Referee [sees Wagstaff lying in the middle of the field with a cigar]: “What are you doing with that cigar in your mouth?”
Professor
Quincy Adams Wagstaff
[played by Groucho Marx)]: “Why? Do you know another way to smoke it?”—Horse Feathers (1932), written by Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby, S.J. Perelman,
Will B. Johnstone, and Arthur Skeekman (uncredited)
Wouldn’t
you find the football game in Horse Feathers a lot more unexpected and
entertaining than any of the bowl games you’ll watch on TV today?
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