@AtomicProductions98 - 10 people love pianos and hate to see them trashed just for a movie/tv or whatever the heck this is. It's pathetic! Omg! That beautiful piano is being absolutely destroyed! Omg! How awful...
Harpo could only play one song on piano...he got Chico to audition for a piano job playing in a burlesque theater. Of course he was hired on the spot but after one night of Harpo playing the same song he was summarily fired. LOL
I realize that to get the effect the music has to be dubbed in, but in the beginning the dubbing is done so poorly, his hand motions don't match the notes we hear; that unfortunately makes the scene less realistic.
Has anyone ever watched Harpo's face while he plays the harp? After about twenty seconds into the song, there is not a trace of humour left in his expression, it's pure intent concentration.
Harpo Speaks is how I got to know the Marx Brothers. What luck I picked it up and from the first page I was hooked, its still the best autobiography I have ever read. RIP Harpo
Harpo could play the piano as well as Chico - maybe even better. Before the family act started, Chico would hire himself out to bars and brothels playing the piano to entertain customers. Sometimes he hired himself out to two places on the same night. Chico would go to one and send Harpo to the other. The two looked so much alike, no one knew the difference.
@MFPhoto1 Maybe, Harpo said in his autobiography that he could only play two songs, he'd just alter them slightly so they sounded different. But maybe Harpo was just being modest. :)
@HazukiOfMutsu My guess is that Harpo was being modest -- or just telling a good story. Harpo reportedly could play several instruments, all self-taught. We do see him in various movies playing a clarinet, a saxiphone and a trumpet, although admittedly not seriously. He had a wide collection of instruments in his home and played them all. I would like to find a copy of "Harpo Speaks." It should be good reading, although I would take a few details with a few grains of salt. ;-)
I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting. A classic in the Marx Bros repertoire. And yes, he is foreshadowing Pete Townshend here.
I used to be a big Groucho fan as a teenager in the 70s (yes I was a Marx Brothers geek) but I find his shtick gets old. Those awful puns, those lame put downs. Sure, there are funny for a while, but the hamming is just too much. Harpo is still funny because he doesn't talk. He is the child in all of us. Sorry for the analysis, but I love the guy!
Frequently, video uploads to Youtube are de-synched.
Harpo was a somewhat accomplished pianist (not as much as Chico), and he loved this prelude and actually wanted to play it in the movie. He wasn't allowed to because it was copyrighted, and the studio didn't want to pay the fee that was asked.
@TomBarristerX I didn't know about the de-synching. I'm confused about Harpo's piano abilities. In a couple of places, it is stated that he only knew two pieces. But I don't understand -- so he wasn't allowed to play it, then what he did play here doesn't count as playing it? It's heavily butchered obviously. :-)
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In his autobiography, "Harpo Speaks", he tells how he drove away neighbor Rachmaninoff, while both were staying in the famous Garden of Allah, from the adjacent bungalow, by repeatedly striking on his harp the first four chords of this musical composition, which apparently was one of the composer's least favorite of his brain children.
@EvenEvenOdd Too funny! My dad would sometimes play a piece (late into the evening) and step away from the piano before the last phrase was played --- oh did that get my mothers fur up. hahaha
they say Harpo was better at Piano than harp, amazingly. And that he didnt play harp in a legitimately tuned manner. Apparently when he first got a harp, he just tuned it to his ear and figured out how to play it. If you handed him a legit concert harp, he wouldnt be able to play coherantly
You are right that he played it in the wrong tunning, but did it amazingly well and it was his first instrument more than piano, where he could play only some songs (read wikipedia). He hired the best harp teachers for developing his technique, but these were fascinated by the way he was already used to play, so if he was able to shock them by his bizarre playing I am sure he could have been master player.
This reminds me of how Keith Emerson ends his concerts when he plays with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He takes out an old upright piano and just goes nuts on it, banging it, jump all over it, laying down on the floor and playing it backwards.
@CuddlyBadger I doubt that this was really Harpo playing (his playing certainly doesn't sync with the music, although he could have pre-recorded it himself). In answer to your question, yes, he uses the naked piano strings as a harp.
@NewhamMatt This clip is out of sync. I have the dvd and it's in sync. Harpo could actually play the piano, though not as well as Chico, so it's possible that he may have played it for the movie, but I tend to think it was pre-recorded.
To all Marx Bros fans, if you haven't read the book "Harpo Speaks" I highly recommend it!! It is such a great autobiography!!
This piano wrecking scene made me sick to my stomach. Musical instruments are works of art, in and of themselves, and are almost sacred to me as a musician. I know it's just a sight gag in a movie but I found it sickening, shockingly brutal and, besides, totally out of character with Harpo's gentle nature. YUCK!
What people didn't know was that Harpo could play the piano. He actually got the first job among his brothers playing in a brothel at age 13 in New York's lower East side.
I've said it before: it is the greatest scene in motion picture history. Ok, I may be a bit prejudice, I went to music school and I couldn't stand all the piano majors. (I was a composition major.)
Whoever marked a thumbs down on this must not have realized that you were quoting the lyrics from one of Groucho's songs in Horse Feathers. It sounds like something he would say to this, so I gave it a thumbs up :)
Thank you oneofhth4. The person who gave me a thumbs down may look like an idiot, and probably sound like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. -- I know all the jokes; I grew up with the Marx Brothers' movies.
All of the Marx brothers kind look like my cousin, but I JUST CAN'T GET OVER HARPO! MY COUSIN IS A SPITTING IMAGE!! It's crazy! Plus he acts exactly like him! Oh they're all so cute and talented. Long live Marx Brothers.
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BTW, does somebody know Bin Ladens nom de plume here on youtube? If, we might start red alert again?
Glad to know there are so many Marx Brothers fans around here as well. The mirror scene from Duck Soup (1933) is one of my all-time favourites. I find it as side-splittingly funny at the 50th viewing as I found it when I first saw it. It also makes for a hilarious comparison with Seven Years Bad Luck, a Max Linder short from 1921 often mentioned as the first version of a "mirror scene". You can find it here on YouTube as well. Enjoy!
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For further and more detailed info what 'vanilla mating' is, I think it's better you send me a personal message. Otherwise I guess it will be deleted/spammed from here. 8O)
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! SOS! PLEASE I'M IN DIRE NEED OF HELP! Tell me if this scene exist as a clip on youtube (and name of the film)?
As I remember: Groucho is playing a important person and they are very much alike. G is in front of a mirror which is not a mirror. One imitate the other to belive it's his reflected mirror image. But then G got suspicious and try to outdo his 'image'
So funny I wet my pants not talking about my stomach. I MUST SEE this scene before I die. Tnx thetunr. Roland
Funnier if you've read Harpo's autobiography. He had moved into the apartment immediately adjacent to Rachmaninoff. Harpo was not to pleased to listen to him practice, constantly, all day long, at loud volumes. So Harpo got his revenge and played his C# minor prelude over and over ad naseum as loud as he could. Needless to say, Rachmaninoff requested another flat.
God, Harpo and Chico were good. I don't know enough about the others to say, but I know those two were two of the must underhyped musicians of the time.
kudos to the props department..!
jghcky 3 weeks ago
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rgrannell1 1 month ago
Maybe he'll play Wreck-vel next.
liszt141 1 month ago
This was waaay before Pete Townsend's instrument destruction.
Innovator!
andros1984 1 month ago
@andros1984 I think Pete Townshend was a big Harpo fan.
PrplHazel 1 month ago
way to trash a fine steinway LOL
metstudioversions 3 months ago
Happy Birthday, Harpo! You were and are my favourite! <3
vikkipedias 3 months ago
10 people had their pianos fall apart during a recital
AtomicProductions98 3 months ago 3
@AtomicProductions98 - 10 people love pianos and hate to see them trashed just for a movie/tv or whatever the heck this is. It's pathetic! Omg! That beautiful piano is being absolutely destroyed! Omg! How awful...
lllllllllllllll88 2 months ago
@lllllllllllllll88 Dude, calm down ;)!!! It's hilarious!
AtomicProductions98 2 months ago
@lllllllllllllll88 if you know anything about pianos, you'd know this was not a real piano.
jghcky 3 weeks ago
WHY CUT OF THE PART WHERE HE PLAYS THE 'HARP'!? lol..
pianist7137 4 months ago
What's this? Trashing my favorite composer, Buddy?!?...lol...never saw this be4...bless his peapickin' heart...
L.
Layna8 4 months ago
This is what would've happened if Beethoven played the piece...
liszt141 5 months ago
What is the name of that concert?
superpcalbar16 5 months ago
Look when he starts crossing his legs at 1:09. It's the subtle things Harpo did that made him such a genius. Young comedic actors, PAY ATTENTION.
tommyrock69 6 months ago 4
Harpo could only play one song on piano...he got Chico to audition for a piano job playing in a burlesque theater. Of course he was hired on the spot but after one night of Harpo playing the same song he was summarily fired. LOL
SFConifer 7 months ago
BAHAHAHAHAH! Wreckmaninov is TOAD-ally correct! :)
daviddanielgraham 9 months ago
You cut off the part where he plays it like a harp XD
takineko 10 months ago
man i would have loved to break that piano..^^
salrubz 10 months ago
Harpo needs bigger hands. xD
kyritachiii 11 months ago
Awesome...
wickirsinn 11 months ago
I realize that to get the effect the music has to be dubbed in, but in the beginning the dubbing is done so poorly, his hand motions don't match the notes we hear; that unfortunately makes the scene less realistic.
wdd3141 1 year ago
@wdd3141 It's the video, not the movie. Search "marx brothers music scene" and watch that.
TheHolyFuckingBible 1 year ago
Has anyone ever watched Harpo's face while he plays the harp? After about twenty seconds into the song, there is not a trace of humour left in his expression, it's pure intent concentration.
Tylendal242 1 year ago
7 people now regret letting Harpo play their piano
blizzardballz 1 year ago 3
Whats funny are his facial expressions and the fact that his tuxedo chestpiece is falling out. LOL
AtomicProductions98 1 year ago
It should be called WRECKmaninov!
LoquaciousByNature 1 year ago 19
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HAHA, I'll take up your tip!
thetunr 1 year ago 9
@thetunr I LOVE IT:)
LoquaciousByNature 1 year ago
LOL, Harpo is so ridiculous! LMAO
myopiate2020 1 year ago
Harpo Marx: Great Pianist, Master of Destuction.
He knows how to tear a piano apart.
AtomicProductions98 1 year ago
Bravo!
1madDogz 1 year ago
"But that's a priceless Steinway!"
"Not any more!"
oldaardvark 1 year ago 5
Harpo Speaks is how I got to know the Marx Brothers. What luck I picked it up and from the first page I was hooked, its still the best autobiography I have ever read. RIP Harpo
taoismishity 1 year ago
lolage
8hotchocolate8 1 year ago
I do not get it, what was that???!!!
thechristian01999 1 year ago
@thechristian01999 That was hilarious. And Harpo even ends up with a harp.
watutman 1 year ago
Harpo could play the piano as well as Chico - maybe even better. Before the family act started, Chico would hire himself out to bars and brothels playing the piano to entertain customers. Sometimes he hired himself out to two places on the same night. Chico would go to one and send Harpo to the other. The two looked so much alike, no one knew the difference.
MFPhoto1 1 year ago
@MFPhoto1 Maybe, Harpo said in his autobiography that he could only play two songs, he'd just alter them slightly so they sounded different. But maybe Harpo was just being modest. :)
HazukiOfMutsu 1 year ago
@HazukiOfMutsu My guess is that Harpo was being modest -- or just telling a good story. Harpo reportedly could play several instruments, all self-taught. We do see him in various movies playing a clarinet, a saxiphone and a trumpet, although admittedly not seriously. He had a wide collection of instruments in his home and played them all. I would like to find a copy of "Harpo Speaks." It should be good reading, although I would take a few details with a few grains of salt. ;-)
MFPhoto1 1 year ago
That's how Jerry Lee Lewis learned the business
AnaCarolOMT 1 year ago
OUT OF SYNC. I hate it.
rekingooo 1 year ago 2
amazing.
desiberry 1 year ago
Yes, want to wath the movie, but what is the title of the movie?
Magspie7 1 year ago
@Magspie7 'A Day At The Races' is the title
TheThugAthlete 1 year ago
@TheThugAthlete Wrong. It's A Night at the Opera.
MFPhoto1 1 year ago
@Magspie7 The title is "A Night at the Opera." It was Groucho's favorite.
MFPhoto1 1 year ago
OMG you missed the best bit... the harp playing is flawless...
vagabondscribbler 1 year ago
Whoever tuned that piano should have been shot:)
schizoidboy 1 year ago
darn i wanted to see him play that harp
tommag82 1 year ago
Pure geniality! Great actor, great pianist, great all
Euroman002 1 year ago
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ilostmywife02 1 year ago
I have always loved their genuinely funny brand of anarchy. Groucho is still my favourite, though.
nitramgnal 1 year ago
Genius!
HnodriHudson 1 year ago
"That's a priceless Steinway!!"
"NOT... anymore."
bastlake 1 year ago
I hadn't seen this before. Thanks for posting. A classic in the Marx Bros repertoire. And yes, he is foreshadowing Pete Townshend here.
I used to be a big Groucho fan as a teenager in the 70s (yes I was a Marx Brothers geek) but I find his shtick gets old. Those awful puns, those lame put downs. Sure, there are funny for a while, but the hamming is just too much. Harpo is still funny because he doesn't talk. He is the child in all of us. Sorry for the analysis, but I love the guy!
mercury11043 1 year ago
SIN!!! how DARE you cut it off before he plays harp. JACCUSSEEE
fosponomot 1 year ago 2
Is he really playing this because as I'm watching it the sounds off.
PS. before I get a lot of comments saying how stupid a comment this was keep in mind that I am still fairly young and never heard of this guy.
Pianosolful 1 year ago
Frequently, video uploads to Youtube are de-synched.
Harpo was a somewhat accomplished pianist (not as much as Chico), and he loved this prelude and actually wanted to play it in the movie. He wasn't allowed to because it was copyrighted, and the studio didn't want to pay the fee that was asked.
TomBarristerX 1 year ago
@TomBarristerX I didn't know about the de-synching. I'm confused about Harpo's piano abilities. In a couple of places, it is stated that he only knew two pieces. But I don't understand -- so he wasn't allowed to play it, then what he did play here doesn't count as playing it? It's heavily butchered obviously. :-)
mercury11043 1 year ago
Harpo is a genius
TheWhupper 2 years ago 3
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tektek678 2 years ago
lol he doesn't know his own strength!
AnotherSchmoe 2 years ago
HARPO WAS SELFTAUGHT ON YHE HARP
thoostorm3 2 years ago 4
Hendrix ripped off Harpo!
prahudka 2 years ago
love him. amazing person.
methogonzo 2 years ago 2
you guys didn't know that Harpo Marx had a bachelor's and master's degree in harp? yes he did!!
alan1963 2 years ago
@alan1963 I'm not in the least bit surprised.
People don't seem to realize that Minnie's boys were intellectuals.
Juliaflo 2 years ago 2
harpo dropped out of school so how could he have gone to college?
fluffino 1 year ago
In his autobiography, "Harpo Speaks", he tells how he drove away neighbor Rachmaninoff, while both were staying in the famous Garden of Allah, from the adjacent bungalow, by repeatedly striking on his harp the first four chords of this musical composition, which apparently was one of the composer's least favorite of his brain children.
EvenEvenOdd 2 years ago
@EvenEvenOdd Too funny! My dad would sometimes play a piece (late into the evening) and step away from the piano before the last phrase was played --- oh did that get my mothers fur up. hahaha
ilovebobthecat 1 year ago
You have to thank the great Irving Thalberg for believing in the Marx Brothers after their contract with Paramount was not renewed.
marcparella 2 years ago 2
harpo is oprah backwards
Doomessenger4654 2 years ago 2
@Doomessenger4654 wow seriously jeez
BandGeek3430 2 years ago
Hence, "Harpo Productions."
thinedoor2 1 year ago
Ohh, it's a pity that the sound doesn't fit with the image..
vizhtor77 2 years ago
ke pedo xD
eltachimetro 2 years ago
they say Harpo was better at Piano than harp, amazingly. And that he didnt play harp in a legitimately tuned manner. Apparently when he first got a harp, he just tuned it to his ear and figured out how to play it. If you handed him a legit concert harp, he wouldnt be able to play coherantly
Zeta9966 2 years ago
You are right that he played it in the wrong tunning, but did it amazingly well and it was his first instrument more than piano, where he could play only some songs (read wikipedia). He hired the best harp teachers for developing his technique, but these were fascinated by the way he was already used to play, so if he was able to shock them by his bizarre playing I am sure he could have been master player.
vizhtor77 2 years ago
How can I find the video of when Harpo plays the harp after he destroys that sht.
Squidablabla 2 years ago
lets leave out the part where HARPO plays the HARP!
DisasterCrafter 2 years ago 5
LMAO
zazu2 2 years ago
hahahahahaha
eltachimetro 2 years ago
This is amazingly punk rock for a 1930s performance!
indiecutie 2 years ago 5
I was thinking more of the Who
turnoutjim 2 years ago
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nigger fag...
bobbycamp101 2 years ago
So funny!
EvangelineSky 2 years ago
no wonder QUEEN chose to name an album after it...
Classicmozayful 2 years ago 4
@Classicmozayful Two actually.
queenandi 2 months ago
And then you cut off the part inwhich Harpo starts to play....what a waste of time.
Fooblestheclown 2 years ago
cos its the harp and no one is bothered about the harp!
roverspaul 2 years ago
Well Well! I guess Pete Townsend wasn't the first rocker to destroy his instrument onstage.
VyteSnake 2 years ago 52
@VyteSnake Jerry Lee Lewis.
CentraCross 1 year ago
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!
mrpossibilities 2 years ago
Very funny. Good contribution.
------Ellen
Shabannie 2 years ago
THAT would be the most poorly made piano in the world if that were real...
godsloved3 2 years ago
THE VERY BEST!!
jbearden 2 years ago
Pity it's so out of synch...
MichaelKingsfordGray 2 years ago 3
This is why Salvadore Dali loved Harpo.
FritzOmnibus 2 years ago 8
i'll bet the house that Harpo starts playing the remains of the piano as if it were a harp !!
chokibert 2 years ago 2
i also want 2 know what Happens Next :p
Nupa6Gianni 2 years ago
Search for Marx Brothers A Day At The Races. It's the music scene.
ExZonie 2 years ago
lol...
Cillitpeng 2 years ago
This reminds me of how Keith Emerson ends his concerts when he plays with Emerson, Lake and Palmer. He takes out an old upright piano and just goes nuts on it, banging it, jump all over it, laying down on the floor and playing it backwards.
And somehow music is coming out of it.
It's the funniest thing.
PhilistineTheArtLuvr 2 years ago
so we learn and see again: many things are a repetition of something happening before .... ;-)
suncbar 2 years ago
I love Harpo's facial expressions.
helentomac 2 years ago 6
hahahah
yeeeah.. he is so funny!!!
ranXerox09 2 years ago
WHAT HAPPENS AFTER THIS?!?!?! Does he play the harp??
CuddlyBadger 2 years ago 31
yeah
methogonzo 2 years ago
@CuddlyBadger yup
magget16 1 year ago
@CuddlyBadger I doubt that this was really Harpo playing (his playing certainly doesn't sync with the music, although he could have pre-recorded it himself). In answer to your question, yes, he uses the naked piano strings as a harp.
NewhamMatt 1 year ago
@NewhamMatt This clip is out of sync. I have the dvd and it's in sync. Harpo could actually play the piano, though not as well as Chico, so it's possible that he may have played it for the movie, but I tend to think it was pre-recorded.
To all Marx Bros fans, if you haven't read the book "Harpo Speaks" I highly recommend it!! It is such a great autobiography!!
suzy170980 1 year ago 2
@suzy170980 I always take it on flights,....never gets old!....speaking of which,neither does "The Groucho Letters" knowwhaddimean?
somame69 1 year ago
@CuddlyBadger yeah, he does.
ktnicoll1987 1 year ago
lol the beginning sounds like my piano at home, with the hammers off center and playing two notes at once
luckily mine hasn't EXPLODED AND COLLAPSED while I was playing it, although it probably should have - I'm nowhere near as good as Harpo!
BigNickontheDrum 2 years ago 2
Harpo inspires 'The Who' :o)
oldedrum 2 years ago 5
I was thinking the exact same thing!
jillybear326 2 years ago
definitely one of the best musical moments in the marx bros mvoies.
zimbloggy 3 years ago 4
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This piano wrecking scene made me sick to my stomach. Musical instruments are works of art, in and of themselves, and are almost sacred to me as a musician. I know it's just a sight gag in a movie but I found it sickening, shockingly brutal and, besides, totally out of character with Harpo's gentle nature. YUCK!
dgsouter 3 years ago
come on this " ruined piano" may have inspired hundreds if not thousands to tickle the ivory just as jimi hendrix burning guitar
simbaerod 3 years ago 3
...inspired thousands to pick up a fender.
simbaerod 3 years ago
that's art
wrdpianist 2 years ago 3
lighten up daamn i love music too buh its a movie
haruba 2 years ago
What people didn't know was that Harpo could play the piano. He actually got the first job among his brothers playing in a brothel at age 13 in New York's lower East side.
marcparella 3 years ago
I've said it before: it is the greatest scene in motion picture history. Ok, I may be a bit prejudice, I went to music school and I couldn't stand all the piano majors. (I was a composition major.)
marcparella 3 years ago
Rock was born in here
likskirtspleetscreen 3 years ago 5
Harpo kicks ass!!!
subjulio 3 years ago
hardcore mfr!!!! show that piano whos boss
taleisyn 3 years ago
The face that has launched a thousand laughs in my life. He still does. What a comedic genius!
...and his musicianship...the only being in human history that has successfully combined classical and punk and made it work every time!
TigerRocket 3 years ago
Whatever it is; I'm against it.
marcparella 3 years ago 3
Whoever marked a thumbs down on this must not have realized that you were quoting the lyrics from one of Groucho's songs in Horse Feathers. It sounds like something he would say to this, so I gave it a thumbs up :)
oneofthe4 3 years ago
Thank you oneofhth4. The person who gave me a thumbs down may look like an idiot, and probably sound like an idiot, but don't let that fool you: he really is an idiot. -- I know all the jokes; I grew up with the Marx Brothers' movies.
marcparella 3 years ago
now thats something groucho would say lol (the first part of your comment)
iLike2Drummm 2 years ago
hey heavy metal stars, this is how you have to broke an instrument!
20 stars !!
(btw i love metal music but this video was the best rocking performance ever!)
camadai 3 years ago 4
Karl-Erik Welins idol...
ellandelachapelle 3 years ago
AVANT-GARDE!!!
chucku00 3 years ago
SILL TODAY!!!
chucku00 3 years ago
damn thats great, but i like the next part two, hes even better on the harp O_O
avidump 3 years ago
my alltime favorite interpretation !!!
8mobili 3 years ago
This almost made me cry seeing this. That piano!!!!!!!
godsloved3 3 years ago
@godsloved3 Don't worry, it's not the same piano if you watch the cuts. Look at the harp!
logosthedestroyer 1 year ago
@logosthedestroyer lol i also like how he's able to so easily carry a cast iron plate like a harp haha
godsloved3 1 year ago
haha, it makes me sad as a pianist that in every piano scene in their movies, the piano ends up falling apart. still the best
pierrnicolas 3 years ago 3
how did they manage to shoot this scene?
bloopideebloop 3 years ago 2
I am amazed at both Harpo's and Chico's musical talents. This clip made me LOL. Bloody funny . LOL. LOL. BRILLIANT. 20 STARS.
sirtinycreep 3 years ago 3
This clip is incomplete without the follow up of Harpo playing the harp that he removed from the demolished piano.
Koshbanjo 3 years ago
C'mon now, you're killin' me...you left out the BRILLIANT punch line-Harpo plays the frame like a harp! I cry every time!
godot93 3 years ago
They cut out the best part...Correct me if I'm wrong, but if I remember correctly, he wails on those piano strings.
Noneed2beunderstood 3 years ago 3
Now i know where The Who got the whole breaking instruments thing from.
daughterMYslaughter 3 years ago 4
whoa whoa
ink24571 3 years ago
All of the Marx brothers kind look like my cousin, but I JUST CAN'T GET OVER HARPO! MY COUSIN IS A SPITTING IMAGE!! It's crazy! Plus he acts exactly like him! Oh they're all so cute and talented. Long live Marx Brothers.
kissobsessed 3 years ago 2
what was that thing held together with? scotch tape?!
math9023 3 years ago 4
Pete Townshend, eat your heart out!
bluevelvet7474 3 years ago 10
oooh, that poor piano.
fluterific00 3 years ago 2
This is definitely anarchy!
And soooo good for your soul.
Aoucht...my stomage can't take
much more!
Way funny/Roland
gangerollo 3 years ago
Children/guys/gals/daddys/mothers/granpas/grannies/hound dogs/GIs/vanilla men/Bush&Bin supporters/bigots/cave men and others:I here officially MAYDAYED OFF THE SEARCH as I found Marx "mirror scene" myself.
BTW, does somebody know Bin Ladens nom de plume here on youtube? If, we might start red alert again?
Stay cool/Roland
gangerollo 3 years ago
Hello Gangerollo!
Glad to know there are so many Marx Brothers fans around here as well. The mirror scene from Duck Soup (1933) is one of my all-time favourites. I find it as side-splittingly funny at the 50th viewing as I found it when I first saw it. It also makes for a hilarious comparison with Seven Years Bad Luck, a Max Linder short from 1921 often mentioned as the first version of a "mirror scene". You can find it here on YouTube as well. Enjoy!
RockinMichel 3 years ago
what is a vanilla man?! 8D
methogonzo 2 years ago
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1st I had no clue what you alluded to but after a search I saw I included 'vanilla men' in my search after the "Duck Soup" schene. OK; vanilla men is men that likes 'vanilla sex! ;O)
gangerollo 2 years ago
For further and more detailed info what 'vanilla mating' is, I think it's better you send me a personal message. Otherwise I guess it will be deleted/spammed from here. 8O)
gangerollo 2 years ago
MAYDAY! MAYDAY! SOS! PLEASE I'M IN DIRE NEED OF HELP! Tell me if this scene exist as a clip on youtube (and name of the film)?
As I remember: Groucho is playing a important person and they are very much alike. G is in front of a mirror which is not a mirror. One imitate the other to belive it's his reflected mirror image. But then G got suspicious and try to outdo his 'image'
So funny I wet my pants not talking about my stomach. I MUST SEE this scene before I die. Tnx thetunr. Roland
gangerollo 3 years ago
you might look up mirror scene on here, I believe its from the movie duck soup, but don't quote me.
PrettiBoy 3 years ago
Tnx PrettiBoy...I already got it. And u are right, it's from that movie. LOL
gangerollo 3 years ago
Hahahahahahahahahaah.....Ouch my stomage hihihihhihi
gangerollo 3 years ago
taking jerry lee lewis to a hole new level,lol. maybe this is where jerry lee got is style from.lol
elvisjess68 3 years ago
I wanted to hear him play the bare strings. Is that on youtube? funny sh*t.
Manfleshbeast666 3 years ago 2
He pulled a harp out of the piano!
emilygclarinet 3 years ago
LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO! i love this and that movie! I will have to pop it in again!
I wish we all acted up like this! ha ha
starcase73 3 years ago
Funnier if you've read Harpo's autobiography. He had moved into the apartment immediately adjacent to Rachmaninoff. Harpo was not to pleased to listen to him practice, constantly, all day long, at loud volumes. So Harpo got his revenge and played his C# minor prelude over and over ad naseum as loud as he could. Needless to say, Rachmaninoff requested another flat.
Denciat 3 years ago 9
Do anarchy - Sayd Grouch.
You're great Harpo!!!!
Notar89 3 years ago
God, Harpo and Chico were good. I don't know enough about the others to say, but I know those two were two of the must underhyped musicians of the time.
Bendmac525 3 years ago