August 19, 1977

So what does the comedian say at the funeral? If the comedian is Groucho Marx,  (October 2, 1890 to August 19, 1977) a world famous wit, speaking at a memorial service for his dear friend, T. S. Eliot, (died January 4, 1965), himself famous, you read your friend's own words. 

Those would be, about, a cat. We excerpt the poem  Groucho Marx read, the poem, Gus: The Theatre Cat.

Gus is the Cat at the theatre door,

His name, as I ought to have told you before, 

Is really Asparagus. That's such a fuss 

to pronounce, that we usually call him just Gus.

His coat's very shabby, he's thin as a rake,

And he  suffers from palsy that makes his paw shake.

Yet he was, in his youth, quite the smartest of cats.

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Leave it to the comedian to tell the truth.