CLEVELAND, Ohio – “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I’d be glad to do it for you.” That’s a line from an old Groucho Marx movie. “If you could kick the person in the pants ...

Oh, the awkwardness of being known for something, then being asked to perform it on the spot. Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot ...

By then, Groucho Marx was in his 70s, and Dick Cavett was just starting out. Nevertheless, ... after his then-classic movie career had ended, Groucho Marx was a late-night talk show habitué.

He watched the Marx Brothers movies (there were some 13) and explored Groucho’s time as the host of the game show, “You Bet Your Life,” from the late 1940s to the 1960s, and everything else ...

After the Marx Brothers retired from movie-making, he became a radio star. Groucho moved his show to television in 1950 and was suddenly as popular as he’d ever been in his 60s.

Groucho Marx is sitting at dinner in London in 1964 when his host, the poet and critic T.S. Eliot, asks him to do the quippy, pun-filled speech from the trial scene in his 1933 film “Duck Soup.” ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – “If you find it hard to laugh at yourself, I’d be glad to do it for you.” That’s a line from an old Groucho Marx movie. “If you could kick the person in the pants ...