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I got my first network comedy series when an editor named Jay Scherberth recommended I replace him on The Parent вЂHood, so he could accept a job on a more prestigious film sitcom. After editing several cable shows, I qualified to join the Editors Guild as a picture editor. There werenвЂ™t a lot of Grouchos in LA after all.

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Getting work on a quality film or TV comedy show was a slow process.

I found an apartment on Beachwood Drive, not far from Paramount Studios. A 30-minute comedy film I wrote and directed got me into AFI, and I made the move to Los Angeles. On the weekends, we had the run of the studio and a free, state-of-the-art online bay with which to finish our personal projects. I joined an improv group and found work editing corporate videos and commercials at a Boston post house. Sadly, I would never meet the man, but I found his spirit very much alive in the booming comedy clubs in Boston. In 1977, I moved to Boston and worked in a camera store. Paramount PicturesД«ut the film business seemed too far away for a kid from Syracuse with no connections, so after college, I put my search for Groucho on hold. At college, I took every film class offered (exactly two).

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In high school, I bought an 8mm movie camera, and started making short comedy films with my friends. Was it possible people were actually being paid to make films like Duck Soup? I studied the filmвЂ™s dialogue by recording it on my dadвЂ™s reel-to-reel tape recorder. My search for Groucho first led me to the other Marx Brothers movies, then to an exploration of filmmaking in general. RELATED POSTS: Spider-Man's Sonic Stratagem: Sound Editors Shannon Mills and Addison Teague Have Spidey Sense I had to meet this guy, but where did Groucho Marx live? And where was Paramount Pictures? This was the kind of film I wanted to make: comedy with commentary. Hail Freedonia and Groucho! Although its original 1933 release was deemed a critical and commercial failure, Duck Soup enjoyed a revival in the late 1960s, no doubt due to its anti-war message. I didnвЂ™t know what to think of the bombing of Cambodia, but I did know I was ready to follow my new leader into the battle against hypocrisy. I was in middle school when I first saw Duck Soup and Vietnam was beginning to stir up the nationвЂ™s youth. In this one scene, the Marx brothers manage to lampoon five different American wars. There is a declaration of war, and the filmвЂ™s final act is a hilarious montage of battle scenes, full of costume changes, jump cuts and visual gags. With the help of brothers Chico, Harpo and Zeppo, he manages to insult the evil ambassador of nearby Sylvania. The story is thin, but GrouchoвЂ™s witty patter comes thick and fast, mostly in the service of skewering Fascism and warfare. Firefly, an inept politician ap- pointed leader of a fictitious kingdom called Freedonia. ThatвЂ™s where I first saw Duck Soup, the classic Marx Brothers comedy. In Syracuse New York in 1967, my dadвЂ™s RCA console TV received three broadcast channels.

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