You Bet Your Life - OUTTAKES (Complete!)

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  • Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
  • These hilarious outtakes from YBYL have been posted around RUclips before, but scattered around in pieces. Here are all the known surviving outtakes together in one video, 90 minutes of Not-Safe-For-1950s-TV Groucho. Sometimes the material is so tame it's hard to figure out what prompted it to be removed, but it's all side splitting!
    Lots of pure gold in these clips. These survive only because the film editor on YBYL saved them. As I understand it, they would play these outtakes at the annual YBYL Christmas party.
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  • @janedoe5229
    @janedoe5229 Год назад +20

    Groucho is so funny, that he doesn't even have to tell the jokes. They just have to be in his presence and everything they say is funny.

  • @harrydecrescenzo3327
    @harrydecrescenzo3327 7 лет назад +110

    Groucho was the all time master of comedic timing. Those pregnant pauses are hilarious by themselves.

    • @robertcravens6336
      @robertcravens6336 4 года назад +10

      Absolutely! 30+ years of live entertaining experience had honed his skills to a razor edge. Let the audience expectation build while he lit, looked at, and puffed a cigar, writing our own jokes in our head, just waiting for him to hit that teed up ball. I was laughing harder at him doing that than the jokes he ended up telling. The "forbidden fruit" aspect of it helped, too. This was being filmed for TV broadcast, so you had to keep it clean. When it wasn't clean, that made it way funnier, and we were in on the "naughty" bit.

    • @kennedykenndy2227
      @kennedykenndy2227 2 года назад +1

      Tradução de inglês para português

    • @ordinarypeople20
      @ordinarypeople20 11 месяцев назад +1

      Certainly Jack Benny and Johnny Carson were great at pausing, looking away and letting the laughter build...but Groucho showed he was just as great at this as both of them.

  • @quantumleap359
    @quantumleap359 3 года назад +20

    Groucho had lightning quick wit, it took a lot of skill to keep his humor within bounds of the censors of the day! So glad to see these outtakes, they show the genuine genius of this man and his guests. Thank you for this post.

  • @jdm1066
    @jdm1066 4 года назад +51

    "This gentleman is now abroad." Still topical.

  • @JustSomeCanadianGuy
    @JustSomeCanadianGuy 3 года назад +61

    There’s no comedian alive today who could work this well with civilians on a regular basis and still be funny and charming.

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 3 года назад +9

      I agree! There's no comedian like Groucho that makes me laugh. I just like the spontaneous reactions instead of structured comedy.

  •  Год назад +17

    When Groucho Marx was on TV, I never missed a broadcast. He was one of the funniest people ever a my opinion. Thank you so much for posting this clip, I am going to save it, so I could watch it several times again. Today is January 24th 2023.

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 Год назад +27

    There has never been anyone to equal Groucho and his spontaneous wit!
    A unique man.

  • @keithhyttinen8275
    @keithhyttinen8275 Год назад +2

    The lady who "still couldn't get a rise out of him..." with her yeast cake biscuits. The look on Groucho's face....priceless.

  • @whentokoloshsays1142
    @whentokoloshsays1142 7 лет назад +86

    Thanks for preserving this superb material. This just shows how good Groucho was. The guests were made part of the show and not treated as stooges.They must of had a great laugh making this show. The audience loved it

  • @SaxonC
    @SaxonC 4 года назад +42

    Just the look on Groucho’s face is hilarious

  • @poetcomic1
    @poetcomic1 8 лет назад +28

    These are lovingly preserved because they were played every year for the show's advertisers' at their annual dinner and were a big hit.

  • @OldSchool1947
    @OldSchool1947 6 лет назад +11

    I LOVE you, Groucho! "Will you be My Sweetheart?"..."This gentleman is now abroad!" I'm dyin'!

  • @deanmorrow4083
    @deanmorrow4083 7 лет назад +76

    Thank You for uploading these outtakes. I remember watching the old reruns of this show in the 1970's with my Mom and we would laugh . This brings backs good memories, since my Mom passed in 2012.

  • @macheartist
    @macheartist 9 лет назад +67

    I am a longtime fan of Groucho from radio and TV. They have brought me countless hours of joy. This video is hilarious! I am recovering from surgery a week ago (I won't be specific, but it was in a painful location with tons of nerve endings where,as they say, "the sun doesn't shine") and have been enjoying episodes of You Bet Your Life, then this video came up, and I have laughed often and hard. It hurts to laugh hard right now...but it hurts so good! Thanks so much for posting. It is good medicine!

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  9 лет назад +4

      +Jim Bohannon I'm really glad you got some needed cheering up!

    • @TheStuport
      @TheStuport 9 лет назад +3

      +tommytruth Back in "the day"....ANYTHING Groucho was involved in was MUST SEE NOW!!! It's truly a testament to his legacy that so many people through the years often imitate either the shifting of the eye brows....the Penguin style walk....the Voice... the Cigar mannerisms....or ALL of the classic Groucho "moves"! TY also Groucho Marx-You Bet Your Life for the postings of this Wonderful american Icon and Treasure!! Cheers All

    • @enjoysanal5767
      @enjoysanal5767 8 лет назад +1

      +Jim Bohannon : Hemerhoids?

    • @TheStuport
      @TheStuport 8 лет назад +2

      Why on Earth would I think you could spell Hemorrhoids when you can't even spell Pussy right??? Oh The Humanity

    • @TheFett79
      @TheFett79 8 лет назад +7

      +Jim Bohannon one of the greatest comedic talents of all time! The timing, the whit, the subtlety...unmatched.

  • @jameshicks8634
    @jameshicks8634 3 года назад +10

    I just love the reaction of the contestants when he throws those liners out there the looks in their eyes they just don't know how to handle it out there in the stage on a show feeling like everybody's watching them and he's throwing these liners out there this stuff is so uniquely priceless Groucho really had a good way of putting things

  • @richardsimmonsdreammaker
    @richardsimmonsdreammaker 7 лет назад +21

    This is such a wonderful blast from the past!!

  • @bobatl4990
    @bobatl4990 2 года назад +34

    It’s amazing how Groucho rarely laughs but will wrily smile and look into the audience as they roar in laughter.

  • @vova47
    @vova47 6 лет назад +36

    56:00 "If you keep you feet on the ground you can be both actress and a mother" Groucho - "If you keep your feet on the ground you'll never be a mother!" - not strictly true but a great and funny comment.

    • @axiomist4488
      @axiomist4488 3 года назад

      I was expecting him to say something about the other options .

  • @edsmith651
    @edsmith651 3 года назад +40

    It's 2021 and this is timeless hilariousness😂 Groucho's looks are priceless😂🤣

    • @S....
      @S.... 3 года назад +1

      Oh it's not timeless, he'd massacred now for "sexual harassment".

    • @northwestmedia2523
      @northwestmedia2523 2 года назад

      Jan 1, 2022

    • @photo161
      @photo161 2 года назад

      @@S.... ...Much of what is in fact, truly timeless, is now, regrettably, illegal, or at best, socially disparaged.

  • @keithnaylor1981
    @keithnaylor1981 Год назад +3

    The way Groucho can milk a risqué comment by remaining absolutely silent is a work of art!
    But it’s a shame these clips were not edited back in to the broadcasted interviews so that each interview could be seen completely intact. Would have been even more hilarious.
    It might have meant this video would have been 5 hours long but it would still have been unmissable!

  • @GeneBurnett
    @GeneBurnett 6 лет назад +114

    7:55 The way he lights up that cigar and rides that wave of laughter is just masterful...any less of a talent would have been unable to refrain from commenting sooner. He lets it ride long enough and then steers it back to the guest...and then rides each wave after that, again, just long enough...listening, inserting a joke, riding the wave. Man, he was something wonderful.

    • @heathergustar638
      @heathergustar638 3 года назад +16

      Like Jack Benny he could promote hilarity by refraining from speaking

    • @heathergustar638
      @heathergustar638 3 года назад +16

      And Johnny carson

    • @GeneBurnett
      @GeneBurnett 3 года назад +10

      @@heathergustar638 Yup. They all have that "look" that conveys more than words

    • @zombywoof1015
      @zombywoof1015 3 года назад +9

      A comedic master!

    • @sandrabarney285
      @sandrabarney285 3 года назад +5

      Just found this and what a treat thank you

  • @jpicking
    @jpicking 8 лет назад +79

    best one liner..... well if you keep your feet on the ground you never become a mother. ....... there is no comedian today that can think of a one liner like that on the spot out of the air like groucho marx.

    • @kevinjudy7218
      @kevinjudy7218 7 лет назад +7

      jpicking. No never... One of a kind

    • @Drummed
      @Drummed 6 лет назад +3

      The best comedians the world over r : Jack Benny & Groucho Marx coming in as a close second.

    • @GeneBurnett
      @GeneBurnett 6 лет назад +1

      He was fantastic. The only ones who come close to being able to ad lib as well as Groucho, at least in my opinion, would be Norm Macdonald and Gary Shandling.

    • @priscillalopez7523
      @priscillalopez7523 5 лет назад

      1

    • @robertcravens6336
      @robertcravens6336 4 года назад +6

      @@GeneBurnett Very, very different styles, but Jonathan Winters and Robin Williams also come to mind. But no matter how many names we can think of, none of them would be better than Groucho!

  • @beingnonbeing
    @beingnonbeing 8 лет назад +47

    These outakes are a treasure. What a gift!Thank you

  • @ITILII
    @ITILII 4 года назад +33

    Here he is...the One.....the ONLY.....GROUCHO !!! Greatest comedic genius of all time....and with his brothers, the greatest comedy team ever. Oh, and Duck Soup is the greatest comedy in the history of motion pictures, too.

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 3 года назад +1

      something, i don’t know quite what??? tells me you think The Marx Brothers are the best thing since sliced bread ! :}
      watching these outtakes is just marvelous. he was a genius at making something funny about almost anything! i wonder if the story is true about why he was taken off the air, cause many of these are quite as raucous. and they edited the show for TV!
      this is what i heard. he had a couple on the show who had a whole buncha kids. the guy said something about loving his wife and Groucho said, as only he could, “I love my cigar, but i and take it out of my mouth once in a while!” ~ ~ ~

    • @bernardbrenner6088
      @bernardbrenner6088 2 года назад +1

      @@feralbluee The version I heard was that he asked the wife why she had so many children, and she said, "I love my husband." Then Groucho said, "Lady, I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while."

    • @feralbluee
      @feralbluee 2 года назад

      @@bernardbrenner6088 yup - you got it the right way around. LOL the audience must’ve bust a gut - even back then in the ‘50’s, when the younger generations think we were walking manikins doing the ‘50’s thing - whatever that was supposed to be. oh! i was a kid - i wore dresses and climbed trees :)

  • @barrysmith646
    @barrysmith646 3 года назад +150

    Groucho is as funny now, in 2021, as he was 70 years ago. Long live Groucho !!

    • @jameshicks8634
      @jameshicks8634 3 года назад +6

      Yes he's a piece of work isn't he 🙂🌠

    • @jameshicks8634
      @jameshicks8634 3 года назад +6

      🙂🆒

    • @jameshicks8634
      @jameshicks8634 3 года назад +7

      Contestants reactions is priceless

    • @rukusband
      @rukusband 3 года назад +8

      They dont make em like they used to

    • @jrussellcase
      @jrussellcase 2 года назад +3

      Agreed. He was one of the fortunate few who was way ahead of his time, yet made it work....so his humor is still fresh today.

  • @Yogizilla
    @Yogizilla Год назад +13

    One of the greats! Few comedians can use that quick wit and make any situation interesting.

  • @martinbeneteau309
    @martinbeneteau309 3 года назад +7

    Can you imagine being in the audience seeing these shows being taped? It would have been heaven!

  • @paulalwayslearning8573
    @paulalwayslearning8573 3 года назад +4

    The last 5 minutes are the best. He forewarned you what was coming. Legend.

  • @zombywoof1015
    @zombywoof1015 3 года назад +21

    Groucho wasn't silent, he was just working over the many ways he could respond.
    His silence, facial expressions and hand gestures are funnier than a lot of comedian's acts.

    •  3 месяца назад +2

      Yes i loved how he would stare at people wondering are you nuts i loved when they clipped his cigar too. Yes he and George were great friends. Loved when he would sing.

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492 9 лет назад +24

    its so funny....he hardly has to say much and p eople roar with laughter.

  • @fluffmcmuff6801
    @fluffmcmuff6801 4 года назад +150

    It's crazy how Groucho could just come up with consistently funny jokes on the fly and have them still be hilarious all these years later.

    • @jamessonger9788
      @jamessonger9788 3 года назад

      Ppplplplplplplpplplplplpplplpplplplpplpllplplplpplplplplplppppl]

    • @jamessonger9788
      @jamessonger9788 3 года назад

      Pplplplplplppp))]

    • @azoth6337
      @azoth6337 2 года назад +3

      I once read a book about YBYL. A team of comedy writers interviewed the contestants before the show and made up jokes for Groucho.

    • @mehboobkm2018
      @mehboobkm2018 Год назад +1

      @@azoth6337 and still jokes were horrible

    • @christophertsiliacos8958
      @christophertsiliacos8958 Год назад +1

      It just goes to show that even "reality shows" are scripted. ✍

  • @katiezee2
    @katiezee2 6 лет назад +12

    what was considered risque doesn't even make a blip today..but the mistletoe joke was a good one!
    The 'bad habit' lady was great

  • @ruthbaker3290
    @ruthbaker3290 3 года назад +2

    I remember this when i was younger. It's nice that its back on You Tube. Thank You

    • @masterskeletor662
      @masterskeletor662 3 года назад

      its nice to think they had youtube in 1955 ruth.

  • @stevenjohnson7442
    @stevenjohnson7442 Год назад +14

    He can make a joke out of anything in a split second.
    Just incredible.

  • @Sheerkat7
    @Sheerkat7 3 года назад +25

    As a comedian, Groucho had it all. Multi-talented - played instruments, could sing and dance since his childhood Vaudeville days. Very expressive, a great wit, he had excellent timing and could also be the perfect straight man. Just hilarious.

  • @maxfitzgersld2129
    @maxfitzgersld2129 8 лет назад +23

    Groucho..... ever the Master of any situation.This compilation is Quality.

  • @semperfiarcher
    @semperfiarcher 3 года назад +47

    Watching the wheels turn in Groucho's mind is the most fun part of these!

  • @Hercules718
    @Hercules718 3 года назад +6

    Groucho is a treasure. We don’t get many people like that anymore. He was a genius and he makes me laugh in 2021. Amazing how life is.

  • @renofredrenofred4913
    @renofredrenofred4913 2 года назад +2

    LOLOL ..... I remember watching Groucho on a giant 12" black and white TV.. Uncle Miltie, Milton Berle, was another we used to watch. There were only 2 or 3 channels broadcasting until later in the 50s in the S.F. Bay Area. Back then you would spend 25% of the time readjusting the vertical or horizontal hold on your TV. LOL

  • @russellcampbell9198
    @russellcampbell9198 6 лет назад +43

    Was he the funniest man who ever lived? He gets my vote.

  • @ivangranger8494
    @ivangranger8494 3 года назад +25

    Its hard to move on from this classic. To laugh in todays times doesn't come easy, but watching Groucho keeps the smile on ones face, when not in full blown, laughter.

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 3 года назад +1

      I totally agree! I sometimes can't sleep and watch this to unwind. I literally laugh my can off. This is priceless!

  • @kennylevitt1050
    @kennylevitt1050 11 месяцев назад +1

    "this bill is outrageous, I wouldn't pay it if I was you." Groucho to Margaret Dumont. Hilarious, always.

  • @spacemonkey1463
    @spacemonkey1463 8 лет назад +60

    "I'd never seen anyone dressed in evening clothes before, except my father when he got married..."

    • @fonso1030
      @fonso1030 5 лет назад +6

      spacemonkey1463 one of my favorites, and most people wouldn’t get it now. Love it.

    • @donaldetomas4651
      @donaldetomas4651 2 года назад +2

      I loved the Marx
      Brothers and
      Groucho they were
      Funny

  • @Rebecca_J_Bastian
    @Rebecca_J_Bastian 8 лет назад +38

    The gentleman is now abroad. LOL

    • @fonso1030
      @fonso1030 5 лет назад +3

      Arabella Dawn lol and then Groucho refers to Christine Jorgensen, the first person widely known for having sex reassignment surgery. So literally, the gentleman became a broad!

    • @robertcravens6336
      @robertcravens6336 4 года назад +1

      And Groucho not saying a word, just letting the audience think about it and giggle! I'm sure the "abroad" "a broad" pun was well used in the day, but he played it perfectly. Bit of trivia, that pun was a throwaway joke in the movie "42nd Street". Ginger Rogers was playing chorus girl Anne Lowell. To stand out from the others she is using an affected aristocratic accent and wearing a monocle at the "cattle call". An old friend of hers is also there (Una Merkel), sees her, and calls over the Assistant Director (with whom she is sleeping with for the role). She brings him over to Anne to let him know Anne was to be guaranteed a role in the chorus as well. He is asked if he remembers her, to which he enthusiastically replies "Not Anytime Annie? Say, who could forget 'er? She only said "No" once, and THEN she didn't hear the question!" Anne was is deflated, her ruse foiled. As the screen fades out, we hear Una Merkel comment, "I didn't know you were abroad!"

    • @douglasvarady2894
      @douglasvarady2894 3 года назад

      @@robertcravens6336 Ll

  • @liten48
    @liten48 5 лет назад +8

    lol population explosion, the worlds population has grown 3 or 4 times more since the 1950s Groucho, where ever you are Bless ya

  • @jontibloom
    @jontibloom 8 лет назад +293

    If Groucho was alive today he'd still be the funniest act on TV

    • @TheFett79
      @TheFett79 8 лет назад +19

      +jontibloom hands down. Just started watching his work, and he is one of the best I've ever seen.

    • @WytZox1
      @WytZox1 8 лет назад +8

      Back in late 1960s Groucho was on a televised Friars club roast of Johnny Carson. He was 2nd to last roaster and was in top form that night getting big laughs from audience. However Don Rickles followed Groucho and had the audience screaming and howling with laughter greatly outdoing Groucho. Groucho was great but Rickles was the best that night. ☺

    • @rogerbrisco9148
      @rogerbrisco9148 7 лет назад +1

      xXThe FETTXx

    • @geoffclegg7417
      @geoffclegg7417 7 лет назад +1

      .

    • @mickyfitzharris3455
      @mickyfitzharris3455 7 лет назад +3

      jontibloom . Well said.👍

  • @SaxonC
    @SaxonC 5 лет назад +28

    Just the look, Groucho gives, is hilarious!

  • @connieanderson5312
    @connieanderson5312 3 года назад +5

    I like Groucho Marx but I liked Johnny Carson. When he put that turbin on......the jokes were flying. I laughed until I cried.

  • @shababull
    @shababull 7 лет назад +15

    I loved this show and watched it a lot. loved George Fennemen (spell check) too, he was like Grouchos second bannana.

  • @SaxonC
    @SaxonC 8 лет назад +96

    Groucho was sheer heaven and a comic genius. He doesn't even have to speak all he has to do is give one of his facial expression and look and we know what he's thinking which sometimes is even funnier!

    • @kevinjudy2210
      @kevinjudy2210 3 года назад +4

      He mastered his persona, a unique and never surpassed one..

  • @jimlastname
    @jimlastname 3 года назад +44

    George Burns and Groucho used the cigar as a prop with perfection. Classy.

    • @77thTrombone
      @77thTrombone 2 года назад +1

      Incredible use of time. Not just _timing,_ but his use of time to let the audience get their own version of the joke, and he nutures the humor along with glances at the crowd and contemplations of the cigar. After the audience has enjoyed the joke, he steps in and deftly escalates it.
      Reminds me of a lesson I learned about Count Basie: lots of folks can play the notes. Basie played the rests better than anyone. Same with Groucho in the dialogue.

    • @kellylynneden1977
      @kellylynneden1977 Год назад

      I♥️ George

  • @infamyinfamy
    @infamyinfamy 6 лет назад +18

    I think the lady at 1:13:13 is wonderful. I really enjoyed this film, had me in hysterics the whole time. Thanks for posting.

  • @creaturebotman
    @creaturebotman 8 лет назад +19

    If nature allowed it people like Groucho should live forever.

  • @darlenel9226
    @darlenel9226 8 лет назад +26

    I laughed out loud through the whole thing

  • @kimberlypatton9634
    @kimberlypatton9634 3 года назад +17

    When you watch "You Bet Your Life " episodes today ,you realize just how much Groucho's humor was so far ahead of its time....there are many times I've seen where the joke goes right over the audiences head and there's crickets....what a fantastic wit he was, and his brilliance came from doing it ad lib! And his ability to put people on the spot- genius!

  • @slydawwg
    @slydawwg 3 года назад +12

    Everyone should have a little Groucho on their shoulder.

  • @stevenj9970
    @stevenj9970 3 года назад +6

    Proof. Timing is all about the silence as much as the words….

  • @darrellsimpson6966
    @darrellsimpson6966 3 года назад +65

    This makes me laugh out loud. Still just hilarious, all those years ago.

  • @cgeubanks
    @cgeubanks 8 лет назад +10

    Glad to see these -- so strange to see 13 down votes, though. Wonder what they were hoping to see?

  • @rockyjaydog6447
    @rockyjaydog6447 5 лет назад +14

    this show would be current today. Really great TV

  • @wetlazer
    @wetlazer 4 года назад +50

    The more I learn about Groucho the more I admire his talent, and his mind. I saw Dick Cavett discussing how, toward the end Groucho was so lonely he'd 'accidentally' bump into Cavett (and I presume other people) in order to spend time with them. I'd heard a similar story about Jimmy Stewart. A local disc-jockey talked about visiting Holly-weird, and randomly spotting an elderly Jimmy Stewart, who was out in the garden with his son. The disc-jockey gushed at meeting Stewart, told him he was a huge fan. Then, after getting his autograph and talking to him for a time, his son thanked the disc-jockey for having remembered Stewart. Apparently Jimmy felt as though no one remembered who he was. It's just an odd thing to get my head around the idea that even the most famous people whom you idolize may, at some point feel so forgotten... The other thing this video made me think about was today's SJW culture (circa 2020) as harmless and playful as a lot of these jokes were, at least for now, some of our culture has reached such an Orwellian mindset that various communities would be extremely offended by some of these words, and might even try to ban such a person from speaking. We've hit a very odd place, at this moment. I hope things stop moving in this odd direction.

    • @bobbywimsy6741
      @bobbywimsy6741 3 года назад +10

      An interesting thing about Groucho and Dick Cavett is they corresponded, as in letters, and Groucho willed that quite erudite and literate collection to the Library of Congress, where I presume they are accessible. Groucho was as is Dick Cavett, very very intelligent, and well read. I think I'm going to try accessing these letters myself.

    • @cliffordboan5461
      @cliffordboan5461 3 года назад

      Rlll#xxl

    • @jessewolf6806
      @jessewolf6806 2 года назад +2

      F...k the SJWs. Long Live Groucho!

    • @jrussellcase
      @jrussellcase 2 года назад +3

      That's a great story about Jimmy Stewart (how could he have EVER thought he was forgotten), and the rest of what you posted is 💯 on point. 👍

  • @arthurharrison1345
    @arthurharrison1345 7 лет назад +15

    28:52 is one of the funniest things anyone ever told Groucho. I'm guessing that the stand mics are RCA 77-D ribbon types.

  • @Zichronot
    @Zichronot 3 года назад +5

    Groucho's one of my favorite people. So quick witted. He did an interview with William F Buckley back in the 60's with a judge as an arbiter. Very funny , very serious. Heh, he was doing his book tour. Buckley did not one up him, but he tried.

  • @savethetpc6406
    @savethetpc6406 8 лет назад +8

    @Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life
    The way RUclips cycles automatically from one video to another, it can keep playing all night. I fell asleep listening to a different program (not even on one of your channels), and woke up to the sound of my husband laughing out loud at this one! :-D

  • @feralbluee
    @feralbluee 3 года назад +3

    people don’t give the straight guy enough credit. George had such a great voice and spoke so smoothly. he’s really terrific! and George Fenniman was so good as Groucho’s announcer and keeping things in hand - well as much as he could! :} 😸🙀🙆🏻‍♀️🤷🏽‍♀️

  • @dmontes133
    @dmontes133 8 лет назад +59

    Groucho was one of the best!! He is still funnier than most of the so called comedians today!

    • @ITILII
      @ITILII 4 года назад +4

      Groucho IS the best, period !!! And George Carlin was better than ALL of the "comedians" today, put together !!!

  • @gilbertramirez6626
    @gilbertramirez6626 9 лет назад +84

    I am loving this. Groucho's smile and facial expressions are great.

    • @kevinjudy2210
      @kevinjudy2210 3 года назад +5

      Yes, a master .

    • @alanhandleman6513
      @alanhandleman6513 3 года назад +3

      Without speaking a single word, Groucho (with just his facial expression and the way that he held his cigar) could say ALMOST as much as Harpo. Hahaha

    • @larrykostick7222
      @larrykostick7222 2 года назад

      @@kevinjudy2210l...l

  • @GeneBurnett
    @GeneBurnett 6 лет назад +77

    I remember watching this show on re-runs back in the 70's. I always found it so relaxing. The whole show was about word play and conversation and it had such a gentle vibe and easy pace. It could easily have been a radio show but then you'd miss all of Groucho's facial humor. It still has this effect on me today. Thanks very much for posting.

    • @lorenanders702
      @lorenanders702 2 года назад +4

      1:15:52. Groucho shows a rare laugh.

    • @lorenanders702
      @lorenanders702 2 года назад +4

      Gene Burnett, me too, except with my grandfather on Friday nights. He saw them original and reruns.

    • @williamanthony9090
      @williamanthony9090 Год назад +2

      I can barely remember my grandparents watching the show in the early 1960s. I was reintroduced to it in the 1980s when they used to play reruns at 11 o'clock week nights.

    • @LOdom-ws8xv
      @LOdom-ws8xv Год назад +1

      Same here.

  • @jackzaccardi1896
    @jackzaccardi1896 2 года назад +8

    My most prized possession:
    A letter from Groucho in 1969.

  • @pondgazer1
    @pondgazer1 3 года назад +36

    Funny stuff!! I love Groucho. Thank you for posting this. If ever I need cheering up; this is the show to watch!!

    • @jacquelinelarsen6159
      @jacquelinelarsen6159 3 года назад +1

      Yes, whenever I'm feeling down, I love these old comedy shows, especially the Dean Martin roasts

  • @geoffkrikorian54
    @geoffkrikorian54 8 лет назад +13

    This was so funny! In the 70's I remember watching a rerun of YBYL, Groucho had a middle-aged lady on that said she and her husband have ten children. Groucho says to her, "You must love children". She responds, " Oh yes, we love children". Groucho then says the funniest thing I ever heard him say on the show; " I like a good cigar, but I take it out if my mouth every once in a while".

    • @geoffkrikorian54
      @geoffkrikorian54 8 лет назад +3

      The censors were probably in stitches and agreed to let this one go.

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  8 лет назад +3

      The line never aired. There is absolutely no question whatsoever about this. None. People remember seeing it, but they never have. Period. There is NO WAY the censors would have allowed it to air, and in fact there is no way the producers would have even TRIED to get it past the censors. Further, there is no existing outtake with the line, as you can see by its absence from this video compiling ALL of the surviving outtakes. Human memory is highly prone to error-- not just the folks on this thread, but ALL people, on ALL memories.

    • @robertcravens6336
      @robertcravens6336 4 года назад +1

      @@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476 Thanks. Very much agree it could not air. Lot's of people swore they heard the "that'll keep the little b_st_rd's" slip on the radio, but it never happened. Lot's of folks claim to have seen the Johnny Carson/Zsa Zsa Gabor "yes, if you'll just move that damned cat" line on The Tonight Show. Johnny was asked by Jane Fonda about this on the on one of Johnny's last Tonight Shows, and he denied it ("No, I would remember that!" The denial clip is available, but not the Zsa Zsa clip) According to Snopes, Groucho denied it in interviews, but in a largely ghostwritten work published at the end of his life, "he", or more likely his ghostwriter, Hector Acre, confirmed it. I doubt very much it happened. Snopes came up with a similar comment Groucho made to a woman with lots of kids where he talked about liking pancakes but not having closetsful of them. That may be the seed that someone misremembered or deliberately misrepesented to make it sound scandalous. Plenty of magazines and books got sold on BS stories of that type.

    • @curbozerboomer1773
      @curbozerboomer1773 2 года назад

      @@grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476 You are correct, sir!

    • @ronaldstarkey4336
      @ronaldstarkey4336 Год назад

      @@robertcravens6336 t thought it was soupy sales that said that... lol...or captain kangaroo...maby it was a weekday... lol

  • @BSV131
    @BSV131 8 лет назад +24

    There was no other and never will be!

  • @heathergustar638
    @heathergustar638 3 года назад +7

    A beautiful slice of a kinder gentler America. R I p

  • @tomthompson2474
    @tomthompson2474 6 лет назад +6

    The wheels are always turning!

  • @Disques13Swing
    @Disques13Swing 3 года назад +9

    Over 50 years later, we are still Laughing Our Asses Off with Groucho and his De Soto.

  • @darrelltalbott4830
    @darrelltalbott4830 3 года назад +6

    Do you know God gives everybody calling? Borracho! What a sense of humor our Lord has, with Groucho Marx!

  • @cefcat5733
    @cefcat5733 Год назад +3

    He has a library of jokes in his mind, like a toolbox.

  • @jjkhawaiian
    @jjkhawaiian 5 лет назад +36

    Some of the women were absolute knockouts.

    • @Deejaay83urj38
      @Deejaay83urj38 3 года назад +2

      Yes the people were gorgeous back then

    • @mavelous1763
      @mavelous1763 3 года назад

      Joy Harmon? A true bombshell from Cool Hand Luke.
      Incredible sex appeal + beauty

    • @cefcat5733
      @cefcat5733 2 года назад

      They were all big competition for the movie stars,especially my own Mother. 🤗

    • @lescobrandon3047
      @lescobrandon3047 Год назад

      One of the blondes was outstanding.

  • @baldilocks1914
    @baldilocks1914 7 лет назад +29

    How did we get where are are today? I've got tears in my eyes and not a dirty word was spoken.

    • @giorgikvatchadze4928
      @giorgikvatchadze4928 6 лет назад +9

      Baldi Locks Our progressive liberal friends call it a cultural progress, whereas I prefer the cultural decline and decadence instead . This is how we got here where we are!

  • @MrMenefrego1
    @MrMenefrego1 5 лет назад +28

    Can you just imagine the REALLY FUNNY STUFF that they ABSOLUTELY COULDN'T SHOW US? I wonder just how naughty Groucho really got?

    • @steam2go
      @steam2go 3 года назад +3

      Jeff you really don't understand implied humor do you? Benny Hill was another master of it. To cross the line would kill the humor.

    • @MrMenefrego1
      @MrMenefrego1 3 года назад +5

      @@steam2go You really don't understand my comment, Mr. Know it All. From just one sentence you have ascertained that I "really don't understand implied humor." What else can you tell me about myself from that one sentence, The Amazing Kreskin? What a Macaroon!

    • @waynebow-gu7wr
      @waynebow-gu7wr 3 года назад +2

      @@MrMenefrego1 I was wondering what he got upto after the show ?

    • @curbozerboomer1773
      @curbozerboomer1773 2 года назад

      @@TugIronChief ALL men prefer younger women, but most of us are not able to get there!....as Oscar Wilde once said _"Women should be obscene, and not heard!"..it's a joke---get over it!

  • @ITILII
    @ITILII 6 лет назад +39

    Groucho, the quickest wit, and greatest comic genius of all time - and the Marx Brothers, the greatest comedic team ever !

    • @donaldshay8114
      @donaldshay8114 3 года назад +2

      Grocho is the best ever

    • @tamarahiney4239
      @tamarahiney4239 3 года назад +1

      Yes, the Marx Brothers were the best comedic team of all times. The were magical, they were so different from each other. Love all their movies. But I didn't really appreciate Grouch until I grew older, at first I thought he was mean.

    • @bernardbrenner6088
      @bernardbrenner6088 2 года назад +1

      @@tamarahiney4239 He was a mean, insecure man, and not at all funny in real life. When he got in front of an audience, he was a great comic actor.

    • @janet1744
      @janet1744 Год назад

      The yeast lady got him grinning.

  • @malcolmbryant
    @malcolmbryant 8 лет назад +30

    Man a lot of these 50s women looked like film stars!

  • @AventuraLuver
    @AventuraLuver 7 лет назад +2

    An hour and a half of ybyl outtakes 😱 there is a God...

  • @Brace67
    @Brace67 5 лет назад +33

    He was “The one, the only, Groucho”! His talent and quick wit shone in a format like “You Bet Your Life”. Some of his best stuff never made it to the airwaves then. These are some great examples.

  • @howardserkin6618
    @howardserkin6618 2 года назад +2

    Groucho was The Godfather of late night comedy

  • @djpuzz
    @djpuzz 7 лет назад +11

    Love the lady's fashions.

  • @cindycraig3164
    @cindycraig3164 3 года назад +1

    He didn't have to say a word. Just light the cigar and smile...

  • @peace-yv4qd
    @peace-yv4qd 7 лет назад +45

    What I enjoyed about this show were the plain simple folk who could be funny without trying. I loved listening older people talk when I was a kid growing up. There was an simple honesty and morality about America back then. I miss it.

    • @Deejaay83urj38
      @Deejaay83urj38 3 года назад

      Yes your right

    • @pressureworks
      @pressureworks 3 года назад

      I saw it written where he didn't like it when people tried on purpose to be funny.

    • @ryanhodges7101
      @ryanhodges7101 3 года назад

      @peace2014 You are absolutely right. People could laugh at each other without getting offended or angry.

  • @AA-ke5cu
    @AA-ke5cu 3 года назад +4

    Can you do a grind? Well ; i have two chill-ren. Lol.

  • @carbo3017
    @carbo3017 Год назад +12

    His humor was timeless.

  • @garyk.nedrow8302
    @garyk.nedrow8302 Год назад +4

    Groucho's comic timing that looks so effortless here was the result of years of vaudeville comic experience, playing to different audiences every night and learning to listen the reaction, then playing to it. W.C. Fields, Jack Benny, Fanny Brice, Bert Lahr, Sid Caesar and many other comics of the era were products of vaudeville training. The closest thing to vaudeville today is improv comedy and many of our best comics today have a similar sensitive ear for the audience. Every night, the show is just a little bit different -- and as Groucho demonstrates, there are laughs in the pauses as well as in the lines.

  • @postatility9703
    @postatility9703 3 года назад +5

    Groucho had the good fortune to work with George Fenneman,one of the greatest straight men of all time...

  • @lynortlynort8401
    @lynortlynort8401 9 лет назад +17

    The material is tame to us. By contemporary standards. However, back at the time this TV show was aired, innuendo could be shocking. Puns, allusions and double entendres, very acceptable to us today, was considered lewd by the standards of the '50's. At least as far as broadcasting was concerned. This stuff is, indeed, very funny, and we would not blink to hear it today on mass media. The censors would have flipped out then.

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  9 лет назад +3

      This is partially the reason why YBYL was filmed in advance, so Groucho wouldn't have to censor himself. He had the comfort of knowing that any questionable material would be snipped out before broadcast, which couldn't have been the case if it were a live show. On YBYL, each week they recorded about an hour's worth of material and trimmed it down to the best 25 minutes for broadcast. YBYL was the first, and pretty much ONLY, game show produced this way. At the time, almost all game shows aired live, and even those that were recorded in advance were not intended to be edited for broadcast.

    • @soeffingwhat
      @soeffingwhat 8 лет назад

      +lynort lynort True. I think that by the time he did the Dick Cavett interview in 1969 then this material would have been more acceptable...
      He talks about seeing the Musical Hair in that and probably even some of the jokes he says would not have been broadcastable in the 50s

    • @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476
      @grouchomarx-youbetyourlife7476  8 лет назад

      ***** Glad you enjoyed the videos!

    • @soeffingwhat
      @soeffingwhat 8 лет назад

      ***** I don't find Comedy Shows Today vulgar or disgusting..Some films are like that one McGruber, or those Jay and Silent Bob Films which do nothing for Comedy. They are not funny at all. What shows do you find disgusting?

    • @robertcravens6336
      @robertcravens6336 4 года назад +1

      "Shocking" is probably too strong. The studio audience was laughing there asses off, not gasping and heading for the exit. There were plenty of "party records" available which were pretty "adult", and people bought them a played them when the kids weren't around. It was more to do with decorum than pearl clutching. Time and place for everything. Try telling a joke about a "colored" preacher today. The bounds move, but there are always bounds. "The past is a strange country, they do things differently there."

  • @thebookdoc.writing.and.editing
    @thebookdoc.writing.and.editing 3 года назад +1

    7:20 That lady nonchalantly did what thousands of people tried and never could: make Groucho crack a smile because he was more than laughing inside.

  • @henryroot4381
    @henryroot4381 Год назад +4

    The wonderful Groucho. A comic masterclass...

  • @jessiejames7492
    @jessiejames7492 9 лет назад +32

    i t hink the funniest is the lady and the rising yeast rolls . I have watched it so often and laugh each time.

    • @jessiejames7492
      @jessiejames7492 8 лет назад +5

      ***** i agree with you 200% and more !

    • @walterweddle7644
      @walterweddle7644 3 года назад +3

      We have a consensus.

    • @jessiejames7492
      @jessiejames7492 3 года назад +4

      @@walterweddle7644 and Groucho being Groucho knew how to milk it for maximum hilarity. His face and that lady’s ! Just too funny

    • @shelbymanners6729
      @shelbymanners6729 3 года назад +2

      Yeast roll story OMG...She had no idea...🤣🤣🤣

    • @Rico_Suave_
      @Rico_Suave_ 3 года назад +1

      Care to explain? I'm not American

  • @janepatterson6779
    @janepatterson6779 3 года назад +5

    LO-O-O-VE the dresses, outfits the women wear, nothing falling out the top.

    • @yettaplotz2155
      @yettaplotz2155 3 года назад +1

      And were the hairdo's so lovely and flattery?
      HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

  • @louistaylor9796
    @louistaylor9796 8 лет назад +4

    "Touche' melancholiac...Lady@1:20 is "Joy Harmon"...she washed the car in Paul Newman's : Cool Hand Luke !Today she is still famous under :"Aunt Joy's Cookies".

  • @g.t.g1111
    @g.t.g1111 3 года назад +6

    How you know he died? He could just be hiding... 😂

  • @Lumpy007
    @Lumpy007 8 лет назад +11

    "I had to play with something so I played with the football". 23:40 (ish)

    • @marymarysmarket3508
      @marymarysmarket3508 3 года назад +1

      This guy became quite a California legend. Look him up. His entire episode is online. Robt. Boutzen...or something like this name.