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  • This guy is good.

  • Groucho was a comedic genius. The quick wit came to him so naturally and effortlessly. Wow!

    Sometimes I wish I was of this generation just for the quality comedians.

  • The irrecoverable ruin of television and cinema began in 1968 when the production code was abandoned. Evidently, Walt Disney's death in 1966 was the precursor to this deterioration.

  • The closest thing to comedy nowadays is Groucho's You bet your life - Kurt Vonnegut

  • I make skits that are chock-full of puns and one-liners, please take a look and let me know what you think! I'm a huge fan of The Marx Brothers and want to reach out to an audience who likes that sense of humor

  • He could double entendre 'till the cows came home.

  • She is sooo beautiful!!! Who is she???

  • @soccergoalkeeper1 Her name is/was Arlene Holzhauer and she's married to the guy standing next to her!

  • Don't get me wrong. . .I love the Marx brothers. . .but people. . .this is obviously scripted.

  • @johnnyconsumer um.. No it's not lol. 

  • @johnnyconsumer how can you tell Groucho's lines was scripted?-Mr MARX was so brilliant even at such an early age that the bullies who did the insults got the tables turned back on them and Groucho had to run most of the time!

  • @johnnyconsumer the point is that it is not. Really. Have you studied them at all, before you go saying stuff like that?

  • @littlemissmello I guarantee you it is.

  • He's so sharp the people have no idea whats going on

  • at the start lol except alaska by the looks of it

  • That's Nola alright.

  • now that's entertaining

  • groucho marx the funnest man who ever lived! is also the best gameshow host ever!

  • That last Groucho line had me in stitches...my God!

  • i picked up on some of his wit by watching him all the time haha amazing actor. definitly one of the greatest

  • I LOVE GROUCHO!!!!!!!!!!! :D

  • Anyone (perhaps British, because of the references therein) who loves comedy with a heavy emphasis on wit, should check out Radio 4's Friday night comedy (e.g. the Now Show). They do a podcast too. It's hilarious. And no, I don't work for the BBC!

  • This is proof that you don't need to curse to make good humor

  • @tangomittens As long as sex is aluded to. True.

  • The one and only Genius.

  • The One. The Only.  Groucho! Hooray!

  • This is great. I grew up watching this guy on TV.

  • @worddigger so did I my dad loved his show

  • I loved Groucho and this comedy-quiz show....with the emphasis on comedy. It was often hilarious. And he didn't need four letter words or graphic sexual descriptiions to be funny. Many of today's so called "comics" could take a lesson from the comedy greats of yesteryear (Groucho, Jack Benny, Fred Allen, etc). THANK YOU so much for posting this! Hope you & yours have a VERY happy new year! :)

  • he was so quick witted!!

  • Three networks, and there was so much more to watch.

  • Back when television was worth watching.

  • @cookieking3 touché

  • @cookieking3  there is at least occasionally brilliant television these days. it was just a few months ago I got to see justin beiber get shot to death.

  • @tmage01 lol

    

  • @cookieking3 bullshit you motherfucker

  • @cookieking3 back when you were a generation away from existence

  • He stitches a story out of nothing.

  • Mid Atlantic accent

  • yeah, and there wasnt any double standards in the 50s?

  • Plenty.  Unlike today.

  • lol... i mean there is today, but when did groucho mention anything with the word sex in it in any of his jokes on national television???? now THAT is comedy...

  • @LazlosPlane hey stupid troll your an ass !

  • This man was the best comic actor in the 20thcen and the quickest wit ever THE MIRROR SCENE IN DUCK SOUP IS STILL LAUGH OUT FUNNY AFTER NEARLY 80 YR.THE BEST

  • NOT EIGHTY YEARS.  MORE LIKE 66 YEARS.

  • Tony is right: 2010 - 1933 = 77 years. MORE LIKE 80.

  • I liked this show because it was a loose game as an excuse for Groucho to talk to people.

  • Groucho is such a hilarious sleaze in the best sense possible. He has such a quick wit about sex, politics and human nature.

  • ROFL u guys are both retarded go wank off in different corners and forget about it

  • One time on this show Groucho interviewed a woman who said she had 20 kids. Groucho asked her why she had so many, and she replied, "I love my husband". Groucho said, "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out once in a while..."

  • That's what I'm trying to find right now!

  • rip groucho lol

  • Groucho and Borat are totally different...

    Groucho will live on longer....

    he already has

  • Groucho's stuff is actually funny compared to Borat's

  • It is so ludicrously simplistic to compare Borat to Groucho Marx.

  • I don't see how it's ludicrously simple. There nothing like each other, mostly due to the fact Groucho Marx is an actual person. Comparing Groucho Marx and Borat is ludicrously idiotic, not simplistic.

  • I see. I'm simplistic and you're idiotic. We could even be friends, but as I'm not as idiotic as you are I'll let you go.

  • Yeah, you get a quote wrong and then say something that doesn't make any fucking sense, and i'm the idiot.

  • Just as Groucho; glad we're the idiots here. Goodbye, Einstein.

  • Just as Naom Chomsky - You're an idiot, fuck off and die, you stupid fucking moron.

  • Easy, Einstein. You said you were an idiot in the first place so who am I to disagree.

    Oh -you mean Naom Chomsky, the daughter of Noam Chomsky and Naomi Campbell? Now I get it hahahahahaha

  • It's kind of sad, because you actually think you're funny, don't you?

  • No. It's kind of funny, because you don't know how sad you are. Learn to spell; that'll bolster your self-esteem.

    At least you don't use foul language anymore. Good sign, you're growing up.

  • I think it's sad you don't seem to realize what a total fucking fag you are. Jesus. Naom/ Noam - fuck, i'm so sorry... It's so sad I mispelled an obscure Russian name so dramatically. What a fucking fag.

  • Ah, you've brought over your girlfriends to throw stones at me? Sorry, I didn't realise you were a girl. I apologise. But I said I let you go long before, girl; it's you who keeps coming back!

    Now go home and if you want me to talk to you I'll only do it in front of your daddy! Off you go!

  • Jesus. I can't speak for eveybody else readin your comments, but I for one am in stitches.

  • Goodbye, girl. Leave!

  • 'Girl' - very schoolyard. I like it.

  • Honey, your dad is not around. Beat it.

  • Again, very funny. You're a professional, aren't you? Don't lie to me? You're a stand-up, I can tell.

  • Stu's dadday!!! Hello-o!!! Look after your daughter per-leeeease!!! Or pay me to baby sit!!!

  • That's funny. Kind of like the stuff you've been saying in the past three comments. Very funny.

  • That's very kind of you, but I'll charge your dad for your babysitting anyway.

  • Again, original. Why don't you start calling me gay now. That'll be funny as well; and well within your comedic age group of

    13 - 15 years old. I can't believe this girl shit is coming from the same cunt that criticized my spelling error on the name 'Noam'. What a hypocrite prick you truly fucking are.

  • Gay.

    Now don't change the subject: go to your room, do your grammar homework and stop that coarse language, will ya.

  • "At least you don't use foul language anymore. Good sign, you're growing up."

    I guess that James Joyce, Chaucer, Christopher Marlowe, Phillip Roth, David Mamet, James Kelman etc. never grew up.

  • borat will NEVER be groucho!

  • no borat looks like groucho. and borats a sham next to groucho marx.

  • That comment is a perfect example of why I hate teens... excepting, as I'm sure Groucho would, 19 year old girls.

  • Greatest comedian of all time!!!!! R.I.P GROUCHO!

  • DeSoto-Plymouth sponsored "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" on radio {Wednesdays, 9pm(et)} AND television {Thursdays, 8pm(et)} duirng this period. The show was filmed at the same time it was taped for radio, and both versions were edited differently (emphasizing more aural moments on radio, visual moments for TV).

  • Boy, the sponsors (in this case, DeSoto) certainly ruled the airwaves back then, didn't they? I love Groucho, I haven't found any modern-day equivalents, he was awesome!

  • Genius.............

  • Whatever happened to the DeSoto?

  • they stopped production in 1961

  • He had mind like a razor blade.

  • Groucho was funny

  • he could consistently squeeze more fun from any conversation or situation than what was actually in it

  • Groucho actually died three days after that drug infested blimp Elvis relaxed just a little too much on the toilet.

  • The day that Groucho died he got little publicity. He choose to die the same day as Elvis. He was a comic genious. He could take any mudane conversation and make it into a hilarious routine.

  • its too bad there aren't comedians still like groucho. that man was a genius and a philosopher yet could make people laugh without saying offensive and crude things. RIP to a legend

  • there was nobody better at ad-lib than Groucho

  • "Gimme some shyster talk."

    A legend for the first rank. Try finding a guy like Groucho today, folks. That guy was a one-off.

  • If I walked that way I'd get arrested.

  • thats nola alright!

    just classic groucho.

    the greatest ad-libber ever

  • Groucho Marx was the best comedian of all time, remains behind george bush

  • got that right

  • Just before Buster KEATON !

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  • he's soooo fast!maybe it would have been funnier if he wasn't smiling too

  • Groucho was unquestionably one of the great wits of the twentieth century. He was always one or two steps ahead of the opposition. For him every line was a feed-line," no matter how ordinary it was. And the speed of the man! Brilliant little clip!

  • I wanted to comment ...but you say exactly my words ...if only a little better :)

    He truely was an amazing tallent-so pleased we can view these recordings today...

  • Groucho the real thing.NOT a "Hollywood Invention" like these MINDLESS so-called entertainers of today,who "Entertain" a MINDLESS Low-standard audience. If Groucho and those of his era,NEVER existed today and tried success,they'd be thrown out of the Business!

  • "The one, the only, Groucho Marx!"

    My grandfather loved Groucho as I remember him laughing out loud in the den as it was being broadcast live in the late 50's and early 60'son a black and white TV. He was perhaps the consumate natural wit and a comedic genius. He coult make a joke out of ANYTHING!

    If the guy's name was Joe Brown, he could make a joke about it. Sheer genius. He will not be replaced.

  • That's Nola alright....

    Instantly! Unbelievable.

  • Best Wit of all time!

  • Ha ha ha

  • LOL.

  • This is why Groucho was Groucho. Nobody was wittier and quicker and more hilarious on the fly. Nobody.

  • I agree he was a great wit but the Irishmen-Wilde and Shaw were superior wits.

  • I would have loved to have seen them reach this sort of speed on live TV....

  • I know an elderly lady whose husband was an announcer for NBC. She knew all the radio stars and had Groucho at her house, much to her disgust. She had nothing good to say about Groucho but she said Harpo was the nicest gentlemen she ever met.

  • But Harpo was the biggest womanizer of the brothers - perhaps he was turning on his charm to her. I believe it was Harpo, when caught kissing another woman behind stage by his wife, that said non-plussed that he "wasn't kissing her" - he was just "whispering in her mouth" - lol - lovely "gentleman :>

  • actually Chico was the womanizing one, in fact they called him that because he had a way with "chicks".

    :D~

  • Yeah ...I'm not sure how late it was when I wrote that ...I meant Chico..haha - I guess anyone can say that ;>

  • lol no worries

    the shyster talk bit was the best! "I wanted to get a writ of habeas corpus but I should've gotten a writ of you instead."

    :D~

  • Yeah, Chico was the "chicken chaser" of the brothers. Harpo was the most loyal to his wife, actually, and was married to his wife for many many years and adopted children.

  • Changvang16, what did she say about Groucho? He could be very cruel with the things he said....I've read he wasn't all that nice, where Harpo was very sweet.

  • I am italian! I like very much brothers marx!

    But i don't understand unless subtitles!:-(

  • She gets too hungry for dinner at eight, she loves the theatre never comes late, she don't ditch the dirt with the rest of the BROADS!

  • Keep in mind that the show was originally heard on radio in a slightly different version (with more emphasis on verbal exchanges) the previous evening {NBC Radio, Wednesdays at 9pm(et)/NBC-TV, Thursdays at 8pm(et)}. Both editions continued through the '50s...

  • this is from the shout dvd website

  • He is the best actor ever. I AM NOT KIDDING YOU!

    He is so funny.

  • EXCEPT GROUCHO

  • they talk better than you

  • The audience reaction to that line was used for many years as the laugh track for NBC comedies, when the loudest audience laugh was needed.

  • which line?

  • He once asked a contestant why she had so many children and she said she loved her husband.He said I love my cigar but I take it out once in a while. I heared it live. He was too funny!!!!

  • Never heard that one. Thanks for sharing. It's fabulous. No one could deliver that line like Groucho. My parents never missed this show! I loved it to. Even kids can get genius when they see it.

  • Yeah, they threw away the mold after they made Groucho. Darn!

  • My God he's good.

  • After this went off the air, two revivals were attempted, one by Buddy Hackett, the other by Bill Cosby. Richard Dawson also hosted a pilot, but it didn't sell. When it comes to this show, NO ONE can beat Groucho.

  • TIMELESS comedy - Groucho and Benny! LOL!

    Thanks for this clip!

  • groucho was the king of comedy.  i loved his flick duck soup.

  • I have tears coming down my face. He really was the greatest. I can't see today's comedians being this funny and still be clean.

  • Groucho wasn't clean but this was 50's tv.

  • Well, he wasn't really dirty in his acts, like Andrew Dice Clay, not that I have a problem with the Diceman.

  • groucho - pure genius

  • Comedians back then were funny--and Groucho was unsurpassed in witty dialogue. He didn't have a teamof writers; he made it up on the spot. Today a lot of comedians confuse crudeness and humor. Give me Groucho anytime.

  • I agree he was so talented, so quick. This piece was typical of his amazing talent to turn any situation around and make people laugh. A true genius. Some of his skits I've seen that many times, but I still enjoy them just as much. Even though this show was now over 50 years old, it still works today. One of real favourites.

  • I can't help it. stop with the chain mails asswipe. you are a total dick.

  • STFU I don't know what the fuck is wrong with you people.

  • i know what a total moron. why do they do it?

  • Whoah, retard chain poster invasion...

  • yea i wish this dick would stop posting. I just don't get why they do it. this jerk and one more keep spamming the tube. let's mark it as spam and we'll move on.

  • You know Groucho is good, you remember the movies are good but be honest, when you were about to see this video you thought "I wonder if he really was that great".

    The answer, yes he was. :D

  • Bar none, Groucho was *the man* in the showbiz. That he singlehandedly came up w/ so much witty funny unscripted materials at the spur of a moment, beats the hell of today's "Whose line is it" (creative, but not so funny). Who else's got the brain, the quick, and the musical talents nowaday?

  • One funny line I remember back then. Groucho asked a guest what his hobby was and the guest said, "I hunt wild boars." Groucho responded with, "I had a date with one last night."

  • I saw these shows when Iwas a kid, those wer'e certainly better times no where near the grind it is today, ten of us would circle around this little T.V I talian grandmother and all the love you ever want in one small room laughing and joking,when the commercials would come on we all had a chance to entertain the family .PRICELESS

  • Genius.

  • lmao@that's nola allright

  • Amusement, hah!

  • Groucho was great then in the 1950,s and hes still great to day.He still makes me laugh.

  • groucho is a legend, one of the funniest men that ever walked the earth

  • Haha, man he's quick. I look up to him.

  • I agree - Groucho didn't like shyster talk!

  • I mean does it get any better than this? And this was the 1950's! Thank you to whomever uploaded this classic piece of comedy for the world to enjoy- Oh, and by the way, Groucho doesn't care that people upload his material to the internet in violation of any copyrights....He doesn't need money in paridise! Love ya Groucho!

  • They don't make 'em like this anymore! Best laugh I had all week!

  • Bloody brilliance!

  • Wow! He was so good at improv!

  • GROUCHO....THE O.G.! O.RIGINAL G.AMER.

    HE COULD SELL KETCHUP TO A TOMATO

  • Hah, classic!

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