Groucho And Me

Groucho And Me
by Groucho Marx

Groucho And Me
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Author: Groucho Marx
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-08-22
ISBN: 0306806665
Number of pages: 376
Publisher: Da Capo Press

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Book Review: Is being funny enough?
Summary: 5 Stars

As a number of other Amazon reviewers have pointed out this is not a real autobiography. Groucho is not interested in telling the reader about his inner life and self, or about the character of his relations with others. What he does do is be Groucho, and tell in his own inimitable tone a lot of stories and anecdotes which continually crack up the reader. I remember as a child watching Groucho on ' This is Your Life' and I could not understand why he was making the same joke over and over again and laughing at George Fenniman, his announcer, and stooge. That is Groucho like Don Rickles later and maybe like comedians in general did a lot of insulting of others, low, cheap humor, getting a laugh at the expense of the 'fall guy'. This was of course very much a game and part of the show but it is something which personally has always made me a bit reserved about not only Groucho but about that particular kind of humor. On all accounts Groucho was as a ' real person' quite a grouch, a pretty miserable fellow to a lot of people including his three wives, and at some point also to two of his children. But he was also filled with life and energy, tremendously quick- minded, funny as hell, zany and crazy , a tremendous joy to watch or hear, and at times here, even read. He left the English language a whole group of ' remarks 'or 'wisecracks ' which promise to be with us for a long time to come'Even his cruelty in word seemed to have a playfulness about it as if he were a naughty little kid knowing always just how much he could get away with. Reading his autobiography one laughs and at the same time feels a certain sadness and empty. Joke after joke, wisecrack after wisecrack leads eventually to a kind of exhaustion and wondering if there is not more than this. Groucho is funny, one of the funniest but one wonders if that is enough in life except for a great comedian.

Summary of Groucho And Me

With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent wit, and a superb sense of the ridiculous, Groucho tells the saga of the Marx Brothers: the poverty of their childhood in New York's Upper East Side; the crooked world of small-time vaudeville (where they learned to carry blackjacks); how a pretzel magnate and the graceless dancer of his dreams led to the Marx Brothers' first Broadway hit, I'll Say She Is!; how the stock market crash in 1929 proved a godsend for Groucho (even though he lost nearly a quarter of a million dollars); the adventures of the Marx Brothers in Hollywood, the making of their hilarious films, and Groucho's triumphant television series,You Bet Your Life! Here is the life and lunatic times of the great eccentric genius, Groucho, a.k.a. Julius Henry Marx.

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