Funniest 15 Minutes In Movie History

Rating: 10/10 (4 February 2012)

The last 15 minutes of Duck Soup, inside Groucho's command headquarters during the war with Sylvania, are the funniest 15 minutes in film history. Non stop verbal, physical and visual gags, puns and insults, and almost all of them hit the mark , and play well 80 years later.
Aide to Groucho, who is shooting out the window - " But sir, you are shooting your own men.
Groucho hands the aide a bill - "here's five dollars , keep it under your hat."
Grouch takes the five dollars back and says "better yet, I'll keep it under my hat."
Duck Soup is the best Marx Brothers film because it is the most cynical and anarchic of them all. Some of the jokes are dated beyond help, and make cultural references that today's generation simply will not understand or appreciate, but those last 15 minutes are enough in itself to make this one of the all time great comedies.