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Most women don't get it at all. Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell | |||
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| His diet consists of black coffee, and sarcasm.  |
Yeah, it's you. Some "eras" of Stooges short films (they aren't really "episodes") are better than others, however, so it may depend on which ones you're watching. The best are with Curly from 1934 to about 1944- early 1945. The ones with Shemp from about 1947-55 had their moments. The ones with Joe (Besser) were kind of lame. Curly-Joe (Joe DeRita) appeared in the full-length movies. They did have a tendency to reuse storylines and archival footage from older shorts to make new ones, even a fake Shemp. | |||
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I have realized over the years that a very small snippet (like one second or less) of the Three Stooges can be incredibly funny. Like Moe clonking two heads together or poking an eye, but you gotta have the sound with it. The effect gets concentrated. It's been at least 5 decades since I watched an entire episode. | |||
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Of note is that in many of their films they helped people who had it worse than they did. The only ones they took advantage of were already bad. Asshole Victim | |||
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Diligentia, Vis, Celeritas "People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf." -- George Orwell | |||
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One of my all-time favorite bits of theirs, The Census Takers. They are interviewing a man for the census, and they ask him, "Are you happy or married?" I about fell off the chair laughing, and the Mrs. gave me a "Oh, so you think that's funny?" look. You know the look, it makes you scared to go to sleep... Tony | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I found the three stooges funny. It was short and the punch line was visual and literal. I also liked Laurel and Hardy. I think I've seen Moe as a guest on the Mike Douglas show. The gloss has rubbed off a little as I learned about their back stories, not that any of them were evil, just the life they had; it didn't seem glamorous at all. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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I remember watching them on the slam bang theatre every morning before school. No one's life, liberty or property is safe while the legislature is in session.- Mark Twain | |||
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Awesome stuff, clean comedy, they had some funny stuff, agree Curley 1 was best, Shemp was ok and had his moments. Watched them as a kid when I got home from school, and the Little Rascals. | |||
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| Internet Guru |
Comedic geniuses. Some people just aren't fans of physical humor. | |||
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The Stooges led unassuming lives, except maybe Curly who liked the ladies. Their studio raped them and they made far less money than they earned for their bosses. Larry had a gambling problem but was the glue that held the act together. Set the controls for the heart of the Sun. | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Love the Stooges. Back in the day, they were on reruns on one of the small Chicago stations and a buddy and I would watch them almost every day. _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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Moe, Larry!.... Cheese! | |||
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| Eschew Obfuscation |
Your grandson is correct. Curly over Shemp any day and twice on Sunday.  _____________________________________________________________________ “One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.” – Thomas Sowell | |||
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The first one "Women Haters" is great. Done in rhyme. Curley using his hat for machine gun sound effects. "Disorder in the Court" is really good. The Stooges are cool in that. They make fun of the "Honorable members of the jury". The really early stuff with Ted Healy is excellent. ____________________________________________________ The butcher with the sharpest knife has the warmest heart. | |||
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| Get my pies outta the oven!  |
I just looked up a couple clips on YouTube just now and was cracking up all over again like I was 9 years old.  How anyone could say they don’t find this funny I don’t understand it. Do you not have any sort of sense of humor at all? Like when they were trying to get into an event as the press and went into a bathroom and grabbed some knobs, but Curly grabs the wrong one, HAHA | |||
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I do not find The Three Stooges funny. Never have, never will. I'm more of a Marx Brothers man. | |||
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I grew up on them, thinking they were funny. I haven’t watched any in a long while, but I still believe I’d get some laughs nowadays. One thing I like is to see a glimpse of society back then. Retired Texas Lawman | |||
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Get Off My Lawn |
When I was in elementary school, I would come home and watch The Three Stooges followed by Speed Racer. The former, I would laugh non-stop as a 10-11 year old kid. Did not watch them in my teen years and beyond until a few years ago on MeTV. I did not find them very funny anymore, except for the occasional bit. But I still find I Love Lucy reruns extremely funny, somehow the Stooges did not age well with me at all. "I’m not going to read Time Magazine, I’m not going to read Newsweek, I’m not going to read any of these magazines; I mean, because they have too much to lose by printing the truth"- Bob Dylan, 1965 | |||
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Slapstick doesn't do it for me. From that era, give me the Marx Brothers or Eddie Cantor. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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