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Noah Diamond
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Writer, performer, designer, Groucho Marxist.

Projects: Pintele, I'll Say She Is, Marx Brothers Council Podcast, Marxfest. Author: Gimme a Thrill, Love Marches On, 400 Years in Manhattan.

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Future scholars can understand life in the United States in 2026 by imagining that after Pearl Harbor or 9/11, 77 million Americans had chosen Yamamoto or bin Laden to be President of the United States.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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Five years ago today, a mob of Republican terrorists stormed Capitol Hill under orders from the neo-Nazi criminal Donald Trump. The ensuing attack is burned into our national consciousness alongside Pearl Harbor and the World Trade Center.
January 6, 2026 at 1:31 PM
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I like this! I'd like a fan edit of The Big Store that has the devil-may-care insouciance of Horse Feathers and the costumes from Room Service!
January 2, 2026 at 2:46 AM
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What I really want is MORE stagey versions of Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup!
January 1, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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These are the final hours of the last day of the year 2025, and I'm astonished to report that tonight, all seven episodes of PINTELE are finished.

Well, make that "finished..."

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Pintele Update: It’s “Finished”
It’s the final Pintele update of 2025, and guess what: It’s “finished!” Now it’s just a matter of removing those quotation marks…
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December 31, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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There'll be no diving for this cigar!
December 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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A Visit from the Marx Brothers Noah Diamond after Clement Clarke Moore ‘Twas the night before Christmas, with no waxing wroth. Not a creature was stirring, not even a left-handed moth. The posters that hung on the walls sure impressed: Monkey Business, The Cocoanuts - even Go West. The children were wild, eating crackers in beds, while barrels of smoked herring danced in their heads. And Minnie and I sang a couple of numbers before we retired to our long winter slumbers, when out on the sidewalk arose such a clamor, we knew it was Wagstaff, or Firefly, or Hammer. Away to the window I flew in a dash, like a flute - no, a flush - no, a fish - no, a flash. Surveying the scene, I called out to the others, “I know in a moment it must be the Brothers!” And riding like fury, with Ethyl or Mabel, they appeared like a vision, profoundly unstable. “On, Pinky! On, Rusty! On, Stuffy! Professor! On, Wacky!” (And isn’t that Lassparri’s dresser?) The apartment was suddenly full of these fellows - Pirellis, Ravellis, Tonys, Fiorellos! And even, with all the odd grace of a shamisen, a mild-mannered lackey who called himself Jamison. They got right to work, spinning laughter and tunes; they refilled our hearts and they stole all our spoons. And soon they departed, as fast as they came, off to cheer up the world and continue the game. But I heard them exclaim, over all our applause, “Now, let’s not lose our heads - there’s a Sanity Clause!”
December 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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In our final bonus segment of 2025, we find the calendar sadly lacking in holidays which celebrate arcane aspects of the Marx Brothers, and propose brilliant solutions. Then we casually drop a major announcement about something Marxians can look forward to in 2026.

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Bonus segment: More Marx Holidays! | The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
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December 24, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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For our final episode of 2025, we consider the YBYL follow-up TELL IT TO GROUCHO, which nobody remembers; and Groucho's sidekick on that show, JOY HARMON, whom everyone remembers! The wonderful Ms. Harmon joins us to discuss her life with Groucho.

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Episode 88: The Joy of Marx (featuring Joy Harmon) — The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
Few remember Tell It to Groucho , but everyone remembers Joy Harmon, Groucho’s sidekick on that show, as well as a You Bet Your Life contestant, stage and screen actor, and more recently, as a belo...
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December 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Print and post on the restroom, port-a-potty, stall, or outhouse of your choice!
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December 21, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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Back in July of 2024, we introduced the game of Marx Brothers Council Roulette, in which we scroll randomly through the group and respond to whatever we land on. We thought this would be the perfect time to revive that idea, because we couldn't think of a new one.

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Bonus segment: Marx Brothers Council Roulette Revisited! | The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
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December 5, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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EP 87! Welcome @elliottkalan.bsky.social, Emmy & Peabody winning writer for The Daily Show & MST3K, podcaster (The Flop House, 99% Invisible), author of the Marxian SHARKO & HIPPO & the recent JOKE FARMING. A great talk about jokes & how they work! www.marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com/episodes/202...
Episode 87: At’sa Some Joke, Eh, Boss? (featuring Elliott Kalan) — The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
We’re joined by Elliott Kalan — comedy writer, podcaster, and author of, among other things, the Marxian children’s book Sharko and Hippo , and the new practical guide Joke Farming: How to Write Com...
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November 30, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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This is Tom Stoppard's remarkable essay about the personal revelations that led to the writing of his last and perhaps greatest play, LEOPOLDSTADT.

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Tom Stoppard - On Tomas Straussler Becoming English
On Tomas Straussler Becoming English By TOM STOPPARD The little girl at the front in this photograph is my mother Martha Beckova in 1914, aged three. The Czech family Beck are not the Austrian family ...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Here's a quick report on five days of intense, focused work on PINTELE. Parts 6 and 7 now exist! Which means ALL the parts now exist -- though three of them are in states of semi-completeness. We're getting there...!

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The oil burned for five days
A report on my five-day Pintele sabbatical.
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November 12, 2025 at 6:14 AM
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Our new BONUS SEGMENT, available to our Patreon subscribers at all paid levels, is an hourlong VIDEO in which we share clips of familiar Marx costars in some of their OTHER appearances. We think you'll enjoy this, despite the fact that you can see our faces in it!

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Bonus segment: Some of our favorite appearances by actors we associate with the Marx Brothers in other things | The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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MBCP episode 86 features listeners' commentary on Duck Soup, which most fans agree was released in 1933. As usual, the thoughtful insights of our listeners have prompted discussions of this very familiar film from new and intriguing angles.

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Episode 86: Duck Soup Reheated (featuring The Marx Brothers Council) — The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
The future of Freedonia rests on this collection of listener comments about the Marx Brothers’ 1933-est movie — and our comments about their comments.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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PINTELE update: Not Impossible!

Read the new update, watch the trailer, and learn more about the project right here: www.noahdiamond.com/pintele-page...
Update: Not Impossible!
Here’s an update on recent progress, and an entirely possible plan for completing this project in 2025.
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October 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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In our new bonus segment we discuss the concept of "punching up and punching down" in comedy, and whether it applies to the work of the Marx Brothers. (To access this and our 32 previous bonus segments, subscribe to the MBCP on Patreon for as little as $3 per month!)

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Bonus segment: Punching up, punching down | The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
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October 11, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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A drawing by Noah Diamond depicting Diane Keaton in the iconic costume from her first scene in ANNIE HALL (1977). The drawing is dated October 11, 2025.
October 11, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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O Captain! My Captain! (Groucho Marx birthday tribute)
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October 2, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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Of course, the best thing about devoting a podcast episode to some of the Marx Brothers’ radio appearances is that you can play the clips. Which means that our guests for this episode are the Marx Brothers themselves.

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Episode 85: That’s a Rodeo You’re Thinking Of — The Marx Brothers Council Podcast
In this episode, we examine a selection of radio appearances featuring Groucho, Chico, and (yes even) Harpo.
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September 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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PINTELE update: Here's the trailer!

I hope you enjoy these excerpts, along with something the series doesn't have: visuals.

The PINTELE page on my site has been refreshed and updated too. Now all I have to do is finish the series.

Detailed updates: noahdiamond.com/pintele.

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PINTELE trailer
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September 26, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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It's too bad -- I was enjoying some Disney/ABC/Hulu content, and looking forward to more. But I won't miss it nearly as much as I miss democracy and the U.S. Constitution.
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September 19, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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New York Daily News, July 19, 1937 and July 7, 1940.
A New York Daily News headline from July 19, 1937: "Hitler Ridicules Art Not Painted by Nazis." The first two paragraphs of the article go on to state that Hitler has "announced his Nazi regime would eradicate ruthlessly the last vestiges of the former 'degenerated' era in Germany's artistic life." A headline from the New York Daily News, July 7, 1940: "Hitler Press Lauds Hitler." The brief article goes on to state that "German editors outdid themselves in finding phrases of tribute for Adolf Hitler today on his return to the capital," and then quotes from German newspaper articles calling Hitler "uniter of our nation and creator of our Reich" and more.
September 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM