MARX BROTHERS MOVIE MARATHON
TCM, 8:00 p.m. ET
If you want to laugh tonight – and who doesn’t – TCM is the place, and X Marx the spot. It’s a Marx Brothers marathon, and I can remember when the only way to see these movies, other than to scour late-night TV listings religiously, was during occasional campus film clubs and festivals. But tonight, TCM makes it easy. Four movies, right in a row: 1931’s Monkey Business at 8 p.m. ET, followed by 1932’s Horse Feathers at 9:30 p.m. ET; 1930’s Animal Crackers at 10:45 p.m. ET; and, at 12:30 a.m. ET, the one I’ll be teaching and showing in my film class this fall, the 1933 comedy masterpiece Duck Soup (pictured).