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From 1950 to 1961 American comedian Groucho Marx hosted a quiz show called " You Bet Your Life " on television.

Julius Henry Marx, better known as "Groucho", was an absolute master of wit. In total he made thirteen feature films with the Marx Brothers.

As usual, I don't know the name of the auther of the quote, and care less. Was it Groucho Marx? The Groucho Marx radio and television quiz show You Bet Your Life featured a secret word.

With few exceptions, comedy is like milk and fruit - it doesn't age well. While people were in hysterics about Groucho Marx's double entendres, puns and faux ballet moves 75 years ago, his antics just aren't as funny today.

BY TOM LAVIS TLAVIS@TRIBDEM.COM Audience members won't need to say the secret word to enjoy Groucho Marx at his best when actor Frank Ferrante portrays the legendary comedian and "You Bet Your Life" host.

For openers in the "It takes one to know one" sweepstakes, Woody Allen, one of our most decorated and beloved laugh mongers in his own right, says Groucho Marx stands supreme as the greatest comedian ever ...

The 'K-Circle Quiz Fest - 2009'will be held on March 7 at Khemka Auditorium,Indian School of Business, Gachibowli.

An episode of Groucho Marx's popular 1950's Television series, "You Bet Your Life", which aired from 1950 to 1961.

"Some people are blessed in knowing what they want to do at an early age and they go for it.

'Make 'Em Laugh: The Funny Business of America,' PBS's ambitious survey of the last century of comedy, has a can't-go-wrong approach to its subject: Roll the clips. Over its six hours, the documentary unspools goodies galore from some comic giants (and a few midgets), hopscotching from Charlie Chaplin to Cheech and Chong.

Like a polished stand-up performer, 'Laugh' maintains such a good-natured pace that boredom, and PBS-style documentary solemnity, are never options. It's a shtick machine: Bob Hope comes and goes, as does Andy Kaufman, Burns and Allen, Jackie Gleason, Laurel and Hardy, Lenny Bruce, Will Rogers, 'The Daily Show,' and on and on. Host Billy Crystal even pops up to make fun of pledge drives and public television docu-god Ken Burns.

I am just star-struck enough, and not at all ashamed to admit it, to be really excited about the newest stamps.

WASHINGTON - Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands 'just the facts' with a penetrating gaze.

Postal Service lifts curtain on next year's stamps 1/4 AP Photo These undated handout images provided by the U.S. Postal Service shows 2009 postage stamps honoring, from left, Hawaii and Alaska's 50th ...

The Postal Service`s 2009 stamp lineup ranges from tributes to civil rights legends to flashbacks from TV classics.

Lucy and Ethel lose their struggle with a chocolate assembly line. Joe Friday demands "just the facts" with a penetrating gaze.