Episode 68: Miscellany Business (featuring Trav S.D.)
Trav S.D. returns to the show to discuss his new book, The Marx Brothers Miscellany, and his participation in Marxfest 2024.
Episode 66: The Little We Know About Leonard (Our “Growing Up With Chico” Deep Dive)
We consider the man, the Marx Brother, the mystery that is Chico Marx, as we revisit Maxine Marx’s memoir Growing Up With Chico.
Episode 64: Groucho and We (Our Groucho and Me Deep Dive featuring Frank Ferrante)
Frank Ferrante returns to the podcast to join us for an in-depth look at our hero’s “anti-autobiography,” Groucho and Me.
Episode 53: Duck Privates (featuring Nick Santa Maria)
Matthew Coniam and Nick Santa Maria, authors of The Annotated Abbott and Costello, ask whether Marx Brothers fan and A&C skeptic Noah Diamond can be swayed by a great book and some well-chosen film clips.
Episode 52: I Got a Fire Engine! (featuring Brian Levant)
Director-writer-producer Brian Levant discusses his career, his love of the Marx Brothers, and his new book, My Life and Toys.
Episode 51: Speaking of Speaking of Harpo (featuring Hannah Mira)
Film educator Hannah Mira returns for a deep dive into Susan Fleming Marx’s long-awaited memoir, brought to fruition by Robert Bader.
Episode 48: Your Silent Partner
"I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who ever lived." — Harpo Marx
Episode 45: That En-cy-clo-pidia! (featuring Glenn Mitchell)
It speaks well of the Marx Brothers and their fans that there are so many outstanding books about the team. Near the top of that list is Glenn Mitchell's ambitious Marx Brothers Encyclopedia. The man himself joins us for a discussion of his work.
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.