Episode 15: This Magnificent Display of Effusion
The Great Marx Brothers Renaissance of the 1970s is the subject of our fifteenth episode, which includes our conversation with Marx Brotherhood leader Jay Hopkins.
Episode 14: Look at Chicolini
Chico may look like an idiot, and talk like an idiot, but don't let that fool you -- he really is the most mysterious and elusive of the three, four, or five Marx Brothers. Trav S.D. joins the panel to shoot the breeze about shooting the keys.
Episode 13: You'll Duck Soup the Rest of Your Life
"Once upon a time," writes Matthew in the Annotated, "there was a Marx Brothers film called Duck Soup." Nobody disagrees with that, but we do find some points of contrast in this discussion about the Marx Brothers' greatest film, which is not their best work. Of course you know this means war!
Episode 12: We Get Mad Because We Can't Read
We're joined by celebrated screenwriter Scott Alexander for a discussion of two tellings of the Marx Brothers' biography: Kyle Crichton’s 1950 biography of the Marxes, and the unproduced Marx Brothers biopic the world may yet see.
Episode 11: Art is Art and Water is Water
Josh Frank, coauthor of the graphic novel Giraffes on Horseback Salad, a joins us to discuss the book, Salvador Dali's interest in the Marxes, and the relationship between the Marxes and the surrealist art movement.
Episode 10: The Marx Brothers in the 21½ Century
Hmmm…what could this be? Chico leading a Mars expedition? Zeppo getting a talent transplant? No.
Bonus Episode: Holiday Minicast
Here's a stocking stuffer -- just a quick mini-episode to look backward and forward, wish you a happy everything, and tell you about the hottest holiday gifts of 2018.
Episode 9: A Good Buy From MGM
Why, we didn't know you cared! But since you do, here's our ninth episode, in which Nick Santa Maria drops by to discuss The Big Store, which we all agree was made by MGM in 1941 and stars the Marx Brothers and Tony Martin.
Episode 8: Gentlemen, Question Mark
Well, we asked you to ask us questions, and you asked us questions, and now, we answer some of the questions we asked you to ask us. Thanks to all who asked, and please let us know if you have any questions.
Episode 7: Too Late, That's Monkey Business Already
Matthew, Noah, and Bob over-analyze Monkey Business. Musicologist and Zeppocologist Andrea Orlando stops by to offer some much-needed informed insight.