![]() ![]() Shakespeare wrote that life is a tale told by an idiot, signifying nothing. ![]() In his interactions with peers, children, lawyers, actors, writers and politicians, the man simply refuses to take any of it seriously. ![]() You see, I've long been of the opinion that life is too serious to be taken seriously, and if that is my religion, then Groucho is the pope. Which is why Groucho is never far away I can't do an hour shot of Beckett or Carver without an unstiff Groucho chaser. These books approach life and its myriad questions with seriousness and focus, and after just a few pages, they make me want to kill myself. On that same small table, there are also books of philosophy, theology and a few that have been blessed enough to qualify as "Literature" (the qualification process is brutal, with a $50 nonrefundable Literature Application Fee and a 17-page questionnaire that must be notarized by James Wood). These are just some of the questions not answered in The Groucho Letters: Letters from and to Groucho Marx - which is precisely why I keep a copy of it on the small table beside my bed. Why are we here? What is our purpose? Is there a God? How can we account for the presence of evil? The show's scripts and recordings were believed lost until copies of the scripts were found in the in the 1980s.30 Years Later, Remembering Groucho Marx Aug. Though the series was short lived, much of the material developed for it was used in subsequent films. During this period Chico and Groucho starred in a comedy series. It included a running gag from their stage work, in which Harpo produces a ludicrous array of props from inside his coat, including a wooden mallet, a fish, a coiled rope, a tie, a poster of a woman in her underwear, a cup of hot coffee, a sword and, just after Groucho warns him that he 'can't burn the candle at both ends,' a candle burning at both ends. ![]() (1932), in which the brothers satirized the American college system and, was their most popular film yet, and won them the cover of magazine. Their third feature-length film, (1931), was their first movie not based on a stage production. Production then shifted to Hollywood, beginning with a that was included in Paramount's twentieth anniversary documentary, (1931), in which they adapted a scene from I'll Say She Is. ![]()
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