1) The document is a tribute to Groucho Marx who the author believes was the finest humorist of the 20th century and had a profound and lasting influence on comedy. 2) Groucho Marx was unique in his humor which had a timeless quality, and he was brilliantly creative and inventive in his comedy. 3) Groucho was immensely popular because he devoted his life to making people laugh at themselves by attacking human pomposity and middle-class respectability in an honest way.