From Animal Crackers. Groucho Marx as the explorer Captain Spaulding has just met Chico Marx playing the bandleader Signor Emanuel Ravelli.
Spaulding: What do you fellows get an hour?Ravelli: Oh, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour.Spaulding: I see…What do you get for not playing?Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour.Spaulding: Well, clip me off a piece of that.Ravelli: Now, for rehearsing we make special rate. Thatsa fifteen dollars an hour.Spaulding: That’s for rehearsing?Ravelli: Thatsa for rehearsing.Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing?Ravelli: You couldn’t afford it…Heh…you see, if we don’t rehearse, we don’t play…And, if we don’t play…That runs into money.
mjb515 about 5 years ago
Pay the squirrel geld and you never get rid of the squirrel.
jagedlo about 5 years ago
just make sure that this isn’t the start of a trend, Rose!
johndifool about 5 years ago
What do I need to bribe all of those whiny off-key indie folk singers so that they’ll shut up too?
rshive about 5 years ago
Delusions of grandeur— animal kingdom style.
littlejohn Premium Member about 5 years ago
A nut for nutty-notes?
Agapostemon about 5 years ago
From Animal Crackers. Groucho Marx as the explorer Captain Spaulding has just met Chico Marx playing the bandleader Signor Emanuel Ravelli.
Spaulding: What do you fellows get an hour?Ravelli: Oh, for playing we getta ten dollars an hour.Spaulding: I see…What do you get for not playing?Ravelli: Twelve dollars an hour.Spaulding: Well, clip me off a piece of that.Ravelli: Now, for rehearsing we make special rate. Thatsa fifteen dollars an hour.Spaulding: That’s for rehearsing?Ravelli: Thatsa for rehearsing.Spaulding: And what do you get for not rehearsing?Ravelli: You couldn’t afford it…Heh…you see, if we don’t rehearse, we don’t play…And, if we don’t play…That runs into money.