PINTELE update: Here's the trailer! I hope you enjoy these excerpts, along with something the series doesn't have: visuals. The PINTELE page on my site has been refreshed and updated too. Now all I have to do is finish the series. Detailed updates: noahdiamond.com/pintele. youtu.be/pbp7dQv8_ok

It's too bad -- I was enjoying some Disney/ABC/Hulu content, and looking forward to more. But I won't miss it nearly as much as I miss democracy and the U.S. Constitution.

New York Daily News, July 19, 1937 and July 7, 1940.

Here I am on the excellent AMUSING JEWS program, talking with hosts Jonathan Friedmann and Joey Angel-Field about the Marx Brothers, @illsaysheis.com, PINTELE, secular Jewish identity, and more. So take a look; what could it hurt? www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMh-...

In the room the women come and go / Talking of Groucho... In this Bonus Segment (available to Patreon subscribers at all paid levels), MBCP84's Brad Sohlo returns to discuss the relationship between Groucho and T.S. Eliot, and Jeffrey Hatcher's recent play about it. www.patreon.com/posts/138414...

PINTELE Update 11: Pintele's Progress Riding a burst of momentum, the project suddenly seems to be coming together, with approximately half the material now fully produced, and a clear path toward... well, let's not get hysterical... www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

I wonder what ever became of me. I should have been back here a long time ago! -- at the Al Jolson Festival with Jan Hernstat and friends.

It behooves your correspondent to report that in Episode 84 of the MBCP, the splendacious Brad Sohlo reports on his 2024 visit to Neshobe Island, erstwhile playground of Woollcott, Harpo, and a bevy of famous friends. You ain't Bomoseen nothin' yet! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

I was pleased to be @durwoodclapper.bsky.social's guest for this episode of the @toughpigs.com 70 YEARS, 70 MUPPETS podcast, in which we discuss the performance technique and vaudeville roots of that great comedian, Fozzie Bear!

Delighted to be joined by the great @noahdiamond.com for this week's podcast, where we talk about Vaudeville, Burlesque, British Music Hall, and even Fozzie Bear!

I'm really looking forward to Duck Soup at the Sphere.

This two-hour conversation with most of the writers of YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS (always known to its perpetrators as THE Show of Shows) and CAESAR'S HOUR is the only really essential content the human race has yet produced. youtu.be/Qfod9QiEvV0

In the new bonus segment, we respond in detail to Dan Fodera's question about appropriating Marx material in real life. ("Real life," for those unfamiliar with the concept, is all that silly stuff going on around you while you're trying to watch Marx Brothers movies.) www.patreon.com/posts/135778...

We told you were doing the HORSE FEATHERS listener commentary episode in June, but we didn’t. Then we told you we were going to do it in July, and now here it is, in July. So, you may conclude that approximately 50% of what we tell you is true. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

EVERY day is Stop Giving Money to Fascists Day!

PINTELE UPDATE: After boldly declaring last week that Parts One and Two were maybe kind of "finished" in some sense, I haven't listened to them. I want to get them out of my head a little first. So I've been working on Three and Four... Read more: www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

PINTELE UPDATE: The photo, from 1980something, shows Uncle Joe in rehearsal for the seder: a characteristic gesture, eyes closed, Haggadah open. I’m looking over his shoulder; in my head I'm working on Part Three of PINTELE, though I don’t know it yet. Read more: www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

"Remember, there's nothing like Liberty." There's Nothing Like Liberty: The Marx Brothers and America (2021): www.youtube.com/live/rRXnRQB...

For this month's BONUS SEGMENT, Bob posed a simple, compelling question: If you could change just one thing about each of the Marx Brothers' movies, what would you change? I suppose that's really thirteen questions, not one... www.patreon.com/posts/132785...

Everyone knows ELLIOTT GOULD is one of the finest screen actors of all time. But despite countless scintillating interviews, he has not spoken at length about his friendship with Groucho Marx — until now! We hope you enjoy this as much as we did. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Just posted in the Marx Brothers Council group on Facebook...

1. Scott Stringer 2. Adrienne Adams 3. Brad Lander 4. Zellnor Myrie 5. Michael Blake Come on, New York, we can do this without ranking either of those two schmucks!

"Well, there are certain sections of New York, Major, that I wouldn't advise you to try to invade."

BONUS SEGMENT: THE RAVELLI AWARDS! If there's one thing in this world that really matters, it's big glitzy Hollywood awards shows. That's why The Marx Brothers Council Podcast is only slightly embarrassed to present THE RAVELLI AWARDS! www.patreon.com/posts/130683...

It's been a while since the last PINTELE update, so here we go! This weekend Part One ("Straight Outta Anatevka") took a giant leap toward completion, and although I hesitate to announce (and maybe miss) another self-imposed deadline, we really are getting there. Please follow the link for details.

Matthew takes a break from cohosting in order to make his debut as a GUEST on the MBCP, and Bob and Noah grill him on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Annotated Marx Brothers. If you're not careful, he'll annotate YOU! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Joe Biden at his most diminished is still ten times better than the last six Republican presidents put together.

And if it's 101 years since the Broadway opening, it's ONE year since the centennial presentation at @marxfest.org! Revisit the presentation now on video, with songs, visuals, guests, clips from the revival, and whatever weird thing was going on with my hair that day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmj0...

Happy I'LL SAY SHE IS Day to all who celebrate!

Let's just watch this several times every day. youtu.be/Qfod9QiEvV0

"Mr. Chairman, would you condemn Donald Trump for pardoning a January 6 rioter who praised Hitler and encouraged more killing of Jewish people?" -- Rep. Gregorio Casar

"I want to play a game. It's called Trump or Trans. You ready? So I'm going to ask you a question and I want you to tell me whether it is Trump or trans people that are responsible..." -- Rep. Jasmine Crockett www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEY0...

For those who have asked when the next Marxfest will be, we finally have an answer: We don’t know! But in the meantime, please join us for a few choice Marxian events, Memorial Day weekend at Coney Island USA (1208 Surf Ave, Brooklyn)! Tickets and info at marxfest.org and coneyisland.com.

Now pardon us while we have a strange interlude. The one, the only @kabiehl.bsky.social returns to the podcast to discuss the curious pair of non-masterpieces Groucho wrote with Norman Krasna, THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL and TIME FOR ELIZABETH. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

This is just for kicks.

Robert Frost told us that nature's first green is gold. Compare April's video with March's; see the golden leaves! Card 28 is by Nick Floyd, based on an idea that's also gold; subscribe and get it while you can, because as Robert Frost told us, nothing gold can stay. www.patreon.com/posts/postca...

Our recent rekippering of MONKEY BUSINESS involved discussion of the limp final moments of that film, and got us thinking about the OTHER endings to the Brothers' films. We're looking for a needle in a haystack, but marry us and we'll never look at any other horse! www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

PINTELE update #7: A progress report, a side project, a slight delay, and other mishegoss. www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

BONUS SEGMENT: We're taking a look at the ever-expanding Marx Brothers library, and saying a few words about books we like that don't get talked about very often. This segment is available to MBCP Patreon subscribers at all paid levels. Subscribe and listen now! www.patreon.com/posts/125835...

I'm proud to be a member of the good party and not the evil one.

Want laughter, gaiety, hot-cha-cha? Here's another special episode featuring the proud Marx Brothers Council community. You thrilled to “The Cocoanuts Revisited.” You thrilled again to “Animal Crackers Reopened.” Get ready to thrill a third time! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Well, my friends, it is once again March 22 -- the day we all come together to acknowledge the birthday of both Chico Marx and Stephen Sondheim.

Flying toward our subscribers' mailboxes is MBCP Postcard 27, with another delightful design by @megantheartoonist.bsky.social. We love all of Megan's work, but even among her many masterpieces, this is really something special. Subscribe today and we'll send you one! www.patreon.com/posts/124666...

Here are four great grandparents, my grandmothers’ mothers and fathers, all of whom crossed an ocean before the age of thirty to flee oppression and likely annihilation and start life all over again in a strange new place... www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

Just what you've been waiting for: an updated progress report on my upcoming audio series, PINTELE! www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

Fake President Shithead wants the Declaration of Independence to hang in the office he illegitimately occupies. But if you actually READ the Declaration (or if you're a Republican, have someone read it to you), you know it's a pointedly anti-Trump screed. noahdiamond.medium.com/fake-preside...

There's an old joke. Two elderly Jewish women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of them says, "Boy, there are a lot of Marx Brothers references in Woody Allen movies!" The other one says, "I know, but such small portions of The Marx Brothers Council Podcast!" www.patreon.com/posts/123610...

Thanks to the great generosity of friend and Marx Brothers aficionado Lewis Stone, I am now the proud custodian of an authentic period pith helmet -- and jodhpurs (not pictured). So who wants to do ANIMAL CRACKERS?!