Wow, one Groucho's; best shows.... with all so much joy people most likely had from watching and the richness of the warmhearted humor, why would a person make an antagonistic comment to another .
This is one of Groucho’s best, Hilarious!!! I love them all but these two Italian sisters were a riot! No one better than Groucho! Timeless! I just can’t get enough of these. I’m laughing all the time.
Ida Tondino was my mother, Isabella was my Aunt who came here from Italy to visit. Isabella didn't speak any English, and my Ma was helping with that, and then my Uncle Raymond came up to help also when Isabella answered the questions. She had been a student of Mythology, so that's why she was knew those answers. THIS EPISODE IS A CLASSIC!!
Aside from Groucho’s obvious brilliance, I’m impressed with his ability to prevent cracking up with laughter at his perhaps unintentionally hilarious guests.
I can't imagine any game show host alive today that could come close to this kind of impromptu homespun entertainment! This kind of TV viewing is priceless!! Groucho was a genius!! Here I am watching his instead of live talentless TV!!
Actually, in his own way, Steve Harvey comes pretty close. He seems to actually like people; he jokes with his guests, he kids them, but he never makes fools of them, and no matter how off-the-wall their answers may get, he always acts as if he's laughing with them, not at them.
The most entertaining, funniest show on TH-cam, mainly due to the brilliant talent of Groucho, but also the lovely contestants who always enter into the spirit of the show.
Nancy Anderson is my grandmother. She went on to be West Coast editor of Photoplay magazine and was friends with many Hollywood icons including Elvis Presley. More importantly she was an amazing grandma!
This show and WHAT'S MY LINE? are two of the main reasons I'm glad that TH-cam exists. Quality TV, with absolutely no agenda - except that of pure entertainment that everyone could appreciate and enjoy, unlike modern society's ideas of TV entertainment...
Have you seen the skit with the brothers trying to get off the ship? Google: Marx Bros, Maurice Chevalier. It's hilarious. One cannot be sad after watching these guys. Edit: Two of the brothers sing the wrong words. I wonder if that was in the script.
The Italian ladies were a hoot. The one lady got ticked off about the way Groucho kept pronouncing her last name. To funny. Groucho can never be replaced he was one of a kind. Miss his humor. He was truly a fantastic entertainer with his brothers
Thanks for posting the Episodes. I even mentioned the Gonzalez Gonzalez episode in some pages of my 607 Pages Phd-thesis. It has yet to be published. but this channel is one of my dearest.
Unfortunately, the episode with Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez is one which could cause copyright problems if I try to add it to this channel, but there's at least a clip of his appearance somewhere else on TH-cam. I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos-- thanks for the comment!
I just discovered this show thanks to you. All I can say is that I am a new fan! Groucho humor is my favorite I have ever seen. I've seen Groucho with the Marx brothers...but I never knew this show existed...so entertaining.
@@spectroman71 are you serious,???? Oh my God, to see then on tv. They were by far, the funniest of groucho guests.i hope they both lived a long and wonderful life.👍👍👍
These shows are like a history lesson; A glimpse into Americana arrested in time. True, these folks were appearing on television, so there was a certain degree of play acting taking place, yet they're still a fair barometer as to the mindset of the population during the 1950's, ten short years after the end of the second world war. Anyone wondering about where we are today, can look to these folks for a certain degree of explanation. It's pretty amazing stuff actually!
@@jimhardy7673 Wow.....in Denmark we only had television from the late fifties - one state-programme -no commercials. There were Perry Como-shows and Nat King Cole shows from the States , but this show I only found out about some years ago on the internet.
@@henningandersen9027 that's interesting information mr. Anderson. It's a lot of fun going down memory lane. Must have been interesting growing up in Denmark and watching the shows.
@@jimhardy7673 I know, right! I remember watching these 1950's programs with family and friends 'Back in the Day'... even though these shows were aired some 70 years ago, it seems as if I could look around to see those very same people with whom I first watched these wonderful old shows. But, of course, they aren't there, all of my family members are now with Groucho in the After Life and those old friends are now long gone.
That makes me very happy to read. :) I'm a huge booster of those Shout! Factory sets (and Shout! Factory in general), so I will never post the 36 episodes they contained. Fortunately those YBYL sets are a LOT cheaper now than they were when they came out-- I remember paying $50 a piece. Anyhow, you'll love the DVDs. They're packed with fantastic extras. All the episodes are uncut and from the original films, so there's none of those awful modifications that were made to the syndicated versions (the frame was blown up in many shots to remove the sponsor's sign on the back wall, and a glowing white circle was added to obscure the NBC logo on Groucho's microphone). I'm delighted if I had any small part in reviving your interest!
I had the Shout Factory DVD set when it first came out. I gave it away after watching it to my accountant who is a giant Groucho fan. I just ordered one for myself. There are so many great segments of shows vs. taking the whole show to get the good part. I guess it wasn't sensible or permissible to edit everything from the Ida, Isabelle and Raymond segment and pair it with other wonderful pieces like Pinky Tomlin or Bootzy or Jen doing Shake Rattle and Roll or the Marks brothers dancing the Polka with Groucho and the large woman. Rene and John Charles Thomas debating Rock and Roll; Beverly Aadland singing "All Shook Up" and John Charles singing Golfer's Lament with Groucho harmonizing
Everything with Jack Meakin's musical group is great especially Ketty Lester and Willy Spurlock's segment. I wish someone could identify the sidemen. All of what you've done here is way beyond the Shout! Product. We're blessed to have it all
Another bit of Yiddish from Grouch in this episode it seems. After the Italian siblings get the fourth question; "Oh, I thought these were such schlemiels"
As an Italian/American, I have to point out just how adorable, fun-loving, and passionate the two Italian ladies were... In 1958 every American learned how to pronounce "Caracciolo"! lol... Did you notice how fiery, Ida Tandino got when Groucho questioned her ability to cook? If she had - had a wooden spoon in her hand I think she would've used it on Groucho's butt! - Viva Italia!
@@SEENWORK I was speaking about this very issue with a friend. You said that you had no idea why he was even here, the reason is sad really; Some folks have no higher goals, no loftier ambitions to accomplish in their lives than looking through comment sections to belittle and/or to calumniate others. People whose sole 'offense' was to have shared their opinions and experiences. People such as this "jerk", as you have so aptly named him, finest achievements in life are limited to sitting stealthily behind a PC in a cowardly attempt to cause others to feel bad about themselves. So very sad. (BTW., Your name sounds like a movie star's name, beautiful name!) God Bless!
Scott Edwards was the one with the Ph D, but it was the Southern lady who whispered the meanings of foreign phrases to him--although in the introductions, she came across as a not-particularly-eductated "bumpkin"!
$10,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about *$90,512.80* today, an increase of $80,512.80 over 63 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.56% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 805.13%.
Schlemiels - Yiddish for losers/rubes/naive people who get taken advantage of. A schlemiel is someone who always spills his soup. A schlamazel is the one he always spills it on.
dennis guerrerio- Yeah, people won the ten thousand dollars a couple of times. Two things- First, adjusting for today, ten thousand was probably more like sixty thousand in today's dollars. Second, if you watch enough of these episodes, you'll see that they kept changing the actual game. It was a pretty loose arrangement, where the game was of second importance, and the interaction between Groucho and the contestants was emphasized. It's really an amazing show, and great study material for any modern day sociologist!
@@keithhyttinen8275 10,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about *$90,512.80* today, an increase of $80,512.80 over 63 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.56% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 805.13%.
Hahahaha. Back then, younger people looked young. Older people looked older. Kind of the same way it works today and universally. Except Hollywood convinced a lot of people that they have to look like they're 29 forever - unfortunately.
@@aliced7505 Mainly, you are guessing with most of that. How much experience do you have living in the 1950's? What do you know about women & men from that period? Someone from 1990-2000 could not even guess, the things girls & women did to their face/body, before going out in public. The insane (by today's standards) amount of skin base, layers of various builders, the top layer. then the toning, highlights...and we haven't gotten to the hair/clothing/shoes yet. My mother, a few sisters, aunts, grandmothers, partners, to name a few I was aware of...spent at least 2-3-4 solid hours on the make-up/hair, garb, and footwear. If you spoke to most of them after removing the 1/8th inch of covering layers, you wouldn't know it was the same woman. Sure they looked old back then...it was the make-up jobs. Parts of the common bathroom looked like a makeup shop. Girls back then looked just as young as their counterparts today, and by the same token, if women of today wore the same make-up, they would also look much older than the reality. If you went back to women of the 1890's-1920's, you would find the same type women, with even more formal bindings, and coverings, making them look 40, when they were 20. When I said you were guessing...you were, however, you only stopped analyzing and comparing, far too quickly. If you had finished the story, you would have gotten to the reasons why...as even now, they seem very odd to me, and what I accepted as normal then, I think bizarre, in my thinking today.
@@justplainbrad7713 Sorry about your reading deficit. I'm guessing? About "most" of it? Aye yi yi. I made one solitary point. See if you can delve into my vast treatise and figure it out, which you probly should've done before commenting.
I just love Groucho so much! Brought so much innocent joy to the world! Seems like a genuinely nice man too.
Wow, one Groucho's; best shows.... with all so much joy people most likely had from watching and the richness of the warmhearted humor, why would a person make an antagonistic comment to another .
Thank you whoever uploads this show and "What's My Line". Great stuff. America as it once was, before hate and greed took over.
My Ma passed in 1978, at 78 years old... don't know the other dates, but much later
This is one of Groucho’s best, Hilarious!!! I love them all but these two Italian sisters were a riot! No one better than Groucho! Timeless! I just can’t get enough of these. I’m laughing all the time.
Groucho singing “O Sole Mio” with the sisters….pure and clean entertainment. He had the knack.
What a gem - Groucho. The world was so blessed to have him. If there's anyone who could make the angels laugh, it was Groucho.
I enjoyed this so very much. I am totally hooked on seeing as many of these shows as I can. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
Ida Tondino was my mother, Isabella was my Aunt who came here from Italy to visit. Isabella didn't speak any English, and my Ma was helping with that, and then my Uncle Raymond came up to help also when Isabella answered the questions. She had been a student of Mythology, so that's why she was knew those answers. THIS EPISODE IS A CLASSIC!!
I call BS. Prove it !
@@joeambrose3260 PROVE WHAT JOE?
@@SEENWORK Your claim to fame
@@joeambrose3260 where do you live anyway
@@SEENWORK New England
Wanna visit ?
the greatest ever. really , really enjoyed this. thanks.
These episodes are gold....thx for posting them...👍👍👍👍👍👍❤✌
This is incredible. How lucky folk were then to have such entertainment. Brilliant. Thanks for the opportunity to see it.
Wow
Aside from Groucho’s obvious brilliance, I’m impressed with his ability to prevent cracking up with laughter at his perhaps unintentionally hilarious guests.
I can't imagine any game show host alive today that could come close to this kind of impromptu homespun entertainment! This kind of TV viewing is priceless!! Groucho was a genius!! Here I am watching his instead of live talentless TV!!
Actually, in his own way, Steve Harvey comes pretty close. He seems to actually like people; he jokes with his guests, he kids them, but he never makes fools of them, and no matter how off-the-wall their answers may get, he always acts as if he's laughing with them, not at them.
Just look at his joy at the good ol' time he was having. I've replayed it 3 times - so far.
I feel the same way, and I do the same thing you do every day.
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The most entertaining, funniest show on TH-cam, mainly due to the brilliant talent of Groucho, but also the lovely contestants who always enter into the spirit of the show.
Thanks for posting. The segment with Italian women was an absolute joy!
Just found these shows today and have been on them for hours.Groucho is absolutely fantastic,what wit,a real treasure,Thank you very much for sharing
Nancy Anderson is my grandmother. She went on to be West Coast editor of Photoplay magazine and was friends with many Hollywood icons including Elvis Presley. More importantly she was an amazing grandma!
She seems so sweet.😊
That is very cool Nancy!! I bought many of those Elvis magazines back in the day
Also, she seems very smart. Smart as a tack. I was watching her tell her partner all the answers.
Did she stay in LA or did she move back to the south? Just curious lol
@@5thdimension625 she went back to Italy
Groucho was the funniest and best. I could keep watching these shows
This show and WHAT'S MY LINE? are two of the main reasons I'm glad that TH-cam exists. Quality TV, with absolutely no agenda - except that of pure entertainment that everyone could appreciate and enjoy, unlike modern society's ideas of TV entertainment...
Have you seen the skit with the brothers trying to get off the ship? Google: Marx Bros, Maurice Chevalier. It's hilarious. One cannot be sad after watching these guys.
Edit: Two of the brothers sing the wrong words. I wonder if that was in the script.
Groucho you’re still the greatest
The Italian ladies were a hoot. The one lady got ticked off about the way Groucho kept pronouncing her last name. To funny. Groucho can never be replaced he was one of a kind. Miss his humor. He was truly a fantastic entertainer with his brothers
Thanks for posting the Episodes. I even mentioned the Gonzalez Gonzalez episode in some pages of my 607 Pages Phd-thesis. It has yet to be published. but this channel is one of my dearest.
Unfortunately, the episode with Pedro Gonzalez Gonzalez is one which could cause copyright problems if I try to add it to this channel, but there's at least a clip of his appearance somewhere else on TH-cam. I'm glad you've been enjoying the videos-- thanks for the comment!
of course i have obtained the shout factory sets. eternal thanks for your service
Thank you for sharing this, I enjoyed it!
I just discovered this show thanks to you. All I can say is that I am a new fan! Groucho humor is my favorite I have ever seen. I've seen Groucho with the Marx brothers...but I never knew this show existed...so entertaining.
sfumato1002 Nothing makes me happier than when someone leaves a comment like that! Thanks for watching. Many more episodes to come!
M.Bevia I watched this when I was 8 years old with my parents.
17:15 Mammamia, that smile of Groucho is just adorable!
The Italian siblings were hilarious! What warmth and humour! :)
Excellent! How I long for good clean entertainment!
The English speaker is my grandma
@@spectroman71 are you serious,???? Oh my God, to see then on tv. They were by far, the funniest of groucho guests.i hope they both lived a long and wonderful life.👍👍👍
That was hilarious!! With the Italian women
These shows are like a history lesson; A glimpse into Americana arrested in time. True, these folks were appearing on television, so there was a certain degree of play acting taking place, yet they're still a fair barometer as to the mindset of the population during the 1950's, ten short years after the end of the second world war. Anyone wondering about where we are today, can look to these folks for a certain degree of explanation. It's pretty amazing stuff actually!
I grew up in the 40's and 50's and I remember watching these shows when they were first released. For me this just took place yesterday.
@@jimhardy7673 Wow.....in Denmark we only had television from the late fifties - one state-programme -no commercials. There were Perry Como-shows and Nat King Cole shows from the States , but this show I only found out about some years ago on the internet.
@@henningandersen9027 that's interesting information mr. Anderson. It's a lot of fun going down memory lane. Must have been interesting growing up in Denmark and watching the shows.
@@jimhardy7673 I know, right! I remember watching these 1950's programs with family and friends 'Back in the Day'... even though these shows were aired some 70 years ago, it seems as if I could look around to see those very same people with whom I first watched these wonderful old shows. But, of course, they aren't there, all of my family members are now with Groucho in the After Life and those old friends are now long gone.
And we were grateful to have (black and white) tv. Haha.
Thanks for sharing these episodes.It has revived my interest in the series and I have ordered the DVD's that Shout Factory has put out.
That makes me very happy to read. :) I'm a huge booster of those Shout! Factory sets (and Shout! Factory in general), so I will never post the 36 episodes they contained. Fortunately those YBYL sets are a LOT cheaper now than they were when they came out-- I remember paying $50 a piece.
Anyhow, you'll love the DVDs. They're packed with fantastic extras. All the episodes are uncut and from the original films, so there's none of those awful modifications that were made to the syndicated versions (the frame was blown up in many shots to remove the sponsor's sign on the back wall, and a glowing white circle was added to obscure the NBC logo on Groucho's microphone).
I'm delighted if I had any small part in reviving your interest!
These Italians not only knew their mythology but understood Yiddish perfectly. Great fun!
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I had the Shout Factory DVD set when it first came out. I gave it away after watching it to my accountant who is a giant Groucho fan. I just ordered one for myself. There are so many great segments of shows vs. taking the whole show to get the good part. I guess it wasn't sensible or permissible to edit everything from the Ida, Isabelle and Raymond segment and pair it with other wonderful pieces like Pinky Tomlin or Bootzy or Jen doing Shake Rattle and Roll or the Marks brothers dancing the Polka with Groucho and the large woman. Rene and John Charles Thomas debating Rock and Roll; Beverly Aadland singing "All Shook Up" and John Charles singing Golfer's Lament with Groucho harmonizing
Everything with Jack Meakin's musical group is great especially Ketty Lester and Willy Spurlock's segment. I wish someone could identify the sidemen.
All of what you've done here is way beyond the Shout! Product. We're blessed to have it all
Another bit of Yiddish from Grouch in this episode it seems. After the Italian siblings get the fourth question; "Oh, I thought these were such schlemiels"
As Chico would say Dr. Hack-en-a-puss was no Schlemiel.
Yes, he surely underestimated her knowledge of mythology. Heh.
Love you Groucho!
As an Italian/American, I have to point out just how adorable, fun-loving, and passionate the two Italian ladies were... In 1958 every American learned how to pronounce "Caracciolo"! lol... Did you notice how fiery, Ida Tandino got when Groucho questioned her ability to cook? If she had - had a wooden spoon in her hand I think she would've used it on Groucho's butt! - Viva Italia!
In my family, to this today we still say, "Cook? a-look-a-me!"
Someone needs help
@@joeambrose3260 Expound, please.
@@MrMenefrego1 this Joe Ambrose guy is just a jerk and no idea why he is even here
@@SEENWORK I was speaking about this very issue with a friend. You said that you had no idea why he was even here, the reason is sad really; Some folks have no higher goals, no loftier ambitions to accomplish in their lives than looking through comment sections to belittle and/or to calumniate others. People whose sole 'offense' was to have shared their opinions and experiences. People such as this "jerk", as you have so aptly named him, finest achievements in life are limited to sitting stealthily behind a PC in a cowardly attempt to cause others to feel bad about themselves. So very sad. (BTW., Your name sounds like a movie star's name, beautiful name!) God Bless!
Scott Edwards was the one with the Ph D, but it was the Southern lady who whispered the meanings of foreign phrases to him--although in the introductions, she came across as a not-particularly-eductated "bumpkin"!
I was going to say something along these lines. I noticed she was the one coming up with all the answers. And quickly.
love it
No vabbè, troppo divertenti le due donne, e gli scambi in italiano tra loro due.
You mixed it up in the description. Ida is the one who speaks English.
Yep
Now, that I've heard the surname, of the sisters, bring out the "This Week, In Baseball" footage.
Oh Groucho, I love you so.
"Until we meet again or "goodbye" the term "Tschüss" is used more today that's more old fashioned
I LOVE HIS CLASSIE POLKA DOT 👔
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@@ЫРІ Giving away your age. Hee hee.
$10,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about *$90,512.80* today, an increase of $80,512.80 over 63 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.56% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 805.13%.
And 80 cents. Now there's a fellow who loves his work. 😊
+1 for Katie's grandmother
Oxford English Dictionary definition of a groucho
A riot
Too funny, but wait a minute: Ida is 48 yet she's been married for 35 years? Huh?
Nancy Anderson...39 and going on 50!
People looked older then.
She is 39 like Jack Benny, eternally 39.
Groucho and only he could get away with playing matchmaker with almost every male and female contestants on his show!
i thought that was fred mcmurray
jessie james I did too!
They misspelled my Mothers name, its Tondino
Groucho can be funny without being disgusting. Todays comics could learn a thing or two
Sole Mio: the night the coyotes howled in L.A.
The man at 15:00 looks like Jackie Gleason
Italians are smart😊
21.00 "I thought th"ey were....?"
Schlemiels - Yiddish for losers/rubes/naive people who get taken advantage of. A schlemiel is someone who always spills his soup. A schlamazel is the one he always spills it on.
Did anyone ever win $10,000 on this show?
Sure, plenty of times. It wasn't common, but it happened.
If they lose at the end they keep 1/2 but if they win at the end do they keep what they won to get there?
dennis guerrerio- Yeah, people won the ten thousand dollars a couple of times. Two things- First, adjusting for today, ten thousand was probably more like sixty thousand in today's dollars. Second, if you watch enough of these episodes, you'll see that they kept changing the actual game. It was a pretty loose arrangement, where the game was of second importance, and the interaction between Groucho and the contestants was emphasized. It's really an amazing show, and great study material for any modern day sociologist!
A few times. And $10,000 in 1958 was about $180,000 in today's dollars.
@@keithhyttinen8275 10,000 in 1958 is equivalent in purchasing power to about *$90,512.80* today, an increase of $80,512.80 over 63 years. The dollar had an average inflation rate of 3.56% per year between 1958 and today, producing a cumulative price increase of 805.13%.
Funny
People looked older back then. Or is it the Black and white?
Hahahaha. Back then, younger people looked young. Older people looked older. Kind of the same way it works today and universally. Except Hollywood convinced a lot of people that they have to look like they're 29 forever - unfortunately.
@@aliced7505 Mainly, you are guessing with most of that.
How much experience do you have living in the 1950's?
What do you know about women & men from that period?
Someone from 1990-2000 could not even guess, the things girls & women did to their face/body, before going out in public.
The insane (by today's standards) amount of skin base, layers of various builders, the top layer. then the toning, highlights...and we haven't gotten to the hair/clothing/shoes yet.
My mother, a few sisters, aunts, grandmothers, partners, to name a few I was aware of...spent at least 2-3-4 solid hours on the make-up/hair, garb, and footwear.
If you spoke to most of them after removing the 1/8th inch of covering layers, you wouldn't know it was the same woman.
Sure they looked old back then...it was the make-up jobs.
Parts of the common bathroom looked like a makeup shop.
Girls back then looked just as young as their counterparts today, and by the same token, if women of today wore the same make-up, they would also look much older than the reality.
If you went back to women of the 1890's-1920's, you would find the same type women, with even more formal bindings, and coverings, making them look 40, when they were 20.
When I said you were guessing...you were, however, you only stopped analyzing and comparing, far too quickly.
If you had finished the story, you would have gotten to the reasons why...as even now, they seem very odd to me, and what I accepted as normal then, I think bizarre, in my thinking today.
@@justplainbrad7713 Sorry about your reading deficit. I'm guessing? About "most" of it? Aye yi yi. I made one solitary point. See if you can delve into my vast treatise and figure it out, which you probly should've done before commenting.
That was Elizabeth Moss before she got talked into getting the time machine,by the guy that worked at the atomic lab.
Doesn't she say Alabama Georg....äh North Carolina?
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WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM MISTER BUSTER?
@@SEENWORK I prefer Buster Mister, if you don't mind
Be sure to ly down when you lose it.
@@janepatterson6779 Is that supposed to he phunny hunny?
@@joeambrose3260 you're a jerk