Everything is a play on words. I could try my whole life to be so quick and never get near such a master. The one about the tale/tail is so wonderful I'm dumbstruck.
Two things wrong with this: 1) It's not an objective, factual conclusion. You think he's the funniest, great. Groucho is definitely worthy of serious consideration. And 2) no self-respecting, reasonable comedian/artist would _ever_ accept that type of compliment without argument. No comedian wants to hear "best of all time". It's impossible to live up to.
I love the Groucho interviews with Dick Cavett.....interesting to see the infamous Erin Fleming here....I hope all the stories about her abusing Groucho weren't true, because he was old and so frail then....thanks for posting
Yes Heavenshelp1, I agree, I own the Chandler book, which is my FAVORITE book BTW, I have read it at least 20 times literally!!!!!!! It's called "Hello, I must be going" Groucho was, and is still the best EVER!!!!!!! Thanx so much for posting these great moments in TV history, I wish more kids nowadays knew Groucho, I raised my son on him, and he is gonna be ten in 3 weeks, and he loves him! R.I.P. Groucho Marx!
Comedy like music is an art form and preference is subjective. No one's right or wrong. All the comedy people mentioned in these posts were all Hollywood Icons. Any opinion on preference is only that, an opinion. And it basically means nothing. Although people do have the right to voice it. I myself enjoy all the comedy teams. Some may find it timid by today's standards, but remember in those days you couldn't use words like pregnant, toilet or bathroom on the screen. They were taboo. There were morals and standards that were upheld or you were labeled.
I am big fan of the marx bros,and too se the comments made about Groucho and Erin shocked me then i read a book by Sally Presley Rippingale and John Ballow who was Grouchos chef.
I don't think Harry Karl was the husband he was talking about because Debbie made "Say One for Me" in 1959, this she and Eddie Fisher divorced. She didn't marry Harry Karl until 1960. This aired in 1971, so when she said he visited her in the hospital 13 years before she would not have been married to at that time.
Groucho was appearing regularly on the Cavett Show BEFORE he met Ms. Fleming. She had nothing to do with his Cavett appearances. I believe this appearance was Groucho's final Cavett show, and she had just arrived on the scene at the time. Groucho had a stroke some months after this TV appearance and should have retired after that, because the stroke took a lot out of him and really cut him down. But Fleming pushed him out there when he could hardly speak just to advance her own career.
@HeavensHelp1 -- Ms. Chandler was reportedly asked to leave by Erin a couple of years before Groucho's death. Erin's reason was that, at the time, Chandler did not have a signed book deal, as was supposedly originally claimed by Chandler when Erin allowed her access to the house. So Chandler's book is missing the increasingly bizarre final years. I have mixed feelings about Erin. She probably helped Groucho live longer, but she was also violent and mentally unstable.
Not bad for a guy who was over 80 years old at the time. Say what you will about Erin... and the evidence tends to conclude she was a certifiable nut... but Groucho could have spent his last years whisked away in solitude. Instead, he went out of this world doing what he always had done: entertaining and making people laugh. That's who he was. You can't blame Erin for that.
Too bad about her because in spite of Ms Chandler being supposedly being "thrown out" she was very complimentary of Erin in her book (I am currently about half way through it). Especially since the book would have been actually finished and published after she was "thrown out".
@HeavensHelp1 Erin didn't come on the scene until 1970-71. Cavett had Groucho on since the late 1960s. The Chandler book is limited because she was asked to leave before the end. Better books are "Raised Eyebrows" from Steve Stoliar or "Groucho" by Hector Arce. Both were there at the end when Erin went from crazy to psycho. She was a well-known whack job around LA when she met Groucho. Many stories. If she really loved him, she wouldn't have made him perform later when he was sick.
@orvgg i couldn't agree more. she would beat him and yell at him and she even said he had a stroke on her birthday just to ruin her birthday god i hate her. But u r right, if it weren't for her he wouldn't have appeared much
I actually agree. I think Jonathan Winters was much funnier than Robin Williams, in turn who was much funnier than Patton Oswalt, but all greats. I've only seen Winters on RUclips, but you try telling my ten-year-old self than Jim Carrey wasn't the funniest man ever in history. And that's all that matters, the fleeting opinion of those who are young and alive.
He was a little pitiful in his old age. The wife or girlfriend of his, Erin was a real piece of work. His family accused her of all kinds of nefarious deeded.
i suppose its a good thing and a bad thng..... without that woman Erin....we wouldnt have seen Groucho in the last few years.... though in this time how old and frail he was looking is sad ..bu groucho always loved being groucho...so id say he didnt need that much of a push
@@joeambrose3260 "She spent much of the last decade of her life impoverished, homeless, delusional, and in and out of various psychiatric facilities." Douchebag.
You poor, lost soul. ...Black no doubt. Cosby couldn't shine Groucho's shoes. Well, that he might have been good at that. He's also good at finagling little girls into his bedroom by putting goofballs in their drinks. Be proud, black brothers - be proud.
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I hope that Groucho was aware of how beloved he was, not just across the country, but around the world.
Everything is a play on words. I could try my whole life to be so quick and never get near such a master. The one about the tale/tail is so wonderful I'm dumbstruck.
The music that will play when I leave this world.
OMG, that stuff is very funny, thanks Groucho and the supporting players!
No, not "one of the funniest men of all time", THE most funny man of all time.
no..ONE OF
Humour and beauty are in the eye of the beholder.
Two things wrong with this: 1) It's not an objective, factual conclusion. You think he's the funniest, great. Groucho is definitely worthy of serious consideration. And 2) no self-respecting, reasonable comedian/artist would _ever_ accept that type of compliment without argument. No comedian wants to hear "best of all time". It's impossible to live up to.
Debbie was such a delight.
I love the Marx's Brother's ❤️💯🌹🌹🌹🌹
I think Groucho is adorably funny LOL.
I love Debbie's dress!
Great setting. Great interview. and the words. They sure were smart too.
I love the Groucho interviews with Dick Cavett.....interesting to see the infamous Erin Fleming here....I hope all the stories about her abusing Groucho weren't true, because he was old and so frail then....thanks for posting
Erin...aka the Amber Heard of her generation
I've known Miss Reynolds for I guess 75 years
The greatest of all the GOATs.
You wouldn't guess he was a great comedian from this interview.
Yes Heavenshelp1, I agree, I own the Chandler book, which is my FAVORITE book BTW, I have read it at least 20 times literally!!!!!!! It's called "Hello, I must be going" Groucho was, and is still the best EVER!!!!!!! Thanx so much for posting these great moments in TV history, I wish more kids nowadays knew Groucho, I raised my son on him, and he is gonna be ten in 3 weeks, and he loves him! R.I.P. Groucho Marx!
It's known as old world charm.
They don't make it any more.
Groucho was so quick that anything anyone else said could be a setup for one of his jokes.
Comedy like music is an art form and preference is subjective. No one's right or wrong. All the comedy people mentioned in these posts were all Hollywood Icons. Any opinion on preference is only that, an opinion. And it basically means nothing. Although people do have the right to voice it. I myself enjoy all the comedy teams. Some may find it timid by today's standards, but remember in those days you couldn't use words like pregnant, toilet or bathroom on the screen. They were taboo. There were morals and standards that were upheld or you were labeled.
Just think of the void in life,, if Groucho never lived? No,, forget that!!
I am big fan of the marx bros,and too se the comments made about Groucho and Erin shocked me then i read a book by Sally Presley Rippingale and John Ballow who was Grouchos chef.
Wow! Debbie Reynolds has great cans!
I hope you've grown up by now
@@joeambrose3260 Groucho never did...
Erin allegedly lived her last few years homeless and poor. She supposedly took her own life. She was definately crazy.
at 2:00 he says "they're all alike to me........upside down"!
Ondelay Ha, caught that too. Sotto voce to Dick who wisely doesn't acknowledge it!
Cavett is sweating. lol
That's for posting this. So that's Groucho's controversial companion, Erin Fleming.
Do we know the date of this interview? Groucho/Julius was born in 1890.
What year?
When was this?
they were probably groucho fans too, and gave it to her
Back when women actually liked it when men acknowledged their beauty.
Don’t get out much, do you?
I had a woman spew obscene remarks at me for saying she was pretty.
@@David-yw2lv Maybe you should avoid Whoopi Goldberg.
@@akrenwinkle To paraphrase Jack Balance in City Slickers,the woman who I referred to crapped prettier than Whoopi Goldberg.
I don't think Harry Karl was the husband he was talking about because Debbie made "Say One for Me" in 1959, this she and Eddie Fisher divorced. She didn't marry Harry Karl until 1960. This aired in 1971, so when she said he visited her in the hospital 13 years before she would not have been married to at that time.
That was 5 years ago.
Please elaborate
What year was this?
72
Groucho was appearing regularly on the Cavett Show BEFORE he met Ms. Fleming. She had nothing to do with his Cavett appearances. I believe this appearance was Groucho's final Cavett show, and she had just arrived on the scene at the time. Groucho had a stroke some months after this TV appearance and should have retired after that, because the stroke took a lot out of him and really cut him down. But Fleming pushed him out there when he could hardly speak just to advance her own career.
That's the way that I remember it.
@HeavensHelp1 -- Ms. Chandler was reportedly asked to leave by Erin a couple of years before Groucho's death. Erin's reason was that, at the time, Chandler did not have a signed book deal, as was supposedly originally claimed by Chandler when Erin allowed her access to the house. So Chandler's book is missing the increasingly bizarre final years. I have mixed feelings about Erin. She probably helped Groucho live longer, but she was also violent and mentally unstable.
Eleven people are too thick for this clip
Having Margaret Dumont's line sung by Miss Erin "You're faking that stroke to upstage my birthday" Fleming almost makes my blood boil!
Grow up.
Vicious old trollop, every bit of her
Not bad for a guy who was over 80 years old at the time.
Say what you will about Erin... and the evidence tends to conclude she was a certifiable nut... but Groucho could have spent his last years whisked away in solitude. Instead, he went out of this world doing what he always had done: entertaining and making people laugh. That's who he was. You can't blame Erin for that.
Groucho & Erin sing HELLO, I MUST BE GOING. 1625pm. 24.8.23. I want my moneyback!!! I came here to listen to David niven... who is this man ray?
Too bad about her because in spite of Ms Chandler being supposedly being "thrown out" she was very complimentary of Erin in her book (I am currently about half way through it). Especially since the book would have been actually finished and published after she was "thrown out".
@pofwe It just shows you that in America, anything is possible.
Too bad Chico and Harpo weren't alive to appear on the show with Groucho.
@HeavensHelp1 Erin didn't come on the scene until 1970-71. Cavett had Groucho on since the late 1960s. The Chandler book is limited because she was asked to leave before the end. Better books are "Raised Eyebrows" from Steve Stoliar or "Groucho" by Hector Arce. Both were there at the end when Erin went from crazy to psycho. She was a well-known whack job around LA when she met Groucho. Many stories. If she really loved him, she wouldn't have made him perform later when he was sick.
@orvgg i couldn't agree more. she would beat him and yell at him and she even said he had a stroke on her birthday just to ruin her birthday god i hate her. But u r right, if it weren't for her he wouldn't have appeared much
I guess you were there, right bitch?
well, he said he must be going...
I actually agree. I think Jonathan Winters was much funnier than Robin Williams, in turn who was much funnier than Patton Oswalt, but all greats. I've only seen Winters on RUclips, but you try telling my ten-year-old self than Jim Carrey wasn't the funniest man ever in history. And that's all that matters, the fleeting opinion of those who are young and alive.
It's a wig.
@problem49 Nahhhhhhh, if I were his "caregiver," I'm sure I could have handled him much more humanely and productively. ~.^ /
He was a little pitiful in his old age. The wife or girlfriend of his, Erin was a real piece of work. His family accused her of all kinds of nefarious deeded.
By all accounts of everyone close there was nothing intimate between Groucho and Erin. I'm sure he flirted but I don't think it went beyond that.
They weren't lying. She's a sick little bitch every bit of her
i suppose its a good thing and a bad thng.....
without that woman Erin....we wouldnt have seen Groucho in the last few years.... though in this time how old and frail he was looking is sad ..bu groucho always loved being groucho...so id say he didnt need that much of a push
BOY,that was kinda awkward...
You are too sensitive.
Funny...Groucho couldn't sing..he did well playing it off
Groucho was a great singer!
What do you know, anyhow?!?
@@donparsons3197 a lot more than you, obviously!! to say he could sing? lol
Respectfully, Erin Fleming was creepy personified, poor Groucho probably slept with one eye open
erin commited suicide in a mental hospital about 10 years ago.
2003 in assisted living. Please get the facts straight
@@joeambrose3260 "She spent much of the last decade of her life impoverished, homeless, delusional, and in and out of various psychiatric facilities." Douchebag.
@@holden190 Sorry you can't speak for yourself and just copy what you
"read" What more can you expect from an ignoramus ?
Erin was a disgusting human being, but without her Groucho wouldn't have appeared as often as he did on the Cavett show.
Erin Fleming was nut case and was out to get his money.
@orvgg eww she cant sing either.
Erin Fleming.... yuck....
Cavett is such a klutz. There's absolutely no chemistry between Groucho and him.
There's no chemistry between Groucho and anybody - he was in a world of his own. (you jackass)
She's a terrible singer.
Dick Cavett had no personality. Just like David Letterman.
He's not supposed to, idiot. He's a straight man for the talent. He did his job brilliantly.
He was jealous of Cosby's genius.
You've got to be kidding, there's no comparison. Check out Cosby's interview of him, Cosby was totally inept, unprepared.
You poor, lost soul. ...Black no doubt. Cosby couldn't shine Groucho's shoes. Well, that he might have been good at that. He's also good at finagling little girls into his bedroom by putting goofballs in their drinks. Be proud, black brothers - be proud.