The Marx Brothers created timeless comedy, but fans have had to “make do” with the relative handful of movies they left behind. It’s no chore to revisit Duck Soup or A Night at the Opera on a regular basis, but now, thanks to Shout! Factory’s new three-disc DVD set The Marx Brothers TV Collection, there is more Marxian madness than ever to enjoy.

And, if you say the secret woid, there is a fourth “bonus” disc available in limited quantities (along with a poster of Drew Friedman’s wonderful DVD cover art) if you order directly from Shout! Factory’s website. It includes a half-hour filmed segment from the anthology Silver Theater starring Chico called Papa Romani (1950), an episode of The Christophers’ show It’s Your Serve (1954) with Harpo among the guests, two excerpts from The Hollywood Palace (1964/65) featuring Groucho and his favorite foil, Margaret Dumont, a 1971 interview with Chico’s daughter Maxine Marx for a local television station in Virginia, and an excerpt from the somewhat embarrassing One Man Show (1969), which I remember watching (and wincing through) when it first aired.

This is Groucho past his prime, but it’s still valuable to have. This, on top of the ten hours of material on the more widely circulated 3-disc set, provides a cornucopia of television fodder: complete shows, excerpts, imports, commercials, and what can only be called miscellany. What’s more, the accompanying booklet is filled with rare photos and memorabilia. All of this has been a labor of love for, a Marxophile of the first rank who is also working on an exhaustive book about the brothers’ largely-undocumented vaudeville and stage careers. His program notes point out how many of the songs and routines Groucho, Harpo, and Chico performed on TV variety shows of the 1950s and ‘60s dated back to their earliest days in vaudeville. (He is also the editor of, an excellent compendium of Groucho’s humorous writings.) The executive producer of this package is Bill Marx, the proud son of Harpo who narrates a fascinating 22-minute assortment of silent home movie footage featuring the brothers and their families over the years. (He also turns up, briefly, in the episode of Fess Parker’s TV show Mr.

Smith Goes to Washington that features Harpo as guest star.) Like much of the material in this DVD collection, it has never been shown publicly before. It’s difficult to know what to single out, besides that home-movie collage, as there are so many goodies here.

I love the out-take reel from the final season of You Bet Your Life, the kinescope of Chico’s short-lived musical TV series College Bowl (featuring a young Andy Williams in its ensemble), The Jack Benny Program from 1955 with Jack as a sham contestant on Groucho’s quiz show, the segments from Inside Beverly Hills, and much, much more. I even like seeing Chico on Championship Bridge and Harpo on Celebrity Golf (which was directed by the man who made Monkey Business and Horse Feathers, Norman Z. If you’re a baby boomer like me, these shows and clips create a nostalgia trip to a time when it was commonplace to see the greats of show business on television. We didn’t know how good we had it then. This marvelous collection brings back a wave of happy memories.

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— Don't worry if you missed the joke. A new one will be along any moment. A style of comedic presentation where a mass of jokes come at the audience in rapid succession in the hope that at least a few of them stick. If the audience doesn't find Joke A all that funny, Joke B is following right on its heels, and if Joke B doesn't cut it, Joke C is right behind that one.

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Films and TV shows that use this technique are sometimes little more than a string of rapid-fire jokes tied very loosely together through some sort of ultra-thin plotline that no one can be bothered to care about anyway. In other cases, the show will move from one plot to the next almost as fast as the jokes. In short, it's the comedic version of. This is actually a standard comedy strategy (it's commonly referred to in production circles as the 'shotgun method'). It's easier to keep the audience laughing than to get the audience laughing. So stand-up comedians will come on stage and immediately ask for a big round of applause for the master of ceremonies, or the previous comedian.

Once the audience starts responding, comedians will use their best material to really get the ball rolling. Then they'll throw in odds and sods with enough good jokes to keep things going. In some cases, this technique can backfire, especially if the rapid-fire comedy interferes with an otherwise dramatic, sad or angsty moment; complaints also can come when the barrage of gags didn't start out as funny and hasn't really become any better by the end of it. This technique is an easy way to, since the censors don't have enough time to notice the obscene joke among the dozens of other gags. This is a subtrope of the. It's almost guaranteed that the jokes will include a good number of., and are all subtropes of Rapid Fire Comedy. It may happen to you if you a comedy Webcomic.

• comedy mangas in general. They usually have 1 joke every 4 frames at minimum. • is notorious for the extremely high density of jokes.

It isn't just a of Shounen, it's a taken, using a twisted Manzai humor with many non-sequiturs. Irritatingly, the pacing of the show is just as slow as the most-drawn out filler arcs of 'real' shounen anime. • is an endless stream of and •, though usually slower paced, falls under this trope sometimes. Especially in the beginning of the first episode when everyone is talking at once.

You would have to watch it several times to get all the jokes. • specializes in these. Each episode is only two minutes long, including the opening theme, so a lot of the humor goes on at breakneck speeds. • The last few comics turned into this: a pageful of panels filled mostly with Polish popculture references or on a single subject. •, does not have a page without a joke. This includes the table of contents, which inevitably will feature a fake article mixed in with all the real ones. Even with full-page ads, you still have to at least look because there's probably a 50-50 shot that it will actually be yet another MAD parody.

• Both and are known for their quick wit, so when they're together, it often results in this trope when they build off of one another's jokes. • is the gold-standard by which all other such works of this sort are judged. This was in many ways when the team Zucker/Abrahams/Zucker perfected the technique. • shows that there's a reason that Deadpool is called the Merc with a Mouth.

Deadpool cracks joke after joke, and seems to double down on the jokes after someone tries to get him to shut up. • Most of the Wayans Brothers' more wacky movies are like this, especially the series (at least the first two and the fifth; one of the Z's of ZAZ, David Zucker, handled the other two), Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Sippin' Yo Juice in da Hood and. • This trope was standard operating procedure for the, especially in their earlier (pre- ) films. Thus, and a surprise to many people, this trope is Older Than. • And then there's, produced by David and Jerry Zucker as a of. The jokes are as fast and unrelenting as anything from the ZAZ repertoire, peppered with the antics of the.

• — even better on second viewing, because some of it is delivered in such an offhand way. • is quite fond of this comedic technique; his genre parodies tend to consist of non-stop gags. • pretends to be a straight action movie at first, but it steadily slides into Airplane!

• generally runs on the, but reaches true rapid-fire status during the press conference sequence. All four Beatles take turns offering, punny or just plain absurd answers to reporters' questions., as they really did tend to be inveterate smartasses, and that scene was completely ad-libbed. • combines really quick comedy with a really, really fast-paced plot.

• wastes no time showing the zaniness of the lego world and Emmett's journey that soon follows. • follows its tie-in game fairly faithfully, but as a where the deciding factor of if things stayed in or not was how many laughs they thought they could get out of it. Eventually lampshaded by Qwark: when Nefarious complains that his joke wasn't funny, he responds that he has to think up thousands of these things; they can't all be gold. • While the show itself has a fair number of gags (in both senses of the term), turns into a breathless torrent of wisecracks.

• In-movie example: Andrew tries doing this in, but he doesn't understand that humor is about delivery and so he simply recites a bunch of jokes one after the other without transitioning or even pausing between words and sentences. •: There's a joke at least once a minute, varying between,, and lengthier sketches. •: Though the film knows to slow down for emotional moments, its comedy moments are barrages. • It's difficult to find an entire page in any novel that doesn't have some sort of joke or snark, and that's counting the cover and title page. • The Jetlag Travel Guides by Tom Gleisner, Rob Sitch and Santo Cilauro: tourist guides to non-existant countries such as Molvania and Phaic Tan. These manage to fit in one or two jokes per paragraph, which including photo captions (and even photos themselves) usually results in at least six jokes every page.

• Just about every book ever, but especially 'I Want to Go Home'. • lived on this trope.

• attempted to replicate the Airplane! Feel on television, and for the most part succeeded. Made by • Most every element of is either a satire, farce, or sight gag.

Every premise, every line, every gesture and facial expression, every relationship, every setting, nearly every character except maybe, and most of the decor in every room (Principal Blackman's face is in every other shot at the school). Even a lot of the props are used for witty comebacks. • uses this often-usually with 'pile ons'-the characters will go around and all mock one of them in turn, or through or humorous asides in non-humorous statements. • The stated intention of. Some of the sketches were little more than ' and out'. • is a proponent of this trope.

Between the happening on screen, the running commentary, and the nonsensical dubbing, it doesn't let up until you hit a commercial break. MXC actually has one up on other contenders; they do two jokes at once.

The action is pure slapstick goodness, and the commentary is about equally funny. It's hard to catch everything. • MXC has spawned an Americanized show called Wipeout that follows the premise of MXC with new footage filmed specifically for it.

•: It's camouflaged, but attention to the background events and makes it become extremely dense. Try to summarize a typical episode of the half-hour show and you'll see. • Earlier episodes of (mostly season two, though some fans would argue that the first half of season three held on) operated this way: smart, dense, dadaistic, and somewhat prone to, with a minimum of three separate plots per episode. The episode 'Succession' perhaps served as the series'.

• was built this way. Most of the jokes will sail right over the heads of 90% of the audience — but the 10% that do get the joke will be reeling with laughter from its sheer obscurity.

They make up for this disparity by firing off a lot (perhaps around 700 per episode) of obscure jokes, in the hope that the viewer will be one of the 10% that this joke was designed for. As one of the makers once said, 'The right people will get it.' • Kevin Murphy went on record of saying that his strategy was always to keep firing out jokes, because then enough will hit. This carries on to Rifftrax, where the riffs that are just Kevin and Bill have a far higher jokes-per-minute ratio than when Mike is there.

Both in Paul's monologues and in the games in general. •: Happens more and more as the show goes into its fourth season.

Notable example being the episode iGet Pranky. • Exaggerated and lampshaded in, when Pierce prepares jokes in advance for viewing the movie, KickPuncher 2.

Abed: [Hits pause] Okay, it's obvious something strange is happening here. Pierce: What are you talking about?

I'm making jokes during a movie. Troy: Yeah, but you're doing it with the speed and determination of the incomparable. • often got into this; understandable, since was the star. Is that the scriptwriters would often simply write ' for him to improvise something on the spot. • has only an 11 minute running time, so it does its best to pack in as many jokes as possible.

• rarely goes more than 3 lines without a joke of some sort. • has Wayne and Daryl do this with most of their insults. • Legendary comedian/actor was known for this style of comedy, which purportedly burned through writers at an alarming rate. • was the Master of Rapid Fire Comedy, often described as the rare performer who's mouth moved as quickly as his brain. Generous portions of his standup routine and movie roles were improvised. • One of the highlights of ' stand ups was to go around the room, trying to 'insult' a lot of people in the audience as he possibly can.

• Comedian Tim Vine is a former holder of the Guinness World Record for most jokes told in an hour, currently held by perennial winner Geechy Guy. • Despite his trademark slow, deadpan delivery, Steven Wright's stand-up comedy is all about this trope. Virtually every sentence out of his mouth is a punchline. • Ben Elton's stand-up act throughout the Eighties was based on this, the gags at twice normal speed. He later lamented the fact that he used up so much good material so quickly. • Quite a few routines, but 'Modern Man' wins the prize for jokes/second ratio. • Listening to is the standup equivalent of.

• Jimmy Carr, while he does slow down when he does audience interaction segments, none of his 'regular' jokes last more than 15 seconds. The jokes are essentially those lame gags found in Christmas Crackers spiced up a bit and delivered in such a deadpan style.

• Ken Dodd, teller of quick jokes, has stated several times that he's always after a joke rate of '7 TPM', or seven titters per minute. He once won the Guinness' World Record for this, with 7.14 jokes per minute for three or so hours. • 's songs, especially his raps. •, oh so much.

• In 's Unglued and Unhinged expansions, every card has several in-jokes squeezed onto it. They even put jokes in the legal text on the packaging. • features over 2000 story snippets, that are frequently hilarious due to the fortune or peril they cause the player. Its rules emphasizes storytelling, and it's a bigger disappointment to not do something funny on a turn than it is to lose. • Nearly every card in (and its many spinoffs) features a pun or reference, and even the rulebook itself consistently cracks jokes. • Some people — those who have only seen it performed, or only seen the movie version — wonder why Oscar Wilde's is so famous.

The thing is, the jokes are so rapid-fire that by the time you've had time to get one, five more have rocketed past your head. It's so bewildering that it absolutely kills. The only way to understand and enjoy a performance of the play is to have read the script enough times to have memorized half the jokes in advance. •: Shakespeare's comedies are exactly the opposite of Earnest — many of the jokes go unnoticed, due to language, culture, and context differences, until you actually see them performed (body language is usually more helpful than any amount of English classes). • Shakespeare is made howlingly funnier for most viewers without a special affinity to archaic language in the Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). • The audience participation of has in some parts developed so many extensive routines that the audience talks more than the actors.

• features running banter between the main character, his dark palette-swapped rival, and several deities (friend and foe alike) pretty much constantly throughout the course of the game. • lives on this trope. • Many of 's games are like this. A good example is the miscellaneous items in Stinky's in the second season of.

Not only does every item have its own humorous description, but for the first three episodes, the description changes each episode. • has at least joke for every interactable item. The only downtime is how long it takes you to travel between them. • While not spat out at breakneck speed, the title character from the games speaks almost entirely in puns and witty remarks. Every line out of his mouth is a punchline of some sort.

• This trope is comparatively rare in shorter works like webcomics and newspaper comics, but stands out as an example—it often doesn't even have a punchline in the proper sense, ending the strip when it's out of jokes on the subject. • uses this format all the time.

The most common format for the comic is one panel of set-up and, each with a mini joke within them. ' is a good example of the comic's style, and it even has four mini jokes in it! • A number of comics, such as or present large panoramas built around a common theme saturated with jokes for this apparent purpose. • The further goes, the more jokes in a single issue there are.

Case in point: 's ( spoilers alert). •, like, uses a longer form, punchline-less system. On an average strip, every single panel with have a joke in each word-bubble, a joke in the background, a and a joke in the title. • and: Many jokes and gags can happen so quickly at once, in an episode's span of 6-to-12 minutes. • is a master of this due to his.

• Both of purpleeyeswtf's abridgements, and, make amazing use of this trope. Purpleyes' amazing comedic timing doesn't exactly hurt. • There's also, which is an, going through everything before the Namek arc in only 2 minutes and crashing headfirst into this trope at mach speed.

• Now with Episode 2! • successfully mimics purpleeyeswtf's style of rapid surreal humor. • uses this often.

In Episode II, for example, almost every other line is a joke. • in general but especially.

There's enough comedy in one five-minute segment to fill a good-size movie, particularly given that. • loves doing this on many of his shows. • uses the abridging to just cram the jokes into their densest state. • The ' series isn't as dense with jokes, but Marik still keeps the jokes flying. • is longer than the other series, but still has several jokes a minute.

• has two series. 'Comedy so fast The Flash once said, 'Even though I am technically faster than Superman, I too agree that this comedy is quicker than what you typically see.' ' •; Each video is. And usually hilarious.

• is a series of fan videos with a style of humor curiously similar to Robot Chicken (in spite of being created before Robot Chicken aired). Anime clips, no more than a minute long, are set to music or audio from a different source for comedic effect. It also lasts for more than an hour. • is essentially meets.

• All of 's writings are a cluster of connected jokes. •: Particularly the Omni- episodes, in which the Ninja answers several questions in rapid succession. • It's unsurprising that is this, given that it's essentially for (and bad video game content in general).

• takes and applies it to this trope. • mixes this with to hilarious effect. • Watch any Vine video compilation. If the currently playing 7-second clip doesn't do it for you, odds are the next one will.

• Youtube Poop is very, very prone to falling into this. • The guys from go into this. Especially Randy Hayes. • In early videos made by, Matthew makes a joke every few seconds. • Most of 's videos, especially the ones he made for Vine (see above) but also the longer ones he's done since. Both and through several millennia worth of history in a matter of minutes and nearly every single line is a punchline. And that's not even counting the seconds-long jingles peppered throughout his entire oeuvre.

• pioneered this in animation, starting with his work on and then took it further. At the torch was carried by his acolyte Bob Clampett. • The -inspired -produced cartoon shows and, and, to an even greater extent,. • takes this to an extreme: pauses the voice actors put between jokes are digitally removed. •; made of Rapid-Fire Comedy and ADHD.

Emphasis on 'hyperactivity'. •: A combination of this and obscure references ensures that you'll still be catching new jokes on your fourth, fifth, etc. Time watching any given episode. Especially in later seasons.

•: With its constant use of running gags and basic jokes, the episodes tend to string them together. In fact, as the seasons went on, the show used this trope more frequently. • tended to use this a lot in the episode that creator Stephen Hillenberg oversaw. The episodes without him relied more on. • can sneak up on you like this.