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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 21/07/2026

The new 3D version of the Marx Brothers' greatest work on film, ANIMAL CRACKERS, includes a new commentary track by @marxbrotherscouncilpodcast.com's Matthew Coniam, Bob Gassel, and me! Available on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download from Eyepop-3D. I like it so much I even designed the packaging.

An advertisement for Eyepop-3D's new release of The Marx Brothers' ANIMAL CRACKERS (1930).

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 20/04/2026

What I love most about Schmigadoon is that it shows how parody can achieve emotional resonance. It's a clever, hilarious, metatheatrical parody, AND a sincere, deeply affecting example of the thing that's being parodied! Brilliant work by @cincopaul.bsky.social, delivered by a knockout cast.

A photo of the Playbill for Schmigadoon at the Nederland Theatre

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 22/03/2026

Well, my friends, it is once again March 22 -- the day we all come together to acknowledge the birthday of both Chico Marx and Stephen Sondheim.

SWEENEY: Say, you look exactly like a fellow I used to know, by the name of Daniel O'Higgins. Are you his brother?

PIRELLI: I am Adolfo Pirelli.

SWEENEY: You are Adolfo Pirelli?

PIRELLI: I am Adolfo Pirelli.

SWEENEY: Well, no wonder you look like Daniel O'Higgins.

PIRELLI: Now, for pulling a tooth, I get a hundred dollars.

SWEENEY: What do you get for not pulling a tooth?

PIRELLI: You couldn't afford it. You see, if I no pull a tooth...

(Sweeney murders Pirelli with a straight razor.)

SWEENEY: Hey, I think I give one snoop too much.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 16/03/2026

DEATH IN THE CATSKILLS is the dramatic work of historical fiction which occurs at the end of PINTELE 5, and you can listen to it right now, wherever you listen to PINTELE 5! www.noahdiamond.com/pintele

Publicity artwork for DEATH IN THE CATSKILLS, a segment within PINTELE PART 5. The image shows a lake in the Catskill Mountains, under a dusky sky. Against a black background, white letters in the font Windsor Light Condensed (iconic from the credits of Woody Allen films) say: "Death in the Catskills. Part of Pintele Part 5: The Old Jewish Man of Unity." noahdiamond.com/pintele

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 26/01/2026

Save the date: February 12 - the Series Premiere of PINTELE! The first chapter will be available Thursday, February 12, with a new chapter every Thursday through the end of March. And as soon as today, you can find PINTELE wherever you get your podcasts, and subscribe now! noahdiamond.com/pintele

This is a text-heavy graphic explaining the release schedule for the upcoming audio series PINTELE.

Part 1: Straight Outta Anatevka - February 12
Part 2: God and Other Gods - February 19
Part 3: A Very Brody Passover - February 26
Part 4: You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet - March 5
Part 5: The Old Jewish Man of Unity - March 12
Part 6: Tyrants Disappearing - March 19
Part 7: Next Year in Manhattan - March 26

Find it wherever you get your podcasts, and at noahdiamond.com/pintele

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 21/12/2025

Print and post on the restroom, port-a-potty, stall, or outhouse of your choice!

An illustration showing a plaque which reads: "The Donald J. Trump Memorial Shithole."

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 26/11/2025

ATTENTION WORLD-WEARY SOPHISTICATES! @kabiehl.bsky.social, @brettnyc.bsky.social, @jonnyporkpie.bsky.social & I are purveying exquisitely-designed apparel like this Beautiful Pickle Tee, the perfect gift for that half-sour someone. Thru 12/1, 10% off everything at 7centnickel.com with code NICKEL10.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 19/09/2025

It's too bad -- I was enjoying some Disney/ABC/Hulu content, and looking forward to more. But I won't miss it nearly as much as I miss democracy and the U.S. Constitution.

A screenshot showing the cancellation of a Disney+ subscription, due to Disney/ABC's capitulation to the fascist Trump regime.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 18/09/2025

New York Daily News, July 19, 1937 and July 7, 1940.

A New York Daily News headline from July 19, 1937: "Hitler Ridicules Art Not Painted by Nazis." The first two paragraphs of the article go on to state that Hitler has "announced his Nazi regime would eradicate ruthlessly the last vestiges of the former 'degenerated' era in Germany's artistic life."

A headline from the New York Daily News, July 7, 1940: "Hitler Press Lauds Hitler." The brief article goes on to state that "German editors outdid themselves in finding phrases of tribute for Adolf Hitler today on his return to the capital," and then quotes from German newspaper articles calling Hitler "uniter of our nation and creator of our Reich" and more.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 06/09/2025

I wonder what ever became of me. I should have been back here a long time ago! -- at the Al Jolson Festival with Jan Hernstat and friends.

Noah Diamond as Groucho Marx, September 6, 2025

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 10/08/2025

I'm really looking forward to Duck Soup at the Sphere.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 18/07/2025

EVERY day is Stop Giving Money to Fascists Day!

The image is a screen grab of my subscription cancellation from the Paramount Plus website. When asked my reason for cancelling, I've selected "Other (provide feedback below)," and written in the provided text field: "I am cancelling my subscription because of CBS/Paramount/Skydance's despicable and cowardly acts of surrender to the criminal, fascist regime of Donald Trump. I hope you eventually learn to regret your role in the death of the American republic."

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 04/07/2025

"Remember, there's nothing like Liberty." There's Nothing Like Liberty: The Marx Brothers and America (2021): www.youtube.com/live/rRXnRQB...

Publicity artwork for the 2021 streaming presentation "There's Nothing Like Liberty: The Marx Brothers and America," showing the faces of the Four Marx Brothers on Mount Rushmore.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 01/04/2025

I'm proud to be a member of the good party and not the evil one.

A screen shot of Senator Cory Booker's historic filibuster.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 22/03/2025

Well, my friends, it is once again March 22 -- the day we all come together to acknowledge the birthday of both Chico Marx and Stephen Sondheim.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 02/03/2025

Thanks to the great generosity of friend and Marx Brothers aficionado Lewis Stone, I am now the proud custodian of an authentic period pith helmet -- and jodhpurs (not pictured). So who wants to do ANIMAL CRACKERS?!

A photo of Noah in his apartment wearing a pith helmet.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 20/02/2025

I collaborated with Akhil Gupta on some political cartoons back in October of 2020. We certainly didn't want them to increase in relevance.

The image is a political cartoon. Vladimir Putin sits on a golden throne while a bloated, balding Donald Trump with tiny extremities kneels before him. They're surrounded by chaos: the U.S. Constitution is on fire; the State of Liberty is wrapped in caution tape, and the remains of a burnt and tattered American flag lie on the ground. A banner below the image says: "PROMISES KEPT." The cartoon is drawn by Noah Diamond from an idea by Akhil Gupta.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 06/02/2025

And then there was the time when "a German radio commentator, in a statement believed to have been written by Propaganda Minister Gobbels, said that Adolf Hitler had been saved from assassination by a Divine miracle last July." (New York Daily News, April 14, 1945)

A partial clipping of a New York Daily News article from April 14, 1945. The headline is "Divinity Saved Hitler, Killed F.D.R.: Berlin." The text of the article reads, in part: "A German radio commentator, in a statement believed to have been written by Propaganda Minister Gobbels, said that Adolf Hitler had been saved from assassination by a Divine miracle last July and that another such miracle had struck the President dead."

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 05/02/2025

Looks like the boss is testing the new driverless cybertruck. (New York Daily News, April 9, 1945)

A news photo from 1945 shows a horse-drawn wagon, with the caption: "In Grossauheim, Germany, dead Nazi soldiers lie in wagon, one with his arm raised in what looks like a Nazi salute. Town was captured by 3d Army."

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 20/01/2025

Thank you, President Biden. It's been wonderful having a real president for four years. You have been sincere, thoughtful, and well-intentioned. We'll miss that -- even those of us too addled to realize it will miss it.

A press photo of President Joe Biden sitting at the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office, January 2025.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 14/01/2025

"Special Counsel Report Says Trump Would Have Been Convicted in Election Case" www.nytimes.com/2025/01/14/u... (I've posted this image to prevent the Times preview from showing you a photo of that despicable criminal's grotesque face.)

The image shows part of a page from special counsel Jack Smith's report, with a highlighted section establishing that if Trump were not on his way back to the White House, he would have been convicted of trying to steal the 2020 election.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 07/12/2024

DON'T JUST RESIST - OPPOSE: "We must develop & foster new movements, structures, tactics, platforms & leaders to oppose Trump & articulate a positive vision. In most democratic political systems this is referred to as the opposition." - @marcelias.bsky.social www.democracydocket.com/opinion/buil...

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 04/12/2024

In 2022, I was working on what I thought would be a solo stage show about Jewish identity, with the working title PINTELE. I filled up some notebooks, and wound up with far too much for an evening. But it wasn't a book; too much of it clearly had to be performed out loud. (1/8)

A collage of images associated with the work-in-progress described in the post. Visible in the image are handwritten notebook pages, including one with the heading "The Pintele Yid," and another with a "Pintele" title design suggestive of the logotype for the original Broadway production of FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. Also partially visible here is a photo of the Yiddish author Sholem-Aleichem, the cover of Leo Rosten's THE JOYS OF YIDDISH, and the cover of the Rabbi Nathan Goldberg Passover Haggadah.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 03/12/2024

"When the smell of the rainwashed pavement / Comes up clean and fresh and cold / And the street lamp light fills the gutter with gold..."

The neon lights of Times Square reflected on a sidewalk wet with rain. Photo by Noah Diamond, 2018.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 25/11/2024

SO IF YOU CARE TO FIND ME LOOK TO THE WESTERN SKY

A still from the Marx Brothers film LOVE HAPPY (1949), showing Harpo Marx riding the neon Mobil horse over the Manhattan skyline.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 12/10/2024

Tomorrow (Sunday, Oct. 13) 1pm ET: Please join Danny Fingeroth, Henry Sapoznik, and me for DID SOMEONE CALL ME SCHNORRER? The Marx Brothers and Jewish Identity, a free virtual Jewish Study Center event. And don't forget -- register! www.jewishstudycenter.org/events/24f2-...

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 07/09/2024

This guy again! Performing, kibbitzing, and grouching around at the 2024 Al Jolson Festival.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 07/09/2024

Sept 22, 1pm ET, join Henry Sapoznik, Danny Fingeroth & me for a free online discussion, DID SOMEONE CALL ME SCHNORRER? THE MARX BROTHERS AND JEWISH IDENTITY, hosted by the Jewish Study Center. Register here: www.jewishstudycenter.org/register

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 13/08/2024

TRUMP IS OVER! (if you want it)

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 17/05/2024

And we're off to the races! And the opera. Hail Freedonia and here's to dear old Huxley -- Marxfest 2024 has officially begun.

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 01/05/2024

Are we there yet? And yes, you too can have your picture taken with these beautiful kippered herring barrels at Marxfest, May 17-26 in New York City! Tix & info: marxfest.org

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Noah Diamond @noahdiamond.com · 22/03/2024

It's March 22 again -- the day we all come together to acknowledge the birthday of both Chico Marx and Stephen Sondheim.

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