Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo, Karlo... KARLO?

[Thadeus]

[subtitle] Karl, why can't you be more like your brother, Groucho and get a job? [/subtitle]

Glen, I'm glad you brought up Groucho in the Batman thread. The Marx Brothers (as many vaudevillians) were kings of 'turning a phrase' and not beyond saying something 'punny'. This kind of humor has been abandoned these days for a more immature humor (not that exceptions don't exist).

Here are a few of my favorites:

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know. Then we tried to remove
the tusks. The tusks. That's not so easy to say. Tusks. You try it some time. As I say, we tried to remove the tusks. But they were embedded so firmly we couldn't budge them. Of course, in Alabama the Tuscaloosa, but that is entirely ir-elephant to what I was talking about.

Groucho: "That's in every contract, that's what you call a sanity clause."
Chico: "You can't a fool a me there ain't no sanity clause"

We must remember that art is art. Well, on the other hand water is water isn't it? And east is east and west is west.
And if you take cranberries and stew them like applesause they taste much more like prunes than rubarb does. Now uh...now you tell me what you know.

Groucho: If I were a man, you would resent that.

Anyone else have a favorite Marx Brothers quote that turns a phrase?

~Thadeus

BTW - of modern day comedy, Steve Martin seems to get the old vaudevillian style.

 

[tsdragon]

Mel Brooks movies frequently have this kind of humor too. That's one of the reason I have a collection of Mel Brooks movies.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[stackdump]

Dont forget Mash. Alan Alda (Hawkeye) was very grouch'esque in style. I cant remember the Groucho gags exactly but my favorites are;

There's a bus leaving town at 6 o'clock, I want you under it.

I'll fight for her honor, which is more than she ever did.

If I had a pedestal, I'd put it on you.

I would'nt want to join a club that has members like me.

 

[tsdragon]

I would'nt want to join a club that has members like me.

That's a great example, since Groucho said that before Hawkeye did (and he may not have been the first).


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[ggauthier]

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. - Grouch


-glenn

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

I never forget a face, but in your case I'll be glad to make an exception.

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

Women should be obscene and not heard.

For many more check out

http://www.quotationspage.com/searc...=motivate&C=classic&C=coles&C=lindsly&C=poorc

& all the best.

 

[SantaMufasa]

This is a concept that even a 5-year-old could understand. Quick...someone send for a 5-year-old.

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[SantaMufasa]

BTW, Can you identify the real names for the performing Marx Brothers? What was their birth order?

Chico (Leonard Marx, 1886-1961)
Harpo (Adolph Marx, 1888-1964)
Groucho (Julius Marx, 1890-1977)
Gummo (Milton Marx, 1897-1977)
Zeppo (Herbert Marx, 1901-1979)

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[donbott]

A Brittish playwrite sends two tickets for opening night to someone (politician or critic?) with a note "Bring a friend - if you have one".

He gets the tickets returned with a note "I can't make it, I'll go to the second performance - if there is one".

DonBott

 

[stackdump]

That was Winston Churchill to Oscar Wilde.

Churchill was very unpopular with many politicians wives, they felt he was rude and an ogre. One once said to him while making coffee "If you were my husband Winston, Id poison your coffee". Churchill replied "Well if you were my wife, Id drink it".

 

[GlenJohnson]

Groucho:Take a letter. Dear Dr, please find a check enclosed for the bill I owe.
Straight man brother:Shall I enclose the check?
Groucho:You do and your fired!

If you want to throw somebody for a loop, when you walk by someone who's just standing around, just keep walking by and yell back....

Don't just do something, stand there!

while not slowing down. Don't remember which brother it was.



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[SteveGlo]

Just looking for loopholes."
(W.C. Fields, reading the Bible on his deathbed.)

 

[jakeyg]

Heard on the radio a couple of good deathbed quotes
People come to visit a bloke in his room and he says
"Too late for fruit, too early for flowers"

and when another bloke had visitors, they asked the nurse how he was and she said "fine" and he said "I must disagree" and promptly died

can't remember who said either though, curse my memory

 

[elanor]

Perfect for this forum...

A noted lexicographer lay dying. When asked how he was feeling, he said, "I am about to, or going to, die. Either expression is used."

And he expired.
Thanks!
Elanor

 

[DPlank]

Some lady MP once called out to Winston Churchill

"Sir, you're drunk!"

to which he replied :

"Yes madam, and you are ugly. But in the morning I shall be sober."

Dunno if this is true or not, but one hell of a line either way..

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[BocaBurger]

Not sure who said this:
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but ugly goes all the way to the bones.

Strange that none of the Marx children ever became famous.

Mel Blanc's son followed in his footsteps.... er.. lip movements?



BocaBurger
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[SantaMufasa]

Boca, I guess I heard is slightly differently:

Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.

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[DPlank]

The one I heard was "Beauty is only skin deep - Ugly goes all the way to the bones."

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[BocaBurger]

DPlank, you are correct, didn't have my coffee when I wrote that. Brain still fogged.



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[Thadeus]

Strange that none of the Marx children ever became famous.

What are you talking about? Sam Marx and Minnie Marx produced many talented actors... Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Gummo and Zeppo top the list.

Just kidding. Here are links to other Marx actors and actresses. I certainly concede that these are not famous names as their parents/grandparents were.

Arthur Marx, son of Groucho

Bill Marx, son of Harpo

Brett Marx, grandson of Gummo

Gregg Marx, grandson of Gummo

Maxine Marx, daughter of Chico

Melinda Marx, daughter of Groucho

Laura Guzik, grandaughter of Gummo

~Thadeus