Their "Who's on first" routine is certainly well known.
Yes it is and, when they touring the UK , they adapted there using Soccer instead of baseball .
Their "Who's on first" routine is certainly well known.
I don't remember ever seeing the three stooges, Laurel and Hardy, Norman Wisdom, Harold Lyodd and Charlie Chaplin are the ones I remember most. Albert and Costello, Marx brothers I have vague recollection of.
The Stooges formed in 1967 --yuk yuk yuk
I haven't seen too much of their stuff (mainly a Laurel and Hardy fan) but the epsiode ' I Can Hardly Wait' has me crying with laughter, especially the doorknob/tooth gag.
The one I commented on earlier is only 18 minutes long, shorted than the missing Nixon tape!
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Okay. I'm always up to have my boundaries expanded*. I have the idea that I find the idea of watching The Three Stooges about as funny and as appealing as watching my toenails growing (or being extracted). But reading this thread I realised I have never actually seen a whole Stooges movie. I've seen plenty of clips of three sad faced men hitting each other about the face and squealing with pretend indignation but never a whole movie.
If any fans could point me at THE film that they think would convince me I am wrong I will happily go watch it with an open mind as possible.
EDIT: To be upfront I find Laurel and Hardy and Abbot and Costello incomprehensibly unfunny too. Buster Keaton and the Marx Bros on the other hand walk on water.
*“Try everything once, except folk dancing and incest.” ― Sir Thomas Beecham
This is a great comedy and satire with sight gags galore.
One Laurel & Hardy short you might like to try is 'The Live Ghost'; for me this is them at their absolute peak, with Laurel in particular at his hysterical best.
I do think though that humour is one of the defining things that make us human, and what makes us laugh (and what doesn't) is one of the mysteries of life. I like a lot of slapstick/visual comedy, which 3 Stooges, Laurel & Hardy and (what little I've seen) of Abbot and Costello. As much as the visual gags are funny, the expressions on their faces are priceless. Whereas the 'silent era' of Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd - whilst I can appreciate just how much skill (and often personal risk) went into their work, I just can't find funny at all. I do find Groucho funny, especially when he gets into one of his routines with waggling eyebrows and cigar, but the other Marx brothers I don't find humorous at all.
I've also never been a fan of Peter Kay; just couldn't see what the fuss was about. I had a couple of friends who got me to watch a few episodes of Phoenix Nights; whilst they rolled in laughter, I could barely raise a smile. Some comedians we find funny, others we don't - often without any particular reason we can define.
But life would be boring if we all liked/disliked the same things.
The head of Columbia studio Harry Coen was both the best and worst thing to happen to the Stooges . On the plus side , he kept them employed for many years because kept doing Stooge shorts long after other studies ceased making short subject films . On the minus side , he paid them very little for their hard work.I'm a lifelong fan. Been watching them since the 1940s.
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