Groucho Marx on 'I've Got a Secret' (1959)

From classicvideostreams.com Groucho Marx is a celebrity guest on 'I've Got A Secret' which aired on July 1, 1959. Panelists included: Bill Cullen, Monique Van Vooren, Henry Morgan & Betsy Palmer . The Host is Garry Moore.

[@seandeyoung01]

I was born in 67'. What is amazing is that Grocho is making people of all ages laugh around the world even today! He is timeless! One the greatest of all time!

[@HAZIDEAD]

Groucho was probably one of the best one-liners improvisers ever.

[@David-yw2lv]

Along with Bob Hope.NBC executives wanted to kill after they appeared on a radio show because they threw the script out the window after the first line & ad libbed the rest of it.

[@Veggieman87]

Only Groucho Marx could come onto a TV show and totally take it over.

[@racovert1]

Sharp as a tack. A national treasure. I watch the Marx brother’s films and still laugh hysterically. As good now as they were back then.

[@David-yw2lv]

So is You Bet Your Life.

[@micro5033]

He just runs the show. Legendary

[@MileyonDisney]

Still my favorite comedian, and I admire his incredible wit. He absolutely took over every show he was on. What a personality!

[@rickrick5041]

Miley onDisney And while he’s there he also goes after the women

[@nealsausen4651]

He sure took over the what’s my line panel when he was on that show look elsewhere on KZbin for an example of this; Groucho on what’s my line he annihilated everyone the entire panel on that show were speechless and even a little pissed off I think that Groucho I mean he made them all look foolish and it was hilarious!

[@poetcomic1]

"What does one finger mean on this show?" Groucho can slip in a double entendre anytime anyplace.

[@LenHummelChannel]

Groucho always had an enormous over-abundance of wit and nerve ! - a wonderful and deadly combination. In his prime: no one EVER topped him on anything at any time.

[@Gravydog316]

I love watching him every night on PBS here. He's awesome haha

[@littlemissmello]

except his brothers

[@gustavefrankfurter6462]

His appearance on This Is Your Life sitting in a booth at The Brown Derby is just as funny as any show he guested on! Groucho was THE GREATEST COMIC EVER!

[@biltom]

Groucho was great.....but the best ever.......??????.....today there are no comics...just filth and not funny, just racist dumbass people.

[@nealsausen4651]

William Baker : Yeah he was the best if not one of the best and yes there are no comedians today alive like him I will agree just a bunch of dumb ass etc. people out there they wouldn’t appreciate Groucho’s kind of humor anyway or any one of the great comedians of America’s past! Unfortunate but true!

[@David-yw2lv]

True.Today's so- called comedians are lewd & obnoxious,or have an act that gets old fast A good example of the lewd obnoxious variety is Any Schumer.I watched a show she made,all she talked about were genitalia & what a slut she is I liked Emo Phillips,but after two or three viewings it was the same old thing over &​ over Both are largely forgotten now @@nealsausen4651

[@mikec5487]

A brilliant man. He was a voracious reader.

[@christiangibbs8534]

No surprise that he asked the panel AND the host to leave. Groucho dominates the stage, no matter what the circumstances. Genius! Absolute genius!

[@jadeshannon5583]

Groucho is always funny!I love the Marx Brothers

[@Judahthanksgiving]

Miss Groucho like crazy ❤❤

[@yaronkl]

Damn the man was sharp. Brilliant.

[@alienhuman]

As George Fenneman said: "The one the only... Groucho!" Truer words were never spoken,

[@DavidEzell]

Groucho had an extraordinary mind...a one-of-a-kind entertainer...brilliant and still fun even today.

[@Carnophobe]

Wow, when he says: "You'll never see this show again." and yet people still watch this 50 years onwards. Utter genius. This is so funny I almost cried.

[@poetcomic1]

Notice how Groucho doesn't just make jokes but overturns the whole format and creates a "Marx Brothers' atmosphere of zany anarchy and giddy fun.

[@rickrick5041]

poetcomic1 He just took over lol

[@nealsausen4651]

Yeah! Well he was a genius that way!

[@nealsausen4651]

Rick rick : yeah I know right?! Just look at his antics on those old what’s my line episodes he guessed it on! He drove everybody nuts and I don’t think those uptight broom stick up their ass is panelists appreciate it a lot of it they look kind of bugged? What’s my line panel I mean

[@stevenfanale4553]

Best show that I have ever seen in my life!!!!!

[@HopeKing]

He is just hysterical I have seen him on the panel of what's my line and just as chaotic 😂🤣

[@EdWeibe]

he's was so fast with a come back.

[@bashbrannigan]

"If you don't come back, that'll be OK too." Groucho is great!

[@Greg07623]

The Master. He makes you laugh so hard it's almost painful....and then you rewind to hear it again.

[@caryheuchert]

An era when stars from the Golden Age of Hollywood made TV greater.

[@RW-ob4en]

“Groucho and Me” is a very good read...still. Or maybe more than ever (2022)!

[@AetheriusLamia]

Man, he self-promoted the !@#$ out of this appearance. Mission Accomplished.

[@mindriot91_96]

Legend!

[@akiman712]

His wit and charm were beyond the era. I don't think I know of any other comedian(s) other than the Rat Pack who could sway an audience with sheer simple humor alone. His play on words are quick, deadly and precise -- something I can relate to. When the host explained the order in which the contestants would ask questions, Marx responded "Why isn't he after her, I know I would be." Marx was a very good listener before anything else. He definitely enjoyed small-talk, although I think he found everyday phrases and sayings amusing too. He would dissect what was meant to be taken figuratively and throw it back to you with clever sarcasm disguised as childish innocence. But he could also be the aggressor, setting the stage for his wit and jokes. He would wait for you to strike, and then ruthlessly but nonchalantly retort with a simple logic that would leave the audience captivated and entertained.

[@baxter5431]

There was only ONE Groucho! Not bad for a grade school drop out. He was completely self taught and had a massive personal library from which he educated himself. A brilliant and completely one-of-a-kind wit! Another century and another era: never to be repeated in our lifetime.

[@EdWeibe]

some say some education facilites shunt a person's development

[@postatility9703]

Unmatched delivery of ad libs.Perhaps the G.O.A.T of comedians.(I'm sure Groucho would have a quip about THAT.

[@ffilchtaeh]

Boy, you can really step in it with Groucho. What a mind and great smart ass mouth! I love it.

[@oldclassics1923]

I love that book! Groucho and Me

[@EricSchwin22]

Groucho is a smart witty man!

[@comfibold]

A genius and a gentleman.

[@kiralagiorgiona8078]

no vabbe...che figata!!... pubblicità di sigarette e si fuma in studio!!!....troppo bello! che bei ricordi...da ragazza sull aereo fumavo...nei cinema...nei ristoranti...che bello la libertà!!!

[@sinaif76]

It ´s said that the bugsbunny character was based on him...

[@markschildberg1667]

Bugs said this, but it could just as easily have been Groucho: “And don’t think it hasn’t been a little slice of heaven - because it hasn’t.”

[@PazuzuStalker]

The undisputed champion of the chaotic comedy...

[@forlandhrdina867]

Thanks.... Now I can hear it there.... Appreciated.

[@johnrettig1880]

I was barely a year old when this first aired . I've only seen these shows in reruns . Nice to know what I've missed .

[@gtlfb]

Henry Morgan had a reputation for being suprisingly humorless on some of these shows. You can see him start to boil over, but even he finally gives in.

[@cheeriosinabowl]

The sight of seeing them smoke on the set and the ads for cigs also, just wows me! Boy, have times changed! Drastically.

[@greitje50]

I used to watch this show with my parents. Now the smoking and sponsors seem strange.(cigarettes) Back then it was just normal. Loved these shows!

[@MsTimothyswan]

if Groucho were alive today, he could easily promote his book through Amazon

[@davidyu3533]

i don't think he would have to write a book. the man would be worth at least 100 million easy.

[@memorialled_zeppelin-warew1346]

And he'd be still giving us all grief. And we would all happily take it.

[@alienhuman]

LOL when the panel is dismissed, Groucho scopes out the ladies as they leave the stage... pure Groucho.

[@kiminokami]

Whenever Groucho is anywhere, he can do whatever he wants. I love that man, in a very masculine way.

[@RICH020669]

omg they hardly even get to ask any questions. Groucho just keeps on stealing the spotlight. the man might just have been the funniest man in show business ever!

[@Lockemeister]

never to be repeated ever.

[@Justacoustic79]

I really like how in every interview or in every letter he receceived back people always try to be funny with him.You can read letters to him where politics and important people at that time talked to him in a humoristic tone.Garry more here struggles to keep the level and he can even fit a couple of kwick ones but nobody was sharp enough to reply this man never like he used to do...and making it funny!!! He was born with it,he had it,and thats a gift.

[@EdWeibe]

wow. Well, Groucho , your proof when one door closes another one wants to open with something much better.

[@bashfulbrother]

The last thing I would want to do would be to spar verbally with him. The man was extremely intelligent and he could pin someone to a wall and they would laugh the whole time it was happening.

[@Joeri20cm]

Well you would probably win right now because he's dead

[@JazzAnswer99]

Interesting to see Garry Moore puffing on a cigarette, and Groucho on a cigar. Can't do that nowadays. Huh uh.

[@xenafan234]

They wre all so sweet!

[@marjoriemargel1567]

xenafan234 Groucho Sweet?? Never!

[@thegreatbungholio21]

I love the giant Winston block signs they have all over the set.

[@OrganCat]

Betsy Palmer was a beauty. (She played 'Jason's' mother years later)

[@TheCambrian91]

7:45 was an absolute zinger, soooo funny.

[@fluffydolly]

the master.

[@whoopit1960]

@Addyson1991 Monique Van Vooren is the blonde with the accent .The other cutsie blonde is Betsy Palmer from Friday the 13th.

[@brucer12]

A real kick---Groucho was so quik!!

[@dancebandleader]

@leirbag23 just noticed your comment, and how right you are. If they ever do a movie about 50's TV Matt Damon has got to play Bill Cullen.

[@cirosuperiore]

how times have changed... this was a time when you were obligated to smoke on TV.

[@mariozondag2576]

Even better: they give everyone in the show a pack of sigarettes when they go. Remarkeble.😉

[@stevenfanale4553]

The greatest who ever lived. SMF

[@JSSTyger]

SMF = smell my fart?

[@theaussiebackflipboy]

Interesting to note the heavy cigarette advertising on the set - people knew where the money was coming from to produce the shows back in the day.

[@cacaoueterealisateur]

all hail the greatest american con man / entertainer

[@llaneroloco1]

This is the longest cigarette advert I've ever seen, nine minutes of it!!!!

[@Redmow51]

Amazing, eh? This was back in the day when people had a spine. Before the age of political correctness....at least in this country. Funny how people act shocked to see this. 100 years from now people may be shocked at our shockness.

[@toniquix]

Barry Maynard More like ,back then when people didn't know that they could die of cancer from smoking.

[@bobburnitt1411]

Barry Maynard You are as right as rain. TV was so much better then. TV is the only thing I know that started at its peak, and went downhill all the way, BB

[@jimalexander687]

llaneroloco1 This was 5 years before the Surgeon General's warning about tobacco. Although, you'd wonder how people needed the government to explain to them that inhaling toxic fumes was unhealthy. Of course, smokers since the 1964 Surgeon's General warning are even more stupid, because they KNOW it's bad and do it, nonetheless.

[@bobburnitt1411]

Jim Alexander Most people have known Smoking is BAD for a LONG TIME. My grandmother was born in 1900 but she NEVER smoked and KNEW it was bad, but ALL of her children smoked but my Mother. Oh they didn't have any "studies" to "cite". But people could see the damage it did. I can look at people that are 40 or better and tell you WHO has smoked and who has NOT and get it right MOST of the time. Especially with WOMEN, but I can do it with MEN as well. It will show in their FACE. People have been getting CANCER for a LONG TIME. People could connect the dots even long ago. People KNOW that tattoos are dangerous TOO, but it has not stopped that terrible epidemic at all. People KNOW "Drugs" are bad, but the War on Drugs will NEVER be won. It is the same problem as Prohibition of Alcohol, it is a FAILURE. People do what they want to do. The tobacco Companies are in no danger of going broke. Hell that moron President we have is a BIG Marijuana and tobacco smoker. I wish we had much less of a Nanny State. You know the MILITARY had a LOT to do with people smoking in WW II. At times Cigarettes were given to Soldiers as a "comfort Aid". Most of the time they had to buy their own, but at certain times, they were given to soldiers for free. Once addicted to Nicotine, let me tell you, that is just about the most POWERFUL addiction there IS. No matter how long you stay off of it, your brain is still wired, death is the only way to cure that. You can quit smoking for 30 years, (or worse Chewing tobacco) and if you EVER pick it back up, you are OFF the WAGON.

[@fromthesidelines]

Very gutsy of the producers to allow Groucho to appear with his cigar when the sponsor was supposed to be R.J. Reynolds' Winston cigarettes (they sustained the show from 1955 through '61). They frowned on ANY other kind of on-air smoking [including pipes] when their cigarette brands sponsored a TV show- especially John Cameron Swayze's "CAMEL NEWS CARAVAN" on NBC in the early '50s {the exception was showing Sir Winston Churchill in news footage with HIS stogie}.

[@marjoriemargel1567]

Barry I. Grauman The cigar was his long time trademark. Just like Churchill smoking a cigar. I’m sure somewhere it might have been brought up by the sponsors, but No Cigar, No Groucho. He had his standards! LOL!

[@tarz96]

I love the 50s

[@Monkofmagnesia]

Wow! Betsy Palmer is the same Betsy Palmer who played Pamela Voorhees in the first "Friday the 13th"!

[@forlandhrdina867]

Hey, anybody can help? English is not my first language, I get most of it, but for the zinger at 7:45... What's he saying? Thanks

[@miroslavtomic7038]

Where is the rest of this? What happened was that Harpo came out and everybody had to guess what his secret was. Nobody, not even Groucho, managed to guess. The thing was that it was NOT Harpo that came to the show at all. It was Chico dressed as Harpo. Out of their costumes, Chico and Harpo were almost identical. Even Groucho was fooled.

[@RisingSon011]

what is up with all these sanctimonious chumps in the comment section complaining about the smoking? TV shows before 1960 or so showed it all the time. anyway to each his own why do you care

[@miguelmouta]

Despite smoking being hazardous, the cigar in Groucho´s hand is charm. But the interviewer, smoking at the same time , and the nondiscrete logo, deserves a work of social behaviour history.

[@whoopit1960]

@Addyson1991 The sexy blonde with the accent is Monique Van Vooren from Andy Warhol's Frankenstein. The other cutsie blonde is Betsy Palmer from Friday the 13th.

[@torchkit]

"What does one finger mean on this show?" LOL

[@Bren3485]

"Why isn't he after her? I know I would be if If was there!"

[@yushis1]

lol at the cigarette ads

[@cicalone70]

It was a phrase with reference to the type of sponsor.

[@pfflyer3381]

Glad I lived in the period of the time machines. And toilet paper!

[@JackstonePictures]

he's so good at being himself did he hurt anyone while doing this xD i wonder, but hes so good!

[@jensmickey]

never thought of it, but now that you mention it, it sounds right.... maybe he did...

[@KevinKomonyi]

@dogshy61 The host's name is Garry Moore. Groucho even says it.

[@VicMartino]

LMAO at Groucho Marx LOL!

[@JJJBRICE]

Monique Van Vooren, AKA the Belgian Bulge.

[@thefools]

does anyone have chico dressed as harpo on 'I've Got a Secret'?

[@harryputang5352]

" I flew without a plane " 😆🏌️‍♂️

[@professor1966]

Harpo, Chico, Zeppo and Gummo.. those were the nicknames of the other four Marx Brothers

[@misterkrad]

can't find a clip of chico as harpo on ive got a secret rats

[@itsumonihon]

god he's hilarious

[@TraxNYCDiamondJewelry]

Damn i need a Winston

[@Addyson1991]

Wow, the cute panelist Groucho hits on is Mrs Voorhees from Friday the 13th.

[@miguelmouta]

@D0g63rt . I agree, concerning Grouchos jokes ( You may not sustain enough breath ) .

[@joshuaa3075]

Has a movie been based on groucho’ life?

[@spockboy]

Groucho rules

[@bibibabkagirl]

does anyone have the episode where chico marx dressed up as harpo marx? that was a great one!!!! :D

[@kiminokami]

Me three.

[@byHexted]

Why do they think he’s going to do something? I don’t get it it’s a secret it’s always a secret, why do they think he’s like gonna do something now

[@ky-gp4sz]

Bess Mires?

[@misledprops]

holy fuck! still so funny!

[@baxter5431]

Mayor Bloomberg agrees with you and so does the mayor of San Francisco. HOWEVER, they turn a blind eye to public usage of smoking Pot and shooting up heroin. So which is worse? Smoking a cigarette or taking dope???

[@marymarysmarket3508]

Yep..no plastic straws allowed but the place and the needles are supplied to shoot up.

[@MetalMaryJane]

I wish people would still talk and dress the same like they did back then..

[@bloodgrss]

Someone like Groucho was always trying to be funny-which can tend to dominate a show and, if he is off, make things insufferable-like often was Hal Block on the first years of What's My Line... Fortunately, Groucho WAS a comic genius-and this taking over here, and when he was on the panel of Whats My Line in 1959, were these shows funniest segments ever!

[@nealsausen4651]

I totally agree with you he “OWNED” what’s my line! He totally dominated that show much to the chagrin of the panel and John Daly as well! Look elsewhere on KZbin for examples of this!

[@fromthesidelines]

...and because Garry Moore was a lifelong smoker, often "lighting up" on camera for Winston on "I'VE GOT A SECRET" AND the various daily and prime-time shows he appeared in under R.J. Reynolds' sponsorship, he eventually died of lung cancer in 1993.