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CrazyAboutTV
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| You Bet Your Life Tue Oct 17, 2006 7:57 am |
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douggg
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| Anyone have any of these shows? Mon May 10, 2010 12:48 am |
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| I watched re-runs of this show in the late 70's and would like to know if by any chance anyone has any of them to share. Groucho had an amazing wit that is as funny today as it was 50-60 years ago. |
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CrazyAboutTV
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| You Bet Your Life Dvds Mon May 10, 2010 7:29 am |
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You Bet Your Life dvds are readily available from numerous sellers. Many of them are quite cheap. Just type in "You Bet Your Life Dvds" at any search engine and take your pick of sellers.
My local library also has the more expensive ones available to lend for free.
A bunch of episodes are also available on YouTube. |
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douggg
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| Re: You Bet Your Life Dvds Mon May 10, 2010 12:14 pm |
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| CrazyAboutTV wrote: |
You Bet Your Life dvds are readily available from numerous sellers. Many of them are quite cheap. Just type in "You Bet Your Life Dvds" at any search engine and take your pick of sellers.
My local library also has the more expensive ones available to lend for free.
A bunch of episodes are also available on YouTube. |
Thanks for your reply. I think there are only 6 or 9 /show episodes released to DVD by Shout Factory called You Bet Your Groucho.
On YouTube I've only been able to find a couple of few shows.
Can you provide any additional informaiton? |
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CrazyAboutTV
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| Groucho Marx on Dvd Mon May 10, 2010 7:17 pm |
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| You must not have really tried what I suggested because you can buy at least 40 episodes at Amazon.com alone and there are considerably more than a couple of videos at YouTube and I only searched for 3 minutes. |
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douggg
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| Re: Groucho Marx on Dvd Tue May 11, 2010 12:12 am |
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| CrazyAboutTV wrote: |
| You must not have really tried what I suggested because you can buy at least 40 episodes at Amazon.com alone and there are considerably more than a couple of videos at YouTube and I only searched for 3 minutes. |
Thanks. Last time I looked on Amazon there were only a couple. Your reply also made me think of checking NetFlix. There are quite a few there too. |
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JazzLover
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| Groucho Marx is still the man! Sat May 15, 2010 8:56 am |
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50 years later and Groucho Marx's shows and movies are still hilarious! Amazing!
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douggg
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| Re: Groucho Marx is still the man! Sun May 16, 2010 10:53 pm |
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| JazzLover wrote: |
| 50 years later and Groucho Marx's shows and movies are still hilarious! Amazing! |
I completely agree. There is one episode I'm after. Groucho had FBI agents showing off a new machine - the "lie detector machine". Remember this was only 10 years after WWII, during the cold war, McCarthy Era and when people in Hollywood were being black listed.
Groucho had the lie detector machine hooked up to the FBI agent and asked....
Are you married?
Kids?
Love your wife?
Do you the other guest (I think here name was Marilyn) is attractive?
As I recall the show abruptly went to a commercial or?
Groucho was brilliantly trying to show what our government (FBI) was trying to do while reminding us what a previous government in Europe had done and what they could have done if they had such a machine.
That show aired on 10/4/56, it was episode 56-02. It also features Groucho's father-in-law on the show.
If anyone has this episode or knows where I can get a copy please post.
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misterg
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| Groucho Marx Vs. the Lie Detector Mon May 17, 2010 11:14 am |
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i couldn't find the one you're talking about with an fbi agent but here's one where some polygrapher hooks up groucho himself and asks him a bunch of questions:
groucho vs. the lie detector |
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douggg
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| Re: Groucho Marx Vs. the Lie Detector Mon May 17, 2010 4:44 pm |
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Thank you. Maybe this is the one. Any idea what episode this was? Or the air date?
Thanks |
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douggg
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| What episode did Groucho make the cigar remark? Tue Dec 07, 2010 12:35 am |
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I was looking at something on Snopes and came across an entry saying the cigar line is false.
The guy tells Groucho he has seventeen kids.
Groucho says I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally.
http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/grouchocigar.asp
I am so positive I heard this Grouch clip or saw it on YouTube. I even seem to remember the guest was from Bakersfield. And I seem to recall it was on the TV show. I can almost picture the guy.
I figure this is the place to know for sure.
Did Groucho really say this? Or am I getting old and my memory is failing me?
If you have a link to the clip, please post. |
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CrazyAboutTV
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| Groucho Cigar Statement Tue Dec 07, 2010 9:58 am |
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| I smoke a cigar, but I take it out of my mouth occasionally |
In a 1972 interview with Roger Ebert that appeared in Esquire Magazine, Groucho himself stated that he had never said that. I found several other sources where Groucho's most ardent fans agree that they've never been able to find any evidence that he ever said that.
Of course, it's impossible to prove that something never happened but my guess is that he said something similar and was misquoted and then that misquote became folklore. |
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