The One, The Only, Groucho Marx
January 3, 2008 11:30 PM   Subscribe

GROUCHO a funny sad documentary Google video posted by hortense (20 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
Groucho is my God and Zappa is my Elvis.
posted by Henry C. Mabuse at 11:46 PM on January 3, 2008 [2 favorites]


Whatever it is, I'm against it.
posted by miss lynnster at 12:00 AM on January 4, 2008


BTW, The Cocoanuts is online now too.
posted by miss lynnster at 12:17 AM on January 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


mystery challenger Whats My Line
posted by hortense at 12:46 AM on January 4, 2008


I hereby swear to sing/play Marx Brothers, Tom Lehrer, Shel Silverstein, and Frank Zappa songs for my (future) children. After all, I was exposed to them early and I turned out **twitch** okay.
posted by bonobo at 1:03 AM on January 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


"Peter O'Toole has a double phallic name."

Bwahahaha, thank you for this.
posted by carsonb at 1:05 AM on January 4, 2008



I hereby swear to sing/play Marx Brothers, Tom Lehrer, Shel Silverstein, and Frank Zappa songs for my (future) children. After all, I was exposed to them early and I turned out **twitch** okay.
posted by bonobo at 1:03 AM on January 4


HEY! What were you doing at my parents' house?

usurper. hmph.
posted by louche mustachio at 1:25 AM on January 4, 2008


My favorite, from Monkey Business, when Groucho it staring down the barrel of a gun and is asked if he had any last questions:

Do you think that girls think less of a boy if he lets himself be kissed?
Don't you think that although girls go out with boys like me...
they always marry the other kind?

posted by sourwookie at 2:01 AM on January 4, 2008


I want to be in his club
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:41 AM on January 4, 2008


Funniest. Man. Of. All. Times.
posted by ewkpates at 3:45 AM on January 4, 2008


lynnster oh lynnster, have you met ms. lynnster,
lynnster the tattooed lady,
she makes posts that folks adore so,
but her torso, even more so...
posted by PeterMcDermott at 3:47 AM on January 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


...And then there's Skidoo, coming to TCM tonight.
posted by pxe2000 at 4:13 AM on January 4, 2008


Hello. I must be going.
posted by not_on_display at 4:33 AM on January 4, 2008


Google video is blocked here at work. Flagged as "to check at home".

Groucho was one of the funniest/cleverest guys ever, but his life was very sad.
posted by ObscureReferenceMan at 6:52 AM on January 4, 2008


His life wasn't completely sad. He had a son who adored him. He had a successful career in entertainment for almost seven decades. He had a lot of very smart, very close friends, who he admired and enjoyed and who admired and enjoyed him back. He played classical guitar with real passion. He liked to read and was a successful writer (I have owned about a half-dozen of Groucho's collected letters and memoirs). It seems as though he might have suffered undiagnosed depression, and that's a pity, and he did not get along well with his wives, which is about par for the course in Hollywood, but otherwise I'd say he lived one of the most magnificent and remarkable lives of the 20th century.
posted by Astro Zombie at 7:54 AM on January 4, 2008 [2 favorites]


Groucho on Acid!
posted by 1f2frfbf at 8:59 AM on January 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


...I cannot stay.

I came to say, "I must be going."
posted by mmahaffie at 12:19 PM on January 4, 2008


His deep emotional sadness that manifested in a false front to the world, was our gain. It was our gain.....

I said it twice to give it that little added effect.
posted by Senator at 12:47 PM on January 4, 2008


Thanks for that. An hour well spent.

My favorite anecdote about Groucho is him relating his trouble with premature ejaculation to a close friend. His friend suggested Groucho use a desensitizing cream to help. Next time the friend saw Groucho, he asked him how the cream had worked. "Terrible," said Groucho. "I came putting it on."
posted by bigskyguy at 2:06 PM on January 4, 2008 [1 favorite]


Thanks for this, hortense. Even though we've seen most of it before (many times!) it's still worth watching. My son and I watched Monkey Business online yesterday and it's interesting to see that, as he grows older, he's shifting allegiance from Harpo to Groucho as the best of the brothers.

So many great lines; my favorite was always in A Night at the Opera when Groucho says he lives alone: "I'm practically a hermit." The policeman: "A hermit! I notice the table is set for four." Groucho: "That's nothing. My alarm clock is set for eight."

I'd say he lived one of the most magnificent and remarkable lives of the 20th century.

Certainly true, although I wonder about the cost of such extreme fame. I know a man from Long Island whose family idolized Groucho — whose little brother, in fact, wrote a book about the Marxes while still a teenager. When the older brother first got to Los Angeles and happened to see Groucho walking down the street, he couldn't control himself from running over and hugging him, while babbling in glee.

Groucho's comment on his fame, and how everybody stared at him wherever he went: "It makes it hard to shoplift a can of tomatoes."
posted by LeLiLo at 6:45 AM on January 6, 2008


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