If youve heard it before, its scarcely surprising, for Julius Henry Groucho Marx remains one of the funniest and most influential figures in the long and glittering history of comedy. Last night I shot an elephant in my pyjamas. How he got in my pyjamas I dont know The third of Sam and Minnies six sons, Groucho was the lynch-pin of the Marx Brothers, the brilliant comedy act which emerged from New Yorks Lower East Side to conquer the vaudeville circuit and then Hollywood and the world by the end of the Roaring Twenties. But there was always more to Groucho than his trademark moustache and large cigar. After the runaway success of Horse Feathers, Duck Soup and A Night at the Opera, Groucho spent the next half-century doing what only he could do best: defining every area of his life with a unique and surreal comic vision. Outside of a dog, a book is a mans best friend. Inside of a dog, its too dark too read