I worked for various corporations in their Real Estate dept for 40+ years. And every time I read a contract, if I was negotiating across the table with the leasing co., I'd read down to the bottom of the contact first. When asked why I was reading there first I'd say I'm looking for the "Sanity Clause"! Very few ever got the joke. Those that did, well let's just say the negotiations went much easier as we were of one mind. 😁
Oh absolutely!! This whole scene is hilarious, and yes unfortunately there were time when business negotiations went exactly as this. Just mind boggling!!!
I love Groucho's sense of timing. His throw-away line, "I was blind for 3 days", is priceless. And his constant looks over at Chico really add to the hilarity.
... and the amazing thing is that most of the dialogue from Groucho was "unscripted and sheer ad-lib", according to the various directors of the Marx Bros. films.
@@DonVideoGuy007 I remember watching a show about the Marx Brothers once and it the host told the following story. The Marx Brothers rarely followed the script. While filming one of their movies, the script writer grabbed the director and said, "Wait a minute! I think I heard one of my lines." Ad-lib was the trademark of the Marx Brothers.
These guys were pros - and like Daniel says above, still LOL hilarious. By the time they made their first movie, they had honed their act and their personas on the live stage - you can kind of pick up on that once you know they were on the stage for years before The Cocoanuts was made.
I've always loved Chico's response to Groucho's question "Don't you know what duplicates are?" "Sure, there's five kids up in Canada!" He references the rare quintuplets (Dionne) born the year before, 1934. Two are still alive.
I'm an insane Marx brothers junkie who owns every film, and has been a fan since the early 1970s, However despite all this, I did not know that little factoid. So a huge thanks from me.
@@manningbartlett522 The Dionne Quintuplets were a very early example of news hysteria, basically. The media was constantly checking up on them and what they were doing, and they even had something that was basically a human zoo dedicated to showing them off, despite the fact that they were pretty much totally normal outside of looking identical. At the time, the thought was that it was an "uplifting" story and the Depression was still ongoing, so they would rather write about some beautiful little girls than thousands of people losing jobs or dying of starvation. Then the fad passed, and it turned out that the Quintuplets had been taken from their parents and treated like circus attractions to make money, and most of them ended up feeling traumatized by the whole experience. Real mess, that one.
@@misterbadguy7325 Interestingly, it was the Ontario government who made the Quints a ward of the state after their father attempted to put them on display at the Chicago World's Fair. Then the government promptly put the Quints on display! There was never any admission charge to Quintland--where they were housed and put on display--but the area reaped millions in tourism dollars.
One take ! No director would dare to run a scene this long nowadays. One of the greatest scenes in cinema comedy. Seen it dozens of times but still I laugh. Genius comedy !
Cop to Groucho: Do you live here by yourself? Groucho: Yes. Cop: So why is your table set for four? Explain that to me. Groucho: Well, my alarm clock is set for eight. Explain that to me.
Henderson: You live here all alone? Otis B. Driftwood: Yes, just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit. Henderson: Oh, a hermit... I notice the table's set for four. Driftwood: That's nothing, my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing.
The (forgotten) master joke writers had an important part in helping the comedy team be as memorable as remembered! I always thought the scriptwriters were where the storyline and verbal gags came from. Finally, The Dick Van Dyke Show highlighted how important they were in his 1961-66 tv series!
@@rickkinki4624 I know there was some ad-libbing, but most of the original dialogue was tightly scripted for the gags and jokes. I just did not want people to forget a film starts with the scriptwriters and frequently before any actors were hired to say the lines!
@@freeguy77 I can't argue with a thing you say! One of the great comedies of all time, "Blazing Saddles," had comic geniuses such as Richard Pryor to write the script.
am sure that what the Marx Bros. were referring to in the "..blind for 3 days ' comment, was the fact that 'home-made' booze, or bath-tub Gin was readily available 'proverbially' on nearly every street corner and was usually of such poor hygienic quality that many a soul got deathly sick from drinking it.
"Your word's good enough for me! Now then, is my word good enough for you?" "I should say not!" "Well, that takes out two more clauses." The first Marx Brothers film I ever saw. This scene had me rolling.
What do you mean, “clean?” They tore up paper and left it lying all over the floor. That’s littering, ya know. And if they stayed any longer they’d be loitering.
Johnny Cardinale Totally agree. He was by far my favourite brother. He was what made the movies great I think. When I was a kid I had a hamster named after him.
Although i knew about them I've just now looked into, and discovered how insanely funny they are and their comedy holds up today. I cant stop laughing at how brilliant this is.
First time l saw this movie,and got to this part, grown men were screaming and howling with laughter. We were all crying.!! Sadly most have passed on. Thanks for the wonderful memories.😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite Marx Bros routines. I own all of their Hollywood movies. They practiced these scenes a million times. They were so good at, it came off better every time they did it. To their audience, it looked so natural. Pure genius in comedy.
Their first 2 movies from Paramount, "The Cocoanuts" (1929), and "Animal Crackers" (1930) were from their Broadway routines, so they had plenty of practice in those movies before! Those two were filmed in NYC's Astoria section, before the Marx Brothers moved to Hollywood.
Hysterical! Just like someone mentioned, it's like Brexit negotiations. Ironically, it was actually Chico who settled the brothers' contracts with RKO Radio as well as the movie producers.
My entire childhood revolved around these incredible and amazing brothers. No wonder l have so many problems..... Well it doesn't really matter, l guess it's irrelephant
The marx brothers were so far ahead of their time, it is quite amazing, and too think, their first movie was nearly 90 years ago, and this movie is over 80 years. Forget todays, so called altunative comedians, these lot were doing that stuff back then!
I love the Marx brothers. I grew up watching there movies. Even today they are more funny then some comedians that are alive today. I never get bored of watching there movies.
My Kids Complained ARRGGHH dad Black and White- But after 10mins they could not stop laughing. You've forgotten the SCENE when the policeman comes to the Apartment and the Bros Keep moving the beds from room to room. Policeman thinks he is going mad .
Here is another one I will make notation to you. I work with young people in their 20s. Now they're so used to rap and the bullcrap. So here in philly they play on 98.1 street corner sundays. Guess what one of the guys loves to hear it. Isn't that something? He goes to me and says Hey steve when do they play the 1920s??? I am like what??? ctfu.
This is a classic and one of the funniest scenes put to film. It's been said that the films the Marx Brothers did were using something like 8 pages of script. All they did was use a lot of their Vaudville routines and ad lib.
Marx Brothers were the best. You watch their movies and their routines. You know the dialogue by heart and it's still hilarious. No profanity,no blood and no foul.
I always thought that I was weird for liking the Marx Bros when I was like 13 years old..back in 83...now I know Im not the only weird one after reading these comments...lol
I first saw this as a kid, in the '60s. When G suddenly realizes that C can't read, and says, "...Can you HEAR?" That's when I fell on the floor. The sanity clause line was just icing.
The Marx Brothers were some of the greatest ad libbers. Old Marx Bros. scripts have segments like "Harpo does business with a mop" and in the film, Harpo is doing several minutes of hilarious comedy with one prop, a mop. The writers just knew the Brothers could just "be funny" on cue. Amazing!
Their parents were performers and they were literally bred into performing and grew up together to be four person comedy act. Three funnymen and straight man who unfortunately wasn't so keen on performing so it was reduced into three funnymen. They were absolute masters of their craft and brilliant improvisers which makes them even better.
@@The_Vincening Time passes and surviving quints aren't national news. And Groucho was blind for three days because of bad [wood] alcohol during prohibition.
@@The_VinceningMost people don't remember the Dionne Quintuplets. It was about 70 years ago and it's mostly remembered now as a) an early example of news media focusing more on fluff than news, b) child abuse, and c) that thing South Park referenced.
@@misterbadguy7325 The Qunits--or at least their stories--are still well known in Canada after all these years. My maternal grandmother was a student nurse in Toronto at the time. For a time she was responsible for packaging bottles of iced breast milk to send by train to the Quints in northern Ontario.
The Great thing about the Marx brothers was that while other comedy teams(theThree stooges,Abbott and Costello,Laurel and Hardy,etc.)were the saps,fall guys,rubes,whatever,the Marx brothers,reversed the process and made every one else the butts of their humor and the victims of their gags!! (poor Margaret Dumont)
SenileImbecile - That's an urban legend. Ms. Dumont understood the humor just fine, but she made it a point to never break character because she was a veteran stage actress and took her role as a 'straight lady' seriously. In fact, Groucho once referred to her as 'practically the fifth Marx brother'.
My dad was Groucho funny. He once told me a joke, meandering along, with the subject being Rary, until I got impatient and yelled "What's the punchline!?!" He said "Well, it's a long road to tip a Rary."
Darn millennials who probably get offended by stuff like this. They probably need to sign a contract with a sanity clause, even if there ain't no Sanity Claus.
I love how this holds up, like what, almost a hundred years later? Gotta be one of the best movies ever made. Even the love story that's basically just a vehicle for the humor beats any tired rom-com b.s. we get nowadays. Love conquers all if you've got crazy anarchic hijinx and wordplay. "Well your word's good enough for me [tear]. Now is my word good enough for you? [I should say not!] Well, that takes out two more clauses!" My god, that is art.
I grew up watching this, and as I grew up nearly all co.edians have used their humour in some way. My dad circa 1945 this and the goon show,so of course monty python and ones I can't recall the names. Brings back old memories of my dad smiling like id never seen and Laugjing. Memories
I loved Kitty Carlisle and Allen Jones in this. They both sang exceptionally well, especially when they sang 'Alone' to each other at the dock before the vessel departed =)
It's been nearly a hundred years and this scene is still laugh out loud hilarious.
Gets better with age, right?
@@Juliaflo It's just so great.
@@thecursor1 Actually, it has been just over eighty or so years.
@@Juliaflo: I think that's close enough to safely say "nearly 100 years."
I laughed the first time I saw it; a bit less the second time. On the 1,476th time I merely smile at its cleverness.
“I forgot to tell you; i can’t write.”
“That’s allright. There’s no ink in the pen anyhow.” 😂😂😂
Has me in stitches every time!
Classic comedy.
The brothers had you guys dying
The comedy... Sometimes it's subtle, sometimes it's direct, sometimes it's silly... They truly were the greatest!
🤣🤣🤣
I worked for various corporations in their Real Estate dept for 40+ years. And every time I read a contract, if I was negotiating across the table with the leasing co., I'd read down to the bottom of the contact first. When asked why I was reading there first I'd say I'm looking for the "Sanity Clause"!
Very few ever got the joke. Those that did, well let's just say the negotiations went much easier as we were of one mind. 😁
Did you ever get the reply "there ain't no sanity clause!"?
@@allenjenkins7947
YES! On those very rare occasions when someone on the other negotiating side got the joke!
Most of the time I just got stares. 😩
@@jonfungg he's still reading it.
@@adespade119 Thats because he knows theres no such thing as sanity clause, everyone knows that.
@@ThunderAppeal LOL
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For anyone who has ever negotiated a contract, this is a gem.
The party of the ninth part? That is one complicated contract.
Muzak6625
Oh absolutely!! This whole scene is hilarious, and yes unfortunately there were time when business negotiations went exactly as this.
Just mind boggling!!!
I love Groucho's sense of timing. His throw-away line, "I was blind for 3 days", is priceless. And his constant looks over at Chico really add to the hilarity.
... and the amazing thing is that most of the dialogue from Groucho was "unscripted and sheer ad-lib", according to the various directors of the Marx Bros. films.
Only times that Grouchos the straight man is when he interacts with Chico...lol
@@DonVideoGuy007 I remember watching a show about the Marx Brothers once and it the host told the following story. The Marx Brothers rarely followed the script. While filming one of their movies, the script writer grabbed the director and said, "Wait a minute! I think I heard one of my lines." Ad-lib was the trademark of the Marx Brothers.
And he hasn't been in Canada for years.
These guys were pros - and like Daniel says above, still LOL hilarious. By the time they made their first movie, they had honed their act and their personas on the live stage - you can kind of pick up on that once you know they were on the stage for years before The Cocoanuts was made.
You can't touch this. Pure comedic gold.
I've always loved Chico's response to Groucho's question "Don't you know what duplicates are?" "Sure, there's five kids up in Canada!" He references the rare quintuplets (Dionne) born the year before, 1934. Two are still alive.
I was seriously just wondering about that! thanks!!!!
I'm an insane Marx brothers junkie who owns every film, and has been a fan since the early 1970s,
However despite all this, I did not know that little factoid. So a huge thanks from me.
@@manningbartlett522 The Dionne Quintuplets were a very early example of news hysteria, basically. The media was constantly checking up on them and what they were doing, and they even had something that was basically a human zoo dedicated to showing them off, despite the fact that they were pretty much totally normal outside of looking identical. At the time, the thought was that it was an "uplifting" story and the Depression was still ongoing, so they would rather write about some beautiful little girls than thousands of people losing jobs or dying of starvation.
Then the fad passed, and it turned out that the Quintuplets had been taken from their parents and treated like circus attractions to make money, and most of them ended up feeling traumatized by the whole experience. Real mess, that one.
@@misterbadguy7325 Interestingly, it was the Ontario government who made the Quints a ward of the state after their father attempted to put them on display at the Chicago World's Fair. Then the government promptly put the Quints on display! There was never any admission charge to Quintland--where they were housed and put on display--but the area reaped millions in tourism dollars.
and his "I wouldn't know about that. I haven't been to Canada in years." as in _'I didn't go to Canada and get a nice Canadian girl pregnant.'_
One take ! No director would dare to run a scene this long nowadays.
One of the greatest scenes in cinema comedy. Seen it dozens of times but still I laugh. Genius comedy !
It was not one take.
How do you know how many "takes" it has?
A lot of these bits were just them doing routines from their days as a vaudeville act, so they knew them by heart.
Exactly. I can see where the cuts are. @@shabbysnubtide3339
I think they mean it's only one continuous shot.
I never forget a face - but in your case I'll make an exception.
A Night At The Opera is their best movie in my opinion. The movie is worth owning for this contract scene alone - hilarious!
Cop to Groucho: Do you live here by yourself?
Groucho: Yes.
Cop: So why is your table set for four? Explain that to me.
Groucho: Well, my alarm clock is set for eight. Explain that to me.
Henderson: You live here all alone?
Otis B. Driftwood: Yes, just me and my memories. I'm practically a hermit.
Henderson: Oh, a hermit... I notice the table's set for four.
Driftwood: That's nothing, my alarm clock is set for eight. That doesn't prove a thing.
bahahahahah
.....wait a minute...eight o'clock divided by four at the table equals two....two,subtract the table equals one....one hermit...I get it now
LMAOOOO
he means he set his clock at 8
This film is 85 years old, but improves with age.
I can watch this scene over and over again, and it’s always hilarious. Comic genius script writing here.
I can't go over a contract without thinking of this scene
My dad says this taught him all he needs about contracting.
Don’t forget the sanity clause. Ah, there’s no such thing as a sanity clause. 🤣
This could be the scene from the Brexit negotiations.
LOL
stan ochocki the "pee-u" wow so you're so clever and witty I wish I was that funny :( you make such a great considered argument too.
Dave Alexander very funny....so true...
René Artois
There's been many an insanity clause since.
@René Artois To quote Blackadder: "Nevermind I'll cross out the 'in'. Any history of sanity in the family? None, whatsoever."
One easily forgets just how hilariously talented the Marx Brothers were. So many of their films were gems!
The (forgotten) master joke writers had an important part in helping the comedy team be as memorable as remembered! I always thought the scriptwriters were where the storyline and verbal gags came from. Finally, The Dick Van Dyke Show highlighted how important they were in his 1961-66 tv series!
@@freeguy77 That's certainly true, but I think Grouch, Harpo and Chico did a lot of ad-libbing in their films, too.
@@rickkinki4624 I know there was some ad-libbing, but most of the original dialogue was tightly scripted for the gags and jokes. I just did not want people to forget a film starts with the scriptwriters and frequently before any actors were hired to say the lines!
@@freeguy77 I can't argue with a thing you say! One of the great comedies of all time, "Blazing Saddles," had comic geniuses such as Richard Pryor to write the script.
I like how Chico is stretching his arms out too when Groucho’s trying to focus on his contract. Like that makes any difference. Ha ha ha
That scene will never grow old with me. Perfect timing and adlibbing that's pure gold.
2:30
"I no lik-a the second party"
"Well you should've come to the first party, we didn't get home til around 4. I was BLIND for 3 days." haha
am sure that what the Marx Bros. were referring to in the "..blind for 3 days ' comment, was the fact that 'home-made' booze, or bath-tub Gin was readily available 'proverbially' on nearly every street corner and was usually of such poor hygienic quality that many a soul got deathly sick from drinking it.
"Your word's good enough for me! Now then, is my word good enough for you?"
"I should say not!"
"Well, that takes out two more clauses."
The first Marx Brothers film I ever saw. This scene had me rolling.
No matter how many times one sees this it's still funny. True classic comedy.
This is one of the greatest comedy scenes in film history.
You should say that again.
100%
This is one of the greatest comedy scenes in film history@@CoconutDreams123
Chico - "You can't fool me, there's no Sanity Claus"!!!! HaHa!!!! And Groucho's expressions, TOO FUNNY!!!!
Hello beautiful, how are you doing
One of the finest comedic moments in film history.
39 people that saw this clip don't meet the criteria of the Sanity Clause.
Thumbs up is almost at 39!
Aw, there ain't no Sanity Clause!
Maybe they're not the party type.
This is what comedy is about. Clean and still funny.
They weren't necessarily so clean but at least they weren't vulgar, weeell, maybe they were a little vulgar.
Cheeky, is what we'd call it, they often came close to going too far, but they pulled back at the last second.
Brilliance !
What do you mean, “clean?” They tore up paper and left it lying all over the floor.
That’s littering, ya know.
And if they stayed any longer they’d be loitering.
But not corny
I had a teacher named Loiter once....she always made me hang around after school
Chico Marx, most underrated comic actor ever.
Johnny Cardinale Totally agree. He was by far my favourite brother. He was what made the movies great I think. When I was a kid I had a hamster named after him.
Chico was my favorite Marx. Carouser, musician, and conman. My kind of guy.
@@tnargskoorb1 So weird! I had a hamster named Chico too :)
As Groucho said, "Chico brought Gonorrhea to the Vaudeville circuit."
Is he underrated ? I never knew that
The Marx Brothers were hilarious 😂 Rest In Peace, gentlemen 😭
Although i knew about them I've just now looked into, and discovered how insanely funny they are and their comedy holds up today. I cant stop laughing at how brilliant this is.
Groucho was the King of side-eye. 😂
and the eyeroll!
First time l saw this movie,and got to this part, grown men were screaming and howling with laughter. We were all crying.!! Sadly most have passed on. Thanks for the wonderful memories.😂😂😂😂
One of my favorite Marx Bros routines. I own all of their Hollywood movies. They practiced these scenes a million times. They were so good at, it came off better every time they did it. To their audience, it looked so natural. Pure genius in comedy.
Their first 2 movies from Paramount, "The Cocoanuts" (1929), and "Animal Crackers" (1930) were from their Broadway routines, so they had plenty of practice in those movies before! Those two were filmed in NYC's Astoria section, before the Marx Brothers moved to Hollywood.
The Marx Brothers are truly brilliant in every way , best comedy , love it
"do you know what duplicates are?"
"Yeah there's 5 kids up in Canada"
"Well I don't know anything about that"
Hysterical! Just like someone mentioned, it's like Brexit negotiations. Ironically, it was actually Chico who settled the brothers' contracts with RKO Radio as well as the movie producers.
The one act W.C FIELDS never wanted to follow was the Marx Bros.- incredible!
I've seen this movie a 100 times and it still cracks me up. I laugh out loud every time. Timing, writing, and Groucho what a combination!
"Well you should have come to the first party. We didn't get home until around 4 in the morning. I was blind for three days. " Dead.
Quite possibly the greatest punchline ever written
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That one, and "shadow-day"!
Definitely the longest set-up for a worthwhile punchline in Hollywood history!
@@lukehauser1182 PLUM FACE- SAMA IZ A BABOON, HOORAY 4 CAPTAIN SPAULDING
The greatest punchline, with the longest build-up.
It’s a lovely tribute to Weber and Fields contract scene in vaudeville!
My entire childhood revolved around these incredible and amazing brothers.
No wonder l have so many problems.....
Well it doesn't really matter, l guess it's irrelephant
We'll give ya ten years in Leavenworth or eleven years in twelve worth. I'll take 5 and 10 at Woolworth.
You must have been out on a tear last night. Pure gold
Its interesting that’s it’s been about 80 years and no comedy gas yet been able to top them
2017 and still fresh
The marx brothers were so far ahead of their time, it is quite amazing, and too think, their first movie was nearly 90 years ago, and this movie is over 80 years. Forget todays, so called altunative comedians, these lot were doing that stuff back then!
"So called altunative"?
@@john.premoseI thought there was something fishy about that too.
Same can be said for the musicians today. Not a one of them can carry a tuna to save their lives.
Sure they were ahead of their time, someone told them to watch their backs and they took it literally.
Groucho and Mae West should’ve done a movie together. It would be so funny to see them try to outdo each other.
“If my arms were a little longer I could read it. You haven’t got a baboon in your pocket, have you?” 😂
Genius...word play at its best.
Timeless comedy. As funny today as it was 80+ years ago.
3:01 "Well, don't let's break up a friendship over a thing like that."
I love the Marx brothers. I grew up watching there movies. Even today they are more funny then some comedians that are alive today. I never get bored of watching there movies.
the king I agree 😂
I'm sorry, I had to do it... *their *than *their
I can't bear to tell him
"who" are alive
The longest set-up in history.
But the delivery was worth the wait.
These guys had so much heart.
My Kids Complained ARRGGHH dad Black and White- But after 10mins they could not stop laughing.
You've forgotten the SCENE when the policeman comes to the Apartment and the Bros Keep moving the beds from room to room. Policeman thinks he is going mad .
graham downey Thanks God ! Kids with common sense ! ... and sense of humour (strange quality in nowadays kids).
Here is another one I will make notation to you. I work with young people in their 20s. Now they're so used to rap and the bullcrap. So here in philly they play on 98.1 street corner sundays. Guess what one of the guys loves to hear it. Isn't that something? He goes to me and says Hey steve when do they play the 1920s??? I am like what??? ctfu.
This is real comedy. Nothing rude or violent; just great entertainment
Comedy is subjective
This is a classic and one of the funniest scenes put to film. It's been said that the films the Marx Brothers did were using something like 8 pages of script. All they did was use a lot of their Vaudville routines and ad lib.
Watched this movie as a kid thinking I'd make a scene this funny. instead i'm in law school learning how to make contracts like this
Marx Brothers were the best. You watch their movies and their routines. You know the dialogue by heart and it's still hilarious. No profanity,no blood and no foul.
Same for The Three Stooges and others of that golden movie era!
Fabulous! I never get tired of seeing this.
There ain't no sanity clause!
I saw sandy claws on a cat at the beach.
One of the AFI’s top 100 quotes for good reason!
Comedy genius still cracks me up after all these years.
I always thought that I was weird for liking the Marx Bros when I was like 13 years old..back in 83...now I know Im not the only weird one after reading these comments...lol
I'm 40 now but grew up watching repeats of these in Britain...classic comedy
im 25 bro, the marx bro love is strong
Ginga Jedi I'm 22, but I remember seeing this when I was 10! I laughed my ass off at this joke 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I was going to respond similarly, but I'm 22 as well!
23, can I join the club?
iwashungry4hands can I join?
I'm 55 now you know.
I first saw this as a kid, in the '60s. When G suddenly realizes that C can't read, and says, "...Can you HEAR?" That's when I fell on the floor. The sanity clause line was just icing.
talent beyond, brilliant.
"Ice cream! Gets-a-you tuttsi fruits-y ice cream!'"
You got the wrong clip, friend. You need the UA-cam clip guidebook, that’s-a ten dollars.
Still one of the funniest lines ever
Wonderful scene. They are the best !!
"It's so simple a 5 year old could understand it...someone fetch me a 5 year old!"
The Marx Brothers were some of the greatest ad libbers. Old Marx Bros. scripts have segments like "Harpo does business with a mop" and in the film, Harpo is doing several minutes of hilarious comedy with one prop, a mop. The writers just knew the Brothers could just "be funny" on cue. Amazing!
Hello pretty lady, how are you doing
Their parents were performers and they were literally bred into performing and grew up together to be four person comedy act. Three funnymen and straight man who unfortunately wasn't so keen on performing so it was reduced into three funnymen. They were absolute masters of their craft and brilliant improvisers which makes them even better.
"Don't you know what duplicates are?"
"Sure, it'sa five kids up in Canada."
Psychoderelict01 The Dione quintuplets. LOL
You would have had to have been born under a rock not to know that.
@@The_Vincening Time passes and surviving quints aren't national news.
And Groucho was blind for three days because of bad [wood] alcohol during prohibition.
@@The_VinceningMost people don't remember the Dionne Quintuplets. It was about 70 years ago and it's mostly remembered now as a) an early example of news media focusing more on fluff than news, b) child abuse, and c) that thing South Park referenced.
@@misterbadguy7325 The Qunits--or at least their stories--are still well known in Canada after all these years. My maternal grandmother was a student nurse in Toronto at the time. For a time she was responsible for packaging bottles of iced breast milk to send by train to the Quints in northern Ontario.
Loveable sheer madness!
Spoiler!
"Now that's alright there's no ink in the pen anyhow."
Absolutely Brilliant!
Genius. Spike Milligan was heavily influenced by these guys, as where the Pythons. They clearly learned from the best.
filidorable what is it that eight wheels & flies? Huh? Two corporation dust carts. I thank you...
Python and The Marx Brothers are my favs too
"I was blind for three days". That was some hangover!
I'm just glad these old films are available to the youngsters
Hell' I'm glad they're available to me & I'm only 82 years young.
35 here. Don't think many of my peers know of them; too bad!
The Great thing about the Marx brothers was that while other comedy teams(theThree stooges,Abbott and Costello,Laurel and Hardy,etc.)were the saps,fall guys,rubes,whatever,the Marx brothers,reversed the process and made every one else the butts of their humor and the victims of their gags!! (poor Margaret Dumont)
M Mcgann
I bet she struggled to keep from bursting out laughing.
JAZZ MAN - As I recall, Ms Dumont is known to not have understood their humor.
"I could dance with you until the cows come home. On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows until you come home."
SenileImbecile - That's an urban legend. Ms. Dumont understood the humor just fine, but she made it a point to never break character because she was a veteran stage actress and took her role as a 'straight lady' seriously. In fact, Groucho once referred to her as 'practically the fifth Marx brother'.
Ugh-Fudge Bwana Gummo was the fifth Marx brother.
My dad was Groucho funny. He once told me a joke, meandering along, with the subject being Rary, until I got impatient and yelled "What's the punchline!?!"
He said "Well, it's a long road to tip a Rary."
It's a long way to go
Brilliant.
What kind of malcontent 'thumbs down' something like this? (31 at this time)
Poor souls.
Unbelievable. I can't imagine such a person.
sarcastic pain I'll Moida da bums...when I seez dem on da streets......moida!
@@joebittman5039 okay Joe, one quart a scotch 1 quarta Rye... hey! For the last time, you can't come in here unless you say swordfish!
Darn millennials who probably get offended by stuff like this. They probably need to sign a contract with a sanity clause, even if there ain't no Sanity Claus.
These GUYS were pure GENIUSES.
Used to watch this with my mum many years ago, and we always ended up crying with laughter! Marx Brothers were genius comedians.
You can't fool me! There ain't no Sainity Claus!
In my opinion this ranks up there with Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First " routine.
Timeless mad genius humour! Love it.
I love how this holds up, like what, almost a hundred years later? Gotta be one of the best movies ever made. Even the love story that's basically just a vehicle for the humor beats any tired rom-com b.s. we get nowadays. Love conquers all if you've got crazy anarchic hijinx and wordplay.
"Well your word's good enough for me [tear]. Now is my word good enough for you? [I should say not!] Well, that takes out two more clauses!"
My god, that is art.
This is so clever. Timeless comedy!
I grew up watching this, and as I grew up nearly all co.edians have used their humour in some way. My dad circa 1945 this and the goon show,so of course monty python and ones I can't recall the names. Brings back old memories of my dad smiling like id never seen and Laugjing. Memories
Hello beautiful,how are you doing
"You haven't got a baboon in your pocket have you?"
"HURRAY FOR CAPTAIN SPALDING, THE AFRICAN EXPLORER" !!!
Did someone call me Schnorrer?
Genius-an overused word,but not in this case.
What's in all the other cases??
If it brief cases, send it to an underwear factory.
This scene AND the 'Cabin Scene', also in this movie -- it doesn't get much better than this movie.
Truly timeless comedy.
Why don't we have such brilliant comedy these days?
Pretty soon it might be removed for offending parties and sanity clause around Xmas time.
Why not make the first party be the second party - then you got somethin'!
Hilarious, timeless comedy !
I loved Kitty Carlisle and Allen Jones in this. They both sang exceptionally well, especially when they sang 'Alone' to each other at the dock before the vessel departed =)
Me looking at online contracts!
No body compares with the genius of the Marx brothers for their wit and humour
Absolute comedic genius not seen today.
These guys are my alltime favorites!
It's too bad they don't make movies like this anymore, the fast jokes you really have to pay attention to catch.
The beauty of smart comedy in the hands of true masters!!