Add "&fmt=18" for the high-resolution version. Groucho praises Carrie Snodgrass but makes no mention of Carrie Nye. From THE DICK CAVETT SHOW. May 25, 1971.
"I' don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?" Truer words could not have been spoken, God bless you, Groucho Marx. Although I bet he would probably turn his grave upside down if he saw what was showing on TV/movies these days.
I was gonna say, What the hell are you talking about? Then realized this comment is 9 years old so you're probably dead by now. I'll probably be dead by the time anyone responds to this if ever
Groucho's favorite joke was clean: A woman's husband dies. She has him cremated and puts the urn with his ashes on her coffee table. When guests come over, they think it's an ashtray, so they flick their cigarette ashes in it. After a few months, her sister comes over and says, "Looks like your husband's putting on weight."
On a recent rainy day, I watched "A Day at the Races" with my 7 1/2 year old son. He was laughing so hard during several scenes (especially the intercom scene), I had to pause the movie so he could catch his breath. A 75 year old movie still has it's potency! Great comedy is timeless and for all ages.
BayareaGuy06: His 'points' were full of crap, and he showed how the Hays Code has messed up art and film-making. If you believe this, you're as stupid as he is (but then again, many neocons Americans are.)
It makes me laugh when people call Vince McMahon of WWE a genius, why for having half naked women on tv, or smut storylines that get big ratings from the low IQ imbeciles? Wow, what a genius, put him right up there with Einstein. SMH
Groucho Marx was born in 1890. By the time he appeared on Dick Cavett's show in 1969, he was 79 years old and his anachronistic views of then-evolving standards in entertainment reflected his age. His heyday in Hollywood was also the period in which the heavy-handed Motion Picture Production Code, aka the Hays Code, limited what could and couldn't be said and shown onscreen. As it was, Groucho worked around the Hays Code and became one of the true masters of the double entendre in comedy, as well as a founding father of the art of improv.
When you could smoke during an interview shows the age of this clip plus knowing Groucho has been gone since 1977. I am 44 and loved him and his brothers movies as a child. Dick Cavett is s calm and soothing which makes his guests feel as ease and open up. Dick is a walking Xanax pill.
"And they spent 80 minutes of the movie in the sack. I don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?" Love that quote, love Groucho.
"Anyone can say something dirty and get a laugh, but say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian" "It doesnt require talent to be dirty" Groucho Marx
And, yet his humor was often very risqué on You Bet Your Life. He famously had a phrase he'd say right after saying something that he knew would have to be edited out of the show for being too ribald. I LOVE Groucho. He was the greatest comic mind ever.
R Lyle i disagree, you can say something dirty and not be funny at all while otgers are dirty and still genius. Just because they curse or whatever does not mean they are not good comedians
Crude humor and even shock humor is the laziest form of humor. If Jerry Seinfeld can be clean and surpass Carlin and Proyr with notoriety to the general public then that takes true talent.
@@kathyturman1118 ....You think Carlin and Pryor didn’t have talent? I never cared for Seinfeld and there are a helluva lot more people like me. Seinfeld couldn’t be Carlin or Pryor if you think it’s easy. Love and peace ☮️
"Say something CLEAN and get a laugh... that requires a comedian!" EX-actly! One of my strongest convictions affirmed by one of the greatest verbal comedians of all time. :-|)
Groucho knew dirty jokes. Many comedians of his age told dirty jokes but it was never on stage because of what Groucho said, it's too easy. He objected to the laziness.
Groucho at that time was defending an age of excellence not only on acting but also in the written sense of film making. The age where you had to have talent and brilliance in your performance a performance in brilliance where the movies where magic as and end result of the actors and actresses hard and thoughtful work. And the entire show business where great names like Alex Guinness Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter ustenoff, Sophier Lorene and especially Julie Garland the greatest actress ever who she could warm you and make you feel a part of what she was doing. All of that is gone by the sorry display of the one wage of talentless performers who relied on Graphics to subsidize thee lack of talent. But there is still hope that writers like myself can bring back the real magic to film making.
You know jemimallah, it's funny how you bashed the previous guys sentence structure. Yet what you failed to do yourself is put an apostrophe in the word "you've."
Wow, common troll. Stick to 1 insult even if it has no relevance to anything that was said. Lol go take some lessons on trolling Junior. You are only showing your stupidity.
“In my day, if you wanted to talk to someone in another area you had to use a telephone. A telephone was something you’d punch numbers into and the numbers corresponded to another telephone in another area where the person who you wanted to talk to was located.”
If Groucho felt this way in 71 I can only imagine what he'd say today. Sometimes watching old clips of these comedy legends back when television makes my heart hurt because I believe we've lost a good portion our dignity and class when it comes to true entertainment. I think if we had more pure, simple humor the world just might be a little happier.
I remember watching this clip years ago, only to come back to it after hearing Gilbert Gottfried's impression of Groucho towards the end. "It felt like a western."
I don't necessarily hate dirty humor, I just think entertainment has put it into everything just to put it there. I have seen many obscene jokes and material that is artistic, that has a purpose, that is hilarious if it is written well. We've reached a time however, where shock value means more than an actual story, an actual plot.
It's awesome how easily Groucho basically hijacked his own interview. Cavett was all "I'm gonna ask this dude some questions about his career or whatever!". But Groucho was all "Shaddup. I got somethin to say." Groucho owned that interview.
Groucho Marx came up at a time when there were two venues of itinerant entertainment, Vaudville, which was clean and Burlesque which wasn't and that's the way it was. No ratings.
So wise and funny graucho was. He reminded me of my grandfather. He's so right that it is easy to get a laugh when you say something dirty and filthy (Lisa Lamponelli in a nutshell)... But to say something clean and get a laugh- that's a true comedian.
how about Victor Borge (God rest his soul)? He was a classically trained pianist who not only wasn't afraid of poking fun at himself but he kept his jokes/humor very clean and he had people of all ages in tears of laughter.
I'm too young to remember Groucho as anything but an old comedian I used to see on late night TV in the 1970's but, thanks to the internet and sites like CZcams I can see with new insight what I either didn't understand or just missed. It's too bad there aren't many guys like him around any more. The world is an intellectually (for lack of a better word) poorer place because of it.
How sad is it that movies and theatre have gone in the opposite direction Groucho expected. This man was truly funny, one of the best. Things such as Family Guy and Jackass, not funny. At all.
+SogekingFirebirdStar Family Guy is hilarious. Diary of a Mad Housewife was a tame Movie, not filthy at all. Groucho Marx was undoubtedly funny but he was from a different era. I wonder what he would've thought of Emmanuelle.
+soeffingwhat I probably shouldn't respond at all because I've got very little sense of humor, and what I do have is definitely on the dry side. Actually, it seems to me that NEARLY ALL humor is based on belittling someone, or some group, or some idea. It seems to serve the purpose of making the audience feel superior in one way or another to the object of the 'humor' ... and that's not funny to me. Obviously, what is funny and what is not is utterly subjective. Family Guy, Bevis & Butthead, and their ilk ... not the slightest funny TO ME. Bathroom humor. Cheap laughs based primarily on rude language, rude behavior, burps and farts. Someone just read "burps and farts" and laughed. We can rack that up to the recognition of a fact and how absurd it is. I'm not saying things should be squeaky clean to be worthy, neither would Groucho say that. Heck, he frequently made the racy double entandre. You can't be brain dead and and "get" the humor. Whereas with some of the more current fare you can actually BE brain dead and still guffaw, if you're aware enough to recognize the sound of a raspberry.
smart451cab I do understand where your coming. I admit I enjoy Humour like Family Guy and South Park also. South Park also tends to have more of a story or "meaning" to each of its episodes. I like some Crude Humour, but only certain types and if its done well, as it were. Too much is just annoying. For example I cannot STAND the Jay and Silent Bob films. I think they're utter Garbage, as is the Film MacGruber, which is meant to be a comic style pisstake of MacGyver from TV in the 80s. It is absolute Patronizing Trash, stupid Drivel. There's also a Scottish Stand up Comedian called Frankie Boyle whom I do not like cos he's just a crude stand up Comedian who pretty much swears all the time and sometimes goes ott with his insults...... but all that said I love the film Guest House Paradiso, starring the late Rik Mayall, cos its a deliberate re-hash of some older TV stuff he did with Adrian Edmonson (they were both in the Young Ones, you might have seen that?).. and the Film was intended to be nothing more than just slapstick cartoon style Humour, totally unrealistic and fictional and not meant to be taken seriously at all. I do enjoy that cos its not patronizing its audience, whereas some others of that ilk do, like the afformentioned MacGruber Film. Hope that makes sense?
"We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed." -Groucho Marx I recall Bob Hope telling Larry King the opposite about dirty humor; Larry expected him to go all Steve Allen, but he was like, "Well, Larry, you haven't heard some of the jokes I've told in locker rooms."
first of all, loved Victor Borge. Being able to feel comfortable watching him with your children is a nice thing, but it in no way makes him superior to other performers.
I like how Groucho says that after dinner, men used to go off and tell dirty stories, and women would go off and tell dirty stories, and there was no mixing of the sexes when it came to that. I think we can all learn from that in this day and age where there's no respect for sex anymore. Nothing is sacred anymore.
Truer words have not been spoken. It’s so much easier to get a laugh using vulgarity. I have great respect and admiration to anyone who can get a laugh without lowering themselves to gutter humour.
Dirty humor is funny, but I think I understand his point. A dirty joke will almost always get a laugh because of the "uncomfortable" factor, just like a little kid laughing at a fart. But it doesn't require talent to do it. Groucho didn't really stick to only "clean" jokes because a lot of his one liners were double entendre. But they did require talent in terms of knowing what to say and how to say in a way that any audience would find funny at any time or place.
Thats too easy - that kind of laughter; anybody can say something dirty and get a laugh but say something clean and get a laugh - that requires a comedian. Wise and true words from one of the most wittiest and greatest real comedian of all time, fact is sadly today most comedians are not funny at all and lack complete talent and do nothing but irritate and bore you to death.
you can't beat the old time films and comedians, they relied on talent and alot of hard work...... things are alot easier now with technology and more choices!! Whether you like the marx brothers or not you must respect the talent they were way ahead of their time.!!
when cavot said he heard groucho say that b4 about not liking dirty comedy all i can think of is the line in "Hurray for capt spaulding" when he says "i hate a dirty joke i do unless it told by someone who....knows how to tell it!" lol
The difference between Groucho's day and our own isn't that old timers didn't use sex in their performances; but they did not cross the line. It was enough to suggest sex...
I'm not in a "time bubble", wiseguy... I just prefer non-dirty humor. I otherwise do find George Carlin clever and intelligent; I don't know who Louis CK is and don't really care. Buster Keaton and Curly Howard - now there were two men I consider funny - they've made me laugh out loud and uncontrollably! ;-)
i don't know, of all the old things I try to get my peers to watch, most fails to get a reaction, even the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and such, but the Marx Brothers.... especially Groucho, is still hysterical because he translates well to today's cynical and sarcastic humor. His wit is quick and fast and brilliant.
"I don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I care?"
-Groucho Marx
"I' don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?" Truer words could not have been spoken, God bless you, Groucho Marx. Although I bet he would probably turn his grave upside down if he saw what was showing on TV/movies these days.
& today too!
I was gonna say, What the hell are you talking about? Then realized this comment is 9 years old so you're probably dead by now.
I'll probably be dead by the time anyone responds to this if ever
@Nay-kp6uu Haha are you dead yet?
(in all seriousness, I hope you’re alive and well 👍🏻)
@@Nay-kp6uuit’s been 10 years now.
Groucho's favorite joke was clean: A woman's husband dies. She has him cremated and puts the urn with his ashes on her coffee table. When guests come over, they think it's an ashtray, so they flick their cigarette ashes in it. After a few months, her sister comes over and says, "Looks like your husband's putting on weight."
Haha good one!!😀😁 Hey do you post comments on any vedic astrological channels ??? That name seems familiar...🤷♂️
On a recent rainy day, I watched "A Day at the Races" with my 7 1/2 year old son. He was laughing so hard during several scenes (especially the intercom scene), I had to pause the movie so he could catch his breath. A 75 year old movie still has it's potency! Great comedy is timeless and for all ages.
Crazy, this comment it 10 years old. Your son is now almost a 18 year old. How time passes so quickly.
R.I.P. Groucho Marx (1890-1977). Man he makes so many good points about comedy and humor being dirty now a days. It even applies to today.
BayareaGuy06: His 'points' were full of crap, and he showed how the Hays Code has messed up art and film-making. If you believe this, you're as stupid as he is (but then again, many neocons Americans are.)
Say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian. Groucho you were the best!
When I hear him say that I think he would've loved Seinfeld.
he makes a very good point when he says that being dirty and funny is easy and being clean and funny takes a comedian.
I just listened to Jerry Seinfeld and Norm McDonald talking about this very thing
The-SandMan - That's why I appreciate Sinbad.
It makes me laugh when people call Vince McMahon of WWE a genius, why for having half naked women on tv, or smut storylines that get big ratings from the low IQ imbeciles? Wow, what a genius, put him right up there with Einstein. SMH
The-SandMan A
On the other hand Red Fox was filthy rich off it.
Groucho Marx was born in 1890. By the time he appeared on Dick Cavett's show in 1969, he was 79 years old and his anachronistic views of then-evolving standards in entertainment reflected his age. His heyday in Hollywood was also the period in which the heavy-handed Motion Picture Production Code, aka the Hays Code, limited what could and couldn't be said and shown onscreen. As it was, Groucho worked around the Hays Code and became one of the true masters of the double entendre in comedy, as well as a founding father of the art of improv.
When you could smoke during an interview shows the age of this clip plus knowing Groucho has been gone since 1977. I am 44 and loved him and his brothers movies as a child. Dick Cavett is s calm and soothing which makes his guests feel as ease and open up. Dick is a walking Xanax pill.
Johnny Carson was pretty good aswell.
winogirlll 99
so in other words a soothing dick makes the world better.
Kunts Kinte you know it!
This is still relevant today, props to Groucho for being ahead of his time.
The greatest comedian of all time.
I think George Burns was and he didn’t need his brothers to be funny.
@@baldilocks1914 Neither did Groucho. Did you watch this clip?
@@robertklose2140 it’s an old joke that burns told.
well said groucho..so applicable today...that's why i love old movies....TCM is my channel!
"And they spent 80 minutes of the movie in the sack. I don't care what they're doing in the sack. If I'm not doing it, why should I sit in the theater and watch it?"
Love that quote, love Groucho.
I like the part when he said that men and women shouldn’t tell dirty stories while in mixed company!
"Anyone can say something dirty and get a laugh, but say something clean and get a laugh, that requires a comedian" "It doesnt require talent to be dirty" Groucho Marx
And, yet his humor was often very risqué on You Bet Your Life. He famously had a phrase he'd say right after saying something that he knew would have to be edited out of the show for being too ribald.
I LOVE Groucho. He was the greatest comic mind ever.
R Lyle i disagree, you can say something dirty and not be funny at all while otgers are dirty and still genius. Just because they curse or whatever does not mean they are not good comedians
Crude humor and even shock humor is the laziest form of humor. If Jerry Seinfeld can be clean and surpass Carlin and Proyr with notoriety to the general public then that takes true talent.
@@kathyturman1118 ....You think Carlin and Pryor didn’t have talent? I never cared for Seinfeld and there are a helluva lot more people like me. Seinfeld couldn’t be Carlin or Pryor if you think it’s easy. Love and peace ☮️
"Say something CLEAN and get a laugh... that requires a comedian!" EX-actly! One of my strongest convictions affirmed by one of the greatest verbal comedians of all time. :-|)
4:43 Well, that prediction certainly didn't come true!
Groucho knew dirty jokes. Many comedians of his age told dirty jokes but it was never on stage because of what Groucho said, it's too easy. He objected to the laziness.
Crazy but it's 2021 and he's still one of my favourite comedian's, simply brilliant
Groucho at that time was defending an age of excellence not only on acting but also in the written sense of film making. The age where you had to have talent and brilliance in your performance a performance in brilliance where the movies where magic as and end result of the actors and actresses hard and thoughtful work. And the entire show business where great names like Alex Guinness Sir Lawrence Olivier, Peter ustenoff, Sophier Lorene and especially Julie Garland the greatest actress ever who she could warm you and make you feel a part of what she was doing. All of that is gone by the sorry display of the one wage of talentless performers who relied on Graphics to subsidize thee lack of talent. But there is still hope that writers like myself can bring back the real magic to film making.
You know jemimallah, it's funny how you bashed the previous guys sentence structure. Yet what you failed to do yourself is put an apostrophe in the word "you've."
jemimallah no thanks, I'm not into dudes.
Wow, common troll. Stick to 1 insult even if it has no relevance to anything that was said. Lol go take some lessons on trolling Junior. You are only showing your stupidity.
Wise/so well said. Generations today is robbed off something beautiful ❤️relating to Wise, not you! Sorry.
Peter Ustinov, Sophia Loren and Judy Garland
“In my day, if you wanted to talk to someone in another area you had to use a telephone. A telephone was something you’d punch numbers into and the numbers corresponded to another telephone in another area where the person who you wanted to talk to was located.”
THE COMIC LEGEND SPEAKING THE ETERNAL COMIC TRUTH!!! HE SAID IT PERFECT! GROUCHO THE LEGEND....
If Groucho felt this way in 71 I can only imagine what he'd say today. Sometimes watching old clips of these comedy legends back when television makes my heart hurt because I believe we've lost a good portion our dignity and class when it comes to true entertainment. I think if we had more pure, simple humor the world just might be a little happier.
It's crazy to think they movies were filmed in the 30s so it's less than 40 years after when this show was filmed but it's almost 90 years ago now.
cursing while doing comedy is looking for a cheap laugh by being outrageous....grouchos right about this one...
The movie he was talking about is "Diary of a Mad Housewife" with Richard Benjamin and Carrie Snodgrass.
Ah ha! I was looking for this comment. Thanks! 🎥 🎞
Wow, what an amazing person and talent.
I remember watching this clip years ago, only to come back to it after hearing Gilbert Gottfried's impression of Groucho towards the end. "It felt like a western."
I don't necessarily hate dirty humor, I just think entertainment has put it into everything just to put it there. I have seen many obscene jokes and material that is artistic, that has a purpose, that is hilarious if it is written well. We've reached a time however, where shock value means more than an actual story, an actual plot.
Gilbert Gottfried's impression of senile Groucho is CLASSIC.
lol I just came here to see the comparison.
Same here. Came only cause of Gilbert
@Beetlejuice goo for Gilbert.
It's awesome how easily Groucho basically hijacked his own interview. Cavett was all "I'm gonna ask this dude some questions about his career or whatever!". But Groucho was all "Shaddup. I got somethin to say."
Groucho owned that interview.
This is the episode in which Truman Capote comes on later as a guest & he is in such awe of Groucho, Truman could barely get a word in edgewise.
Groucho Marx came up at a time when there were two venues of itinerant entertainment, Vaudville, which was clean and Burlesque which wasn't and that's the way it was. No ratings.
Thomas De Lello fuck... that explains so much and so little about his wit and humor
I don't care what Groucho talks about. Just to hear his New York yawp makes it all worthwhile.
So wise and funny graucho was. He reminded me of my grandfather. He's so right that it is easy to get a laugh when you say something dirty and filthy (Lisa Lamponelli in a nutshell)... But to say something clean and get a laugh- that's a true comedian.
Gilbert Gottfried does a dead-on impression of Groucho during this period.
saying something clean and get a laugh requires a comedian.
He was a genius and one of the best comedians someone who I had liked to know
the one, the only groucho !
how about Victor Borge (God rest his soul)? He was a classically trained pianist who not only wasn't afraid of poking fun at himself but he kept his jokes/humor very clean and he had people of all ages in tears of laughter.
Little did he realise that this world would continue to spiral downwards into the cesspool we have today
I'm too young to remember Groucho as anything but an old comedian I used to see on late night TV in the 1970's but, thanks to the internet and sites like CZcams I can see with new insight what I either didn't understand or just missed. It's too bad there aren't many guys like him around any more. The world is an intellectually (for lack of a better word) poorer place because of it.
oh how times have changed
by far the funniest man ever on the planet
great man, superb genius, absolute legend
I've watched him too. Great stuff.
How sad is it that movies and theatre have gone in the opposite direction Groucho expected. This man was truly funny, one of the best. Things such as Family Guy and Jackass, not funny. At all.
+SogekingFirebirdStar Family Guy is hilarious. Diary of a Mad Housewife was a tame Movie, not filthy at all. Groucho Marx was undoubtedly funny but he was from a different era. I wonder what he would've thought of Emmanuelle.
+soeffingwhat
I probably shouldn't respond at all because I've got very little sense of humor, and what I do have is definitely on the dry side. Actually, it seems to me that NEARLY ALL humor is based on belittling someone, or some group, or some idea. It seems to serve the purpose of making the audience feel superior in one way or another to the object of the 'humor' ... and that's not funny to me.
Obviously, what is funny and what is not is utterly subjective. Family Guy, Bevis & Butthead, and their ilk ... not the slightest funny TO ME. Bathroom humor. Cheap laughs based primarily on rude language, rude behavior, burps and farts.
Someone just read "burps and farts" and laughed. We can rack that up to the recognition of a fact and how absurd it is.
I'm not saying things should be squeaky clean to be worthy, neither would Groucho say that. Heck, he frequently made the racy double entandre. You can't be brain dead and and "get" the humor. Whereas with some of the more current fare you can actually BE brain dead and still guffaw, if you're aware enough to recognize the sound of a raspberry.
smart451cab I do understand where your coming. I admit I enjoy Humour like Family Guy and South Park also. South Park also tends to have more of a story or "meaning" to each of its episodes.
I like some Crude Humour, but only certain types and if its done well, as it were. Too much is just annoying. For example I cannot STAND the Jay and Silent Bob films. I think they're utter Garbage, as is the Film MacGruber, which is meant to be a comic style pisstake of MacGyver from TV in the 80s. It is absolute Patronizing Trash, stupid Drivel. There's also a Scottish Stand up Comedian called Frankie Boyle whom I do not like cos he's just a crude stand up Comedian who pretty much swears all the time and sometimes goes ott with his insults...... but all that said I love the film Guest House Paradiso, starring the late Rik Mayall, cos its a deliberate re-hash of some older TV stuff he did with Adrian Edmonson (they were both in the Young Ones, you might have seen that?).. and the Film was intended to be nothing more than just slapstick cartoon style Humour, totally unrealistic and fictional and not meant to be taken seriously at all. I do enjoy that cos its not patronizing its audience, whereas some others of that ilk do, like the afformentioned MacGruber Film. Hope that makes sense?
There is some good dirty humor in rare cases.
Josh Thomas very true.
tonight i discovered Groucho Marx... thanks internet
"We took some pictures of the native girls, but they weren't developed."
-Groucho Marx
I recall Bob Hope telling Larry King the opposite about dirty humor; Larry expected him to go all Steve Allen, but he was like, "Well, Larry, you haven't heard some of the jokes I've told in locker rooms."
first of all, loved Victor Borge. Being able to feel comfortable watching him with your children is a nice thing, but it in no way makes him superior to other performers.
Damn, back when Jimmy had time to comment on random CZcams videos rather than be the sole person fighting for M4A.
I respect what he says so much. I have a lot of respect for Groucho. A great man.
Amen & he said that in the early 70's :D) ohhh for the flash back to 1949- - - :)
I remember the first time I had sex - I kept the receipt.
Groucho Marx
Groucho is great i love him favorite character in Dylan Dog :)
hahahha the Gilbert impression is amazing
The irony that this comment section doesn't get is that Groucho was considered pretty randy in his own day.
Legend
This guy's advice should have been taken long ago !
An amazing old man
I like how Groucho says that after dinner, men used to go off and tell dirty stories, and women would go off and tell dirty stories, and there was no mixing of the sexes when it came to that. I think we can all learn from that in this day and age where there's no respect for sex anymore. Nothing is sacred anymore.
If I didn't respect Groucho enough before, seriously. I couldn't have said it better.
Groucho rules.
What's up with the worlds most inept (possibly drunk) BOOM OPERATOR?
That goddamn thing creeps into the frame as much as Groucho does.
Iconic
Truer words have not been spoken. It’s so much easier to get a laugh using vulgarity. I have great respect and admiration to anyone who can get a laugh without lowering themselves to gutter humour.
Groucho loved him like a son...very interesting...absolute devotion from Cavett
Amen!
gilbert Gottfried's Groucho impression bought me here 😂 and he's spot on
Groucho's passing, three days after Elvis, went largely unnoticed, due to Elvis' early death. It's a shame, really.
Dirty humor is funny, but I think I understand his point. A dirty joke will almost always get a laugh because of the "uncomfortable" factor, just like a little kid laughing at a fart. But it doesn't require talent to do it. Groucho didn't really stick to only "clean" jokes because a lot of his one liners were double entendre. But they did require talent in terms of knowing what to say and how to say in a way that any audience would find funny at any time or place.
Thats too easy - that kind of laughter; anybody can say something dirty and get a laugh but say something clean and get a laugh - that requires a comedian.
Wise and true words from one of the most wittiest and greatest real comedian of all time, fact is sadly today most comedians are not funny at all and lack complete talent and do nothing but irritate and bore you to death.
What an intence look in his eyes
I love the fact that Groucho Marx lights up a cigar on stage. I miss those days......... not!
😅
he was 80 years old here
I love Groucho Marx...he reminds me of my Granddad.
He is right in what he says.
He is a real comedian.
"I do think it's had its day, I think they're going to go back to clean movies and clean plays on the stage."
Little did the poor fellow know.
Gilbert Gottfried's impression is spot on.
you can't beat the old time films and comedians, they relied on talent and alot of hard work...... things are alot easier now with technology and more choices!!
Whether you like the marx brothers or not you must respect the talent they were way ahead of their time.!!
Back in my day.............
That hat. I want it. ^o^
Back in my day....
when cavot said he heard groucho say that b4 about not liking dirty comedy all i can think of is the line in "Hurray for capt spaulding" when he says "i hate a dirty joke i do unless it told by someone who....knows how to tell it!" lol
Class.
This is classy stuff. I wish I was born then but i was born in 70's so ya i'm a 80's teenager. LOL
3:32 The dirty play he is talking about is "Oh! Calcutta!"
'Back in my day...'
ALRIGHT! WHOSE ON THE BOOM MIC?
LOL!! A frustrated actor who really wants to be on stage.
The man!!
Such a master. Take a tale about a movie that he thinks is dirty, then proves just how dirty he is with the punchline.
Cigarette commercials were banned from TV and radio on April 1. 1970, a little over a year before this broadcast.
The only dirty old man I ever loved ❤
Dat deadpan tho
he kept a natural one since "You Bet Your Life" went to TV and the producers wanted him to bring back the mustache for easy recognition
Good stuff
"Oh! Calcutta!" The British drama critic creator was Kenneth Tynan (the first person to say "fuck" on British television).
The difference between Groucho's day and our own isn't that old timers didn't use sex in their performances; but they did not cross the line. It was enough to suggest sex...
Amen!!!
I'm not in a "time bubble", wiseguy... I just prefer non-dirty humor. I otherwise do find George Carlin clever and intelligent; I don't know who Louis CK is and don't really care. Buster Keaton and Curly Howard - now there were two men I consider funny - they've made me laugh out loud and uncontrollably! ;-)
i don't know, of all the old things I try to get my peers to watch, most fails to get a reaction, even the Three Stooges, Buster Keaton and such, but the Marx Brothers.... especially Groucho, is still hysterical because he translates well to today's cynical and sarcastic humor. His wit is quick and fast and brilliant.
Well, back in my day...