For fifty years, a college existed that created the height of humorists. The college from 1880 to 1930 was Vaudeville. The best humorists included W. C. Fields, Will Rogers and Groucho Marx. These men represented thousands that went through their school, but they were the cream that rose to the top. They all started out in Vaudeville with other entertaining skills. Will Rogers was a trick roper, W.C. was a juggler. Groucho was an MC and singer. They all found that if they told jokes between acts and stunts that they could keep the attention of the audience longer. Luckily for us, they developed into the best joke tellers (and story tellers) of all time.
Groucho was an encyclopedia of jokes. If you ever wanted to invite someone to something, anything, invite Groucho and he would have the perfect quip for it. He often had the perfect quip for the person as well. Careful about telling him your name or where you lived because he had a return for that.
The best thing about Groucho (and the worst) was he held no reverence for anybody (and especially those who thought a lot of themselves).
As Jessica said about Roger Rabbit, he makes me laugh.
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