The cigar-puffing (of course) professor teaches a geography class, telling his students, “The Lord Alps those that Alps themselves.” When students blow spitballs at him, he blows spitballs back. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, president of the fictional Huxley College. In the 1932 film Horse Feathers, Groucho plays Prof. He claims to have shot a polar bear while on safari when pressed about encountering an Arctic bear in Africa, he explains, “He was a rich bear and he could afford to go away in the winter.” He adds, famously, “One morning, I shot an elephant in my pajamas. Spaulding (as he explains, the “T” stands for Edgar) is an explorer and fast-talking con man in the Broadway play-and the 1930 film- Animal Crackers. “During his stage & screen career, he played a succession of brazen rascals.”Ī few of Groucho’s brazenest rascals follow:Ĭaptain Spaulding. “Unsquelchable effrontery has always been Groucho’s chief stock in trade,” TIME declared in 1951. The Marx brothers’ comedy style was heavy on puns and light on logic, steeped in slapstick and highly irreverent - especially so with Groucho. As TIME’s Richard Corliss put it in 2004, “If the Four Marx Brothers-Groucho, mute Harpo, Italianate Chico (pronounced Chick-o) and straight man Zeppo-weren’t the fathers of every aggressive film comic from the Stooges to Sandler, they were surely their Dadas.” I can't understand what's delaying that coffee pot.A planned biopic announced this summer, with Rob Zombie as director, will pay homage to Groucho’s legacy and the debt Hollywood owes him. What I'm telling you is for your own good. No you can't, the gas company turned it off. Waiting to hear your steps on the stairs.Īnd I can see a little light burning in. I say, hoping this finds you, I beg to remain, as of June 9th, cordially yours, regards. uh, hoping this finds you, I beg to remain. uh, we seem to believe that it is hardly necessary for us to proceed unless we, uh, receive an ipso facto that is not negligible at this moment, quotes, unquotes, and quotes. precautionary measures which have been involved. We have gone over the ground carefully, and we seem to believe, i.e., to wit, e.g., in lieu, that, uh, despite all our. In re yours of the fifth inst., yours to hand and beg to rep. Honorable Charles H., uh, Hungerdunger, care of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, and McCormick. I'll stay a week or two/I'll stay the summer through/But I am telling you/I must be going Hello, I must be going/I cannot stay, I came to say I must be going/I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going, la-la!įor my sake, you must stay/If you should go away/You'd spoil this party I am throwing. Well, I'm certainly grateful for this magnificent washout - er, turnout. Why, you're one of the most beautiful women I've *ever* seen, and that's not saying much for you.Ĭaptain Spaulding, Rittenhouse Manor is entirely at your disposal. Look under "fragile." Look under the table if you don't find it there. Look it up, Jamison, it's in the dictionary. Put it in a box and mark it, uh."fragilly." You've left out the body of the letter.Īll right, send it that way and tell them the body will follow. You've just left out the body of the letter, that's all. So, you just omitted them, eh? You just omitted the body of the letter, that's all. you said a lot of things here that I didn't think were important, so I just omitted them. You wanna brush up on your Greek, Jamison. Gentlemen, question mark? Put it on the penultimate, not on the diphthongic. Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger. They won't all be there when the letter arrives anyhow. Make it, uh, make it three windshield wipers and one Hungerdunger. I tell you what you do, Jamison, I tell you what. Thought you could slip one over on me, didn't you, eh?Īll right, leave it out and put in a windshield wiper instead. care of Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, Hungerdunger, and McCormick."
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