Do you have any idea the vast number of jokes they made in only two and a half minutes? For my money the best one is, "Chicolini may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." When you go to work tomorrow, say that about a co-worker. The people there will laugh, even though the joke is almost 90 years old.
When the brothers received a script for a new movie, they would take it with them as they toured theaters. They would take parts of the script, perform it on stage, and ad lib as they went along. When it came time to go before the camera, they had their best stuff ready!
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot. But don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." I ever get the chance to pull that trick with someone, I'm not letting it go to waste.
I suggest we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth. Not many people today would get that joke.
Oh for goodness sakes young 'uns! Leavenworth prison, Woolworth 5 and dime. Long before Walmart there was Woolworth. I remember the pets and the lunch counter mostly. Some of the best word play there ever was right there. So rapid fire.
Ive gone through all of youtube..and I haven't yet seen the SCENE from Duck Soup... where Groucho and Chico are interacting and Groucho ask him "You wanna be a public nuisance?...and Chico responds..."Sure...how much does the job pay?"...Its might not sound funny in print...but when I first heard it at 15 years old...I knew the Marx Brothers were something else
also the commander of the foreign legion in laurel and hardys beau chumps and flying deuces.memorable for asking stan what he was trying to forget when he joined the legion of the damned! i forgot! you forgot what you came here to forget!!!! classic!
"I gotta an uncle that lives there" "no no I'm talking Dollars Taxes". "That's where he lives Dollars taxes". That may not be exact but in the end it's more of Chico's butchering of the English language😉.
In a 1970 interview by Dick Cavett, a now-elderly Groucho was asked what Hollywood would most remember about his brother Chico. “Well”, Groucho replied at length, “Chico WAS the guy who introduced gonhorrea into the Vaudeville circuit.”
I admit I've never really understood it when Groucho says "a pitiable object" and then in an aside to Chico, "Let's see you get out of that one." What's the joke?
When Groucho refers to Chico as "an abject figure", Chico puns on 'abject' to say, "I abject (i.e. 'object')." Groucho begins over by referring to him as "a pitiable object", because Chico is unable to pun on that the same way without saying, "I object." He'd thus be forced into using the proper English, the joke being that the Chico character was always pretending to be dumb with his selective mangling of words.
@@iainrobb2076 Thanks, I guess you are right. But if Groucho had first said "pitiable object" and Chico had said "I object," wouldn't that have still been funny? Still seems like a pun to me, because "object" has two meanings.
@@iainrobb2076 Right, it would not be funny after the "abject" pun. But it would sort of work in the other order, since it would go from a "logical" pun to a sillier one. Puns don't have to involve mispronunciation, though Chico's almost always do.
Nearly a century old and STILL hilarious.
91 years old and doesn’t look a day over 95 years old!
It’s amazing how that huge room was a stage set built in a soundstage. They had real talented artists and builders to make it look realistic
When I was a kid in the 70s, they used to play these movies on the local off network station and they were my favorite.
Do you have any idea the vast number of jokes they made in only two and a half minutes? For my money the best one is, "Chicolini may look like an idiot and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot." When you go to work tomorrow, say that about a co-worker. The people there will laugh, even though the joke is almost 90 years old.
When the brothers received a script for a new movie, they would take it with them as they toured theaters. They would take parts of the script, perform it on stage, and ad lib as they went along. When it came time to go before the camera, they had their best stuff ready!
“That sort of testimony we can eliminate.”
“I’ll have one.”
“What?!”
“A lemonade. A nice, cold glass of lemonade.”
Briljant.
Lmao Chico is funny
If he saw what Harpo did to the lemonade earlier, he'd reconsider that request...😳
One of the most hiliarious scenes in 'Duck Soup'. Brilliant!
Gentlemen...Chiccolini here may talk like an idiot and may look like an idiot, but don't let that fool you...He Really is an idiot!
This is how life should be
"Gentlemen, Chicolini here may talk like an idiot and look like an idiot. But don't let that fool you. He really is an idiot."
I ever get the chance to pull that trick with someone, I'm not letting it go to waste.
Ahhhh, good old Groucho and Chico.
1:47 Give me a number from one to ten. Eleven! Right!
This is very minor, but I loved the way the prosecuting attorney said, "Huh! YOU object!" So affronted as he was by Chicolin's...uh, cheek!
I suggest we give him ten years in Leavenworth, or eleven years in Twelveworth.
I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll take five and ten in Woolworth.
Not many people today would get that joke.
I don't
15 cents. Otherwise, yeah.
Oh for goodness sakes young 'uns! Leavenworth prison, Woolworth 5 and dime. Long before Walmart there was Woolworth. I remember the pets and the lunch counter mostly.
Some of the best word play there ever was right there. So rapid fire.
5 and dime - old times equivalent of the dollar store.
And nobody today in the the movies can write like that.
One of Chico's best moments
Ive gone through all of youtube..and I haven't yet seen the SCENE from Duck Soup... where Groucho and Chico are interacting and Groucho ask him "You wanna be a public nuisance?...and Chico responds..."Sure...how much does the job pay?"...Its might not sound funny in print...but when I first heard it at 15 years old...I knew the Marx Brothers were something else
This isn't as funny as they're making out. -If Chicolini is found guilty he could be sentenced to be stood up against a wall and pop goes the weasel.
@Everywhere -Objection! Too stupid, M'lud.
Well said
Sure it is. Your comment is irrelephant.
The Prosecuting Attorney is the Emperor Ming of Mongo!
Charles Middleton played Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon serials
The prosecutor's Charles Middleton which just goes to show even Ming the Merciless can't stop The Marx Brothers.
also the commander of the foreign legion in laurel and hardys beau chumps and flying deuces.memorable for asking stan what he was trying to forget when he joined the legion of the damned! i forgot! you forgot what you came here to forget!!!! classic!
0:48 I couldn't think of anything else to say either ROFL
The guy sitting next to Groucho looks just like Saddam Hussein.
Is that Emporer Ming as prosecutor !?
Sure is. 😊👍🏼
I wish someone would post the court scene about "dallas texas / dollars taxes" (i don't remember which movie that was in).
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"I gotta an uncle that lives there" "no no I'm talking Dollars Taxes". "That's where he lives Dollars taxes". That may not be exact but in the end it's more of Chico's butchering of the English language😉.
In a 1970 interview by Dick Cavett, a now-elderly Groucho was asked what Hollywood would most remember about his brother Chico. “Well”, Groucho replied at length, “Chico WAS the guy who introduced gonhorrea into the Vaudeville circuit.”
You’re on trial you can’t object 😂
fucking love the marx brothers.
Same dude played in Laurel and Hardy movies....the guy who asking the question
Genius
2:01 You'll take what?!!
I use that quote whenever possible. Nobody gets the reference, but I'm amused.
Awesome !
1:34 I abject!
where can I find (fanfare) More bad news!
Classic...
I ' m also - Chicolini )))))).........
I admit I've never really understood it when Groucho says "a pitiable object" and then in an aside to Chico, "Let's see you get out of that one." What's the joke?
When Groucho refers to Chico as "an abject figure", Chico puns on 'abject' to say, "I abject (i.e. 'object')." Groucho begins over by referring to him as "a pitiable object", because Chico is unable to pun on that the same way without saying, "I object." He'd thus be forced into using the proper English, the joke being that the Chico character was always pretending to be dumb with his selective mangling of words.
@@iainrobb2076 Thanks, I guess you are right. But if Groucho had first said "pitiable object" and Chico had said "I object," wouldn't that have still been funny? Still seems like a pun to me, because "object" has two meanings.
@@premanadi Yeah, but it would be missing the mispronunciation.
@@iainrobb2076 Right, it would not be funny after the "abject" pun. But it would sort of work in the other order, since it would go from a "logical" pun to a sillier one.
Puns don't have to involve mispronunciation, though Chico's almost always do.
@@premanadi Don't make this difficult. The writers wrote the joke, Groucho and Chico just said them.
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marx brothers :)
Lmao 😂 😂
2:12 LMAO!
2:11 I think he's talking about Joe Biden.
1:38 i think he's talking about trump after the election
Get a writ of habeous Corpus.....but I should Gotten rid of you instead.
Trump's impeachment trial
Just as incompetent & incomprehensible.
Kyle Rittenhouse brought me here :)