GROUCHO MARX SALUTE
TCM, 6:00 a.m. ET
Lots of laughs, all day and all night: Today on TCM’s “Summer Under the Stars,” it’s a salute to the great Groucho Marx. It includes some solo projects, which are televised very early and very late in this 24-hour salute, but the tastiest meat in this meal comes when Groucho is teamed with the rest of his irrepressible siblings, The Marx Brothers. For them, the action begins at 9:30 a.m. ET with 1938’s fast-paced Room Service, which also stars Lucille Ball (seen here with Groucho) and Ann Miller. And by mid-afternoon, it’s one comedy classic after another, shown in sequential order: 1929’s The Cocoanuts (4:30 p.m. ET), 1930’s Animal Crackers (6:15 p.m. ET), 1931’s Monkey Business (8 p.m. ET), 1932’s Horse Feathers (9:30 p.m. ET), and topped by three wonderful films, 1933’s Duck Soup (10:45 p.m. ET), 1935’s A Night at the Opera (midnight ET), and 1937’s A Day At the Races (2 a.m. ET). On TV, or anywhere else, you won’t clock more LPMs than this.