there was an opportunity for groucho to be groucho. to get off one-liners sometimes quasi-chuckling. often very clever. two wisecracks at the expense of the nominal contestants who were among other things victoria asked way was very congrats to, shades of our own literary endeavors. you know, and he had a psychic. george lotter who was this bland as groucho was over spiced and it was just a perfect foil and it was the 50s. the supposedly bland 50s and groucho was this wonderful breath of irreverent fresh air. >> i always remember say the secret word and the duck comes down. >> totally pointless exercise but that was part of the show. i'm sure later comics built on the illogic of groucho. >> what about mahatma gandhi? >> mahatma gandhi obvious that it had a much more serious side. never forget i did a story in my eulogy. >> your eulogy. >> my eulogy of president t for what the turn-of-the-century was asked by time magazine along with all number of other prominent people to identify his candidate for the greatest figure of the 20th centu

he had a sidekick george with his plan and groucho.it was the 50s the planned 50s and groucho was a wonderful breath. >> it was totally pointless exercise, it was the whole point of the show. , built on geologic of groucho. >> what about mahatma gandhi. >> on a much more serious thing on never forget i told the story in my eulogy. >> president florida my eulogy on president florida who at the turn-of-the-century was asked by time magazine, a number of other prominent people to identify his candidate for the greatest figure on the 20th century. and i assumed that that he would pick them and second yours and others had been taken the second was really interesting to figures from the third world made of color, each of whom distinguish themselves in opposing colonialism. it's one more reminder that you should never fall into the error of assuming or presuming you know people were there preferences mohammed is a great unlikely figure who was at one time a south african warrior. who aspired to success in that genre and came early in life to

he had a sidekick george with his plan and groucho.it was the 50s the planned 50s and groucho was a wonderful breath. >> it was totally pointless exercise, it was the whole point of the show. , built on geologic of groucho. >> what about mahatma gandhi. >> on a much more serious thing on never forget i told the story in my eulogy. >> president florida my eulogy on president florida who at the turn-of-the-century was asked by time magazine, a number of other prominent people to identify his candidate for the greatest figure on the 20th century. and i assumed that that he would pick them and second yours and others had been taken the second was really interesting to figures from the third world made of color, each of whom distinguish themselves in opposing colonialism. it's one more reminder that you should never fall into the error of assuming or presuming you know people were there preferences mohammed is a great unlikely figure who was at one time a south african warrior. who aspired to success in that genre and came early in life to

. >> marilyn was at schwab's one day kind of waiting for a break, and somebody told her that grouchore casting. i want to get a chance at this part. >> groucho marx said that he wanted an actress who could make my elderly libido rise. he tested three different actresses. >> come in. >> then marilyn fit the bill. >> she entered the room with so much awareness of her sexuality and willingness to have it out there. >> her role is seconds, and her job is to make everyone's jaw drop. >> is there anything i can do for you? >> what a ridiculous statement. >> mr. grunion, i want you to help me. >> what seems to be the trouble? >> some men are following me. >> really? i can't understand why. >> she was a product of the times. you couldn't show sex in any of its sort of natural form. >> i advise you to leave. >> i'll take you down to the bus station. oh, if i'm not back tonight, go ahead without me. >> so you got it in this exaggerated, unnatural form. >> that's been the history of all my romances. >> she was letting the world know she carried this aura of sexuality, and everybody got it and w

a big break came when he appeared on groucho marx's radio show. >> where are you from, jim? ca finold canadianooname. >> reporter: he was the chinese soldier, the chinese prisoner, the guy running a chinese laundry. you didn't play fully-rounded characters. you played stereotypes, and that was it. >> if you didn't play the roles that were given to you, you would be not working at all. so in a sense, in order to keep up my craft, i had to take these roles as the chinese railroad worker or laundryman and so forth. >> reporter: and he was forced to confront racism. one incident still things. >> it is a very hurtful thing. i was in london du doing the son of charlie chan. j. carrol naish was charlie chan. every day he had to push his eyes up like this. and he had to push his eyelids against that piece so that you wouldn't see the space between the piece and his own eye. that got under hiss under his s. amraanddt is t o-camera hool fhinese tors? and i was a me. i had my fist clenched. i thought he was going to slug me or something. he walked past and had me fired. and i went to h

i'm hearing from the groucho marks desk, word of the day, michael schmidt said it. he wins. privilege in this case for donald trump. what are the implications of that? what specifically now will the committee have access to that it wouldn't had the supreme court ruled a different way? >> so there's a list of documents that has come out in the litigation here that sort of lays out all the different types of things that the committee could learn. and these are documents that include handwritten notes, drafts of declarations that the white house may have been putting together, drafts of speeches and statements, internal logs of who was meeting with who, who was doing what, to give the internal picture inside of the white house of what was going on. email messages, other messages -- phone records, that sort of thing. those could be very important documents to showing the anatomy of the white house's operation that day. the one thing that i've often sort of cautioned in talking to folks about those documents is that assumes this white house was operating in sort of a normal way,