Groucho and W. C. Fields

Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After they left their hilarious smudges on the genre comedy was anything but. <p>Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of shtick antiheroic humor that killed off the tame demeanor of their many predecessors in show business. <p>By derailing the comedy oof innocence Groucho and Fields brought film comedy to its Golden Age.