Episode Guide
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Episode 74: We Need to Talk About Erin
Guest: David FlemingEpisode 73: The Cocoanuts Revisited
Listeners’ commentary on The CocoanutsEpisode 72: What If…?
Guest: Danny FingerothEpisode 71: If She Figures That One Out, She’s Good
Another round of unsolved Marx Brothers mysteriesEpisode 70: What Do You Get For Not Directing?
The directors of the Marx Brothers’ filmsEpisode 69: Marxfest Memories
Guests: Kathy Biehl and Jonny PorkpieEpisode 68: Miscellany Business
Guest: Trav S.D.Episode 67: Of Muppets and Marxes
Guests: Eric Jacobson and Craig SheminEpisode 66: The Little We Know About Leonard
Growing Up With Chico deep diveEpisode 65: Our Rowe, Rohauer, and Groucho Hour
Guest: Mike Rowe
Guest: Groucho Marx (archival)Episode 64: Groucho and We
Groucho and Me deep dive
Guest: Frank FerranteEpisode 63: Coming Attractions
Marx Brothers movie trailers, and an interview with Jerry Sroka
Guest: Jerry SrokaEpisode 62: Blooray, Blooray, Blooray!
Too Many Kisses and The House That Shadows Built deep diveEpisode 61: Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Scardino
Guest: Don ScardinoEpisode 60: The Misty Corridors of Time
Our sixtieth episode retrospectiveEpisode 59: Flywheel Rides Again
The BBC recreations of Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
Guest: Mark BrisendenEpisode 58: Acid Reflux
Skidoo deep dive
Guest: Cinco PaulEpisode 57: So This is Dr. Film
Film preservation and the state of the Marx catalog
Guest: Eric GraysonEpisode 56: Question Marx
Our third Q&A episodeEpisode 55: Did You Ever Sit and Ponder as You Walk Along the Strand?
Marxian speculation, and a musical performance by Dan O'FarrellEpisode 54: There’s an Honored Guest Tonight
Groucho’s later work as a TV guest
Guest: Brett LeveridgeEpisode 53: Duck Privates
Abbott and Costello meet the Marx Brothers
Guest: Nick Santa MariaEpisode 52: I Got a Fire Engine!
The career and collection of Brian Levant
Guest: Brian LevantEpisode 51: Speaking of Speaking of Harpo
A deep dive into Susan Fleming Marx’s memoir
Guest: Hannah MiraMinicast: State of the Podcast, and a Marx Mystery Solved
Housekeeping, and one last sweet cheerioEpisode 50: The Gods Look Down and Laugh
Animal Crackers deep dive
Guest: Heidi GasselEpisode 49: Four Empty Dunces
The Marx Brothers, Woollcott, and the intellectuals
Guest: Brad SohloEpisode 48: Your Silent Partner
Harpo appreciation episodeEpisode 47: Bert and Harry Go West
The unproduced Kalmar and Ruby screenplay
Guest: Scott AlexanderEpisode 46: Deridin’ the Range
Go West deep dive
Guest: June MacCloy (archival)Episode 45: That En-cy-clo-pidia!
The Marx Brothers Encyclopedia deep dive
Guest: Glenn MitchellEpisode 44: Double Disappointment
Double Dynamite and A Girl in Every Port deep dive
Guest: Anthony StrandEpisode 43: I Take it Out Once in a While
You Bet Your Life deep dive
Guest: Jay HopkinsEpisode 42: The Sanity Clauses
Hot takesEpisode 41: Waxing Wroth
Horse Feathers deep dive
Guest: Adam GopnikEpisode 40: Aboard This Tiny Ship
Interview with The Movie Mom
Guest: Nell MinowEpisode 39: Why A Nobile?
Marx Bros. Scrapbook deep dive
Guest: Nick Santa MariaEpisode 38: Help-a Those Kids
Marxian education in a juvenile detention center
Guest: Hannah MiraEpisode 37: Raised Questions
Questions for the man who wrote Raised Eyebrows
Guest: Steve StoliarEpisode 36: We Spit on Lester Cowan
Love Happy deep diveEpisode 35: This Magnificent Chest
The Marx Brothers TV Collection deep diveEpisode 34: Our Dinner with Deezen
Guest: Eddie DeezenMinicast: Adamson in Casablanca
Joe updates his take on the 1946 film
Guest: Joe AdamsonEpisode 33: The Boys are Back in Town
A Night in Casablanca deep dive
Guest: Scott AlexanderEpisode 32: I Don’t Think This Damn Thing is Safe
An Evening with Groucho deep diveEpisode 31: Our Brain Donors Special
The Marx Brothers pastiche of 1992
Guests: David Zucker and Pat ProftEpisode 30: K&R vs K&R
Kalmar and Ruby or Kaufman and Ryskind?
Guest: Nick Santa MariaEpisode 29: Make That Three Hard Boiled Eggs
A Night at the Opera deep dive
Guest: Andy MarxEpisode 28: Flywheel, Shyster, and Tefteller
Interview with Groucho’s audio archivist
Guest: John TeftellerThe Jay Hopkins Interviews, Volume 5: Nat Perrin
Interviews from Jay’s archives, with new introductions
Guest: Nat PerrinEpisode 27: A Compilation, a Sandwich, and You
A hypothetical omnibusEpisode 26: The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell in a Nutshell
The Marx Brothers in a Nutshell deep dive
Guests: Joe Adamson and Robert B. WeideEpisode 25: Send Out the Clowns
At the Circus deep diveEpisode 24: Take a Letter!
Our special Zeppo Zeppisode
Guest: Andrea OrlandoThe Jay Hopkins Interviews, Volume 4: Steve Stoliar
Interviews from Jay’s archives, with new introductions
Guest: Steve StoliarEpisode 23: Monkey Distance
Our Very Special Episode in quarantine
Guests: Too many to list!The Jay Hopkins Interviews, Volume 3: Arthur Marx
Interviews from Jay’s archives, with new introductions
Guest: Arthur MarxEpisode 22: 1934
The year the Marx Brothers didn’t do anythingEpisode 21: No Snow and No Ice
The Cocoanuts deep diveEpisode 20: The Biggest Place in Town
Copacabana deep diveEpisode 19: Two of the Four of the Three Musketeers
The Groucho/Chico duologsEpisode 18: Marx Brothers: Unsolved
Guest: Stewart TrysterEpisode 17: Hail and Farewell
Room Service deep diveEpisode 16: (After) The End of the Marx Brothers
The team post-1949
Guest: Andrew T. SmithThe Jay Hopkins Interviews, Volume 1: John Guedel
Interviews from Jay’s archives, with new introductions
Guest: John GuedelEpisode 15: This Magnificent Display of Effusion
The Marx Brothers Renaissance of the 1970sEpisode 14: Look at Chicolini
Chico appreciation episode
Guest: Trav S.D.Episode 13: You’ll Duck Soup the Rest of Your Life
Duck Soup deep diveEpisode 12: We Get Mad Because We Can’t Read
The Kyle Crichton book, and an unproduced biopic
Guest: Scott AlexanderEpisode 11: Art is Art and Water is Water
The Marx Brothers, Salvador Dali, and surrealism
Guest: Josh FrankEpisode 10: The Marx Brothers in the 21½ Century
Marx fandom, past, present, and futureHoliday Minicast
A stocking stufferEpisode 9: A Good Buy From MGM
The Big Store deep dive
Guest: Nick Santa MariaEpisode 8: Gentlemen, Question Mark
Questions from listenersEpisode 7: Too Late, That’s Monkey Business Already
Monkey Business deep dive
Guest: Andrea OrlandoEpisode 6: The Missing Marx Brothers
The things that got away
Guests: Stewart Tryster and Tom RaczEpisode 5: One of Our Own Compositions, by Cinco Paul
Favorite musical Marx Brothers moments
Guest: Cinco PaulBonus Episode: More Marsden!
The complete Les Marsden interview
Guest: Abraham LincolnEpisode 4: Myths, More, and Les
The 1969 Gary Owens LP, and a chat with Les Marsden
Guest: Les MarsdenEpisode 3: You Don’t Have to Pay Us, But You Can’t Fire Us
A Day at the Races deep dive
Guest: Frank FerranteEpisode 2: Noah, Bob, Joe, and Sometimes Matthew
A discussion of disagreement, and a Joe Adamson interview
Guest: Joe AdamsonEpisode 1: The Magazines Leave the Depot
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