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  1. And now�the one�the only�GROUCHO!
    Opening Statement
    In preparation for this review, I read Groucho Marx’s 1959 autobiography Groucho and Me. After struggling to come up with a decent summation to describe how this program came to be, I decided: Who better to tell it than Groucho himself? The following excerpt comes from the fittingly titled chapter “You Bet Your Life”:
    A very nice man, who for some curious reason thought he was beholden to me�used to produce a show for the Walgreen Drug Company. They did this spectacle only once a year and they didn’t care how much money they spent. The result was that each year this friend of mine engaged me at a fat salary to do a five-minute spot with a partner. On this particular show my partner turned out to be Bob Hope. We both started kidding around with the dialogue, ad-libbing and generally ignoring the script. Bob, by the way, can take care of himself in this department.
    Now I sound like a real ham, but the truth of it is that the routine was hilarious. When I came off the stage, a bulky, doubtful looking man sidled over to me and asked if I would be interested in doing a quiz show. “A quiz show?” I repeated rather superciliously. “Pardon me, suh, but do you live in a tree?” He said, “No, but I have many branch offices!”
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