Ahh, and there's my Curly. Thanks for the pic, dj!
I saw them maybe once for a few minutes, perhaps when I was nine. Kept hearing about them and going about my business. Am still - eh?? - on them, though I get it that I just missed the bus.
Well, slapstick comedy is very visual, so you really have to sit and watch them to umm....appreciate it...(I guess appreciate is the right word!) :wink:
alternate title for this thread --
"Curly was the Best Stooge by Far"
Definitely curly
nuff said
Well, I like each stooge for what they lent to the act. If I had to pick a favorite it would be Larry...always the middle man. Shemp did have some memorable moments...never cared for Joe, the voice...that horrible voice.
For the cartoon Ren and Stimpy, Billy West based Stimpys voice on Larry's Jewish/Brooklyn accent.
I think you are right. I like all of the original four. Curley Joe and the other were just fill ins.
Here are the Stooges I don't like to watch.
Joe Besser
Born: August 12, 1907
Died: March 1, 1988
Stooge years: 1957-1959
Curly-Joe DeRita
Real Name: Joseph Wardell
Born: July 12, 1909
Died: July 3, 1993
Stooge years: 1959-1975
Emil Sitka
Born: December 22, 1914
Died: January 16, 1998
Stooge years: c.1971-1975
Sitka was officially named a member of the Stooges following Larry Fine's stroke, but never got to appear in a movie with the group.
I've always been partial to Harpo.
ossobuco wrote:I saw them maybe once for a few minutes, perhaps when I was nine. Kept hearing about them and going about my business. Am still - eh?? - on them, though I get it that I just missed the bus.
WHAT! This is an outrage!!! We need to put you in a chair and show you their work in it's entirety in one sitting.
Airn't the stooges shows in that space capsule they launched into outer space so that the Martians would find them?
I actually like the Marx brothers better. Out of boredom once, I made a hand written script for "Duck Soup" from a vhs tape...play - pause - write - repeat.
Was just reading about Larry at Wiki...found out that he was not from Brooklyn, but was born in Philadelphia...so it was a Jewish/Phili accent that was used for Stimpy. Wiki also had that fact listed at the bottom of his entry.
And I agree with Edgar...Larry, Moe, Curly and Shemp are nice to watch...don't care for the others at all.
