I remember when we watched this movie in class a few years ago. It was pretty awkward, cause no one else seemed very amused, but during this scene I couldn't contain my laughter even if I tried. This was the case during a lot of scenes actually... Something about the humor in this movie just gets me.
No wonder I was different during childhood, with my Dad recording this and lots of 'Laurel and Hardy'. I couldn't get enough of this one and probably memorized most of the scenes. Harpo's reaction when he gets his pants full of lemonade is beyond price.
It goes without saying that Chico and Harpo were comic geniuses, but Edgar Kennedy, caught in the middle here, was a brilliant comic in his own right, having worked with other comedians from Laurel and Hardy, to Lupe Velez, to W.C. Fields, to the Marx Brothers, to Buster Keaton, to Shemp Howard, to Fatty Arbuckle to Wheeler and Woolsey. Kennedy also had a very long running series of comedy shorts with himself in the starring role. Kennedy's so underrated and deserves to be better known by the general public.
Yes! I love the stories about Woollcott and the Algonquin circle. And the story about how Harpo's wife got him to marry her by stalking him relentlessly, it's like a funny chase movie. And so much more...
@@dontaylor7315 also the parts where he got arrested in Russia because his suitcase was filled with gag guns and knives & when he chased the girls with a croquet mallet like a madman 😂😂 those were my favourite parts 😂 I was laughing my head off and saying “oh Harpo, you loveable idiot!” 😂😂
@@infjgirl3850 Hey thanks for bringing up those parts I seem to have forgotten; just goes to show I ought to revisit the book, it's evidently been long enough that reading it again will be like a fresh experience. One thing I think I do recall is that Harpo seems to have thoroughly enjoyed Alexander Woollcott, a personality detested by many including Harold Ross, James Thurber and others; I think even Dorothy Parker eventually couldn't stand him. My impression is that Woollcott's insensitive pranks were among the reasons he was disliked but Harpo just regarded them as challenges to outprank the prankster. Another aspect people couldn't tolerate was Woollcott's arrogance and self-importance but I think Harpo was so unimpressed he wasn't even offended.
I want to know who started the "hat gimmick". I've seen this done by Laurel and Hardy as well as the Three Stooges. Is this one of those things where nobody has a clear idea of it or too many take credit for it?
What a great routine ! They had it down pat. I remember times when my father would wake me up in the middle of the night for a Marx Bros movie. We both enjoyed them then, and they haven't lost their magic with me even now.
Oh yeah, of all the scenes in Duck Soup the dueling vendors was my favorite - peanut vendors Chico & Harpo really drove lemonade vendor Edgar Kennedy crazy - the hat-passing sequence made laugh until tears streamed down my cheeks, and I nearly wet myself when things culminated with Harpo setting Edgar’s hat on fire in their peanut roaster… screamingly funny zaniness!
Edgar Kennedy was a wonderful comedian. He was always great as the vexed Irish Cop. "Kennedy's your Man"! He had his own series of movie shorts. Always at wits end.
Edgar Kennedy who plays the lemonade vendor appeared in quite a few laurel and hardy films. Laurel and hardy and the Marx brothers are my favorite comedy teams!!
Harpo reminds me so much of Dopey from Snow White & the 7 Dwarves. Not only was he the silent one, he also did so many silly things, like this scene right here. You outta see the part where Harpo dunks his feet into the lemonade, which this clip left out.
Yes they did, it was only seconds later when the peanut stand was tipped over. Then Harpo took off his boots and swished his feet in the lemonade, to the dismay of the waiting customers.
It was a great thing that they didn't have all of this stuff in one go but actually came back to this scene! The time in between makes a great effect - oh no they're still gonna go at it, poor Edgar Kennedy
Ah, the great character actor Edgar Kennedy, who also appeared in early Our Gang comedies and tons of other films, in between Leonard (Chico) and Arthur (Harpo) Marx in a very well rehearsed old vaudeville routine the Marx Brohters perfected on Broadway.
How does Harpo manage to be the most loveable Marx, whilst also being biggest shit disturber of the trio? I guess that's what happens when you're mama's favorite.
Nobody did a slow burn better than Edgar Kennedy, who was so good at it that he made a career out of it and was affectionately nicknamed "Slow Burn" by the industry.
Michael here: UH-OH!! At 2:31, The angered Lemonade Vendor does an Al Bundy on Harpo Marx when the angry lemonade vendor places that horn down Harpo's pants and honks it and WE KNOW IT!! O-M-GOODNESS!!!!
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the Marx Brothers are the closest thing to Python humour I've ever seen come out of American cinema, and to be completely honest, they do it a little better.
obimokenobi It's definitely Edgar Kennedy. He did play the cop in both Little Rascals(Our Gang) and Laurel and Hardy comedies which were produced by Hal Roach. He nearly always played a cop. He's actually one of the original Keystone Kops. Charles A. Bachman also played a lot of cops in Roach movies and even kind of looked like Kennedy at times so I can see where you made the mistake.
This is a post-Code film and it's reasonably clean. There is the once scene where Harpo seems to have seduced a woman, but he actually up in bed with a horse so I guess that passed the censors!
I really love Harpo. He is such loveable prankster and troll.
Edgar Kennedy is brilliant in this - his reactions really make it.
He really did sell their antics as the straight man slowly going mental over their antics.
Vendor- "I'll teach you to kick me!"
Chico- "You don't have to teach me, I know how!" *kicks*
He is my favorite Marx brother. I really love when he shows Groucho his tattoos.
I remember when we watched this movie in class a few years ago. It was pretty awkward, cause no one else seemed very amused, but during this scene I couldn't contain my laughter even if I tried. This was the case during a lot of scenes actually... Something about the humor in this movie just gets me.
***** Seems like everyone exept you in your class has a dead brain.
+marko simunic I couldn't agree more.
Cosmic Grain they likely favor bullshit comedy like Rogen and Schumer.
I didn't laugh but I still enjoyed it, I guess I have a weird sense of humor.
Uncultured vermins they r
No wonder I was different during childhood, with my Dad recording this and lots of 'Laurel and Hardy'. I couldn't get enough of this one and probably memorized most of the scenes. Harpo's reaction when he gets his pants full of lemonade is beyond price.
Chico and Harpo perfect comic duo. I can watch the Marx brothers films over and over and always find them amusing.
I like the yo-yo trick Harpo did with the lemonade vendors hat =)
to think it flopped on first release and is now considered to be their best and it is I love how Harpo gets the best of Edgar Kennedy in this scene.
It's almost 90+ years old and this is still pretty damn funny.
Pretty damn scary - the killing of small business.
They gave this poor guy a nervous breakdown. Funniest movie ever!
It goes without saying that Chico and Harpo were comic geniuses, but Edgar Kennedy, caught in the middle here, was a brilliant comic in his own right, having worked with other comedians from Laurel and Hardy, to Lupe Velez, to W.C. Fields, to the Marx Brothers, to Buster Keaton, to Shemp Howard, to Fatty Arbuckle to Wheeler and Woolsey. Kennedy also had a very long running series of comedy shorts with himself in the starring role. Kennedy's so underrated and deserves to be better known by the general public.
King of the Slow Burn
I love Harpo's Gookie face. I am currently reading Harpo Speaks. It's a damn good book.
Yes! I love the stories about Woollcott and the Algonquin circle. And the story about how Harpo's wife got him to marry her by stalking him relentlessly, it's like a funny chase movie. And so much more...
@@dontaylor7315 also the parts where he got arrested in Russia because his suitcase was filled with gag guns and knives & when he chased the girls with a croquet mallet like a madman 😂😂 those were my favourite parts 😂 I was laughing my head off and saying “oh Harpo, you loveable idiot!” 😂😂
@@infjgirl3850 Hey thanks for bringing up those parts I seem to have forgotten; just goes to show I ought to revisit the book, it's evidently been long enough that reading it again will be like a fresh experience. One thing I think I do recall is that Harpo seems to have thoroughly enjoyed Alexander Woollcott, a personality detested by many including Harold Ross, James Thurber and others; I think even Dorothy Parker eventually couldn't stand him. My impression is that Woollcott's insensitive pranks were among the reasons he was disliked but Harpo just regarded them as challenges to outprank the prankster. Another aspect people couldn't tolerate was Woollcott's arrogance and self-importance but I think Harpo was so unimpressed he wasn't even offended.
If you remember Animaniacs, Wakko’s gags and gookie face was based off Harpo
@@jediskunk67 took me years to finally understand the Gookie reference 😂
The hat swapping is the best part of this scene!
😂
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Chico does have a point though, just how is he supposed to find out what he's gotta find out if Harpo don't tell him what he's gotta find out?
The hat part was definitely the funniest part.
I want to know who started the "hat gimmick". I've seen this done by Laurel and Hardy as well as the Three Stooges. Is this one of those things where nobody has a clear idea of it or too many take credit for it?
@@tenhirankei It goes way back to vaudeville.
Playing musical hats without the music!
What a great routine ! They had it down pat. I remember times when my father would wake me up in the middle of the night for a Marx Bros movie. We both enjoyed them then, and they haven't lost their magic with me even now.
The hat switching cracks me up every time
Pure genius! These guys had it all going on!
Enjoy every time, they live forever
That face.....LOL! I was 8 years old the first time I saw this film. I about pissed my myself. Comedy in its purest form.
Giving someone your leg became a running joke in my family growing up thanks to this sketch
0:20 Harpo leans forward and his horn was honking
2:14 He leans forward again but his other horn was filled with lemonade
Poor Edgar..and he thought that he only had troubles with L&H and "The Little Rascals"(LOL).
This must be way worse!!
Every since I had to watch this in high school in 2013, I have loved this movie.
how to be an effective spy: step 1, tell random people on that street that i'm a spy and he's a spy
Oh yeah, of all the scenes in Duck Soup the dueling vendors was my favorite - peanut vendors Chico & Harpo really drove lemonade vendor Edgar Kennedy crazy - the hat-passing sequence made laugh until tears streamed down my cheeks, and I nearly wet myself when things culminated with Harpo setting Edgar’s hat on fire in their peanut roaster… screamingly funny zaniness!
Edgar Kennedy was a wonderful comedian. He was always great as the vexed Irish Cop. "Kennedy's your Man"! He had his own series of movie shorts. Always at wits end.
Harpo was too darn cute!
This scene, and especially the hat sketch part, is the most Laurel&Hardy-esque of their career.
Edgar Kennedy who plays the lemonade vendor appeared in quite a few laurel and hardy films. Laurel and hardy and the Marx brothers are my favorite comedy teams!!
Harpo reminds me so much of Dopey from Snow White & the 7 Dwarves. Not only was he the silent one, he also did so many silly things, like this scene right here. You outta see the part where Harpo dunks his feet into the lemonade, which this clip left out.
+ Snow Puff :) yeah i was hoping for that scene too, it's a bit later in the movie, when Harpo is minding the peanut stand...
Funny that you say that, Dopey was actually inspired by Harpo
@@meepbeep2029 :) Oh! So THAT'S where they got it from!...
Harpo and Chico versus Edgar "Slow Burn" Kennedy. Classic.
Chico and Harpo, the original trolls
They have clearly inspired many followers.
Both were amazing actors
Original trolls indeed... this was scene I remember best from Duck Soup... I nearly split my sides from laughing!
Could you shut up with that stupid troll cliche? It's like calling Rachmaninoff a trash picker
Believe me. I have a funny Italian accent. Know why? Because I learned English by watching Marx Brothers' movies.
I even honk.
They cut it too soon... Harpo goes "swimming" in the Lemonade! That's the payoff.
+TAKWest That's a later scene.
Yes they did, it was only seconds later when the peanut stand was tipped over. Then Harpo took off his boots and swished his feet in the lemonade, to the dismay of the waiting customers.
matt18m18 the peanut stand wasn’t tipped over until a later scene, after the tea party.
It was a great thing that they didn't have all of this stuff in one go but actually came back to this scene! The time in between makes a great effect - oh no they're still gonna go at it, poor Edgar Kennedy
Ah, the great character actor Edgar Kennedy, who also appeared in early Our Gang comedies and tons of other films, in between Leonard (Chico) and Arthur (Harpo) Marx in a very well rehearsed old vaudeville routine the Marx Brohters perfected on Broadway.
Paul Delgadillo you are clearly a historian but it's interesting that you didn't call Harpo, Adolph
Harpo hated the name Adolph before it was cool to do so. Which I guess made him... a hipster?
@@paulchapman8023 Anarchist, hipster, troll...
As great as Harpo and Chico are, I've always loved the straight man, Edgar Kennedy, in this film...he really makes it work for me.
"Ahh that'sa good, eh?" LOL
I lost it with the hats. They flipping torture the poor guy!
Absolute genius.
Gotta love the Harpo and Chico taking on the great Edgar "Slow Burn" Kennedy.
I always find it difficult to stay in a bad mood when I watch basically anything with the Marx brothers in it
It's true. They should be prescribed as an antidepressant.
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I love Harpo he was the best funny man
How does Harpo manage to be the most loveable Marx, whilst also being biggest shit disturber of the trio? I guess that's what happens when you're mama's favorite.
Fun fact, there's actually 5 Marx brothers.
@@TheNightWatcher1385 6 if you count Margaret DuMont
@@I_am_always_correct Oddly enough there actually were six, one died as a toddler.
Chicago was Minnie's favorite
Yes..that was Manfred Marx..who died too young.
I'll teach ya to kick me! No need to. I know how!
Edgar Kennedy...master of the slow burn...
I watched the movie last night in bed& I was lmao, but this scene here had me nearly rolling out of bed.
This was back in the days where trolling actually took some effort and creativity.
lol the end when he just grabs the hat and sets it on fire...
How do people always end up holding his leg?
It's kind of a running gag Harpo made up.
Exactly...
@@madmadhatter please play Olivier Messiaen's early piano music on TH-cam .
He likes to gently guide the person's hand so they're holding up his leg, and they don't know until they look. 😁
At one point Edgar Kennedy is so confused that he gives his own like a way
No Mel Brooks or Zucker Brothers without these guys.
Trolling at its best.
I love Harpo!
I'm brown lol and I love these two. lol The best ever.
The Marx Brothers humor will live forever :)
This scene is a million times better than the mirror scene imo
Its very Funny coz the Actors are Great n doing Great
My throat hurts. I can't breathe.
Like Covid-19 only you laugh a lot more.
I remember Edgar Kennedy from the "Our Gang" series.
Nobody did a slow burn better than Edgar Kennedy, who was so good at it that he made a career out of it and was affectionately nicknamed "Slow Burn" by the industry.
Now how am I gonna find out
What I want to find out
If he don’t find out
What I want to find out?
absolutely, this is amazing
Harpo was a brilliant physical comic. 😂
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The hat switching gag is brilliant lol
That poor guy.
Anyone would lose his mind in his pants
Genius
Edgar Kennedy was the Master of the Slow Burn.
Masterpiece!Thxs.Funny!
Hoorey for Edgar Kennedy!
"I ama shutup." lol
they are like my heros omfg hahahhaha.
Modern Hollywood should give us more of that.
Brilliant!
These guys were great.
Lmao, them trading hats is so simple, yet so funny.
LOL i watched this the other day on netflix
Ah, it’s a good, eh?😁
Hey, can't you say- Can't you say anything?
No, he no say nothing!
As a kid I died laughing at this
Still hilarious in 2021🤣
Michael here: UH-OH!! At 2:31, The angered Lemonade Vendor does an Al Bundy on Harpo Marx when the angry lemonade vendor places that horn down Harpo's pants and honks it and WE KNOW IT!! O-M-GOODNESS!!!!
I make awesome freshly squeezed lemonade. I use 2 teaspoons of cranberry juice to make it pink.
I just watched a Willy Wonka scene. Imagine, this was made the year Gene Wilder was born.
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In 19th century this was perceived as comedy.
I’m just sad that they didn’t include the part where Harpo starts splashing his feet in the lemonade, that made me laugh the most
Harpo is my favorite Marx Brother!
the Marx Brothers are the closest thing to Python humour I've ever seen come out of American cinema, and to be completely honest, they do it a little better.
RollOnToVictory perhaps the Marx brothers inspired some of the Python humour.
@@tim2015 I feel like we wouldn't have Monty Python or Firesign Theater if there hadn't been the Marx Bros.
Fantastic jajaja!
Marx Bros. > Three Stooges any day of week.
The 1980s Pop Bubble both awesome in my book
The Pop Bubble I grew up a Stooges fan but now I’m starting to understand and appreciate the Marx Brothers.
The king of trolls
Great skit, but you left out the part where Harpo took off his shoes, rolled up his pant legs, and jumped into the lemonade cart and treaded.
That's from later in the movie.
Watching for History of World Theater I class in California,USA.
The guy in the middle is Charles Bachman. If anyone remembers him, he played the Police Officer in the Little Rascals :)
Actually that's Edgar Kennedy, who was known at the time for his "slow burn".
FantasiusTriton1993 hmm. Are you sure? I could have sworn on IMDB that it was him.
obimokenobi FantasiusTriton1993 is right. He also appears later in the movie in the bathtub with Harpo.
obimokenobi It's definitely Edgar Kennedy. He did play the cop in both Little Rascals(Our Gang) and Laurel and Hardy comedies which were produced by Hal Roach. He nearly always played a cop. He's actually one of the original Keystone Kops. Charles A. Bachman also played a lot of cops in Roach movies and even kind of looked like Kennedy at times so I can see where you made the mistake.
I could not stop laughing the first time I saw it. I am surprised I did not pass out or piss my pants.
My favourite is Groucho, but this is Chico and Harpo at their best.
Notice, the anarchy-the Hayes Act-stppoed a film like this ever to be made again.
You see?! Duck Soup is a masterpiece-on the level of Dr. Strangelove. And if you don't agree with me
"I'm gonna tear ya limb from limb...
Groucho may have been the best individual comedian of the bunch, but as a team, Harpo and Chico were always my favorites to watch.
This is a post-Code film and it's reasonably clean. There is the once scene where Harpo seems to have seduced a woman, but he actually up in bed with a horse so I guess that passed the censors!
Waiting for Godot hats