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They were so great & wild. How can Harpo burn so many books (was that in Soup?). Duck Soup is wonderful.
I used to be really fond of Harpo when I was young, then I found Groucho to be classier, and now & then I tend to favour Chico whose talk amazes me (taxes, taxis, Texas in Duck Soup).
A bit like Sonic Youth maybe - hard to pick the one who turns you on the most.
Lee with a moustache? Kim as Harpo? Thurston with a shapeless hat? Steve as Zeppo (or better, dressed as Margaret Dumont)?
Love it when Groucho sits on the dames lap, when he faces his fake reflections in Duck Soup, love it when Harpo bludgeons don't-know-who in Opera...
What I like is that they don't make any kind of pause for the audience to laugh, recover & start from all over again. They carry on their random cruelty.
(By the way "Carry On" was a series of English comedies I never saw, said to be terribly openly stupid).
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