With Groucho the master wisecracker and wordsmith, Harpo the otherworldly mischief maker, and Chico the overconfident conman, very little wacky comedic space could be filled up after that, and Zeppo became the designated stiff.
Zeppo joined his older brothers Groucho, Harpo, and Chico in their stage performances in the late 1910s, replacing their brother Gummo who joined the army. Such was the case with the legendary comedy team the Marx Brothers and its youngest member, Zeppo Marx, who served as the ideal straight man for the group in their first five films. In a comedy troupe, however, someone will always be saddled with the job of setting up the joke rather than delivering the punchline. As actor and comedian Kevin Pollak would say on his old podcast, they suffer from “hey-look-at-me disease.” This is especially true in comedy, where the sole goal is to make the audience laugh. Whether they want to admit it or not, people who get up and perform for an audience want to be celebrated in some way. They haven’t reappeared.In Christopher Nolan’s 2006 magician drama The Prestige, Robert Angier ( Hugh Jackman), known professionally as “The Great Danton,” ends his performances with a teleportation trick involving a body double, forcing him to take his final bow underneath the stage while the double gets to bask in the adoration from the audience. The giant-headed brothers, decked out in black and white, had been a mainstay of the parade in the ’30s, but in the 21st century they came off as garish, bizarre, and vaguely horrific. They weren’t traditional balloons, but rather floats with giant balloon heads meant to resemble the brothers. The Marx balloons were part of an attempt to celebrate the parade’s past by copying vintage designs from back when the Thanksgiving streets were filled with more than just cartoon characters and advertising mascots. When four balloons representing the Marx brothers marched through the 2003 Macy’s parade, spectators may have been a little baffled. Based on the pictures above, it seems that the article is incorrect in stating that four brothers were represented in 2003. Trolling the internet, I have found two pictures of the big-headed brothers which appeared in the 2003 parade.įrom, I present the following excerpt from the article, “Look kids, it’s Eddie Cantor!”: 12 obscure Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloons from years past. Fellow Marx fan Matthew Coniam, on his Marx Brothers Council of Britain blog has brought up the topic of Marx Brothers balloons in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.
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