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From: albert@ucbvax.ARPA (Anthony Albert)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: what rules?
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Date: Tue, 9-Apr-85 05:04:49 EST
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Posted: Tue Apr  9 05:04:49 1985
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Summary: 

>The earliest comedic example I can think of is in the Marx Brothers'
>"Animal Crackers" in which Groucho announces that he's about to
>have a "Strange Interlude" at which point the other actors freeze
>and Groucho performs a weird soliloquy directly to the camera.

This was a spoof of the recent broadway hit by Eugene O'neill
called "Strange Interlude", in which the characters do just what
Groucho does i.e., soliloquize. This was made into a movie with
Clark Gable a few years after Animal Crackers: 1932.