Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Chico Marx Impersonates His Brother Harpo on "I've Got a Secret"

I've Got a Secret was an American panel game show produced by Mark Goodson and Bill Todman for CBS television. Created by comedy writers Allan Sherman and Howard Merrill, it was a derivative of Goodson-Todman's own panel show, What's My Line? 

Instead of celebrity panelists trying to determine a contestant's occupation, as in What's My Line, the panel tried to determine a contestant's secret: something that is unusual, amazing, embarrassing, or humorous about that person.  

On April 21st, 1954 Chico Marx fooled the I've Got A Secret panel into thinking he was actually his younger brother Harpo Marx! Here's the rare video clip.

Enjoy!

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Showcase: Groucho and Chico Marx in Password Scene from "Horse Feathers"

It's another Throwback Thursday and we're going back to 1932 (that's 89 years ago!) to laugh at the password scene from Horse Feathers, a Marx Brothers comedy starring Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo.

Horse Feathers, a wacky comedy about college football and and how eligibility rules are stretched by collegiate athletic departments. The film has many references to Prohibition. Groucho plays a college president and Chico plays an "iceman", who delivers ice and bootleg liquor from a local speakeasy.

The term "horse feathers" was a colloquial American expression for "nonsense" in the 1920s and 1930s but is now archaic.

In this scene Chico is guarding the speakeasy and Groucho is trying to get in. The password for entry is "Swordfish". This sequence degenerates into a series of puns.

Enjoy! 

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: Harpo and Chico Marx in "A Night in Casablanca"

It's another Throwback Thursday. Today we're turning the clock back 74 years to revisit a comedy classic.

In the 1946 Marx Brothers film A Night in Casablanca Ronald Kornblow (Groucho Marx) takes over as the manager of a luxurious hotel in Casablanca, in the aftermath of World War II.

After discovering that both of his predecessors had been murdered, Kornblow begins to fear for his safety -- especially when Nazi Count Pfefferman (Sig Ruman) tries to take over Kornblow's job in a bid to get his hands on valuable items that were stashed in the hotel by the Nazis at the tail end of the war.

In this funny clip from the film, Harpo Marx overhears a plot to kill Kornblow and uses his skills at pantomime and whistling to tip off Chico Marx (Groucho's bodyguard) about the plot.

Enjoy! 

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Throwback Thursday Comedy Special: The Sanity Clause from the Marx Brothers' Night at the Opera

On this Throwback Thursday we're going back 83 years to 1935 and one of the funniest movies made by The Marx Brothers.

"The Sanity Clause" is often cited as one of the funniest scenes in film comedy. It's a short clip from the Marx Brothers' film A Night at the Opera featuring Groucho and Chico Marx.

Anyone who has ever written or read a contract or a piece of legislation will find this scene hilarious.

Enjoy!

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