Saw my first Marx Brothers movie, \u201cMonkey Business,\u201d from a 16mm projector on a sheet hung on a basement wall when I was 10 years old, and a lifelong love of comedy as an art form was the result.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The man had a profound impact on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Years later, when I was teaching comedy writing at The Second City, I had a student ask me who the Marx Brothers were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That night I got the only tattoo I have. As long as I have my left arm, he\u2019s with me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The man who altered my world forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,23],"tags":[22,10,17],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comedy","category-show-biz","tag-the-arts","tag-comedy-theory","tag-2nd-city"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t