Episode 59.3: ALL HAIL THE MARX BROTHERS! (Pt.1)

"Who are you going to believe, me or your own eyes?"
Who could say things better than Groucho Marx? That's a trick question because no one could - he, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo made such a dynamic team that their five first films at Paramount studios, between 1929 and 1933, remain among five of the funniest damn movies on the planet.
Do they have the best stories? Who cares when you have four anarchic Jews who want to make you laugh? Do they have the best songs? A few are certainly among the freshest and funniest of the era, but we can leave the great songs to the others - we gotta get Harpo pulling something insane out of his pants (don't worry ladies, it's only everything except that!) or Chico being... well, Chico to the fullest!
"I could dance with you till the cows come home...But I would rather dance with the cows till you come home."
Jack and Andrew talk about these early films, from arguably the first sound musical comedy to to this day the arguably supreme comic satire on war (aside or alongside Strangelove, you decide). and see how they grew, if at all, from theatrical bozos to real FILMmakers:
THE COCOANUTS (1929)
ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930)
MONKEY BUSINESS (1931)
HORSE FEATHERS (1932)
DUCK SOUP (1933)
And join us next episode where we talk about their films at MGM (basically, the rest of their career).
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songs:
"I Must be Going"
"I'm Against It" (The Ramones)
Clips from:
Duck Soup
Animal Crackers
The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
Horse Feathers