![]() ![]() Leave your name and address for the girl outside and if anything turns up, we’ll get in touch with you. GROUCHO: So that’s what they taught you in college. Just when I tell you to go, you leave me. You know you can’t leave a schoolroom without raising your hand, no matter where you’re going. ![]() GROUCHO: Anything further, father? That can’t be right. Isn’t it “anything father, further”? The idea! I married your mother because I wanted children. Imagine my disappointment when you arrived!))Ĭhico Marx talked as if he was born in Italy. Many other funny men spoke as though they came from other countries. They were making fun of themselves and other immigrants who did not speak English well. Chico also made funny jokes about words and expressions that sound alike but have different meanings. MARX BROTHERS SHIRT MOVIEįor example, in one movie a woman sings with a very high falsetto voice. She says “I have a falsetto voice.” Chico then says, “Well, my last student had a false set of teeth.”Ĭhico also was known for performing what was called the comedy of the absurd. He talked about things that were so untrue or unreasonable that they were funny. Chico is supposed to spy on someone called Rufus T. Chico reports his progress to the man who asked him to spy on Firefly. To “shadow” someone is to secretly follow that person. ((CHICO: Well, you remember you gave us a picture of this man and said follow him?ĬHICO: Well, we get on the job right away. And in one hour, even less than one hour, we lose the fix. MAN: I want a full, detailed report of your investigation.ĬHICO: All right. Tuesday we go to the ballgame, but he fool us. Wednesday, he go to the ballgame, but we fool him. Thursday was a double-header, nobody show up. We listened to it over the radio.ĬHICO: Oh, sure, we shadow Firefly. We shadow him all day.ĬHICO: It was Shadowday (Saturday)! That’s some joke, eh, Boss!))Ĭhico also played the piano in a funny way. Chico did to music what he did to the English language. ![]() Harpo Marx had curly yellow hair, but it was not really his hair. He never said a word in any of the movies. Instead, he acted out what he wanted to say. He could make people laugh without saying a word. He made funny sounds with horns and whistles to express his thoughts and feelings. In one movie, a kind policeman tries to give him some advice to stay away from bad people. As the policeman shakes Harpo’s hand, you can hear pieces of silver that Harpo has stolen fall out of his clothes. ![]()
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