Poll
Question:
Who is your favorite?
Option 1: Three Stooges
votes: 6
Option 2: Abbott and Costello
votes: 3
Option 3: Laurel and Hardy
votes: 4
Option 4: MARX BROTHERS
votes: 6
I voted The Three Stooges. I could watch them all day. My favorite Stooges are Shemp and Larry. My favorite episode is The Ghost Talks, It's about the ghost of peeping Tom lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeck6VZfi3E
I still like Abbott and Costello's movies. My favorite is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr are both in this movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5N9FJc__Q
Laurel and Hardy has the same magic as well. My favorite is The Live Ghost short lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc9yvmFMMa4
Tell us your favorite and let us know why you voted them in.
Quote from: Venomx on August 25, 2009, 12:07:24 PM
I voted The Three Stooges. I could watch them all day. My favorite Stooges are Shemp and Larry. My favorite episode is The Ghost Talks, It's about the ghost of peeping Tom lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aeck6VZfi3E
I still like Abbott and Costello's movies. My favorite is Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) Bela Lugosi and Lon Chaney Jr are both in this movie!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gg5N9FJc__Q
Laurel and Hardy has the same magic as well. My favorite is The Live Ghost short lol.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yc9yvmFMMa4
Tell us your favorite and let us know why you voted them in.
agreed! :thumbup:
Oh,...tough one.
I love the Three Stooges.
I also love Abbot and Costello.
admittedly I haven't seen that much Laurel and Hardy. I know I like their version of Babes in Toyland the best.
Could have made this extra hard and added the Marx Brothers as well.
Stooges by far for me. I grew up with them and had a VHS tape of their epsiodes which came on Sundays in my area.
THE STOOGES!!!!
And I agree...Shemp is my favorite!
Don't get me wrong-I love 'em all...but Shemp...whatta ignoramus!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jn81tOrs3WQ
OH! OH! OH! I'm sorry,Moe! :buggedout:
That's ok,porkipine-
Look at the grouse!
I love 'em all. :smile:
The 3 Stooges all the way, although I like Laurel and Hardy a lot too. Little tidbit about Laurel and Hardy-their movies were done by the same man who did the Little Rascals movies, Hal Roach. That guy knew his comedy.
Here's a clip of one of my fave Stooges sequences. This one was particularly off the wall:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jocRd-aajW0
That youtube frame looks like a stunt double for Curly. :twirl:
I voted Three Stooges. I never liked Laurel and Hardy, and while I enjoy Abbott and Costello, I can't say I like them better than the Stooges. But, of the Stooges, I gotta say this: Larry is vastly underrated. I liked him the most for some reason. Larry and Curly.
:tongueout: Abbot and Costello for me.
MARX BROTHERS definitely belong as a choice. Since they're not, I like THE THREE STOOGES best. A&C's favorite film of mine is probably THE TIME OF THEIR LIVES... :smile:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdkMcLun1ok
Or maybe HOLD THAT GHOST:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0LJziCuJ4w&feature=PlayList&p=FAC1A7E1A3E5265E&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=16
Quote from: Venomx on August 25, 2009, 10:35:37 PM
That youtube frame looks like a stunt double for Curly. :twirl:
True enough :bouncegiggle: However there was one time that Moe did his own stunt, and it went wrong and it was all caught on film. In one episode, Moe was standing on a sawhorse and Curly cut it in two as he was cutting a board.
Moe turned around, looked down at Curly and said "give it to me" and he slipped and fell on his side. He broke four ribs when he hit the ground. They cut the scene there and Moe looked up and said "what happened" and then woke up in the hospital.
This from a book I have that Moe wrote about his time with The Stooges. "Moe Howard And The Three Stooges" is the name if I remember.
As far as I know the only short they made with doubles was "Three Little Pigskins" and the only reason they got stunt doubles that time was because they refused to work without them.
The Stooges worked for Columbia Pictures for 24 years without a raise.
Around 1965 the had their own TV show, "The New Three Stooges." The show consisted of a small live-action wraparound sequence, followed by a cartoon short.
Ironically, TV killed them, and also saved them. It opened up a new audience for them and rekindled the old fans while it made scores of new ones. This is all explained on the DVD I have from Rhino records: there's a great interview with the man responsible for the show, Lee Orgel. Very interesting ibterview.
Here's a clip of the opening and closing credits (in reverse order) and a small cartoon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkDi9a0MTVY
Sorry about that, I added MARX BROTHERS for you Allhallowsday. :thumbup:
Quote from: Venomx on August 26, 2009, 08:45:50 PM
Sorry about that, I added MARX BROTHERS for you Allhallowsday. :thumbup:
Here's an example of a bit of their enormous talents...
CHICO plays...wait for the piano to fall apart...and then
HARPO plays :wink:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBk5Ne5x1hQ
Cool harp music. :thumbup:
:thumbup: While the Stooges, Stan & Ollie and Bud & Lou had their great moments, the Marx Brothers took it to a whole other level.
I really don't know too much about the Marx Brothers.
If I may ask, were any the Marx Brothers episodes about haunted houses or anything spooky? Thank you.
Quote from: Venomx on August 27, 2009, 01:32:30 PM
I really don't know too much about the Marx Brothers.
If I may ask, were any the Marx Brothers episodes about haunted houses or anything spooky? Thank you.
I should ask my sister that. She's the big Marx Brothers fan in the family. As for myself, Abbott and Costello to keep it close, and because they slightly edge out Laurel and Hardy in my affection.
I will say that all four of them made what they did look so easy, that alot of people underestimate the talent needed to do what they did.
Cool, if you find out please let me know. Thanks. :thumbup:
Quote from: Venomx on August 27, 2009, 01:32:30 PM
I really don't know too much about the Marx Brothers.
If I may ask, were any the Marx Brothers episodes about haunted houses or anything spooky? Thank you.
I don't think there's any such thing. But the films available are well worth a looksee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cJuAtNcJA
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 28, 2009, 01:08:00 AM
Quote from: Venomx on August 27, 2009, 01:32:30 PM
I really don't know too much about the Marx Brothers.
If I may ask, were any the Marx Brothers episodes about haunted houses or anything spooky? Thank you.
I don't think there's any such thing. But the films available are well worth a looksee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cJuAtNcJA
I agree. The Marx Bros.-though they incorporated slapstick into some routines-were a more off-beat kind of comedy-the forerunners of MAD magazine and Monty Python.Thinking man's nonsense,I reckon.
Quote from: Allhallowsday on August 28, 2009, 01:08:00 AM
Quote from: Venomx on August 27, 2009, 01:32:30 PM
I really don't know too much about the Marx Brothers.
If I may ask, were any the Marx Brothers episodes about haunted houses or anything spooky? Thank you.
I don't think there's any such thing. But the films available are well worth a looksee.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5cJuAtNcJA
Man, I sometimes wish I could ramble off one liners like that. I wouldn't keep many friends, but I would have a fun time.
Heck, switch my vote from Abbot & Costello to the Marx Bros. Like Newt said, they took it to a whole 'nother level. Worth watching even though they never went into a haunted house!
It's definitely Laurel and Hardy for me. When they were on their game like they were in "Our Relations," and "The Music Box," no one could even come close. That was pure comedic genius. I also love the Three Stooges with Curly. The Marx Brothers were great in "Duck Soup," but I don't like their other stuff that I've seen nearly as much. I do not care for Abbott and Costello at all. I don't find them funny. Although I do love "Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein," despite the presence of Abbott and Costello.
It's really hard for me to choose which one I like the most. So in my mind I choose them all. :thumbup:
Abbott & Costello for me. I have a soft spot for "Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein" and the other monsters who showed up in the same movie. Also like their films with the Andrews Sisters.
On a side note, I had read a biography about them many years ago and their lives endly sadly from what I can recall. Costello lost a a very young son in a swimming pool drowning accident, and Abbott died penniless.
MARX BROTHERS for me . . . but the STOOGES also hold a special place in my heart.
I picked the Marx Brothers but personally I'd like to see two more choices on the list: Hope & Crosby and All of the Above. If All of the Above had been there, I would have selected that as I like all these comedy teams.
We could also talk about the "lesser" comedy teams like THE RITZ BROTHERS and OLSEN AND JOHNSON. And we could do another discussion of THE DEAD END kids and their various progressions (EAST SIDE KIDS, BOWERY BOYS) and rip-offs (Ray Dennis Steckler's LEMON GROVE KIDS).
While I like the others, I think the Marx Brothers just blow them out of the water. Each of them managed to work in a different style, as opposed to the others who stayed in one basic role.
Groucho is one of the funniest people to ever live.
I hope you're not comparing those "lesser" comedy teams to Hope & Crosby. Very few comedy teams, aside perhaps from all those already in this poll, measure up to Hope & Crosby in my eyes.
I have seen THE GHOST TALKS i have it on DVD its funny with that suit of armor and the GHOST OF PEEPING TOM And when GROUCHO dose one when I ONCE SHOT A ELEPHANT IN MY PAJAMAS HOW HE GOT IN MY PAJAMAS I;LL NEVER KNOW