Living With The Marx Brothers

LIVING WITH GROUCHO

LARRY IS RUDELY AWAKED BY HIS FLATMATE, GROUCHO; WHO APPEARS IN BLACK AND WHITE

GROUCHO
Hey, whatcha doing there? Risin' outta bed any time soon. Rise in a bowl, just like the they have in China?!

LARRY GETS SOME BUTTER OUT OF THE FRIDGE

GROUCHO
Ah, taking some butter out of the fridge. BUTTER you gonna you have toast or just bread. Just bread. Bread of justice! Hachachacha!

LARRY IS EATING TOAST, GROUCHO SITS OPPOSITE HIM

GROUCHO
Eating your toast there! A fine meal, so fine you could thread it through a needle! A toast to toast, hacha-

LARRY
FOR FUCKS SAKE! SHUT UP GROUCHO!

There's a long pause

GROUCHO
Larry... you know I can't...

LIVING WITH CHICO

INT. LARRY

LARRY
Ah, well you're a lot easier to live with than the last guy...

CHICO
Hey, don't worry about it!

LARRY
Uh.. one question, though? If the other guy was your brother... why do you have an italian accent?

CHICO
What accent?

LARRY
Nothing...

CHICO
Well, don't you worry about a thing (HE GETS UP) How about you just sit back and relax and I'll play you a nice little tune on the old piano

LARRY
Well, yeah, that sounds pretty good... I didn't know i... had a piano but...

CHICO BEGINS PLAYING

LARRY
Wow, that's actually really impressive I.. wait...

SHOW A SHOT OF CHICOS HANDS FLOPPING ABOUT THE PIANO (stock footage)

LARRY
What are you... what?! WHAT?!

CHICO'S HANDS DO MORE IMPOSSIBLE MOVES

LARRY
No... That's... no-one can do that... That's... arghh...

LARRY GETS UP AND BACKS AWAY, HE TAKES ONE MORE PEEK

LARRY
ARRGHH!

FREAKED OUT BEYOND COMPREHENSION, HE JUMPS OUT OF THE WINDOW

LIVING WITH HARPO

LARRY SITS ON AN ARMCHAIR WITH A BROKEN LEG, HE HEARS HIS DOORBELL

HE MANAGES TO GET UP AND MAKE HIS WAY TO THE LANDING

HE OPENS THE DOOR, HARPO IS THERE; HE GREETS LARRY WITH A LOUD TOOT FROM HIS HORN

LARRY IMMEDIATELY SLAMS THE DOOR

LARRY
(AS HE HOBBLES AWAY) No. Just No

LIVING WITH KARL

LARRY AND KARL MARX (WHO APPEARS IN BLACK AND RED) SIT OPPOSITE A KITCHEN TABLE, AFTER A LONG PAUSE LARRY BREAKS THE FOURTH WALL

LARRY
We... don't actually have any material but... had to be done right.

KARL GIVES A WAVE

Made me laugh. Great idea, but I think the ending spoils it slightly. You really didn't have to, in my opinion! An alternate ending could have Zeppo and Gummo doing the jack shit they are remembered for, but that might be too niche. End earlier on a honk with Harpo, and you're there.

Also if you are going to ape Groucho you probably need to make his lines a bit snappier and wittier, I think. But overall it's something out of the good basket.

This is a phenomenally strong idea for a sketch. I think you can probably strip away all the explanation and i'd do it as the Marx brothers flatmate.

But this is certainly the best thing to turn up in critique for some time.

n.b. could Laurel and Hardy be the annoying neighbours who are always moving pianos?

Loved Groucho (one of my Comedy Hero's).

Really didn't get Chico, not the thing I'd have said he was famous for to be honest, would have played more on his hapless conman persona myself.

The bizarre Chico one really marred the others, but Groucho was spot on!

Quote: dannyjb1 @ December 5 2008, 7:23 AM GMT

Really didn't get Chico, not the thing I'd have said he was famous for to be honest, would have played more on his hapless conman persona myself.

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I think I'd once you shown the footage of him playing the piano, it was certainly my reaction when someone showed it to me on YouTube a few weeks ago.

By the way, if anyone wants to write their own version of this; you're welcome to the idea. I'm sure you can do better than me.

excessive humility is the highest vanity

Quote: Eggie @ December 5 2008, 2:26 PM GMT

I think I'd once you shown the footage of him playing the piano, it was certainly my reaction when someone showed it to me on YouTube a few weeks ago.

By the way, if anyone wants to write their own version of this; you're welcome to the idea. I'm sure you can do better than me.

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Ah you've only seen him on YouTube fair comment, check out some of the films I'm a huge Marx Bros fan.

Quote: sootyj @ December 5 2008, 2:32 PM GMT

excessive humility is the highest vanity

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Yeah, you've said that before.
Saying something is actually the exact opposite of what it is doesn't instantly make a sentence profound, you know.

Quote: Eggie @ December 5 2008, 4:23 PM GMT

Yeah, you've said that before.
Saying something is actually the exact opposite of what it is doesn't instantly make a sentence profound, you know.

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Now that's just rude, but I'm used to that.

All I meant was if you wrote a great sketch, that every one acknowledges is great.

Then saying oh I'm sure you smarter types could do more with it.

Is being humble to the point of vanity.

It was actually more about the thread respondents seeming to like the idea more than the execution and having more of a passion/ knowledge about the Marx brothers.

And sorry about being rude.

Quote: Eggie @ December 5 2008, 4:57 PM GMT

It was actually more about the thread respondents seeming to like the idea more than the execution and having more of a passion/ knowledge about the Marx brothers.

And sorry about being rude.

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See Sootyj it was me he was being rude about not you, get your own people to be rude about you, *mumble* stealing my insulters from me *mumble*