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 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 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 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.
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.
Episode 33: The Boys Are Back in Town
Our Night in Casablanca deep dive is a packed episode, featuring not only the second appearance of Scott Alexander, but Les Marsden himself lending his voice to some deleted scene recreations.
Episode 32: I Don't Think This Damn Thing is Safe
The last significant work by Groucho Marx as a performer was An Evening With Groucho -- which is the title of his 1972 concert, and the resulting LP.
Episode 31: Our BRAIN DONORS Special
Our first episode of 2021 is our best episode of the year thus far! In addition to your faithful co-hosts, it features a couple of genuine comedy legends, and a discussion of the film the Marx Brothers would have made if they had made this film.
Episode 29: Make That Three Hard Boiled Eggs
Episode 29 is a big one, folks, in which we discuss one of the Marx Brothers' greatest films with a gifted photographer and designer, an accomplished novelist, a fine musician, Groucho's grandson for cryin' out loud, and Gus Kahn's grandson at the same time -- with only one guest!
Episode 26: The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell in a Nutshell
What, we sometimes wonder, does the public want from the world's preeminent Marx Brothers podcast? A topic essential to the Brothers' legacy, but not recently explored in depth? Check! Brilliant and engaging guests who are Marxian A-listers? Check! Skillful editing that makes the three hosts seem almost coherent? Check, please!