The Essential Groucho by Stefan Kanfer

The Essential Groucho by Stefan Kanfer

Groucho Marx may be the funniest man who ever lived.  Here in one volume are the classics of Marxian mayhem: excerpts from the scripts of the immortal movies, passages from his books, his articles for magazines ranging from The New Yorker to the Saturday Evening Post, the  choicest ad-libs and quips from his long-running game show, You Bet Your Life, and selected letters, including his classic correspondence with T. S. Eliot.  It's all here-the finest and funniest work by this century's most influential comedian, that man of whom Woody Allen said, "He is simply unique in the same way Picasso and Stravinsky are, and I believe his outrageous, unsentimental disregard for order will be equally funny a thousand years from now.  In addition to all this, he makes me laugh."

In the words of Groucho Marx:

One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas.
How he go in my pajamas I don't know.

Time flies like an arrow.  Fruit flies like a banana.

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.  Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read.

Ball of Fire: Lucille Ball's Tumultuous Life and Comedy Art; Stardust Lost: The Triumph, Tragedy, and Mishugas of Jewish Theater in America; and Somebody: Marlon Brando's Reckless Life and Extraordinary Career are among Stefan Kanfer's publications. For more than two decades, he worked at Time as a writer and editor, and he was the magazine's first bylined film critic, a position he held from 1967 until 1972. He's also the key interviewer in the Academy Award-nominated documentary The Line King and the editor of The Essential Groucho, an anthology of Groucho Marx's comedy. He has received multiple writing honors and is a Literary Lion of the New York Public Library. He splits his time between New York and Cape Cod.

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ISBN 13	9780375702136
ISBN 10	037570213X
Title	The Essential Groucho
Author	Stefan Kanfer
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2000-06-13
Number of pages	272
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