Posted on 05/15/2015 8:07:49 PM PDT by DemforBush
Keeping it light - and funny - this week. 2 hours' worth of Three Stooges shorts.
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Just remember...my mother and your mother are both mothers. We’re related! Nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.
Hopefully no Ted Healy.
Why you!
*Two-fingered eyepoke*
:-)
Joe’s not too bad in a couple of them. I actually like Shemp better than Curly, but its close. Some of the interaction bettween Moe and Shemp is a bit more sophisticated whereas Moe would wail on Curly for almost nothing.
Stooge on!
*Hand on nose eyepoke block*
Shemp was underrated. Larry was a prop.
Hopefully no Ted Healy.
I read about his death the other day. It sounds like he asked for that beating.
‘Moe, Larry, cheese!!’
One of my great memories is when my son was little. We were watching TV (I actually did that at one time) and he did not much like the program. His comment: This is stupid; let’s turn on the Three Stooges.
Am I the only girl who loved them when I was growing up?
I just don’t know why MGM, post-Stooges, hung on to Healy for so long, using him as “comic relief” in so many productions. He was about as funny as a toothache. There were a number of less-than-funny, third-string comedians around at the time (Skeets Gallagher, anyone?), but none as remotely annoying as Healy.
I agree.
I honestly think I’ve only known two or three women in my life who actually liked The 3 Stooges. And one of them greatly preferred The Marx Brothers (whom I just do not “get”, btw.)
I always liked Shemp, too. Quite funny in most of his appearances.
Oh, I love the Marx Brothers.
The team I “don’t get” is the Ritz Brothers.
Never got them, either. (shrugs)
When my oldest daughter was a baby, she laughed for the first time while watching the 3 Stooges. This was long before she could talk. After a while, I turned the channel and she immediately cried. I turned the Stooges back and and she resumed laughing for the remainder of the show.
It was the darndest thing.
She was a huge 3 Stooges fan for the rest of her childhood.
You know, I’d never heard of the Ritz Brothers before just now. I know most of the old-time acts - Laurel and Hardy, Chaplin, Abbot and Costello (though IIRC, they were a bit later), but not the Ritz Brothers...
...I just checked out one of the Ritz Bros vids on youtube. Eh. Not terrible, but doesn’t really look like my cup of tea.
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