I don't want to live in a world that doesn't still find this genius man funny. I laughed throughout this whole bio. Thank you for the upload and thank you Mr. Marx for all the laughs.
Every time I see one of these biographies I am reminded how blessed I have been to have lived in the lifetime of such men and women. My children and grandchildren will never know the joy of seeing such performers live in their heyday.
@@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 RUclips 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......
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."
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.
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
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.
Queen (the band) contacted Groucho to ask if he was ok with them taking his movie names for the titles of their LPs (Night at the opera and Day at the races),Groucho's reply "It's fine by me and I'd be honoured if you'd name your next LP after my latest picture 'the Greatest hits of the Rolling Stones"
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!
I love that man! Ever since I was little, and now that I'm on the dark side of middle age, too. I adore Groucho! He died three days after Elvis; I cried all week long.
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.
@@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
I dont think I ever laughed so hard in my life until I discovered old Groucho movies on the tv like 50-55 years ago. The first time I would see one would laugh so hard my side would hurt To a young teen seeing a guy with such crazy moves and zinging fast jokes and comebacks God he was funny
My favorite is the "Trial of Chicolini" from Duck Soup. Groucho: I suggest we give him ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth. Chico: Tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth's.
Superbly put together & very emotionally gratifying. I didn't realize he doted on his children so much. His marriages lasted longer than my 3 ever did.I hope to meet him one day in Heaven.
While filming A Night at the Opera, the brothers drove Sam Wood (director) crazy by going off script. “I can’t make a film out of clay!” He yelled. Groucho responded, “nor a director out of Wood.”
What I remember about Groucho is how much my father enjoyed him. Dad never missed You Bet Your life. Once he had a man on who said that he had been married for seven years and had seven children. Groucho said, "seven children in seven years?" The man replied, '"I love my wife Groucho." Groucho's comeback, "I love my cigar too, but I take it our once in awhile." Dad nearly fell out of the chair laughing. I guess he could relate. At that time we had seven kids in our family.
He enjoyed making us laugh. I’ve heard his jokes many times over and yet when I hear them again I still laugh like it was the first time I heard it. To me that’s the sign of great talent. Thank you for the video!
Most of my one liners when I was growing up were pinched from the Marx brothers. At 68, I still fall back on them now and again, they still get laughs. God bless boys, you were the best!
My father introduced me to Marx Brothers movies. Just loved him. They shared a lower East side sense of humor and puns, which I inherited as one of my greatest gifts. Dad passed away last year and is buried in the same mortuary as Groucho. He would have liked to know that. I always thought Groucho was talking directly to me in his films. I watched Duck Soup again just two days ago. I sure miss you Groucho.
Great program. I used to watch "You Bet Your Life" every week with my parents. My dad used to sometimes laugh hysterically when he watched. Most of the time he was way too quick for me to "get" every time.
I love Groucho's humor style and I have copied it from time to time myself. He is one of my favorite comedians, a true genius! Thank you for sharing this.. ❤️
I have all of the Marx Brothers' films on DVD and enjoy them. I love to hear and sing several of his songs, especially "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" and "Hello, I Must Be Going."
I was a kid when Goucho died but old enough to remember seeing him on the Cavet show when I was allowed to stay up that late. In later years I got old enough to understand his comedy and became a lifelong fan . He was a brilliant man and also a troubled man who couldnt help but mock the reality he was presented with and he mocked it perfectly . I relate to him a great deal because in my own way I also mock this reality at every turn to the point Im surprised I still have a job ..LOL...but I sure have a lot of laughs and the guys that work for me laugh right along with me and I always give Grocho the credit when I " borrow" one of his jokes but most of them dont know who Grouch is when they come to work in my world but they sure will when they leave ...God bless Groucho and the brothers. PS. Peter O'Toole has a double phallic name .
I been blessed to watch the Marx Brothers as a child at my Grandma's house,I've been intrigued by them since then,Groucho was an Original,he and the rest of the Marx Brothers can never be duplicated
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!
His books are proof of his accomplishments as a writer! They could stand alone as testaments of his genius if they didn’t have to compete with his stage, movie, radio, and tv careers. His autobiography, Groucho and Me is great!
I recently watched “A Night T the Opera “ on TCM. Groucho’s really amazing bag of tricks was incredible. What a great entertainer he was. Thanks, Groucho, from all of us!
Many years ago when I was a young teen, would watch You Bet Your Life as reruns at 11pm after Benny Hill, with my brother. I loved watching Groucho and his movies. He was fantastically funny with his quick wit and funny sarcasm and yet very pleasant and friendly. I was so saddened when I learned of his last years of life. So very sad how he was treated it actually made me cry. I hope that life was just as unkind to that woman that caused such grief. He would hide in a closet and cry when she was angry and yelling. I am so sorry Groucho, I wish I would have been around to help you, just to repay you for the so many hours of laughter you gave us all. I watch his reruns and laugh and when they are over I still cry that he is gone. God Bless you all for watching his movies etc, I believe he would be thrilled knowing that so many of us still watch him after all these years.
@ 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 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
Thank you for putting this up. It's a wonderful Documentary on one of the top 5 Comedians who ever live, if not the greatest ever to have lived. I think Groucho, George Burns, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Gracie Allen and Lucile Ball were some of the Gods of Comedy. You can't beat their humor or their personalities. They don't make them like that anymore.
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.
@@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)
I watched this whole thing and now i have tears.I have watched thrilled to hear him since i think 3 or 4 years old.I somehow knew how to turn on the TV.
Margret doumont. I always loved the fact. She didnt get the jokes. And they said that she was a wonderful woman.and told them they could do better .she never understood their comedy. And they loved her for that.she was great!
There was an episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie" in which Major Roger Healey makes the wish to be "The funniest man in the world" and who pops into the picture? The One And Only - Groucho!
Can't remember the movie, I must have been about 7 or 8yrs old, but Groucho upon walking this lady home after a bad date, left her at her door and said "I've had a wonderful evening. But this wasn't it". Dunno' why, but that got me. There wasn't anyone really playing with words like him. Thanks for posting this. Really enjoyed learning a bit about Groucho.
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."
His son didn’t share in the total admiration of his father . When asked why the son said “ We were going thru customs , coming back from a Canadian vacation, when we were asked to step aside. The customs officer asked Groucho what he did for a living. Without batting an eye Groucho replied ‘ Smuggler ‘ “. The family then spent hours being interrogated. They were pissed but Groucho thought it hilarious.
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”
Don't you just have a sense of loss that you never got to see Groucho in person, never got to experience him in your culture growing up, like saying to family and friends, "Let's go see Groucho's latest movie (or let's go see the Marx brothers tonight?" I know we have our solitary RUclips experience, but there is something about sitting in a theater full of people, everyone around you exploding in convulsive, teary-eyed laughter that multiplies your merriment exponentially. I think I'll take the Marx Brothers DVD gift set my kids got me for Christmas and have a "A Marx Brothers Party" and invite as many as I can drag out for a step back in time. How about if everyone came dressed up as 20's flappers and 'Great Gatsbys', or from the 30's, or the WWII era 'swing band' 40's? Search your thrift stores and vintage shops! I think we should all celebrate the joy of Groucho. We can STILL celebrate him and laugh together in a small way, in our homes, among family and friends. Please let me know if you do this!
In the late 60’s, we’d go to NYC on Broadway ( somewhere in midtown i think ) and they’d be showing one of the Marx Bros classic movies..the smell in the theatre was only surpassed by the continuous laughter of the always sold out young crowd..memories of great times with the Marx Bros!!!
My Uncle animated for The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. Thank you Maxine Marx. Chico's daughter. My Grandpa said it was his sister-in-law that married Leonard Marx. I'm leaving the night for sleep with a smile.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent movie scene clips. Along with Hollywood's actors sharing personal knowledge pertaining to the Marx brothers. Along with the movies. I Enjoyed viewing the reruns of " You Bet your life " series. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous(2024) 🌈🎉💵😉.
@@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.
it seems that every 50 years or so, a great, legendary and of course hilarious comedy group would arrive. I was an 8-yr old Canadian army brat, posted to Germany. We were on a Cunard ocean liner heading to Rotterdam in the late 1950s. I discovered the Marx Brothers. The ship's theatre would play a Marx Brothers movie for the matinee every day. Saw them all and was mesmerized. Rediscovered them in my 20s and realized how literate their insanity was. "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." And about 50 years after the Marx Brothers hit, we got "Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean" and a whole new stream of legendary, hilarious TV, movies, stage and radio.
I'm 50 and barely remember Groucho and his brothers but it's as funny if not funnier, than anything today! Innocent, yet imaginative. You have to literally spell it all out for today's utes.
I used watch You bet your life every day in my high school years.Loved and adored him of course he was long gone but he touched my soul.And created or molded my own sarcastic twisted dark comedy self.
@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."*
I loved Groucho's disdain for hob-snobbery and the satirical mockery he made of it; without hesitation. Perhaps the best American comedic genius to come out of the twentieth century; I adored him. Indeed, we lost a Golden Child when we lost Groucho Marx.
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!
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....
Two quotes near the end are really descriptive and touching - "He had spent a lifetime planting comic time bombs under our seats", and when Cavett says that he needed a Groucho to cheer him up, and he was the only person in the world who couldn't have one.
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
Groucho's death was overshadowed by Elvis Presley's. Today is the 1st time I heard about the exact day of his passing. I was in Yugoslavia in the summer of '77. Elvis died 3 days earlier and people were still in shock from that.
When Groucho went to Berlin after the War he asked about the location of Hitler's bunker and initial grave. He then danced on and around it doing his Groucho dance ..
The pure folklore is that you DON'T know shit from shinola - it would take anyone who wasn't a lazy sod five seconds to find verifications of Groucho's Hitler dance on the internet.
The MARX BROTHERS WERE GREAT ALL OF MY EARLY LIFE BACK IN THE 1950's on a black & white television. They brought joy and laughter to those who watched them.
I'm 58, I was probably around 13 when I saw my first Marx Brothers movie, and I was enthralled. I always cracked up when Harpo would put his leg into someone's hand. My sister and I would try to do that to others sometimes. I had enjoyed all the Three Stooges movies before, but this was completely different, humor that made you think but was also slapstick. I remember when Groucho died in 1977, just a few days after Elvis Presley. One of my favorite movie scenes was when about 25 people were crammed into a closet and Groucho says, "Call room service and have them send up a bigger room."
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!
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!
Such a fan! When I was a teen I rushed out to buy the double record set, Live at Carnegie Hall and read every book I could get my hands on about the Marx Bros. I never saw this documentary before today. Didnt even know that it existed! Everything I was supposed to do this morning just got put on hold.....
I miss these movie documentaries from the VHS/Laserdisc era. These are essential time capsules that captured the people who lived these times and witnessed the history.
This just made me a fan. I've seen Mr Marx at least the exact same times I've seen my mom and dad. And I never really got it until tonight. Which only makes Gilbert Gottfried 3000 times funnier.
I'm a lifelong Groucho fan, so I figured I'd watch about 5 minutes. I watched all 57. We all need a little Groucho in our lives.
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.
I don't want to live in a world that doesn't still find this genius man funny. I laughed throughout this whole bio. Thank you for the upload and thank you Mr. Marx for all the laughs.
Indeed
Well said
I'm also fond of the chico/talula Bankhead story
This is brilliance !!!!!!!!
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Every time I see one of these biographies I am reminded how blessed I have been to have lived in the lifetime of such men and women. My children and grandchildren will never know the joy of seeing such performers live in their heyday.
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 RUclips 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......
My favorite quote of Groucho's is "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it."
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.”
The only man who is legend in all four forms of performing - vaudeville/theatre, movies, radio and television. Just goes to show what genius he was.
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.
The incomparable Julius Henry 'Groucho' Marx.
Those of you who miss comedy like this today, raise your hand.
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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This is actually the third time I've come across this. And I've ended up watching it start to finish every time.
I met Groucho in 1972 in Beverly Hills. His health was failing but his wit was sharp and caustic. Miss those guys.
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
It's December 4, 2021 and Groucho is still able to make me laugh. Thanks for all the laughter, your light still shines all these after.
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'd introduce myself, but I already know myself". Rest in Peace, Julius.
Myron Misdemeanors
"$9.40! That's an outrage. If I were you I wouldn't pay it! " classic
Queen (the band) contacted Groucho to ask if he was ok with them taking his movie names for the titles of their LPs (Night at the opera and Day at the races),Groucho's reply "It's fine by me and I'd be honoured if you'd name your next LP after my latest picture 'the Greatest hits of the Rolling Stones"
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?
I love that man! Ever since I was little, and now that I'm on the dark side of middle age, too. I adore Groucho! He died three days after Elvis; I cried all week long.
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
I dont think I ever laughed so hard in my life until I discovered old Groucho movies on the tv like 50-55 years ago. The first time I would see one would laugh so hard my side would hurt To a young teen seeing a guy with such crazy moves and zinging fast jokes and comebacks God he was funny
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.
My favorite is the "Trial of Chicolini" from Duck Soup.
Groucho: I suggest we give him ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in Twelveworth.
Chico: Tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth's.
I have the Marx Brothers collection on DVD. After seeing this I have to watch them all again. These guys are timeless. Thank you for sharing.
This is such a lovely tribute. I’ve watched it many times. Dick Cavett and George Fenneman clearly adored him.
I knew a man that knew a man that knew me I got a lot of self-knowledge!
Thanks for uploading. Groucho was so quick witted, such a natural talent. Never see the likes of him again, unfortunately.
Groucho, the greatest comedian of all time, and the Marx Brothers, the greatest team of comedic geniuses, ever
"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside a dog, it's too dark to read!"
- Groucho Marx
LOL!!!!!
Not that funny
Joe Ambrose - all your taste are in your salivary glands.
@@charlesstuart7290 Not that funny
Mark Twain quotation, not from Groucho.
Superbly put together & very emotionally gratifying. I didn't realize he doted on his children so much. His marriages lasted longer than my 3 ever did.I hope to meet him one day in Heaven.
While filming A Night at the Opera, the brothers drove Sam Wood (director) crazy by going off script. “I can’t make a film out of clay!” He yelled. Groucho responded, “nor a director out of Wood.”
What I remember about Groucho is how much my father enjoyed him. Dad never missed You Bet Your life. Once he had a man on who said that he had been married for seven years and had seven children. Groucho said, "seven children in seven years?" The man replied, '"I love my wife Groucho." Groucho's comeback, "I love my cigar too, but I take it our once in awhile." Dad nearly fell out of the chair laughing. I guess he could relate. At that time we had seven kids in our family.
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."
Loved Groucho my whole life! An extraordinary man and comic!
He enjoyed making us laugh. I’ve heard his jokes many times over and yet when I hear them again I still laugh like it was the first time I heard it. To me that’s the sign of great talent. Thank you for the video!
I think I have gone deaf! don't I love the silence!!
Most of my one liners when I was growing up were pinched from the Marx brothers. At 68, I still fall back on them now and again, they still get laughs. God bless boys, you were the best!
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!
My father introduced me to Marx Brothers movies. Just loved him. They shared a lower East side sense of humor and puns, which I inherited as one of my greatest gifts. Dad passed away last year and is buried in the same mortuary as Groucho. He would have liked to know that. I always thought Groucho was talking directly to me in his films. I watched Duck Soup again just two days ago. I sure miss you Groucho.
Great program. I used to watch "You Bet Your Life" every week with my parents. My dad used to sometimes laugh hysterically when he watched. Most of the time he was way too quick for me to "get" every time.
I love Groucho's humor style and I have copied it from time to time myself. He is one of my favorite comedians, a true genius! Thank you for sharing this.. ❤️
I have all of the Marx Brothers' films on DVD and enjoy them. I love to hear and sing several of his songs, especially "Lydia the Tattooed Lady" and "Hello, I Must Be Going."
I don't think there will ever be anyone like him again. He was a one off!
"And don't point that beard at me. It might go off"! LOL Genius
I was a kid when Goucho died but old enough to remember seeing him on the Cavet show when I was allowed to stay up that late. In later years I got old enough to understand his comedy and became a lifelong fan . He was a brilliant man and also a troubled man who couldnt help but mock the reality he was presented with and he mocked it perfectly . I relate to him a great deal because in my own way I also mock this reality at every turn to the point Im surprised I still have a job ..LOL...but I sure have a lot of laughs and the guys that work for me laugh right along with me and I always give Grocho the credit when I " borrow" one of his jokes but most of them dont know who Grouch is when they come to work in my world but they sure will when they leave ...God bless Groucho and the brothers.
PS. Peter O'Toole has a double phallic name .
I been blessed to watch the Marx Brothers as a child at my Grandma's house,I've been intrigued by them since then,Groucho was an Original,he and the rest of the Marx Brothers can never be duplicated
Love and miss you Mr. Marx... Thanks for the memories♥️
He wasn't ahead of his time; he's timeless ! And given our current predicament. PUNCTUAL !
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
His books are proof of his accomplishments as a writer! They could stand alone as testaments of his genius if they didn’t have to compete with his stage, movie, radio, and tv careers. His autobiography, Groucho and Me is great!
I recently watched “A Night T the Opera “ on TCM. Groucho’s really amazing bag of tricks was incredible. What a great entertainer he was. Thanks, Groucho, from all of us!
Comments filled with favorite lines...
Best eulogy for Groucho one could imagine
I will love him forever... no one has ever make me laugh the same way and with such awe and admiration ❤️❤️❤️
"are you a man or a mouse ? " - "you put a piece of cheese down there and you will find out" - too much - no one like Groucho
Many years ago when I was a young teen, would watch You Bet Your Life as reruns at 11pm after Benny Hill, with my brother. I loved watching Groucho and his movies. He was fantastically funny with his quick wit and funny sarcasm and yet very pleasant and friendly. I was so saddened when I learned of his last years of life. So very sad how he was treated it actually made me cry. I hope that life was just as unkind to that woman that caused such grief. He would hide in a closet and cry when she was angry and yelling. I am so sorry Groucho, I wish I would have been around to help you, just to repay you for the so many hours of laughter you gave us all. I watch his reruns and laugh and when they are over I still cry that he is gone. God Bless you all for watching his movies etc, I believe he would be thrilled knowing that so many of us still watch him after all these years.
To be fair, was pretty nasty to his wives over the years though he doted on his daughter and grand daughter
Thank you so much for this post. The world sure could use some Groucho today.. Rest peacefully Julius.
Do they allow tips? "Yes sir". Do you have two fives? "Yes sir",well you won't need the nickel I was gonna give you.
A most heart warming and memorable Groucho Marx production by Ellen M. Krass.
Yes, it was very crass...[wiggles cigar]
RIP Groucho you and the Boys meant so much to so many.
"Remember we are fighting for this woman's honour, which is probably more than she ever did."
"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
Thank you for putting this up. It's a wonderful Documentary on one of the top 5 Comedians who ever live, if not the greatest ever to have lived. I think Groucho, George Burns, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Milton Berle, Gracie Allen and Lucile Ball were some of the Gods of Comedy. You can't beat their humor or their personalities. They don't make them like that anymore.
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)
I watched this whole thing and now i have tears.I have watched thrilled to hear him since i think 3 or 4 years old.I somehow knew how to turn on the TV.
Margret doumont. I always loved the fact. She didnt get the jokes. And they said that she was a wonderful woman.and told them they could do better .she never understood their comedy. And they loved her for that.she was great!
There was an episode of "I Dream Of Jeannie" in which Major Roger Healey makes the wish to be "The funniest man in the world" and who pops into the picture? The One And Only - Groucho!
Can't remember the movie, I must have been about 7 or 8yrs old, but Groucho upon walking this lady home after a bad date, left her at her door and said "I've had a wonderful evening. But this wasn't it". Dunno' why, but that got me. There wasn't anyone really playing with words like him.
Thanks for posting this. Really enjoyed learning a bit about Groucho.
What a wonderful documentary! Thank you for uploading it!
10:00 - that little story about the guy with laryngitis is hilarious 🤣
Perfect delivery! 😆😆😆
I have seen this 100 times, and I'll watch it 100 times more.
Rest in powerful peace Groucho⚘
2 October 1890 ~
19 August 1977
I played tennis with Charlie Chaplin. but in a short while I was exhausted..
I had to keep running around front to read the subtitles
I laughed and laughed and at the end I had tears. This is from the days when comedy was for laughs not cheers.
I'm just glad to see a video like this has over 2 million views. Love the Marx Brothers!
Harpo inherited his dad's Frenchy's sweet demeanor Harpo was like an angel he never had kids of his own but adopted some lucky kids.
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.
His son didn’t share in the total admiration of his father . When asked why the son said “ We were going thru customs , coming back from a Canadian vacation, when we were asked to step aside. The customs officer asked Groucho what he did for a living. Without batting an eye Groucho replied ‘ Smuggler ‘ “. The family then spent hours being interrogated. They were pissed but Groucho thought it hilarious.
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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Don't you just have a sense of loss that you never got to see Groucho in person, never got to experience him in your culture growing up, like saying to family and friends, "Let's go see Groucho's latest movie (or let's go see the Marx brothers tonight?" I know we have our solitary RUclips experience, but there is something about sitting in a theater full of people, everyone around you exploding in convulsive, teary-eyed laughter that multiplies your merriment exponentially.
I think I'll take the Marx Brothers DVD gift set my kids got me for Christmas and have a "A Marx Brothers Party" and invite as many as I can drag out for a step back in time. How about if everyone came dressed up as 20's flappers and 'Great Gatsbys', or from the 30's, or the WWII era 'swing band' 40's? Search your thrift stores and vintage shops! I think we should all celebrate the joy of Groucho. We can STILL celebrate him and laugh together in a small way, in our homes, among family and friends. Please let me know if you do this!
Get the CD of his Carnegie Hall appearance recorded shortly before he died. Physically weak, the mind was still as wickedly fast as ever.
In the late 60’s, we’d go to NYC on Broadway ( somewhere in midtown i think ) and they’d be showing one of the Marx Bros classic movies..the smell in the theatre was only surpassed by the continuous laughter of the always sold out young crowd..memories of great times with the Marx Bros!!!
i never forget a face but in your case i will make an exception.
THAT, is a CLASSIC LINE !! My Nanu Joe would use it on us as kids growing up in the great 1970's ! WE LOVE The Marx Bros.
The Marx Brothers were legendary in the history of theater, radio, film & television. They will go on forever 😆😄🤣
My Uncle animated for The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show. Thank you Maxine Marx. Chico's daughter. My Grandpa said it was his sister-in-law that married Leonard Marx. I'm leaving the night for sleep with a smile.
Interesting/informative/entertaining. Excellent movie scene clips. Along with Hollywood's actors sharing personal knowledge pertaining to the Marx brothers. Along with the movies. I Enjoyed viewing the reruns of " You Bet your life " series. Wishing viewers a safe/healthy/prosperous(2024) 🌈🎉💵😉.
In this crazy year of 2020, the world needs more Groucho's.
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.
Sorry, only ONE Groucho to a planet.
Lady- "All of us marry? That's bigomy!" Groucho- "That's big of me too!"
" It's big of all of us! "
it seems that every 50 years or so, a great, legendary and of course hilarious comedy group would arrive. I was an 8-yr old Canadian army brat, posted to Germany. We were on a Cunard ocean liner heading to Rotterdam in the late 1950s. I discovered the Marx Brothers. The ship's theatre would play a Marx Brothers movie for the matinee every day. Saw them all and was mesmerized. Rediscovered them in my 20s and realized how literate their insanity was. "I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse." And about 50 years after the Marx Brothers hit, we got "Nudge nudge, wink wink, know what I mean" and a whole new stream of legendary, hilarious TV, movies, stage and radio.
when you stand close to a nearby wall, I won't speak to you!
I'm 50 and barely remember Groucho and his brothers but it's as funny if not funnier, than anything today! Innocent, yet imaginative. You have to literally spell it all out for today's utes.
"That's the first time I ever enjoyed saying no."
That's brilliant. So much more brilliant than the scene stealing line that followed it.
A Comedy Genius, He was ahead of his time, a renaissance humorist - and such a class act at showing his middle-finger at 2:22...
I used watch You bet your life every day in my high school years.Loved and adored him of course he was long gone but he touched my soul.And created or molded my own sarcastic twisted dark comedy self.
When I retire I intend to sing "Hello I Must be Going" that last morning.
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
The greatest master of pissing people off on-screen. Nobody has ever done it better.
+knight44441 You have good taste in comedy! but when you wrote about politics on youtube, that's where you really screwed up!!
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@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
Even in my early teens, I was memorizing Groucho speeches. I still remember them.
"Ahead of his time"...hmm, he might have been ahead of anyone's time. His wit was quicker than just about anyone's, even until he was 85!
@B H Baloney
@B H I see similarities in John Lennon and Groucho, the same ones that you see! I didn't think anyone saw it that way but me.
Thank you for the memories of the golden era 😅😅😅
I loved Groucho's disdain for hob-snobbery and the satirical mockery he made of it; without hesitation. Perhaps the best American comedic genius to come out of the twentieth century; I adored him. Indeed, we lost a Golden Child when we lost Groucho Marx.
The skit with Groucho and Chico "playing" bridge is my tried and true favorite.
The line I can't get over is Chico's "You can't fool me! They're ain't no sanity clause!"
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?
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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.
Two quotes near the end are really descriptive and touching - "He had spent a lifetime planting comic time bombs under our seats", and when Cavett says that he needed a Groucho to cheer him up, and he was the only person in the world who couldn't have one.
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!
The thing that Hamlisch did was Brilliant and the Beethoven of Comedy was well-served
THANKS----"Is it true you're getting divorced as soon as your husband recovers his eyesight?...Is it true you used to dance in a flea circus?"
Groucho's death was overshadowed by Elvis Presley's. Today is the 1st time I heard about the exact day of his passing. I was in Yugoslavia in the summer of '77. Elvis died 3 days earlier and people were still in shock from that.
Great upload about a great performer! Nothing left to say, except thank you for this!
When Groucho went to Berlin after the War he asked about the location of Hitler's bunker and initial grave. He then danced on and around it doing his Groucho dance ..
Amazing.
Sorry chaps, pure folklore
The pure folklore is that you DON'T know shit from shinola - it would take anyone who wasn't a lazy sod five seconds to find verifications of Groucho's Hitler dance on the internet.
@@charlesstuart7290 Watch that blood pressure Chuck, we need you around to vote for Trump
@@joeambrose3260 Don't worry - I'll be doing a Groucho dance around you know who's grave - and it won't be a folk tale.
The MARX BROTHERS WERE GREAT ALL OF MY EARLY LIFE BACK IN THE 1950's on a black & white television. They brought joy and laughter to those who watched them.
Maybe the most intelligent and quickest witted funny man and writer who didn't have an education. Shalom Julius " Groucho" Marx.
Jack Lemmon, "Sophisticated humour combined with extreme physical humour.."
That tongue can cut diamonds
he nailed it
Damn. I miss Jack. Hell, even Walter too. Still love "The Fortune Cookie."
I'm 58, I was probably around 13 when I saw my first Marx Brothers movie, and I was enthralled. I always cracked up when Harpo would put his leg into someone's hand. My sister and I would try to do that to others sometimes. I had enjoyed all the Three Stooges movies before, but this was completely different, humor that made you think but was also slapstick. I remember when Groucho died in 1977, just a few days after Elvis Presley. One of my favorite movie scenes was when about 25 people were crammed into a closet and Groucho says, "Call room service and have them send up a bigger room."
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
My brother thinks he's a chicken, and we don't talk him out of it because we need the eggs.
Makes perfect sense to me.
I always loved the line, “I Would never join any club that would accept me as a member.”
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"
Groucho was one of the funniest men EVER....and any one that says otherwise...."I'M AGAINST IT!" LOL!
Not one of....THE greatest comedian, EVER !!!
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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
I loved the Marx brother,s they were great great great 😘
The original comic anarchist. No swearing, no anger, no hate.
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!
“He needed a Groucho to cheer him up” (Cavett) Same sadness that Robin Williams suffered from.
Best description of Groucho I’ve heard came from Arlene Francis, “the truly authentic wit of our time”.
Such a fan! When I was a teen I rushed out to buy the double record set, Live at Carnegie Hall and read every book I could get my hands on about the Marx Bros. I never saw this documentary before today. Didnt even know that it existed! Everything I was supposed to do this morning just got put on hold.....
Love it! That shows the love we still have for them!
I miss these movie documentaries from the VHS/Laserdisc era. These are essential time capsules that captured the people who lived these times and witnessed the history.
This just made me a fan. I've seen Mr Marx at least the exact same times I've seen my mom and dad. And I never really got it until tonight. Which only makes Gilbert Gottfried 3000 times funnier.