The Marx Brothers Council Podcast

The Marx Brothers Council Podcast


Latest Episodes

66 “The Little We Know About Leonard”
February 27, 2024

A deep dive into Maxine Marx’s 1980 biography of her father, “Growing Up With Chico”. Matthew and Noah discuss the book’s honesty in taking on Chico’s self-centered lifestyle, while also portraying h

65 “Our Rowe, Rohauer and Groucho Hour” featuring Mike Rowe and Groucho Marx
January 26, 2024

A VERY special episode as we are joined by TV writer, comedian, and Council member Mike Rowe to premiere a previously unheard 1967 interview with Groucho, conducted by the infamous film collector and

64 “Groucho and We” featuring Frank Ferrante
December 22, 2023

Grouchos 1959s autobiography, Groucho and Me is delved into, featuring the worlds most renowned impressionist of the man, Frank Ferrante.The guys question if the book is truly an autobiography

63 “Coming Attractions” featuring Jerry Sroka
November 25, 2023

A busy two-fold episode. First the guys deep dive into the world of Marx Brothers movie trailers, exploring their sometimes puzzling approaches, noting unique footage or dialogue, and lamenting those

62 “Blooray, Blooray, Blooray!”
November 02, 2023

This month the guys look at two films with historically-important Marx appearances that were restored and released on a 2020 Blu-raynow do you get the title?First, Matthew and Noah dissect Harpos

61 “Groucho, Harpo, Chico, and Sometimes Scardino” featuring Don Scardino
September 22, 2023

30 Rock, Only Murders in the Building, 2 Broke Girls, The West Wingthis is a minuscule sampling of series directed by our guest, director/actor/producer Don Scardino, a rabid Marx Brothers fa

60 “The Misty Corridors of Time” Our 60th Episode Retrospective
August 09, 2023

On the occasion of our sixtieth episode (not counting the ones we dont count), we look back at the history of The Marx Brothers Council Podcast. Starting with its origins, as most stories do, we reco

59 “Flywheel Rides Again” featuring Mark Brisenden
July 25, 2023

The lost 1932 Groucho/Chico radio series Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel has long been a white whale for Marx fans. While the scripts were discovered in 1988, and a few tantalizing recordings have t

58 “Acid Reflux” - our ‘Skidoo’ deep dive featuring Cinco Paul
June 23, 2023

This month, we welcome back Schmigadoon! co-creator/showrunner Cinco Paul to help sift thru the curiosity that is Groucho Marxs final film appearance, the far-out 1968 comedy, Skidoo. You don

57 “So This Is Dr. Film” featuring Eric Grayson
May 26, 2023

Film preservationist and collector Eric Grayson joins us to examine the 2023 state of the Marx Brothers catalog. We discuss which films have missing, damaged, or subpar footage (and we dont mean Go