Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy.

[venomx]

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.

[Leah]

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!

[WingedSerpent]

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.

[Mr. DS]

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.

[RCMerchant]

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! 

That's ok,porkipine-

Look at the grouse!

I love 'em all. 

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

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

[venomx]

That youtube frame looks like a stunt double for Curly. 

[HappyGilmore]

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.

[SkullBat308]

  Abbot and Costello for me.

[Allhallowsday]

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...   
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

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

That youtube frame looks like a stunt double for Curly. 

True enough    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.

[trekgeezer]

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.

[Umaril The Unfeathered]

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

[venomx]

Sorry about that, I added MARX BROTHERS for you Allhallowsday.

[Allhallowsday]

Sorry about that, I added MARX BROTHERS for you Allhallowsday.

Here's an example of a bit of their enormous talents... CHICO plays...wait for the piano to fall apart...and then HARPO plays 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBk5Ne5x1hQ