Episode 43: I Take it Out Once in a While (featuring Jay Hopkins)
It’s our first episode of 2022, and here we are again with a thousand dollars for one of our couples. Say the secret word and divide an extra hundred dollars. It’s a common word…
Episode 42: The Sanity Clauses
Two Jews and a Brit celebrate Christmas and ring in the new year with our Marx Brothers hot takes!
Episode 41: Waxing Wroth (Our Horse Feathers Deep Dive featuring Adam Gopnik)
Listeners to the podcast, podcast listeners, readers of the blog, and blog readers: The subject is the great masterpiece Horse Feathers, and the guest is the great essayist Adam Gopnik, whose most recent Marx-adjacent project is the Library of America’s S.J. Perelman anthology.
Episode 40: Aboard This Tiny Ship (featuring Nell Minow, the Movie Mom)
Renowned film writer Nell Minow joins us to discuss her longtime love affair with the Marxes, her firsthand encounters with two of the brothers, her famous dad’s round of golf with another, and her grandmother’s friendship with two of their spouses!
Episode 39: Why A Nobile? (Featuring Nick Santa Maria)
This month, we take a deep dive into Richard J. Anobile’s controversial work from 1973, The Marx Bros. Scrapbook.
Episode 38: Help-a Those Kids (featuring Hannah Mira)
School and schoolteachers are a recurring theme in the Marx Brothers' work. On this episode, our special guest is a real live teacher, who has used the Brothers' films as a curriculum for students in extraordinary circumstances.
Episode 37: Raised Questions (featuring Steve Stoliar)
Last year, we had the honor of sharing, for the first time ever, Jay Hopkins' 1979 interview with the multitalented Steve Stoliar, author of Raised Eyebrows: My Years Inside Groucho's House. Today, we've got an all-new conversation with Steve.
Episode 36: We Spit on Lester Cowan (Our Love Happy Deep Dive)
Well, you should have known we'd do this eventually. Please join us -- we're begging you -- for a discussion of the universally beloved classic Love Happy. It may not be everyone's favorite Marx Brothers movie -- it may not even be a Marx Brothers movie -- but you have to admit, it is a movie.
Make Yourself Listen to Make Him Watch It!
Our pal Cinco Paul — screenwriter, songwriter, Marx Brothers Council Podcast guest — has an excellent podcast of his own. To provide a contrast with that excellence, he invited us on!
Episode 35: This Magnificent Chest
The most significant release of previously-unreleased Marx Brothers material occurred in 2014, when Shout Factory issued The Marx Brothers TV Collection.