The Marx Brothers play bridge

[@lestoil]

All in one take. That's why the mistakes (card falling off table) are so precious to see.

[@anthonyhaylock6655]

I love how when Margaret Dumont want to cut the cards , harpo put it back the way it was

[@thexalon]

Harpo always got the best lines.

[@TheOldGord]

thexalon 😄

[@stickymeat88]

Lol

[@jessicathethreestoogesfan2635]

It has to be

[@befdoglover1]

Without speaking!

[@vxenon67]

Always cracks me up when she cuts the card and Harpo returns them the same way.

[@ddraig1957]

Ah, Margaret Dumont,the Marx Brothers movies wouldn't have been the same without her.

[@alanonthebass]

For sure. She made all of those movies. A true class act.

[@x.y.8581]

Well, they would have had a lot more room on the stage!

[@RossM3838]

They were together on stage before the movies. They had it down.

[@davidbryce6970]

She always looked surprised by and delighted with all the nonsense and mayhem. A lovely lady.

[@jeffreyholmes7216]

Groucho said she was the perfect straight woman for them.she didn't get the jokes. And that's what they loved about her.

[@convolution223]

harpo's face when he's cutting the cards kills me hahaha

[@anthonyhaylock6655]

Craziest game of bridge I ever saw hahaha love it

[@marstondavis]

Imagine all of the hours they played cards backstage when they were in Vaudeville. Thousands of hours, no doubt.

[@amyayres5569]

"I don't understand this kind of bidding!" "...Well, you don't have to understand..."

[@ev6558]

Harpo should have switched the cards less noticeably but Margaret plays it off and still delivers her line perfectly so that the joke lands. She was always the consummate foil to their absurdity.

[@rogermgrdichian886]

His line reading here always cracked me up

[@lastrada52]

The Marx Brothers were damn clever and ingenious for most people. There are no comedians alive today this sharp and creative. Even Laurel and Hardy, and Abbott and Costello had moments of genius. The Marx Brothers took time and patience to devise their material. Most of today's comedians resort to vulgar routines & shock value. This is why the Marx Brothers have lasted as few others have. I admire their work.

[@jerryoshea3116]

Yes,well observed!

[@TheLocoUnion]

Abbot and Costello... moments of genius??? 😂

[@GooglyMcDoubleface]

abbott and costello on the math question is unreal. has me laughing. I heard some people tried 13+8-21 a certain way and get away with it. you're right you won't see anything ever again because these comics are clever.

[@lastrada52]

@@TheLocoUnion - "Who's On First" isn't clever? It's in the Baseball Hall of Fame. The only thing in that Hall that is not by a baseball player. (Though Costello held the record in NJ for sinking the most free throw basketballs in a row back in his youth. He was an exceptional basketball player). The routine where Abbott wants to borrow some money from Costello & makes Costello believe he owes Abbott the money? Ingenious dialogue. The "Oh Chuck" routine in "Hold That Ghost" with the candles moving on the table. The routine where Costello makes his voice go higher when speaking as he hears Abbott say "go higher" when Abbott is actually cueing the man raising the stage curtain behind Costello? This routine was picked up (ripped off?) by the TV show "Taxi" in the 70s when Jim was trying to pass a driver's test & asked, "What does the yellow light mean?" And his friends say "Slow down." Jim says the line again each time slower & slower. That's A&C comedy, not "Taxi." Maybe they did credit them at the end of the show I did not see it. There are many others. Sorry, I'm responding so late I was never alerted to your response...my response is not being sarcastic.

[@TheLocoUnion]

I agree with you wholeheartedly my friend. I should have emphasized the word “MOMENTS” in my comment. I believe that Abbott and Costello are complete geniuses and not just “moments”. Thank you for your wonderful statements on these two great men! 😁

[@robinreality9979]

4-ace of spades.... lmbo, When harpo is in a scene, we get tickled. My mom is deaf so this also entertaining for her

[@2refinish]

Margaret Dumont was comic gold.

[@gregruland1934]

Margaret Dumont was the greatest groucho foil of all!

[@TheBee87bee]

I love The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers.This was the true Golden age of Comedy!

[@marbleman52]

I was born in 1952 and I remember my parents inviting another couple over and they would play Bridge. I never learned how to play Bridge but when I was in the Navy I played a lot of Spades and Hearts. I particularly liked playing partner Spades...it could get real intense at times. Of course, drinking beer and drinking Scotch helped some, too...!!

[@ricochetrabbit4618]

I was thinking about how much fun I had playing partner spades this morning when I woke up! I was such a cheat, I couldn't help it, we would laugh for hours!

[@nhmooytis7058]

Also born 1952...but my parents played poker! Let me play from age 14, I was pretty good!

[@mortalclown3812]

In a sea of flotsam and such, what a lovely thing to behold. Thank you for posting this!

[@OriginalRocketJock]

"So how do you wanna play? Honest?"

[@keithhyttinen8275]

"I'm not the dummy." "You could be."

[@AceripXF]

omg i love Harpos face when margaret says "im not the dummy" 😂

[@steadyeddie7]

I watched a game of cards like that once. It was between four psychiatric patients.

[@jamesalexander5623]

Ah,That's a Just Carzy!

[@ronaldomadrebien7045]

MCenigma .............me too...........game is still going on!!!

[@dariowiter3078]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@emilyfarfadet9131]

Margaret Dumont is fantastic

[@Carolyn665]

Margret Dumont: She 's trying so hard to keep a straight face!..LOL They just break her up everytime!

[@jaymcd8577]

She had a lovely and warm smile though

[@BrianBattles]

Carolyn665 She was like an early Carol Burnett, the brothers always tried to break her!

[@Mozart1220]

The funniest part is that Ms. Dumont never got the humor. She had no idea WHY they treated her so badly, but she always signed up to work with them.

[@sneedbreedley]

Actually she almost never even cracked a smile .

[@Mozart1220]

She didn't get the jokes.

[@marymcmahon8058]

The Marx Brothers..greatest comedians! I love them.

[@bobbylow175]

"He thought it was CONTACT BRIDGE"

[@raygsbrelcik5578]

This kind of Classic DEFINES the word---CLASSIC!

[@killatay2818]

Oh my gosh this makes me *SO* happy, thank you for posting!

[@sandwichbreath0]

He plays a good game.

[@tonyarena6777]

Love it I can watch this over and over

[@lestoil]

I would have never noticed the shoes at the very end!!!

[@robertvelez8485]

Groucho always considered Margaret Dumont as the 5th Marx brother!

[@connfyoozed]

Yeah, that notion that she never understood any of their jokes just wasn't true. Groucho famously said that in an interview more than once but (surprise!) was only kidding. Margaret probably got all of their jokes, and should be remembered as one of the greatest straight men/women of all time.

[@victormalyar9200]

Not Gummo?

[@nirmalsuki]

Note to self: never play cards with the Marx brothers...

[@jamesalexander5623]

Or the Three Stooges! ....

[@ronsimko7137]

Ace of spades

[@AceripXF]

@@jamesalexander5623 i double! lol

[@XX-gy7ue]

This subtle and BRILLIANT ! could hardly hold my phone - so smart !

[@sepp31415]

This vid perfectly summarises everything that I love about bridge

[@spring-jo8xv]

Make a big slam a big big slam lmao 😂😂😂

[@zrocks2001]

LOL!!! THEY MAKE ME LAUGH UNTIL IT HURTS EVERY TIME!!! I SUPER LOVE THE MARX BROTHERS!!! THANX FOR POSTING IT!!!

[@lorenzomagazzeni5425]

Margaret Dumont was something...

[@theresaholguin699]

Good clean fun no cuss words just pure clean comedy. The Marx brothers were amazing and the best of the best. Harpo stole the show. Margaret tried so hard not to laugh. Margaret was perfect for the Marx's brothers movies. Love them all. I miss all these great legends and these kinds of movies

[@mindriot91_96]

So ahead of its time.

[@bumble1612]

My favourites, we have lost our way i'm afraid, long live the Marx Brothers.

[@barbarasprague]

C.M.: "Dummy leads. The Dummy leads". Harpo points to Margaret Dumont. M.D.:"I'm not the dummy". C.M.: "Well, you could be". HILARIOUS!!

[@benoitpellet1657]

Barbara Sprague A woman who likes the Marx Brothers! Will you marry me? Did your late husband leave you all his money? Answer the second question first!

[@28mark]

yea, yea, we can all hear

[@texasmimi5566]

@@28mark Rude. Guess you don't understand that people will quote funny lines that are in any of the Marx Brothers movies.

[@ruthmattingly-turner1334]

I want to learn to play bridge like this too!

[@jadeshannon5583]

Hilarious!Margaret Dumont is funny too!

[@solharv7817]

You cut the punchline, where it turns out that Harpo somehow switched shoes with the girl without her noticing

[@wildfireintexas]

My son plays like this. Makes it up as he goes.

[@matthewmcsheffrey2522]

🌹🌹🌹❤️R.I.P.

[@michellepost3098]

As a 1970s child and teen, I thought Chico was handsome, and that Harpo was cute. I watched all their movies back then. Hilarious. I always wondered if their wives and kids thought they were funny at home.

[@geoffreycoulson2039]

Happy birthday "the coconuts"90 this year.

[@TD-ik6bt]

Harpo's wearing her shoes 😂😂😂

[@merccadoosis8847]

Haven't watched the full movie in decades. Will have to see it again in order to learn how he managed to swipe them. 😂

[@gustavosantin5544]

Between Chico and Harpo are my two favorite Marx Brothers.Harpo doesn't speak.But he is funny like crazy.

[@markjeffers4663]

Love the marx bro's absolute legends favourite is groucho for sure

[@FangedBeauty]

The shoes at the last second of the vid xD

[@jennimadden1061]

I can watch the Marx Brothers til the cows come home

[@tynakatroberts5117]

Jenni Madden On second thought I'd rather dance with the cows when you come home

[@connfyoozed]

I wonder if the cows know how to play bridge, if they do, they can come over.

[@maxnullifidian]

Yeah, once the cows are home they'll be mooing too loud to hear anything else.

[@rumplestilskin5594]

I can watch the cows til you come home.

[@jamesmoyner7499]

J U This chat of replies had me laughing. Thank you for doing something in their style. Also the cows would not only be home before you, but they would be up so early in the morning they would be doing their own milking waiting for you!

[@tompurnell4545]

Universal Marx Brothers Famus 1 friend of Danny Kaye 🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃🥃

[@Dark_Helmet734]

You can see Margaret trying not to laugh a few times

[@williamneumyer7147]

When comedy existed.

[@ryanellis4474]

THE SHOES LN HARPO AT THE VERY END!!!! Geniuses!!!!!!!!

[@MsChicomarx]

I love Hives at the start of this video - "Extraordinary!"

[@merccadoosis8847]

When comedy movies were just funny. How I miss this type of entertainment.

[@tenhirankei]

Harpo kept playing Aces, but it wasn't until he played 3 Ace of Spades in a row that someone suspected cheating?

[@lancebaker1374]

tehhir, you need to watch it again. At 00:30, Ms Dumont said, "Two Aces of spades???"

[@buzzbang7930]

I used to play pinochle back in the day. I believe that's what they were playing. You send bids across to your partner to see who want's the bid. He said ONE which means he has 100 points to send with aces. In a pinochle deck (48)you have 4 of every card from A's down to 9's but some folks play with out the 9's From A's to 10's. He could have anywhere from 4 up to 16 aces. 4 ace hearts, 4 ace spades and so on.

[@x.y.8581]

Naaa, a pinochle is what Chico played!

[@MillerMeteor74]

If I knew anything about bridge I would understand, but it's still funny- the Marx brothers being the Marx brothers.

[@befdoglover1]

Chico: The dummy leads! Harpo taps Margaret on the arm. Margaret: I'm not the dummy! Chico: Well, you could be! 🤣

[@markthomas9769]

My favorite Marx Brother scene.

[@MediaBuster]

This is freaking hilarious!!!

[@madmandu]

Harpo stole the lady's shoes!! LOL

[@WilHenDavis]

Check out Harpo's footwear @4:27 Curious or what?

[@Cubroncs03]

It's almost like they're comedians.

[@premanadi]

Harpo had a talent for stealing other people's clothing without them noticing.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

An interesting thing is Chico Marx was an excellent card player not just a superb pianist and comedian. He used to play bridge with the great bridge player/teacher Charles Goran.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

I misspelled the last name of the famous bridge player/teacher Charles Goren in my previous comment as "Goran".

[@amjoshuaf]

Apparently, Chico was sort of a genius but he frittered his talents away for the most part.

[@michaelbarlow6610]

@@amjoshuaf. One of the things I remember reading about Chico Marx is that he supposedly was brilliant at mathematics. Such a shame that he couldn't manage his finances, because Groucho and Harpo had to control Chico's spending so that he wouldn't go broke. Chico blew so much money on gambling that Groucho and Harpo had to put Chico on a strict allowance in his later years. Groucho once told a story about Chico stating that Chico owed a lot of money to a gangster from a gambling debt and that when Chico died he had an unsent check in his pocket that he was going to give or mail to the gangster, but Groucho said that Chico was extremely lucky that he never sent that check because it would have bounced!

[@amjoshuaf]

@@michaelbarlow6610 I just read Groucho and Me a few days ago, and in it I think Groucho points out Chico’s mathematical abilities. If memory serves me.

[@oneworld9071]

I might be the only primate on Earth who has laughed so hard it turned to crying for some inexplicable reason, but this scene did it a few times over the last 6 decades :) :) Can't imagine how Margaret and stage crew didn't lose all composure over their silliness; I'd be out of commission gasping for air, begging them to cease and desist :) This video's quality and the time it's been among the archives of YT....... is it true that KZbin periodically checks "last date of access" and if over a certain threshold the video is compressed to maintain and conserve storage space...... doing this again and again and again yields the very "quality" seen here?

[@Losrandir]

Nothing wrong with Groucho, love him to bits, but somehow I always love the parts where these two are just together

[@MrRoadkillbill]

CLASSIC!!

[@johnjurkewicz9925]

I love it

[@TheOldGord]

Still the best comedy.

[@christianpaje9445]

Ace of spades. Again!

[@gabbsdad]

This humour is not my cup of tea but I can see how clever it is and how so many have been influenced by it.

[@winstonelston5743]

My Mom was the only person in history ever to break a leg playing bridge, a response to my seven diamonds redoubled.

[@timfitzgerald1035]

all done off the cuff. no script.

[@carlruf9037]

The sophisticated ladies secretely liked the deviant card antics of the interesting young card studs. Appears they were just looking for a good nite out on the town with a couple of zany but maybe cryptically successful guys.

[@Falco45able]

He has her shoes on at the end…🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@triumphmanful]

aca spades, aca spades, aca spades !

[@SBSR49]

Margaret Dumont wants to Bust out laughing ,so bad ...LOL

[@hungwilliam44]

Comedy aside, that's impressive manipulation of the cards by Harpo.

[@vernwallen4246]

When Harpo placed that"BLACK-JACK"on the table,like he was going to whack those ladies if they got out of line.PRICELESS.

[@daviddickey9762]

I always wondered how the straight actor/actresses were able to keep it together with the greats like the brothers or Abbott and Costello

[@BigJH37]

Make a big slam!

[@Fibonaccisghost]

Make a slam. Make a big big slam.

[@exiledhobbit1441]

Two aces of spades....

[@daveconleyportfolio5192]

Chico was actually a bridge fiend and card player. Here he is playing bridge on an early TV show: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIG2iXqnjLqJiac

[@TheWoodsugar]

I always cut the cards this way. Hilarious

[@LucilleBrawl17]

I very much prefer this over The Three Stooges.

[@lancebaker1374]

You, a female, tell us you like something, anything more than the Three Stooges? That goes without saying. I have not yet met any woman who can enjoy the Three Stooges.

[@emilybrehmer8021]

Lance Baker me toooo!!

[@crushercathy69]

Personally although I like the Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges rule. Therefore, I challenge you to the roughest of female pro wrestling matches online. Get your suit and boots on honey, so I can take you to school in the ring!!!...LOL!!!

[@RaananVolesPianist]

The Stooges had their card trick sequences too

[@garydale8141]

How can you compare the Marx Bros with the Three Stooges?

[@woodson21]

Ace o’ spades…..ace o’ spades…..ace o’ spades….

[@majkus]

Actually, Chico (who was a habitual, perhaps compulsive, gambler) was supposed to be a good card player, especially pinochle. His last TV appearance was in 1960, on the TV show 'Championship Bridge', although he and his partner lost. I wonder if that episode is around somewhere? It would make a great companion piece with this clip.

[@amendez7]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIG2iXqnjLqJiac

[@bryanthughes5799]

How many ace of spades did he have? lol

[@rikspring]

The dummy leads 😂😂😂

[@rdg71-o9t]

Apart from the Mirror scene in Duck Soup, show Me a funnier scene in Cinema history, I'll wait....

[@hANNAbONE]

Ace of spades....5x

[@stephaniemitchellmitchell746]

They were much more talented and entertaining.

[@moretoknowshow1887]

Because Chico Needed The Money...

[@rumplestilskin5594]

Ya gotta scrunch em up a bit

[@Hellodarknessmyolefriend]

Did they get their fruitsie tootsie ?😂

[@multitieredinvestor5246]

Someone mentioned the Three Stooges. I photographed them in Atlantic City for the AC Press. They were miserable. The complained about everything and made the hotel waitress almost quit due to plain nastiness!

[@danadnauseam]

Harpo i well equipped to play dummy

[@mickbrenton]

Enter Lemmy!!!!