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
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.
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.
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.
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."
"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.
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.
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.
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."
“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.”
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.
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.
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.
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?
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 RU-vid 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.
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.
"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."
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.
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.!!
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.
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.
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.
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'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! ;-)
