An Evening With Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx – he was the leader of one of the best comedy teams of all time: their Night at The Opera and Duck Soup are the among the greatest comedies of all time (again) – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

An Evening With Groucho Marx by Groucho Marx – he was the leader of one of the best comedy teams of all time: their Night at The Opera and Duck Soup are the among the greatest comedies of all time (again) – you find thousands of notes on films from The New York Times’ Best 1,000 Movies Ever Made and other sites on my blog https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/09/do-you-have-any-feedback.html and YouTube channel

 

8 out of 10

 

Groucho Marx was one of the best comedians ever https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/a-night-at-opera-with-marx-brothers.html with his brothers he blessed audiences with some masterpieces, and he has also left some memorable quotes – ‘I will not belong to a club that would have me as a member’ is just one of them

 

An Evening With Groucho was something like the stand up acts we see today, maybe he invented the genre, at the start, we hear a new anecdote, at least it was new for me: he has lunch with the presenter – also famous, but I listened to the show and I can’t quite place him – and the ‘captain’ has the menu, asking for the desert

Most likely, the ‘captain’ would be a sort of maître d’, and there is also a waiter and Groucho says something like: ‘what about some fruit? And I don’t mean the captain here’ – in the old parlance, fruit must have been the equivalent of ‘loser’, a word used by the American Psycho https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis.html aka Caligula resurrected

 

I used to end my tours with another quote from Groucho Marx – I used to be in what they call the hospitality business today, and had clients from the American, British, and other embassies, mostly taking them to see my country, Dracula haunts were favored, or at least the spots connected with Vlad the Impaler

In those days, people from the United States of Erica – that should have been the name, and it is explained in Lake Wobegon Days https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2026/04/american-psycho-by-bret-easton-ellis.html Eric had found that territory before Amerigo and the rest – were not just sane, but pleasant, now…Oh God!

 

Mind you, my sister, her son and husband live in Chicago, were they have been doctors for what, thirty or more years, but MAGA, let us move on, though it would have been interesting to see what Groucho would make of all this – only three prominent (former) actors support the Orange Caligula, Mel Gibson, Jon Voigt and Stallone, although on second thought, the latter is not really a thespian in my book, expect for Copland

Let me get back to my ending for the tours, I would quote Groucho Marx on coming out of a party: ‘thank you, I had a wonderful time…only not this time’, and another new mot coming out of An Evening With Groucho refers to this pool at the antisemitic club, where he asks: ‘since my daughter is only half Jewish, can she get into the water up to her knees?’ and this makes the assertion of Kingsley Amis even more outré https://realinibarzoi.blogspot.com/2025/07/the-letters-of-kingsley-amis-edited-by.html he said that Groucho was not funny, or at least this is how I remember it, maybe I confuse him with someone else, that is, Kingsley Amis was critical of Peter Sellers (that I have for real), also John Cleese, and quite a few others, we can check this somehow, but the expectation was clearly high, Amis was one of the funniest anyway