Groucho Marx - You Bet Your Life Hilarious Outtakes (REACTION)

[@Raven5150]

Grouchos previous show he was the first person to get cancelled he was interviewing a woman that had 8 kids, he asked why she has 8 kids, her responce was she just loves her husband, his responce i love my cigar but occasionally i take it out of my mouth!

[@thomastimlin1724]

If that's your real picture, then you're a Raven Beauty. That could drive guys stark Raven mad...That cigar joke quote sounds like a another paraphrase to me. There are questions and no real evidence to prove this remark was actually said, for decades. Groucho denied it mostly. The whole story could have been manufactured...or happened in different form and someone dressed it up and made it more raunchy, to tell friends etc.. No one knows for sure that the incident actually occurred...however the most famous quote is another version: it leaves out the "mouth" in the remark, which makes it more credible that he might try that on radio. "I love my cigar, too, but I take it out every once in a while." As in take your wife out once in a while. Still hilarious. You couldn't say even stuff like that on radio or TV at the time, so if it happened it was cut out of the recording they broadcast later [magnetic tape for radio shows was brand new back in the late 40's]. No one but the studio audience of 200 could have seen or heard this, and no one from that particular audience has ever come forward to verify it as far as I know. Yet there are claims that it was on TV, not radio and clips have been shown of that. I've never seen the clip. They would always tape the radio show, film the TV show so they could edit anything that comes out of Groucho's mouth [besides his cigar] that was unacceptable. In 1972, in an interview with Roger Ebert for Esquire magazine, Groucho himself said, "I got $25.00 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life the guy says he has 17 kids and I say 'I smoke a cigar but I take it out every once in a while.' I never said it." He meant lady, but same difference.

[@bradsullivan2495]

@@thomastimlin1724 "In 1972, in an interview with Roger Ebert for Esquire magazine, Groucho himself said, "I got $25.00 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said. You know that line in You Bet Your Life the gal says he has 17 kids and I say 'I smoke a cigar but I take it out every once in a while.' I never said it."

[@FrankWirth-ij4rq]

I saw that and Groucho

[@DR-mq1vn]

Great old black and white game shows are "What's my Line" and "Password". I love watching those today, even though they are from the 1950s and 1960s!

[@jillk368]

You should check out his appearances on What's My Line. Actually, some of the best panel shows from the 50s/60s: What's My Line (guests include Eleanor Roosevelt and a then-unknown Colonel Sanders); I've Got a Secret and To Tell the Truth. Match Game from the 1970s is great, too!! Suggestions: Marx Brothers: Crowded Cabin Scene (from A Night at the Opera) Victor Borge (comedian/pianist): Hungarian Rhapsody Duet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jWm1YY2tjtuLpsk Harry Belafonte on the Muppet Show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hl6XqaydabWIY7c

[@samgamgee42]

When I was a teenager in the 1970s I loved watching You Bet Your Life reruns

[@pebblehilllane]

I saw George Burns on Johnny Carson and he told a story about when he was young and breaking into the business and Groucho was also and how the two of them and two others who also later became famous would go to the same restaurant on the same day of every week, they always sat at the same table and always had the same waiter. One of the guys would always order sea bass and when he did Grouch would say "If you don't see bass tonight you can't see bass tomorrow" and he never once over the years got a laugh. Grouch was fearless when it came to telling jokes. If he thought it was funny he'd keep using it. It would change his tone and inflection and timing looking for what was needed to get the laugh he felt certain the joke could get. Decades later the group were all famous, somewhat kept in touch but their weekly meals were long since history. One of them checked and found the same restaurant was in business and got the idea of getting the group back together and going to to the restaurant on the same day of the week they did many years before. They met there and the place looked like it hadn't changed at all. They had requested the same table and when they sat down the same waiter from the past was their waiter. Grouch knew the one guy would order sea bass and he was positive that this time when he used his joke he'd get the laugh he always felt it could get. Sure enough the one guy ordered sea bass but before Grouch got the chance to deliver the joke the waiter leaned in over the table and said "if you don't see bass tonight you can't see bass at all." George and the other two almost fell out of their chairs laughing ... and Grouch was mad and red faced because the waiter beat him to the punchline and got the big laugh Groucho was certain he'd finally get.

[@bradsullivan2495]

All of these episodes came close to getting thrown away in the early 70's. NBC was cleaning out their warehouse and someone there contacted Groucho's grandson (who was handling things for him), who said they could send them to him. A year later, they started being shown on TV again.

[@musicairplanes4884]

Everything today is manufactured. Nothing is spontaneous.

[@thomastimlin1724]

The game part was to answer questions for certain amounts of money. If you said the "secret word" during the conversation with Groucho, or anytime during the game, you would win extra money. A toy duck would come down from above on a rope, with the secret word attached and some money like $100 bill. Groucho would even try to help contestants by alluding to say, a kitchen, when the secret word might be "refrigerator" or something. Often he would have celebrity guests on for laughs, even his own daughter showed up a few times... One time on the Jack Benny Show, Groucho was the guest star and they did a skit where Jack Benny, playing his usual cheapskate character, was the contestant, trying to win some money. The results were hilarious. That clip is available on youtube. Tons of full shows of this are available on the internet.

[@bvscfanatic]

Groucho is my hero. The game show ran on radio and TV for a total of 14 years. The quiz part of the show was nothing. It was Groucho's interviews with the contestants that made the show entertaining.

[@zunbake3]

Actually the show was mostly on TV in the 1950's, from 1950 to 1961

[@U_N_Owen]

YBYL, What's My Line, and later Match Game were probably the best of this style comedy quiz shows. I think "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me!" on NPR is the only long-running comedy quiz show left in the US. The BBC has tons of them, with QI being the best and one of the best panel shows of all time.

[@johnniekight1879]

Check out "The Andy Griffith Show" & "The Dick Van Dyke Show". Two of the best shows of the early 60's. Groucho was as witty as they come. My favorite Marx Brothers movie is "Duck Soup" from the 30's. Considered one of the first anti-war movies. A little over an hour long and non-stop funny. Enjoy.

[@alexshkoditch4593]

Another outtake: Groucho: So, how many children do you have? Contestant: I have 12 children. G: 12 children! Why do you have so many children? C: (Blushing) Well, I love my husband. G; (pauses, then says) I love my cigar, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.

[@yournamehere6002]

When Groucho says "what you're saying is, that if you're married you don't have to go to the drive in" he's implying that you can have sex at home, not in a car at the drive-in. And the line about "with all the saltpeter he can hardly get up" he was referring to the notion that saltpeter causes you to lose your erection.

[@Sagitarria]

There's a lot of millienial came shows that are really good on "drop out"

[@Stogart]

Check out the Jack Benny Show, good stuff!

[@Raven5150]

Im related to the marx brothers dont know specificly wich one directly

[@duckarse11]

You can be Cocko Marx.

[@Raven5150]

@duckarse11 that works

[@duckarse11]

@@Raven5150 Groucho had a famous sister, who invented the Starting Pistol, her name was Onya

[@Raven5150]

@duckarse11 harpo was so well endowed when he peed he climbed a tree hung by his toes peed and didnt get a drop on him

[@Raven5150]

@@duckarse11 i wanna be Carlo marx