The Marx Brothers Miscellany - A Subjective Appreciation of the World's Greatest Comedy Team (hardback)

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Marx Brothers are widely regarded as the 20</span><sup style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>th</sup><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> century's greatest comedy team a tight knit performing unit who reached their fans through a dozen films three Broadway shows a radio program and a top-flight vaudeville act as well the brothers' own separate accomplishments as book authors recording artists television personalities and entrepreneurs. Yet while it's tempting to think so the world's most popular comedy act didn't emerge in a vacuum. Groucho's brand of verbal nonsense humor Harpo's silent clowning and Chico's Italian shtick were all highly popular and familiar vaudeville specialties in their day. What made the Marx Brothers original was that they packed it all into the same explosive anarchistic act. And they were so funny of course.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Writer/ performer Trav S.D. (No</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Applause Just Throw Money: The Book That Made Vaudeville Famous</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) now turns his attention to the greatest of all stage and screen comedy teams in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Marx Brothers Miscellany. </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Adapted from a series of public lectures and over 150 articles originally published on the popular website Travalanche </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Marx Brothers Miscellany </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>mimics its unruly subject with an irreverent style and crazy-quilt structure combining cultural history biography criticism and more than a few surprises. A one of a kind ex-TRAV-aganza </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Marx Brothers Miscellany</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> also features art by Noah Diamond and a foreword by Austin Pendleton (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Skidoo What's Up Doc? Finding Nemo</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>).</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bette Midler called </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>No Applause</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the best book about the people who worked in vaudeville in </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>People </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>magazine. Trav S.D.'s other books have included </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chain of Fools: Silent Comedy and Its Legacies from Nickelodeons to Youtube </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>(2013) and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rose's Royal Midgets and Other Little People of Vaudeville</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> (2020). </span></p>