The Three Stooges - Classic or Dud?

Not dud, though. Just not classic either.

The question "How many Three Stooges (Stoogeses? Stoogi?) were there?" = classic, tho.

Saw a good Three Stooges.

Moe: Were you scared?
Larry: No, just apprehensive.
Moe: Apprehensive, that's a pretty big word. What's it mean?
Larry: That's scared with a college education.

Hoberman: "Jews Who Aren't Funny"

http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-arts-and-culture/96737/dumb-dumberer-and-dumberest/?all=1

20 DVD Ultimate Collection -- all 190 Columbia shorts + 3 DVDs of extras for $45 (Amazon)

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B006WN5W5M

that's a lotta eye pokes

They're also all available on a popular torrent site.

will prob see this tonight as appetizer for French sodomy film

http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/30/three-stooges-film-discovered-australia-garden-shed

http://www.filmforum.org/movies/more/lost_now_found_the_three_stoog

^The Stooges play Ted Healy's children in frilly kid costumes, which is kinda gross even before they hide under the grande dame's skirt. (I overheard that this was the essence of their stage act w/ Ted.)

They also showed their first short for Columbia, in which all 3 briefly imitate Bing Crosby.

zombie moe.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BhLmkD8IgAETyI8.jpg

Watched some awesome Three Stooges last weekend. One episode started off with Shemp getting a buzzsaw dropped on his head. I liked how every episode involved them working somewhere. Poor Larry gets the brunt of the abuse from Moe. Also realized that Larry's voice was basically lifted in its entirety for Stimpy.

Isn't there one where Moe drags the blade of a saw across Curly's (or Larry's) neck? Even as a kid I thought that was super harsh.

Yes! There was a western one too with some funny sleight hand card stuff from Shemp. It wasn't the same western one I had seen years ago, which I remember cos one of the extras was a guy that rolled a cigarette one-handed!

there is a big mural of larry on south st.

He was born there!

The late actor James Karen, interviewed on Gilbert Gottfried's podcast about 4 years ago, revealed that Moe could recite all the major Shakespeare soliloquies.

big fan of Gloucester's little speech in King Lear Act three iirc

Karen also said when he made an insurance commercial with them, Moe (who was about 70) would verbally cue the others like this: "Larry darlin', I'm bringing back the hammer!"

https://goo.gl/images/atbVXr

Who is that as "Curly"?

Joe DeRita, who succeeded Joe Besser

they called him 'Curly Joe'

In 1985, Michael Jackson penned the foreword for the book “Curly: An Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge” pic.twitter.com/MWSLW2TvVt

— Will Sloan, the 6ix Dad (@WillSloanEsq) November 5, 2018

I haven't done much viewing of Stooges stuff since I was a kid. Just a few short subjects back when VCRs were a thing. My memory of them verges more toward the dud side of the equation. Actual laughter at them doesn't jibe with any memory of mine. They had some of the chaotic energy that the Marx Bros generated so easily, but their version of anarchy was much meaner-spirited and threatening. There's a lot of bullying going on and the violence is not particularly comical or downplayed.

xp MJ sez he wrote a song about Curly..? Which would that be?

I love that Michael Jackson introduction. I feel like MJ could have been a great slapstick comedian - trying to think of times where MJ did physical comedy - The Wiz, the video for Say Say Say, is there anything else?

There's a lot of bullying going on and the violence is not particularly comical or downplayed.

the bullying and the violence is what makes them funny though! the bleakness of how they boil comedy down to these three wretched people hitting each other until the end of time

I think that maybe the bullying doesn't come of as objectionable to me because, even though it's always Moe bullying Curly and Larry, they are all essentially as wretched as each other and on the same level? and impervious to anything because they're already at rock bottom, there's no further for them to sink, no dignity for them to lose

Moe gets abused, in his way.

i most appreciated them before 8 and after 40.

they are all essentially as wretched as each other

I have a hard time accepting the Stooges as a popularized version of Sartre's No Exit.

I found it absolutely heartwarming, on my last visit home, when my 9-year-old niece, who usually only watches Disney/DreamWorks/TeleToon-type stuff, showed me the collection of Three Stooges videos she had on her iPad.

Like all kids ever, her fave is Curly.

btw Moe really did act in Shakespeare plays in his pre-Stooge career per Wiki

My comic friend has a nice letter he got in response from Moe when he was about ten. He also chased Groucho down the street for an autograph after his Carnegie Hall show in 1972.

Morbius, did you know the Stooges had their origin, in a sense, in Park Slope? It was at the Prospect Theatre on 9th St. that Moe Howard first got on stage with Ted Healy back in 1922.

The theatre is long gone, but it was where Steve's 9th Street Market is now (between 5th/6th Aves).

I have a hard time accepting the Stooges as a popularized version of Sartre's No Exit.

― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, November 7, 2018 6:45 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not really that far-fetched tbh, laurel and hardy were an acknowledged influence on beckett

The theatre is long gone, but it was where Steve's 9th Street Market is now (between 5th/6th Aves).

I shop there often! And no, I had no idea.

Last night I watched Curly's last completed short, Three Little Pirates, which is a good one. Moe impersonates "the Rajah of Canarsie," and later hits Curly and calls him a "Flatbush flathead."

Moe takes a ton of punishment btw!

I figured they did this at some point:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYP1OBZfFK0

There's one wartime short where they're on a leaking boat and inadvertently make a Japanese flag (of course) and wave it at an overhead American bomber, who of course unloads on them. Moe yells, "It's the STOOGES!", which cracked me up. In their comedic universe, they are well known as... incompetent freelancers?

this picture of the three stooges at yellowstone in 1969 is fucking me up pic.twitter.com/STDducTbFC

— Kyle Cheromcha (@cheromcha) May 28, 2021

moe kept up with the times, sartorially speaking