If he IS a rapist which, knowing the False Allegations Industry, I doubt. Bet he's wealthy though.

Harpo was brought in for questioning but he wouldn't speak. ...(sorry.)

I loved Harpo and all the other Marx Bros.

I was lucky enough to meet Barbara Sinatra on a boat cruise ..she was married previously to Zeppo Marx.Married at the time to Frank Sinatra

The cruise was a charity event for a charity for abused children'

The dotty president of the charity got up and announced.."it's my pleasure to introduce Mrs Barbara Sinatra. She and her husband Frank have been involved in child abuse for decades"

Most of the press contingent nearly got thrown overboard.

* from my forthcoming book "Diary of a Nobody:Redux"

I've only been once to the Groucho Club years ago so it isn't me.

Zeppo was the brothers' business brain.

Chico was the pothead, like Huntz Hall, Dawn Wells, and Bob Denver.

The FBI need to know the war on drugs was lost nearly a century ago.

hedda wrote:
I loved Harpo and all the other Marx Bros.

I was lucky enough to meet Barbara Sinatra on a boat cruise ..she was married previously to Zeppo Marx.Married at the time to Frank Sinatra

The cruise was a charity event for a charity for abused children'

The dotty president of the charity got up and announced.."it's my pleasure to introduce Mrs Barbara Sinatra. She and her husband Frank have been involved in child abuse for decades"

Most of the press contingent nearly got thrown overboard.

* from my forthcoming book "Diary of a Nobody:Redux"

I've only been once to the Groucho Club years ago so it isn't me. Oooooh Hedda...must read more.

I knew him but I came late to an appreciation of Groucho Marx, really only discovering him when I sat through the whole of the 1930's movie Duck Soup one afternoon when it was on Channel 4 about 15 years ago. I immediately loved it and have searched so much more out since.

When I was young I was mostly into Laurel & Hardy and also Harold Lloyd, both these frequently shown early evening on BBC2. A shame they can't introduce modern children to them, like they did to me as a modern child at the time.

Some great quotes from Groucho aren't there. Some fit the current day and age nicely.

Gregg Wallace - "Women should be obscene and not heard."

Starmer - "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."

Starmer - "The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made."

Current UK - "I worked my way up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty."

Perhaps we should blame Groucho for Savile taking his advice - "A man's only as old as the woman he feels."

Spoilt for choice with wonderful wise cracks - www.brainyquote.com/authors/groucho-marx-quotes

There is a Laurel & Hardy podcast it has dedicated following but it is small in listernership. I only to listen to because I know someone who contributes behind the scenes.

He also did a film show also in a picture house in NYC,
showing Laurel & Hardy at the end of the first short or so the venue only had 2 people left from about 60 or so. He only carried on because the couple stayed for the duration. There is no longer a market for vintage comedy. Even vintage sitcoms are no longer getting released on home media. When the Three Stooges got a reboot about 15 years ago or so, there was no revival on the classic shorts. I would have thought a channel would have done a marathon. Shemp was my favourite Stooge. All the UK DVDs have been crap whilst the American DVDs have been expensive.



On Youtube Rich, watch Silent Watch Party with Ben Model.



www.youtube.com/@silentfilmmusic

www.laurelandhardyfilms.com/podcast

Thanks GM.

No longer a market for vintage comedy, that's criminal. I know a family member who won't watch anything in black and white. I don't understand that.

Rich wrote:
Thanks GM.

No longer a market for vintage comedy, that's criminal. I know a family member who won't watch anything in black and white. I don't understand that.

Show him some Bowery Boys films or the original Honeymooners.

My favourite U.S. sitcom is Coach, I can't believe it was first aired 35 years ago. Time does fly.

Married with Children is 37 years old.