For one thing, that his sense of humor is less … developed than, say, Groucho’s. In fact, think about it, have you ever seen him laugh — I mean truly laugh, helplessly, from that considerable gut — at anything?
Luke Epplin@Slate (8/31/16): “The movie takes place in Freedonia, a fictional country mired in a prolonged economic recession. Its only hope of quelling citizen unrest is soliciting $20 million from Mrs. Teasdale, a wealthy widow played with dignified obliviousness by Margaret Dumont. She agrees on one condition: that the country’s current leader step aside for her hand-picked successor, Rufus T. Firefly (Groucho), a wisecracking charlatan with no apparent executive experience.”
