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Location: Michigan | After over 50 years I still can spend an afternoon watching these over and over and still have sore ribs the next day from laughing so hard.
These guys were the Beatles of Comedy and like the Beatles they still stand the test of time.
GREAT MEMORIES.... GWB
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Location: Central Massachusetts | Everything okay there GWB? Feeling alright?? You didn't post your topic in ALL CAPS! :p |
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Location: Michigan | YOU ARE VERY OBSERVENT GRASSHOPPER
NOW SNATCH THE PEBBLE FROM MY HAND???.....GWB |
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Location: The Great Pacific Northwest | Alvin, Symon and Theodore rock.. but what's up with that video??
Seriously... I don't dislike the 3-stooges, and some of the gags do make me giggle, but in general, I just don't get it. I like when there are clips of their gags run together like that as then they become funny... but as far as a whole movie... after the 2nd nyuck nyuck, I'm bored already.. It seems to me like a few gags, just repeated over and over.
But they are beloved by millions... so it's obviously me that's missing something. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by Mr. Ovation:
so it's obviously me that's missing something. I'm on your side of the court! Slapstick is a one-time shot. Jerry Lewis was my favorite slapstick.
When I read the thread title I immediately thought of Red Skelton, Tim Conway, Victor Borge and Bill Cosby. Guess I'm showing my age...
Geeze, I can remember when the air was clean and sex was 'dirty'! :D |
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Location: Jet City | Tim Conway, yeah! I always waited to see how long it would take him to make Harvey Corman lose it.
The Carol Burnett show, now that was a comedy team. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Harvey was probably the BEST 'straight man' ever in that he would 'lose it' at the same moment I would.
Watching him suffer the first few critical seconds were priceless! |
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Location: chicago | Come on the Stooges or The Marx Brothers....you decide. Firesign Theatre takes it.How can you be in two places at once when your not anywhere at all? Jeff
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Location: South of most, North of few | Fire sign theater'...ah yes, blue moss, Rebis Conebis dare demon, the Jimmy Dugan story. Surprised I can still remember those. The Tim Conway skit with the Novocaine was priceless. :D |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | How about Peter Sellers and Inspector Clouseau? There are some scenes in "A Shot in the Dark" where I laughed so hard I nearly needed medical attention, I hurt so much afterwards.
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Location: Parrish, FL | Tim Conway
CAUTION: DO NOT play this at work unless locked in a room by yourself!
It's clean, but you'll make a fool of yourself laughing.
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Location: Colorado Rocky Mountains | Red Skelton was very funny, and also quite talented. I met him once when I was doing stuff with Danny Kaye. Their sound stages were next to one another at CBS. All I really remember is that he was puking heavily. I recall somebody reporting that he did this frequently backstage before making entrances. Stories like this probably never made it to the press.
I also once had a colleague that went to college with Robin Williams at Claremont Men's. He took control of the classroom with his antics and had to be tossed out mid-semester before order could be restored. He was (still is?) the same in real life as he was doing stand-up. |
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Location: NJ | Jonathan Winters
(the ORIGINAL Robin Williams). |
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Location: south east Michigan | There was an excellet mini-series thing on PBS recently about comics. It talked about how Red would often get sick like that before going onstage.
My tennis partner's son Larry is a hair stylist who moved to Vegas. When Robin Williams is in town & needs a hair cut, he requests Larry.
I asked if he has to trim Robin's forarms but he would not say. Professional confidence I guess. |
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Location: Vernon CT | While the Stooges where funny for there time there are so many other over the years who tend to replace a so called favorite as time passes. A few of those have allready been mentioned on this "topic thread" Karen mention Peter Sellers as Inspector Clouseau, Tim Conway, Robin Williams and so on. How about Steve Martin? |
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Location: Rego Park, NY, | When I was young my dad and I met Red Skelton in Chinatown. He came into my dad's pharmacy and was admiring the interior. The pharmacy originally opened in 1805. I have photos of the interior that were taken by the Smithsonian Institiute. In one of the photos there is a calendar that shows June of 1930. |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | The Stooges were the models from which my father derived his parenting skills... |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Moe, Larry, cheese.... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | "snorkit"  |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | I would have guessed the Marx brothers. The stooges were funnier when I was a little kid. |
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Location: Chicago | In the here-and-now I gotta vote for Lewis Black. He can even get seriously down on CANDY CORN!!! :) |
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Location: Indiana | The ones that masde me laugh the hardest were Red Skelton, Bill Cosby and Victor Borge.
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Location: Michigan | :p Im just saying that The Stooges can still be found on a TV station every single weekend since their inception.All of the mentioned are still great comedians but they seem to have only came back to TV in a few reruns and not very often.
The Stooges have stood the test of time. :D
PS you just cant get any funnier than Moe pulling out Larrys hair or Moe taking a crosscut saw and sawing Culys head and saying,,Ohhh LOOOK :D :D :D GWB |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Stooges = sophomoric comedy for new generations
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Others = sophisticated comedy for all generations
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Location: Scotland | Gilbert Gotfried, George Carlin, Ricky Gervais, Sarah Silverman, Dennis Leary..... Paul, try and name someone who was funny in the last decade |
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Location: Cicero, NY | And Wayne Gretzky too. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | I change my vote to Weazer P |
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Location: Portland, OR | Early SNL, Theodoric of York, etc, the "Show of Shows" with Sid Ceaser, Carl Reiner, etc. Went to see Cosby in Portland a few years ago. Couldn't believe it. About a two and a half hour show of nonstop laughs. Great talent. Don't think I ever laughed at the Stooges. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | Dave Chappell, Dave Attell, aaaaahhhhh...Dave Witko.....or whatever his name will be next.... |
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Location: Marlton, NJ | Old Redd Foxx and Bob Newhart albums.
Best collection of comedians in one place:
"It's a Mad Mad Mad World" |
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Location: NJ | I thought this said canadians and I wondered how it could go for 2 pages long.
never mind LOL |
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Location: Texas | Johnny Carson made me laugh for years and years.
+1 for Jonathan Winters, he's a fully grown child. :)
+1 for Bill Cosby. This guy just comes out on stage, pulls up a chair, sits, and talks. And its side-splitting funny.
+1 for Steve Martin. The Great Flydini.
Cheech and Chong in their day had me in stiches.
And many others, but it gets late.
-Gary K
p.s. Have to add: I'm age 50 now, and when younger I did watch on black and white "all tube" TV: Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Red Skelton, Danny Thomas, and others. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by CrimsonLake:
Bob Newhart albums.
Best collection of comedians in one place:
"It's a Mad Mad Mad World" Newhart, yes! Genius...
IaMMMW's greatest shot was when Duranty 'kicked the bucket'. I had tears and my side hurt after that scene! :D
Lucille Ball has been hailed as a pioneer comedian, but I've always disliked whiners... :rolleyes: I've always loved Betty White! ;) |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Originally posted by alpep:
I thought this said canadians and I wondered how it could go for 2 pages long.
never mind LOL That's as funny as anything, Al. |
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