Groucho glasses
Groucho glasses, also known as nose glasses, the beaglepuss, or the GM 20/20s, are a humorous
eyebrows, a large plastic nose, bushy moustache, and sometimes a plastic cigar. Considered one of the most iconic and widely used of all novelty items in the world, Groucho glasses were marketed as early as the 1940s[1] and are instantly recognizable to people throughout the world.[2] The glasses are often used as a shorthand for slapstick[3] and are depicted in the Disguised Face (🥸) emoji.[4][5]
References
- ^ Giddins, Gary (18 June 2000). "There Ain't No Sanity Claus". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ISBN 1579580580. "The most enduring mask of the 20th century—likely to take their place alongside Comedy and Tragedy or Pulcinella and Pierrot..."
- ^ Pritzker, Steven R. (1 September 1999). "The Effect of Groucho Marx Glasses on Depression". Psychology Today. Sussex Publishers. Archived from the original on 19 April 2013. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ Hy, Mo. "Proposal for New Emoji: Disguised Face" (PDF). Unicode. Retrieved 19 January 2022.
- ^ "Disguised Face". Emojipedia. Retrieved 18 January 2022.
External links
Media related to Groucho Marx glasses at Wikimedia Commons
The dictionary definition of Groucho glasses at Wiktionary
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