Groucho Marx undistinguished vaudeville singing group billed as "The Four Nightingales". The brothers Julius, Milton (Gummo Marx) and Arthur (originally Adolph, but Harpo Mark from 1911) and another boy singer, Lou Levy, traveled the U.S. vaudeville circuits to little fanfare. After exhausting their prospects in the East, the family moved to La Grange, Illinois, to play the Midwest. After a particularly dispiriting performance in Nacogdoches, Texas, Julius, Milton, and Arthur began cracking jokes onstage for their own amusement. Much to their surprise, the audience liked them better as comedians than as singers. They modified the then-popular Gus Edwards comedy skit "School Days"
The Flying Karamazov Brothers that include old and new elements from their repertoire, and shows backed by city orchestras. The Flying Karamazov Brothers appear in the film "The Jewel of the Nile", the sequel to "Romancing the Stone". They also appeared as the Flying Sandos Brothers in an episode of "Seinfeld" entitled "The Friars Club." The Karamazovs performed a unique, broad adaptation of Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" at Lincoln Center. Aired live on the PBS program "Live from Lincoln Center," on June 24, 1987, the Karamazovs were joined by such "new vaudeville" acts as Avner the Eccentric and members of the troupe Vaudeville