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>>>>And one of my alltime favourite Grouchoisms: "Either this man is dead or my watch has stopped."
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>>>How about "If I held you any closer I would be on the other side of you."
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>>Margaret Dumont was incredible. It's interesting that Groucho loved to work with her because apparently she had no sense of humour. He said that because she never really got any of the jokes, she came across as totally innocent and oblivious. One of the cinema's great foils.
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>I hadn't realised that. I've known people like that - humour goes straight over their heads.
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>Oh, other greats, and my favourites of this era - Laurel & Hardy, esp. the short "talkies". I still fall about laughing and my kids love them too: humour that has stood the test of time for some, what? - 70-80 years.

Dave Barry once wrote a column about persons who are 'humour impaired'. By that he meant, not those persons who did not get the joke, but rather those who didn't know it was a joke.

He gave the example of an article he wrote talking about how the U.S. could help itself to get out of debt by selling off mostly unused states like Wyoming, or Idaho. He received a slew of letters telling him that was a terrible idea. Those are the humour impaireds he was talking about.