Definitions
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- noun a family of United States comedians consisting of four brothers with an anarchic sense of humor
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Examples
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Filled with mistaken identities, slamming doors, and over-the-top romantic shenanigans, it's a furiously paced comedy that recalls the Marx Brothers 'classics.
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The Marx Brothers are the idols of one of the show runner / creators.
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You can see the influence the Marx Brothers and Krazy Kat and Mark Twain had on Pogo and its love of silly grammatical puns and Southern dialect.
Michael Giltz: Books: Well, Dog My Cats! Comic Strip Masterpiece "Pogo" Gets Dee-luxe Treatment! Michael Giltz 2011
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Standing behind a Star of David-bedecked podium at Caroline's on Broadway last month, Rachel Gerber of the City Congregation presented her project on the Marx Brothers, which she worked on for more than a year with the help of a New York University film professor, Jack Lechner.
More City Bar Mitzvahs Hold the Religion Laura Tillman 2011
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They carried buckets of water to and fro, they placed orders for Chinese food and walked down the block to pick it up, they watched Marx Brothers movies.
Maybe Maybe brian warfield 2011
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At times, you could almost see elements of Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, or at least how you might have imagined them developing had they been born in these days of the internet, in his vignettes.
Randy Turner: Joplin High School Tornado Victim Was a Shooting Star Randy Turner 2011
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The movies of the Marx Brothers are some of the many exceptions to this rule.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "School For Lies" A Triumph Michael Giltz 2011
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The problem with Kenny and Sir Alex is they are too fixated on football matters to have built up a decent knowledge of Marx Brothers films.
MUTV: where players can dine out on clothes-shredding stories for ever | Martin Kelner 2012
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The movies of the Marx Brothers are some of the many exceptions to this rule.
Michael Giltz: Theater: "School For Lies" A Triumph Michael Giltz 2011
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The Marx Brothers stow away in "Monkey Business" (1931), and a soda fountain is sabotaged with boozy "lemon syrup" in "Caught Plastered" (1931).
On Screen: Rare Comedy for Cinephiles Anthony Paletta 2011
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