This is PINTELE! Part 1: Straight Outta Anatevka Listen now, at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts. www.noahdiamond.com/pintele/part... PINTELE is a seven-part series exploring Jewish identity and what it means to me. A new chapter will be released every Thursday through March 26.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Recommendations from the PINTELE bookshelf: Great Books with the Same Title Edition (featuring JEWGIRL by Charlene Fix and JEWGIRL by Marcie Maxfield): www.noahdiamond.com/pintele/2026... PINTELE premieres Thursday, February 12 with Part 1, "Straight Outta Anatevka!" Listen and subscribe wherever!

PINTELE premieres this Thursday, February 12! In the series premiere, "Straight Outta Anatevka," we'll get the matzo ball rolling! mailchi.mp/9033ad28d98e...

Remember, Donald Trump occupies his current office illegitimately. Therefore, it's incorrect to say, "The President of the United States shat himself on live television."

In our new bonus segment, we consider Mel Brooks' comments about the Marxes' first MGM film, and come to the surprising conclusion that he meant what he said. We then explore the relationship between the 2,000 Year Old Man and the Four Horsemen of the Apoplexy. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

In Episode 89 of the MBCP, the air is thick with listeners' commentaries about A NIGHT AT THE OPERA, the greatest Marx Brothers film released in 1935, and with OUR commentaries on those commentaries! On account of you, we nearly heard the opera! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Save the date: February 12 - the Series Premiere of PINTELE! The first chapter will be available Thursday, February 12, with a new chapter every Thursday through the end of March. And as soon as today, you can find PINTELE wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe now! noahdiamond.com/pintele

PINTELE UPDATE 16! Why is this project different from all other projects? Here's an update on the side project I've barely mentioned, The Pintele Haggadah. Also, the best indication yet of when PINTELE might actually be available, and I can stop teasing it. Soon! www.noahdiamond.com/pintele/2026...

There's still time to send us your recorded comments about A NIGHT AT THE OPERA for inclusion in our January episode. See the screenshot for Bob's notes and guidelines. The deadline for submissions is Friday, January 23. Please, join the conversation -- because it's coming apart!

Five years ago today, a mob of Republican terrorists stormed Capitol Hill under orders from the neo-Nazi criminal Donald Trump. The ensuing attack is burned into our national consciousness alongside Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center.

These are the final hours of the last day of the year 2025, and I'm astonished to report that tonight, all seven episodes of PINTELE are finished. Well, make that "finished..." www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

In our final bonus segment of 2025, we find the calendar sadly lacking in holidays which celebrate arcane aspects of the Marx Brothers, and propose brilliant solutions. Then we casually drop a major announcement about something Marxians can look forward to in 2026. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

For our final episode of 2025, we consider the YBYL follow-up TELL IT TO GROUCHO, which nobody remembers; and Groucho's sidekick on that show, JOY HARMON, whom everyone remembers! The wonderful Ms. Harmon joins us to discuss her life with Groucho. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

Print and post on the restroom, port-a-potty, stall, or outhouse of your choice!

Back in July of 2024, we introduced the game of Marx Brothers Council Roulette, in which we scroll randomly through the group and respond to whatever we land on. We thought this would be the perfect time to revive that idea, because we couldn't think of a new one. www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

EP 87! Welcome @elliottkalan.bsky.social, Emmy & Peabody winning writer for The Daily Show & MST3K, podcaster (The Flop House, 99% Invisible), author of the Marxian SHARKO & HIPPO & the recent JOKE FARMING. A great talk about jokes & how they work! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

This is Tom Stoppard's remarkable essay about the personal revelations that led to the writing of his last and perhaps greatest play, LEOPOLDSTADT. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ATTENTION WORLD-WEARY SOPHISTICATES! @kabiehl.bsky.social, @brettnyc.bsky.social, @jonnyporkpie.bsky.social & I are purveying exquisitely-designed apparel like this Beautiful Pickle Tee, the perfect gift for that half-sour someone. Thru 12/1, 10% off everything at 7centnickel.com with code NICKEL10.

Here's a quick report on five days of intense, focused work on PINTELE. Parts 6 and 7 now exist! Which means ALL the parts now exist -- though three of them are in states of semi-completeness. We're getting there...! www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

Our new BONUS SEGMENT, available to our Patreon subscribers at all paid levels, is an hourlong VIDEO in which we share clips of familiar Marx costars in some of their OTHER appearances. We think you'll enjoy this, despite the fact that you can see our faces in it! www.patreon.com/posts/142971...

MBCP episode 86 features listeners' commentary on Duck Soup, which most fans agree was released in 1933. As usual, the thoughtful insights of our listeners have prompted discussions of this very familiar film from new and intriguing angles. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

PINTELE update: Not Impossible! Read the new update, watch the trailer, and learn more about the project right here: www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...

In our new bonus segment we discuss the concept of "punching up and punching down" in comedy, and whether it applies to the work of the Marx Brothers. (To access this and our 32 previous bonus segments, subscribe to the MBCP on Patreon for as little as $3 per month!) www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-...

Of course, the best thing about devoting a podcast episode to some of the Marx Brothers’ radio appearances is that you can play the clips. Which means that our guests for this episode are the Marx Brothers themselves. www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...

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...