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I recently had occasion to rewatch the classic Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers. It was quite possibly the least funny thing I've ever seen and I find it difficult to imagine a time when it was ever funny to anyone who was not a literal child. I laughed more at Ghostbusters (2016) and that movie was the least funny comedy of the decade. I've heard the excuse that many early comedies were film adaptations of Vaudeville routines, but I posit that the gags and jokes presented in the film would not be significantly improved by being performed on stage. Vaudeville must have sucked hardcore if the jokes in Horse Feathers were considered exemplary enough to be immortalized on film.
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but communists are p funny
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Jan 23, 2017 03:52
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i think its pretty good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ9myHhpS9s
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Jan 23, 2017 03:53
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I read the Communist Manifesto, but couldn't read Capital. Marx and Engels weren't even really brothers, OP. They were pretty close though apparently.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:55
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Horse Feathers is okay but I've always been more partial to Duck Soup and it's weird pre WWII analogies.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:57
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<--- I beg to differ.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:57
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Duck Soup was a lot better. Any scenes with Harpo were always pure gold, you have to admit at least that much.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:58
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Horse Feathers wtf that's like saying Chevy Chase isn't funny because Cops And Robbersons was bad
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Jan 23, 2017 03:58
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Duck Soup was kinda like Rifftrax, but the sarcastic commentary was coming from inside the film.
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Jan 23, 2017 03:59
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Bill NYSE posted:Duck Soup was a lot better. Any scenes with Harpo were always pure gold, you have to admit at least that much. Maybe in Duck soup. Not a single one of his prop gags was funny in Horse Feathers.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:00
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Ein cooler Typ posted:Horse Feathers wtf I'll give them another chance. What's one of their really good ones?
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Jan 23, 2017 04:01
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There ain't no sanity clause! I still like them
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Jan 23, 2017 04:02
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Dr. Phildo posted:There ain't no sanity clause! What do you take for a haddock?
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Jan 23, 2017 04:04
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BMtqqHRvB8
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Jan 23, 2017 04:07
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Just watched "A night at the Opera" OP. it wasnt bad.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:08
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Well op, you probably wouldn't understand the humor since you've been dumbed down by years of television watching which has turned your brain into mush. Any sophisticated mind can appreciate the nuance in Marx Brothers films. 
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Jan 23, 2017 04:12
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Marx Bros are funny as poo poo. If you haven't read Grouch or Harpo's autobiographies then you should cause those are both super funny and incredibly interesting
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Jan 23, 2017 04:14
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Prokhor Zakharov posted:Marx Bros are funny as poo poo. If you haven't read Grouch or Harpo's autobiographies then you should cause those are both super funny and incredibly interesting Maybe I just watched one of their bad movies then but drat I was just fuming with how angry I was at how lovely the jokes were.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:16
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Applewhite posted:Maybe I just watched one of their bad movies then but drat I was just fuming with how angry I was at how lovely the jokes were. I watched Horse Feathers a few months ago and I remember thinking it was funny but I was also pretty drunk and don't remember anything specific about it so maybe try that?
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Jan 23, 2017 04:18
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"Shadowday". Hah! That's-a some joke, eh boss? Duck Soup was good.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:20
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Horse Feathers is my second favorite after Duck Soup. Animal Crackers is great, too. A Night at the Opera is funny if you fastforward through the endless song bits, but it's all downhill after that. Duck Soup is one of the best comedies ever made, though. Only a little over an hour, too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSsUoxlSADk (As my user name suggests, I find W.C. Fields comedies to be more consistently funny)
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Jan 23, 2017 04:21
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Applewhite posted:Maybe I just watched one of their bad movies then but drat I was just fuming with how angry I was at how lovely the jokes were. Perhaps apply a fair grain of context that the jokes were the first of their kind. e: also, seconding that Groucho's autobiography was a stellar read.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:22
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Bill NYSE posted:Any scenes with Harpo were always pure gold, you have to admit at least that much. His memoir Harpo Speaks is one of the best I've ever read. It's made three generations of my family laugh so hard they cried. Pinchie-winchie!
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Jan 23, 2017 04:29
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Why does Groucho walk in and start abusing that professor for no reason and then start singing to the class about anatomy??
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Jan 23, 2017 04:32
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Groucho's chapters about the start of their vaudeville careers are equal parts hilarious and jaw droppingly shocking. Harpo's chapters about adopting his many kids were some of the most heartwarming reading I've ever experienced.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:34
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Egbert Souse posted:
Oh hey, Trump's inauguration speech
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Jan 23, 2017 04:38
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Okay I'll read their memoirs but you're not gonna convince me Horse Feathers was funny.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:38
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Applewhite posted:Why does Groucho walk in and start abusing that professor for no reason and then start singing to the class about anatomy?? There is a disturbing lack of character development, to be sure.
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Jan 23, 2017 04:41
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZwjdGSqO0k
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Jan 23, 2017 04:59
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMBk-O7D-R0
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Jan 23, 2017 05:22
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImN6UxFL8xQ
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Jan 23, 2017 06:00
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I used to really like the three stooges and that british mtv show with all those punk rock people.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:02
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The stateroom scene in A Night at the Opera remains one of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFu0KyrNAAA All their movies drag during the songs and when they're focusing on the young couples and not the Brothers themselves, but that's a classic. I also have a soft spot for Go West.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:02
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Young Guns, it just came to me.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:05
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Also, Horse Feathers wasn't based on a stage show The Cocoanuts and Animal Crackers were adaptations of Broadway plays starring the Marx Brothers, but the rest of their films were originals except for Room Service.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:11
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The little rascals probably aged better. I haven't watched it since I was 12 but that was funny poo poo back then
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Jan 23, 2017 06:12
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Applewhite posted:I recently had occasion to rewatch the classic Marx Brothers film Horse Feathers. Horse Feathers is also what Applewhite calls the technique he uses to give a horse a boner so he can suck it off
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Jan 23, 2017 06:16
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I like Buster Keaton.
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Jan 23, 2017 06:21
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Applewhite posted:I'll give them another chance. What's one of their really good ones? Duck Soup is the one you're supposed to watch. It's, I don't know. Decent to good. Marx brothers often suffer under that Bo Burnham thing where they mistake being clever and making a face while doing it for being funny.
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peanut posted:I like Buster Keaton.
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