Before Groucho Marx and W. C. Fields American comedy was innocent. After
they left their hilarious smudges on the genre, comedy was anything but.
Here in a captivating book comparing and contrasting these two premier
American comics is the history of how flimflam came to prevail as a
major comic form. These two comic geniuses excelled at a new brand of
shtick, antiheroic humor that killed off the tame demeanor of their many
predecessors in show business.
By derailing the comedy oof innocence, Groucho and Fields brought film
comedy to its Golden Age.