Dick Cavett remembers his friendship with Groucho Marx, from the moment they met to the “magical hours” they spent together on television. Good news. The expert author and producer/director of ...

WHAT IT'S ABOUT Early in the summer of 1961, a young writer for "Tonight Starring Jack Paar" went to the funeral of playwright, humorist and writer of Marx Brothers' musicals, George S. Kaufman. There ...

‘Groucho & Cavett’ is culled from the comedian’s appearances on the programs Dick Cavett hosted during the late 1960s and early ’70s. Groucho Marx and Dick Cavett on ‘The Dick Cavett Show,’ June 1969.

A memory from my teenage years: The death of Groucho Marx on August 19, 1977 -- a Friday, three days after the death of Elvis Presley on August 16, a Tuesday. Memories such as this one welled up last ...

I have a confession to make. My initial inspiration to go into medicine was to someday take a patient’s pulse and declare, “Either this patient is dead, or my watch has stopped!” — just as the great ...

Dick Cavett can still picture the exact moment and location in New York City when he first met the man who would become one of his most cherished pals. It was 1961 and Cavett, then a 25-year-old ...

Groucho Marx has been dead since 1977, but to hear his grandson talk about him, one can imagine a smile on his face, those remarkable eyebrows raising “He and I became very close in his later years,” ...

Frank Ferrante describes himself as a new vaudevillian: Just like the performers of the past, he’s on the road every year, performing his one-man show, “An Evening With Groucho,” in which he channels ...

This Halloween, whether you attend an all-out costume party or stay home waiting for the neighborhood trick-or-treaters, you’re almost guaranteed to see a Groucho Marx mask. It may not be the most ...