Episode 73: The Cocoanuts Revisited (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)

Oh, how you can get stucco listening to the first of our “Revisited” episodes, in which we share and respond to listener-submitted comments about The Cocoanuts (1929).

(For our original Cocoanuts deep dive, travel back in time to Episode 21: No Snow and No Ice.)

Note for Patreon subscribers: The new bonus segment, in which we share and respond to the Cocoanuts commentary of listener Glenn Davis, will be available soon on our Patreon page.

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Official description: “After 72 episodes of you listening to us, today we listen to you, as Council members offer their insights and opinions of the Marxes’ first (surviving) film.

“Are its age and creakiness actually a blessing in disguise? How many tunes named ‘The Monkey Doodle Doo’ did Irving Berlin actually compose? And why is Matthew comparing Oscar Shaw to Pavarotti? All this, and Eddie Deezen…need we say more?

“A podcast that you won’t want to end, and it almost doesn’t.”

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Episode 73: The Cocoanuts Revisited (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)

Episode 72: What If…? (featuring Danny Fingeroth)