ISAAC BEARS HAS AN ANNA MARIA CUGNO MOMENT
By the way, Groucho, I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Anna Maria, Paul Ruseau or Zac Bears as a Member
I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member
On October 20, 1949 the Hollywood columnist Erskine Johnson published the tale. This is the earliest instance located by QI: 1
Groucho Marx’s letter of resignation to the Friars’ Club: “I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
On October 13, 1951 the only son of Groucho, Arthur Marx, published a version of the anecdote in Collier’s Magazine. This is the earliest variant by a close family member with intimate knowledge of Groucho. Over the years Arthur Marx recounted different narratives of this episode, and some will be presented further below. In 1951 he said that Groucho joined the Friars Club at the insistence of friends, but he did not participate. So Groucho sent a letter of resignation: 2
In the next mail, he received a letter from the club’s president, wanting to know why he had resigned. My father promptly wrote back, “Because I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member!”
In 1959 Groucho himself told about resigning a club in his memoir “Groucho and Me”, but he presented a fictionalized version of the story in which the club was referred to as the Delaney Club: 3
The following morning I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON’T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Many members of Medford United were upset when Eunice Brown, Kerry Laidlaw, Vallerie Harris and Anna Maria Cugno blocked me from joining Medford Not-So-United.
really?
When I alerted those broads (well, all but Eunice and Cugno) about a horrifying rumor about one of them and asked how they could be in a club with her, one of them said "we know about that!"
Yikes!
So they "banned" me from a "club" ...they think...when I wouldn't want to JOIN a club with Eunice and Anna Maria as members!"
Ha Ha Ha...Add Laidlaw and Valerie Harris and that makes four fruitcakes that, like Zac Bears and Paul Ruseau, whom they seem to loathe, are walking embarrassments.
Anna Maria wanting to remove Paul Ruseau is the Pot calling the Kettle HOT!
I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Cugno as a Member - that's for damn sure, Eunice.
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