Episode 98: The Kindest Uncut of All (featuring David Koenig)
David Koenig’s new book, The Uncut Marx Brothers, is a treasure trove — that’s right, a treasure trove! — of material written for, but not included in, our Brothers’ films. The author joins us to discuss his odyssey through outlines, treatments, and scripts — with a surprise or two in store.
Episode 97: Ten Thrilling Years (featuring Noah Diamond)
It’s been ten years since the publication of Gimme a Thrill:, and somehow, we convinced the author of that book to grant us an interview. We discuss the book and its genesis, as well as the past and future of I’ll Say She Is.
Episode 96: Room Service Reordered (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)
We hope you’ll enjoy the accommodations here at our 96th episode, in which we listen and respond to your comments about Room Service, the only Marx Brothers movie that’s based on the play Room Service.
EMERGENCY PODCAST (featuring Bob Stryker)
One of the great mysteries of Marx Brothers fandom has finally been solved.
Episode 95: Who You Gonna Believe, Me Or Your Own Eyes?
In this multidimensional episode, we welcome Richard S. Greene, author of the new book Marx Madvertising: Selling the Marx Brothers to 20th Century America; and Andrew Murchie, the man behind the new 3D version of Animal Crackers.
Episode 94: The British Eyles (featuring Allen Eyles)
Allen Eyles wrote the first book-length analysis of the Marxes’ films, the pioneering The Marx Brothers: Their World of Comedy (1966); he revisited the subject decades later in The Complete Films of the Marx Brothers (1992); and he joins us now for his first podcast interview.
Episode 93: A Day at the Races Resaddled (featuring the Marx Brothers Council)
Why stay down in that room with those pigeons when you could open a can of tomahto soup and enjoy our listener commentary episode for A Day at the Races (1937), the Marx Brothers film that’s worth a hundred Upjohns.
Episode 92: N.Y. a Duck? (The MBCP Live)
This month, for the first time ever, the three MBCP fellas were all on the same continent! And so, this very special episode was recorded with a live audience at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City, with special guests Craig Shemin and Cinco Paul.
Episode 91: Whatever Will B. Johnstone (featuring Meg Farrell)
Musicologist Meg Farrell joins us for a revealing look at the life and work of Will B. Johnstone — who happens to have been her great grandfather, as well as a great Marx Brothers writer (I’ll Say She Is, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers) and many other things. Isn’t he a beauty?
Episode 90: The Marx Others (featuring Brett Leveridge and Trav S.D.)
The early chapters of the Marx Brothers’ story are full of interesting supporting characters — an assortment of relatives and costars we might call the Marx Others. In this episode, we consider key members of this group, aided by key members of our group, Trav S.D. and Brett Leveridge.