast mentally to divert the mistakes into comedy or just laugh go with it people love that make them laugh to
Is like when band make a mistake on stage and happens million of times professionals keep playing correct the mistake dont look at each others keep playing .
Course if you fall of the stage is not going to be easy to ignore
NOBODY was faster than Groucho. I wouldn't be surprised if the term "quick-witted" was first uttered just so one could apply a phrase to describe Groucho Marx!
I grew up watching duck soup and all the marx bros. movies as a kid and Groucho is just the OG of comedy!, the wit, the sarcastic comebacks, he's hysterical, almost 100 years after and he's still killing it!😂😂😂
I never understood Groucho’s humor.. but I’m sure he would be amazed to this day. Millions around the world still watch his movies 🍿 ❤
Loved Groucho. He could be a grumpy git but he was so quick and witty....
The two funniest words in the English language: Groucho Marx. (Alan King)
Funny people are always smart people. And you need a quick mind to be off-the-cuff funny.
Grouch and all Marx brother stellar
Loved watching Groucho on his show with the duck
All of them were really exceptional. I’ve always had a hard time deciding who I really liked the most between him and Harpo I think takes the lead but man it’s a hard call for me. How fun was they must have been in real life.
It's like picking your favorite Beatle... they all had unique talents but were at their best when they worked as a team. Cheers 👊
Absolute genius let’s not forget about Harpo and Chico
GREAT SCENE IN A GREAT MOVIE ..ONE OF THE BEST... MARGARET DUMONT THE LEGEND TOO.
Gotta have intellect to be funny. Intellect? What's that? Sadly seems to be missing today. Haha. Groucho and brothers were ahead of their time.
Yes indeed,no one can touch this guy with comic quick witted genius😊
Of course Chandler’s name really isn’t Chandler, so it makes a certain amount of sense in the long run
Aye, the whole thing is a beautiful labyrinth of absurdity.
When you're funny a century later.... you're a legend. This guy will be funny in a 1000 years.
Hear, hear 👏
Too many classic Groucho lines! One of my favorite quotable Marx Bros. films is Duck Soup:
Mrs. Teasdale: I've sponsored your appointment because I feel you are the most able statesman in all Freedonia.
Rufus T. Firefly: Well, that covers a lot of ground. Say, you cover a lot of ground yourself. You'd better beat it; I hear they're gonna tear you down and put up an office building where you're standing.
*You can leave in a taxi, you can in a huff. If that's too soon, you can leave in a minute and a huff.*
You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here, you must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
...and of course, "Remember, you're fighting for this woman's honor, which is probably more than she ever did."
😅😅
He's the god of smoothing out bloopers. I imagine growing up with other smart cookies, you had to stay sharp just to survive.
Please, please check out Arthur Askey in "Charlie's Big-Hearted Aunt". It's the British one. There's another version with Jack Benny called "Charlie's Aunt," which is good, but you'll see what I mean when you see Arthur Askey's.
Sister of that< picture. I'm 69 years old..grew up watching Groucho's movies and shorts, but the best was " You bet your life"" my parents let us watch everything, so this was gold... Wish you would entire shows of " Ted Mack Amateur hour""" you had to call your vote in by rotary phone!😅. But the talent!!!!
Comedians who can run are the real thing.... Williams, Murphy, Mccarthy, etc. Unfortunately... nowadays directors and writer do not let them.
Check out the old recordings from BBC I’m sorry I haven’t a clue (the antidote to panel games). Totally (almost) unscripted but stunningly funny.
Absolute genius. Sadly the old comedians in such great films as Marx brothers films. Laurel and Hardy, Keaton, Lloyd... are all but lost on today's youth
Groucho had a real funny line…
He’s holding a girl she said “…hold me closer, closer, closer”
Groucho “…If I hold you any closer…I’ll be behind ya” along with his quick eyebrows raised and lowered perfect timing! Genius
A gem by Dick Cavitt, "Groucho called me at 1a.m. and he exclaimed Dick Peter O'Toole has a double fallic name, and hung up"
Groucho was the greatest! Vaudeville raised, he could roll & do it all. (Sadly considered the father of the cue cars b/c on You Bet Your Life they were concerned about IF he think of clever quips constantly so had possible replies on large cards to be held up for him - the birth of Cue Card for a comedian who did NOT it.)
People who haven't watched the Marx Brothers are truly missing something funny. Please do yourself a favor and watch just one of them. I think you'll be pleasantly surprised.
The absolutely was one of my favorite minds. He ever said that's it we're getting on the steamship in the night of the opera.
The dowager was in front of him and he was dragging a steamer truck. She asked him. "Do you have everything Mr. Firefly"? And his response was "I haven't had any complaints before".
It was sharp yet conversational brilliance
Of course, the whole backstory of that guy is that he’s not a millionaire, but a street fish-peddler that Chico and Harpo knew back in the day who’s posing as a millionaire as part of a scam, so it’s logical that he might not remember the name he’s going by. Doesn’t take away from Groucho’s brilliance however
My name is Captain Spaulding, I'm the African explorer. It became Groucho's theme song.
Hooray for Captain Spaulding, the African explorer! I loved all the Marx brothers movies!
This was one of my favorite parts too where he says, “If you stew cranberries like applesauce they taste much like prunes than rhubarb does, now tell me what you know!” Legendary Groucho.
Thanks! I didn’t know about this! LOL.
Now about that. i’d like to say something further, farther.
I like groucho's captain Spaulding wayyy more than that other guy that named himself the same... he wasn't such a good character... 🤮
I was SO upset when Groucho died, because it was only 3 days after Elvis died, and nobody cared about Groucho dying.
"Time flies like the wind...fruit flies like bananas." The great Groucho Marx.
Groucho was a classic. You just waited to hear what he was going to say next . The Marx Brothers were one of the best. They just dont make real comedy like this anymore.😅😅😅
Yeah.. Grouchos wit reminds of the superior comedic brains of those Brogan family characters. Either you're born funny or you're not
Can we all take a moment for Groucho’s mustache being painted on??? 😂
And his eyebrows too.
I was so sad when Groucho died 3 days after Elvis did. Elvis's death was dominating the news and Groucho's death was barely mentioned. Groucho was such a genius.
That's one of my favorite actor traits. No matter what mistakes happen, both of them are thinking "well, I'm not going to cut if he's not". Both of them refusing to be the first to stop the take. Even though the take has been blown, as long as the director isn't calling cut, they are both going to just keep going.
If you can't leave in a taxi, you can leave in a huff. If that's too soon you can leave in a minute and a huff!
The films are the products of the stage shows, and the stage shows were trial and error for the gags. All 5 Marx brothers honed their stage shows which is why the films are so good.
Louis Armstrong invented 20th century music and Groucho invented 20th century comedy
I had a doctor who bore a passing resemblance to Groucho Marx. Better yet, he had the same sense of humor. I loved my appointments with him!
Bugs Bunny's personality, was based on Groucho's!
"What's up Doc!"😅
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.
I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member.
@@russs7574 I love that one. I made that my life motto. And on my grave will be the Laurel and Hardy quote, 'T'was Ever Thus'.
There's a very good reason rob zombie used Marx brothers character names in the devil's rejects trilogy... groucho was a master.
I loved the Marx Brothers! "Why?" you ask!
"Why a Duck?" Of Course!😅
How do you know how great the Marx Brother are? If you show them to GenZ, they laugh their asses off, just like the rest of us.
Great comedy ages well.
Groucho was an unadulterated Bona Fide linguistic comedy genius! So Far ahead of his time he was behind himself.
Marry me? How much are you worth?
Answer the second question first!
Classic.
groucho complained in his books that he could never insult anyone like bad waiters. because they thought it was him goofing around
Groucho was terrific with ad libs, which you can hear when he hosted the TV game show "You Bet Your Life".
The GOAT of witty improvisation . God love Groucho. A one in a lifetime.😂❤️
The Marx bros were as funny as they were unattractive, and boy were they funny.
They resemble that remark.
I loved his movies shown on TV in the 50s when I was a kid. You Bet Your Life was always watched in our house.
Groucho had a way of rolling with the screw up [always thinking] and making it better!
Groucho comes from the stage and mistakes get made live on stage. You have to learn how to roll with the punches and that man could roll.
Check out Gilbert Gottfried's impression of older Groucho on Howard Stern lol