Practically everybody wants a good laugh right now and "Duck Soup" should make practically everybody laugh. It is humorous in the typical Marx Bros. style, a style that happens to be popular.

The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo) in a lunatic plot set in the mythical kingdom of Freedonia, "Land of the Spree and Home of the Knave," where Groucho becomes prime minister.

Censors feared that the Marx Brothers classic Monkey Business would "encourage anarchic tendencies" amongst the Irish.