The Three Stooges was a staple of my childhood. Every day at 4pm, arriving home from school, my brothers and sisters and I would sit down in front of the TV. For 30 minutes we got to enjoy the antics of the Three Stooges. Fond memories from those days.
Yes! Who remembers watching The Stooges on WPIX Channel 11 in New York with "Officer" Joe Bolton? He even had a white-haired Moe, same bowl cut, on as a guest!
@@rockinremnants510 officer Joe was cool. He made an appearance at a school dance, in full policeman uniform, driving an old cop car! I got to meet him, nice guy.
@@rockinremnants510 I watched in California. We always had to move the antennas around to get the TV to stop rolling so we could watch after school. Have no recollection of the channel I watched on
@P Lawson85 The video does worse than ignore Shemp. It described him as "Curly, initially played by Sam Horwitz, better known as Shemp." Ironic for a video that's supposed to be revealing unknown facts about the Stooges.
Things are left out. Moe's hair was grown long because he was Jewish, not because his mother wanted a girl. Larry started playing violin at the advice of his father after Larry went to drink something he thought was drinkable, it was acid. His father slapped it before he drank it, it spilled on Larry hand and forearm, damaging nerves. The violin was to improve motor function. When Curly would stop abd pivot foot and go in circle was from Curly accidently shooting himself in the foot on his farm. He did that to ease pain from running, it got popular, so he kept it. These facts are right from Moes son and daughter I spoke with at a convention. They also told me that their dad Moe was a good father and would come home for lunch dressed as whatever character he was portraying. Also Shemp git his name because his name is Sam, but, his mother's Jewish accent when she called him sounded like Shemp, it stuck.
@@bobbibaker4685I read Larry's book in the 1970s, and his father did not want him to have a career as a boxer, even though he kept winning all of his fights. So Larry stopped fighting and was learning the violin ...
Yeah, Shemp was pretty good. Most commenters I've read rank Curly #1. He was brilliant. My favorite, however, was always Moe for some reason. I liked the way he would direct things, get those angry faces, and enforce things, which once in a while would backfire on him.
Noobs rank Curly as their favorite. Casual fans rank Moe as as their favorite. Seasoned fans rank Shemp as their favorite. Stooge connoisseurs rank Larry as their favorite.
It really is sad and tragic on how The Stooges got screwed from beginning to end of their careers from the “Typical” greedy Hollywood fat cat’s. They’ll always be super hilarious to me and I always watch their entire collection whenever possible or when I need a good, hard, tear dropping, rib cracking laugh in my life. There’ll never be another original comedic group like them again!
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ So I should put up with crap from people in order for God to love me? Repent for what?? What exactly are you assuming I've done? Why are YOU judging me?? Matt 7:1 or there abouts....read it before you make yourself look even more foolish. You say repent, I say mind your own business.
Well, don't be too bothered by their fortunes. They did little to assure their actual conditions, how popular they were, the going rate for the audience numbers, etc. They trusted others and got burnt and in Hollywood that is widely understood as dumb.
My granddaughter asked for a Three Stooges tape one year for Christmas. I had 70 of the shorts recorded on our DVR, and she loved them. She's 18 now and is still a fan.
There was one episode where Moe, Shimp, Larry and Curly (after Curly's stroke), Curly was on a train with a derby hat over his face, as the other 3 stooges were searching for someone...
Moe will always be my favorite Stooge as he was the bully and wrote a nice book about the their careers before passing away in 1975. Many love Curly the most but Shemp was funny too. I love Vernon Dent who appears in nearly all their episodes as well as Christine McIntyre. She was a renowned singer back then and sings in many of their episodes. She's NOT faking it.
1:58 Shemp Howard played *HIMSELF* in the shorts. He *DID NOT* take on his brother's persona. Jerome Horowitz(Howard) played "Curly" until he suffered his stroke, at which point Shemp briefly returned to the line-up after briefly being in the original 3 Stooges. Joe Besser took over from Shemp in the role as the 3rd Stooge as Curly Joe, followed by Joe DeRita
@@johnsieff2921 at first I couldn't tell Moe and Shemp apart when I was a kid. It was mostly through their trademark haircuts that I was able to tell them apart.
Much of this was poorly written. There were many times when he was talking about Shemp while a picture of Curly was showing. I believe that first reference he was just trying to say that the part of the 3rd Stooge was played by Shemp, even though, yes, it does sound like he's saying Shemp used to play Curly. There were several examples of poor writing throughout this piece, but the pictures were interesting. Because of this, I was curious to see how many downvotes it has received, but during the era of a certain unpopular "leader" RUclips has seen fit to no longer display downvote counts. Interesting, isn't it??? This came about due to the truly monumental numbers of downvotes the videos of this individual's speeches were receiving. We are never allowed to see just how unpopular this unnamed individual truly is, and consequently we can no longer gauge how unpopular ANY video is! Thanks, RUclips!!! Pravda would be proud!
@@williamescolantejr5871 I have watched that on occasion. But they show commercials. The vaughn online channel does not. And they loop again and again :)
That’s exactly what I think. That is the best scene for me My second favorite scene of all doesn’t even involve the three stooges It’s when they were plumbers and water was coming into the kitchen and the cook didn’t know what was going on. His famous line I say over and over Dis house sho going crazee
@@chirorickyp Dudley Dickerson's famous line. Moe wanted to make him a Stooge but racist Harry Cohn refused. Sad as he was a great addition to Stooges humor.
"Hassan Ben Sober...." Shemp: "I had a few too many myself. [Laughs boisterously]" Shemp at his best!!! Malice in the Palace! One of the best episodes ever!! How about when the hot dog sprouts a tongue and starts licking Shemp's face!!!! Yeah, that whole episode is one of the most brilliant comic routines of all time!!! And Larry comes out... "Hot dog, when it comes to cooking, I'm the cat's meow!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh man, and when they flip up the table freaking out when the cat squalls just after they take a bite!!!! And the way everyone is uncomfortably sweating as they are about to eat what they are convinced is cat and dog!!! When Ben Sober is eyeballing the table thinking about grabbing the other guy's fez so he can puke in it and the guy grabs it so he can't!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I have to watch that episode at least once every couple of years just to keep life fun!!! :-D Just go here and prepare to HOWL!!! ruclips.net/video/Rv7b9-ustaU/видео.html I just watched it again!!! OMG so funny!!! "With that diamond I could have quit my job as the doorman at the Oasis Hotel!" BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
40 years ago, I used to watch the 3 Stooges every morning before school. They always helped start the day with a laugh, and I'm pretty sure I've seen each episode at least 10 times. RIP Stooges!
@@kris9872 That was a famous house in California, right, with the massive staircase going up the side of a hill? I think it's the same place where Laurel and Hardy tried to deliver a piano, with similarly disastrous results.
I grew up as a kid in the 60's watching the 3 Stooges on TV and movie shorts at the theater. Curly WAS the 3 Stooges. And then there was Shemp. Loved Shemp as much as Curly. In my opinion there were really only 4. Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp. That's it. Joe Besser and Curly Joe...don't count in my book. Moe was the boss. Larry was the straight man. Curly and Shemp were the comedy train wrecks. Even watching the old flicks of them I still laugh out loud. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!
I love the brilliant Shemp!! When I was a kid, I never really understood the loud and immediate hangups on the phone when he was calling old girlfriends trying to find a bride so he could get his uncle's inheritance. But BOY how I understand it now!!! It's even funnier after my own life experiences. I'm sure there are QUITE a few who would loudly slam the phone in my ear!! 😀
Shemp was the ex boxer. He could always be found at the boxing rings and going to the fights. He would use his footwork in many of the Stooges shorts. Just look for it. Larry was a huge horse racing fan and and could always be found putting his money down at the tracks. Curly was THE ladies man. He lost much of his money in many of his divorces he went through. And Moe was the business man. He would keep a percentage of the others earnings so that the others would have some money left over for when they would retire. Moe knew that the group was under paid but stayed with the company out of loyalty because the company gave the Stooges their 1st break as a 3 some when they broke away from Healy. Not the best business move but Moe was very loyal that way.
I’ve also heard that it’s because Harry Cohn (the head honcho) of Paramount Pictures was a bit of a temperamental authoritarian when it came to making business decisions. And from what I’ve heard, Moe’s daughter once said “My dad was fearful. He didn’t want to rock the boat.”. And before anyone (even though I doubt anyone thinks this) says “oh, he’s a bit of a wimp for not doing that”, you’ve got to remember that when they started in 1934, that was obviously during The Great Depression, where any form of income was better than no income and that jobs were pretty limited. To give context, a quarter of Americans during this time (roughly 15 million people) were left with no source of income. There’s also the extra part of how they had families, with a wife and kids.
It was also rumored that Curly had to shave his head because he looked to similar to Moe and they wanted him to have his own specific look, he had a great head of hair as all the Howard brothers did. There's an later episode where Curly made a cameo appearance in a train scene where he had a full head of hair slick back.
That's true and Curly was never happy about. Columbia Pictures insisted on it for him to be a Stooge. There is one episode where Curly is on a train where he has a full head of hair and Shemp is also in the same episode.
Yeah, that’s just another thing I envy about Moe, Shemp and Curly. They didn’t have receding hairlines. Especially think of Shemp. By the time he rejoined the act, he was around 52 and he still had a full head of hair. And When Moe got older, he had a nice head of gray hair with no noticeable bald spots.
When I was a kid I bought a 45 single called The Curly Shuffle by Jump In The Saddle. Weird and funny stuff then and now. Those guys were comic genius!
Good times! Although pretty sure the wacky band was actually 'Jump 'n' The Saddle' Chicago bar band hitting it (somewhat) big with the novelty favorite, late 70's, as I recall, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.....!
Curly Howard was the funniest one of them all in my opinion. Liked that skit about taking off his hat and raising his right hand in the court room. I think they called the skit, "Disorder in the court."
Yes Check out various 3 stooges Trivia books & you'll see that there's more Stooge Trivia than meets the eye like in the following Moe Howard and The Three Stooges; Stroke of Luck by Larry Fine; Also in The 3 Stooges Scrapbook; One Fine Stooge; and My Brother Larry The Stooge in the Middle by Morris "Moe" Fineberg.Even The Three Stooges Trivia Quiz book,and Stooge Mania.
I remember being a kid in the early 2000's and very early in the morning around 5 am I'd sometimes get up just to watch an hour of the Three Stooges before school. I still love their act to this day! They were true pioneers of the slapstick genre of comedy and never failed to get some laughs. I enjoyed the presence of Curly, Moe, Larry, and Shemp. Wasn't too crazy about Joe Besser or Curly Joe as they kind of felt like cheap imitations of the originals.
Perhaps I misheard what you said, but Moe was the second eldest to Shemp of the Stooges, not youngest. Jerome/Curly was the youngest. Larry Fine was an excellent violinist -- an instrument he took up to help his fingers, hands after an accident which he was severely burned as a child.
@daveogarf, Shemp (born March 1895) was 2 years older than Moe (June 1897) who was 5 years than Larry (October 1902), who was 1 year older than Curly (October 1903)
In the 70s, they either came on REALLY early in the morning, or in the afternoon, mixed in with Scooby-Doo and the Warner Brothers/Hanna Barbara stuff. Often, they also showed Saturday mornings. I preferred animation, but the Stooges definitely rocked, and I now appreciate them far more.
Shemp left the act because of Healy's heavy drinkng and temper, and because he was offered a role in a series of Vitagraph shorts based on the comic strip character Joe Palooka. When Moe, Larry and Curly split with Ted Healy it was also because of Healy's drinking and temper. Healy was also abusive. After Larry's stroke, Moe had plans to continue the act with Emil Sitka taking over for Larry, but Moe's own health problems (a diagnosis of lung cancer) prevented it from happening.
These guys really helped shaped in many ways the Baby Boomers and our ant-establishment attitudes…They were great in so many ways and as funny as it gets.
They may be gone but not forgotten they brought laughter for generations here we are laughing hysterically to the funniest men ever who invented slapstick and eye poking and pie fights as we know it you made my weekend keep the laughs coming the howards and fine family would be proud and laughing after all these years later appreciate you guys thanks you guys rock thanks ! Joe
The Stooges did not always do their own stunts. For example, dial up the classic Disorder In The Court. When Curly falls over backwards in the witness chair, it's clearly not Jerome.
My mom got Moe's autograph in the '40s and said he was a nice guy. When I watched them as a kid, their short films were in poor condition with crackling and skips, so we assumed they wouldn't be around much longer. Thank goodness for computer enhancement technology.
New Year's 99/00 I was about 11 days beyond my 12th bday. Dad had gone to bed for work while me, my mom, and little sister stayed up until really really late watching an all day and all night Stooges marathon. I had never seen anything like them, and I loved every bit of it. Curly was my instant favorite. We had probably 3 bottles of sparkling cider throughout the night, and didn't care about the fireworks. At all. Couple years later, I would race home from the school bus every day to catch an hour long special collection of their shorts on AMC. In the Army, I bought a few of their greatest hits collections. Happy Days is my favorite TV show ever but, the Stooges are a very close second
Shemp left the group to pursue a solo career and curly was when he joined the group. Shemp only returned to takeover for curly temporarily, since curly suffered serious health issues that caused him to be unavailable to perform. But sadly curly died in 1952 and Shemp served as the permanent replacement until he died in 1955.
This was a good history of them. However I may have missed some thing because there were times I was laughing at the ridiculous clips you included in this video. The Three Stooges were a lot of fun! My vote for their best short is Hoi Polloi.
Shemp was NEVER "Curley". Jerome was named that because of his curly chestnut brown hair. he was forced to shave it when he joined Ted Healy and His Stooges, after Shemp left to do his own solo gig. next.
Years ago as a little kid. Me and my brother along with Dad and Mom. Had met the comedian Moe at a Renaissance Fair. Mom sold Moe's autograph to purchase groceries.
Thanks…Nothing new here to a die hard fan like me, however…and you can hardly say they hid these facts from their fans since they are all in Moe Howard’s book.
This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid n now even my older boys have watched all their shows what a great video so nostalgic Curly was by far my favorite character but I remember all of the stooge #3s 😂
5:42 Soup to Nuts was written by the famous cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who is famous for his illustrations of overly complicated machines to mundane activities.
back in the mid 2000s my dad bought a load of 3 stooges dvds and me and my 2 sisters watched it every night at 7pm before we went to bed. Even though the film may look outdated, the three stooges were peak in my childhood.
I loved the Stooges as a kid and still do. Watched them on WPIX with Captain Joe Bolton. Years later in LA when they weren’t on TV, we would go see them at a movie theater in Hollywood. It was always jammed. Also, when my dad was a kid he saw them with Ted Healy in a theater in Brooklyn.
The Three Stooges was a staple of my childhood. Every day at 4pm, arriving home from school, my brothers and sisters and I would sit down in front of the TV. For 30 minutes we got to enjoy the antics of the Three Stooges. Fond memories from those days.
Yes! Who remembers watching The Stooges on WPIX Channel 11 in New York with "Officer" Joe Bolton? He even had a white-haired Moe, same bowl cut, on as a guest!
@@rockinremnants510 officer Joe was cool. He made an appearance at a school dance, in full policeman uniform, driving an old cop car! I got to meet him, nice guy.
@@rockinremnants510 I watched in California. We always had to move the antennas around to get the TV to stop rolling so we could watch after school. Have no recollection of the channel I watched on
It's, "The Three Srooges WERE a staple of my childhood"...
@@Mother2IsTheBestGame three SROOGES??
R.I.P Moe, Larry & Curly. Gone but will never be forgotten!👏👏🏻👏🏼👏🏽👏🏾👏🏿
So this video ignores Shemp.
@@plawson8577
And Joe Besser and ‘Curly’ Joe DeRita …
To be honest the video ends as things were getting interesting.
@P Lawson85 The video does worse than ignore Shemp. It described him as "Curly, initially played by Sam Horwitz, better known as Shemp."
Ironic for a video that's supposed to be revealing unknown facts about the Stooges.
I dont understand the multi colored hands
@@markratner4445
It’s the melting pot audience of Three Stooges fans applauding
I'm 69. I still love to watch the three stooges! My grandchildren love them as well!!!!!
Things are left out. Moe's hair was grown long because he was Jewish, not because his mother wanted a girl. Larry started playing violin at the advice of his father after Larry went to drink something he thought was drinkable, it was acid. His father slapped it before he drank it, it spilled on Larry hand and forearm, damaging nerves. The violin was to improve motor function. When Curly would stop abd pivot foot and go in circle was from Curly accidently shooting himself in the foot on his farm. He did that to ease pain from running, it got popular, so he kept it. These facts are right from Moes son and daughter I spoke with at a convention. They also told me that their dad Moe was a good father and would come home for lunch dressed as whatever character he was portraying. Also Shemp git his name because his name is Sam, but, his mother's Jewish accent when she called him sounded like Shemp, it stuck.
Thank God for people who do their homework! XO
Thanks
Wow! I didn’t know he had a daughter I just knew about his son and he was continuing a show about them years ago. I don’t know what happened.
@@bobbibaker4685I read Larry's book in the 1970s, and his
father did not want him to have a career as a boxer, even though he kept winning all of his fights. So Larry stopped fighting and was learning the violin ...
I can't even imagine what kind of accent would produce Shemp from "Sam". The rest of her speaking must have been incomprehensible.
Jerome "Curly" Howard was the funniest man of his generation. Pound for pound, and laugh after belly laugh, Curly owned comedy for fifty years.
I read where Curly would rescue stray dogs he found. He would find them homes.
He was also one of the greatest dancers, on screen.
@@bigm383 Really?
@@nancyhanson5620 Watch Three Smart Saps!
He would have to share the throne with Lou Costello IMHO.
Shemp was highly underrated.
Yeah, Shemp was pretty good. Most commenters I've read rank Curly #1. He was brilliant. My favorite, however, was always Moe for some reason. I liked the way he would direct things, get those angry faces, and enforce things, which once in a while would backfire on him.
He was the best in my book. Everyone imitated and loved Curly, and so did I. But Shemp was my favorite by far.
Noobs rank Curly as their favorite.
Casual fans rank Moe as as their favorite.
Seasoned fans rank Shemp as their favorite.
Stooge connoisseurs rank Larry as their favorite.
Right I love Shemp
Couldn’t agree more.
It really is sad and tragic on how The Stooges got screwed from beginning to end of their careers from the “Typical” greedy Hollywood fat cat’s. They’ll always be super hilarious to me and I always watch their entire collection whenever possible or when I need a good, hard, tear dropping, rib cracking laugh in my life. There’ll never be another original comedic group like them again!
Ube Iwerks. Jack Kirby. Yours Truly.
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ So I should put up with crap from people in order for God to love me?
Repent for what?? What exactly are you assuming I've done? Why are YOU judging me?? Matt 7:1 or there abouts....read it before you make yourself look even more foolish. You say repent, I say mind your own business.
Well, don't be too bothered by their fortunes. They did little to assure their actual conditions, how popular they were, the going rate for the audience numbers, etc. They trusted others and got burnt and in Hollywood that is widely understood as dumb.
@@erswnn Wow such depth of knowledge and understanding portrayed here.
cats vs cat's
My granddaughter asked for a Three Stooges tape one year for Christmas. I had 70 of the shorts recorded on our DVR, and she loved them. She's 18 now and is still a fan.
All the shorts are on dvd, you know.
There was one episode where Moe, Shimp, Larry and Curly (after Curly's stroke), Curly was on a train with a derby hat over his face, as the other 3 stooges were searching for someone...
Hold That Lion -1947
Moe will always be my favorite Stooge as he was the bully and wrote a nice book about the their careers before passing away in 1975. Many love Curly the most but Shemp was funny too. I love Vernon Dent who appears in nearly all their episodes as well as Christine McIntyre. She was a renowned singer back then and sings in many of their episodes. She's NOT faking it.
Did he really write a nice book about the their careers or are you just an idiot who can't even compose a simple comment without fucking it up? lol
1:58 Shemp Howard played *HIMSELF* in the shorts. He *DID NOT* take on his brother's persona. Jerome Horowitz(Howard) played "Curly" until he suffered his stroke, at which point Shemp briefly returned to the line-up after briefly being in the original 3 Stooges. Joe Besser took over from Shemp in the role as the 3rd Stooge as Curly Joe, followed by Joe DeRita
Shemp and Joe both sucked big time. Total garbage compared with the BIG THREE.
Lots and lots of historical inaccuracies in this video
@@halloweenanimatronicchanne3507 It’s a Trashy Clickbait Video.
Neil Forbes-Shemp's 'brief return' lasted from the time he rejoined the Stooges, 'til the day he died.
Loved coming in from school and watching them. And of course on the weekends.
When the theme music played-we all came RUNNING.
Shemp never played the role of Curly. He was just Shemp. When he left Curly took his place.
Then when Curly had his stroke Shemp returned and took Curly's place.
Shemp was the LEAST Funny of the bunch. PERIOD!
@@johnsieff2921 nobody asked YOU!
LOL! Shemp was creepy.E bee bee bee beep I'll take Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk anyday! He was even homelier than Moe!
@@johnsieff2921 at first I couldn't tell Moe and Shemp apart when I was a kid. It was mostly through their trademark haircuts that I was able to tell them apart.
OK, Shemp was never known as Curly. EVER.
Much of this was poorly written. There were many times when he was talking about Shemp while a picture of Curly was showing. I believe that first reference he was just trying to say that the part of the 3rd Stooge was played by Shemp, even though, yes, it does sound like he's saying Shemp used to play Curly. There were several examples of poor writing throughout this piece, but the pictures were interesting. Because of this, I was curious to see how many downvotes it has received, but during the era of a certain unpopular "leader" RUclips has seen fit to no longer display downvote counts. Interesting, isn't it??? This came about due to the truly monumental numbers of downvotes the videos of this individual's speeches were receiving. We are never allowed to see just how unpopular this unnamed individual truly is, and consequently we can no longer gauge how unpopular ANY video is! Thanks, RUclips!!! Pravda would be proud!
I've been watching the Three Stooges on tv for maybe 50 years. I'm laughing still!!
I never tired of watching the three stooges as a kid, they were great!!!
im now 58 1/2 an i agree.All 6 gave me a laugh an a smile in my life an still do
I watch the Stooges on vaughn tv website's oldies at night III
Still very funny after all these years
@@merccadoosis8847 catch them saturday nights on MeTv
@@williamescolantejr5871
I have watched that on occasion. But they show commercials. The vaughn online channel does not. And they loop again and again :)
@@merccadoosis8847 im just a old schooler from day of sat morning cartoons an creature feature afternoons lol
My eight year old daughter enjoys watching the three stooges. The legends live on.
OMG The one where Larry chops up the cat & dog dinner for Ben Sober & the other guy is still the most gut busting scene in the history of film!!!!
Curly had a small scene in that flic. However, it was not used. From what I've read it was actually quite funny.
That’s exactly what I think. That is the best scene for me
My second favorite scene of all doesn’t even involve the three stooges
It’s when they were plumbers and water was coming into the kitchen and the cook didn’t know what was going on. His famous line I say over and over
Dis house sho going crazee
@@chirorickyp
Dudley Dickerson's famous line. Moe wanted to make him a Stooge but racist Harry Cohn refused. Sad as he was a great addition to Stooges humor.
"Hassan Ben Sober...." Shemp: "I had a few too many myself. [Laughs boisterously]" Shemp at his best!!! Malice in the Palace! One of the best episodes ever!! How about when the hot dog sprouts a tongue and starts licking Shemp's face!!!! Yeah, that whole episode is one of the most brilliant comic routines of all time!!! And Larry comes out... "Hot dog, when it comes to cooking, I'm the cat's meow!" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! Oh man, and when they flip up the table freaking out when the cat squalls just after they take a bite!!!! And the way everyone is uncomfortably sweating as they are about to eat what they are convinced is cat and dog!!! When Ben Sober is eyeballing the table thinking about grabbing the other guy's fez so he can puke in it and the guy grabs it so he can't!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH!!! I have to watch that episode at least once every couple of years just to keep life fun!!! :-D
Just go here and prepare to HOWL!!! ruclips.net/video/Rv7b9-ustaU/видео.html
I just watched it again!!! OMG so funny!!! "With that diamond I could have quit my job as the doorman at the Oasis Hotel!" BAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Well, while this is interesting trivia, it's misleading to assert that the Stooges tried to HIDE these facts.
40 years ago, I used to watch the 3 Stooges every morning before school. They always helped start the day with a laugh, and I'm pretty sure I've seen each episode at least 10 times. RIP Stooges!
after school..
Same here…one of the funniest is the ice delivery men. Start with a block and by the time they get to the house it’s a cube! Genius!
@@kris9872 That was a famous house in California, right, with the massive staircase going up the side of a hill? I think it's the same place where Laurel and Hardy tried to deliver a piano, with similarly disastrous results.
It was after school for me !
@Repent and believe in Jesus Christ Christians are forgiven regardless.
4:00 Larry Feinberg(amended to Fine) was a violinist, not a boxer. He used his talent as a violinist in a number of 3 Stooges film shorts.
Except for the "professional boxer as a teenager" part.
@@mkvv5687 we all know boxers can’t play the violin.
Larry was an amateur boxer when he was a teen. He never went pro because his parents wouldn't let him.
@@melissacooper8724 Ok, thanks.
@@melissacooper8724 Google it
If there was only one video left in the world to watch I would want it to be the Three Stooges.
The Stooges were nothing until Iggy Pop became their frontman.
I'm bored!!!
Curly was a sweetheart. He loved dogs, and rescued thousands in his lifetime.
They still make me laugh out loud.
Yep everyday after school t'was 3 stooges for me over 50 years ago
Disorder in the Court, my all time favorite 3 Stooges short....hilarious
I grew up as a kid in the 60's watching the 3 Stooges on TV and movie shorts at the theater. Curly WAS the 3 Stooges. And then there was Shemp. Loved Shemp as much as Curly. In my opinion there were really only 4. Moe, Larry, Curly, and Shemp. That's it. Joe Besser and Curly Joe...don't count in my book. Moe was the boss. Larry was the straight man. Curly and Shemp were the comedy train wrecks. Even watching the old flicks of them I still laugh out loud. Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!
I love the brilliant Shemp!! When I was a kid, I never really understood the loud and immediate hangups on the phone when he was calling old girlfriends trying to find a bride so he could get his uncle's inheritance. But BOY how I understand it now!!! It's even funnier after my own life experiences. I'm sure there are QUITE a few who would loudly slam the phone in my ear!! 😀
Yeah, okay.
Maybe call it things you may not know.
Where were the hidden facts? Most of this us common knowledge
Shemp was the ex boxer. He could always be found at the boxing rings and going to the fights. He would use his footwork in many of the Stooges shorts. Just look for it. Larry was a huge horse racing fan and and could always be found putting his money down at the tracks. Curly was THE ladies man. He lost much of his money in many of his divorces he went through. And Moe was the business man. He would keep a percentage of the others earnings so that the others would have some money left over for when they would retire. Moe knew that the group was under paid but stayed with the company out of loyalty because the company gave the Stooges their 1st break as a 3 some when they broke away from Healy. Not the best business move but Moe was very loyal that way.
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I’ve also heard that it’s because Harry Cohn (the head honcho) of Paramount Pictures was a bit of a temperamental authoritarian when it came to making business decisions. And from what I’ve heard, Moe’s daughter once said “My dad was fearful. He didn’t want to rock the boat.”. And before anyone (even though I doubt anyone thinks this) says “oh, he’s a bit of a wimp for not doing that”, you’ve got to remember that when they started in 1934, that was obviously during The Great Depression, where any form of income was better than no income and that jobs were pretty limited. To give context, a quarter of Americans during this time (roughly 15 million people) were left with no source of income. There’s also the extra part of how they had families, with a wife and kids.
Larry also boxed- rumor his protective parents pushed steered Larry away just as he began boxing
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All of this is well known, none of it hidden from fans.
Nothing new here.
It’s just click bait.
Yup. Really a waste of time.
My thoughts exactly
5:00 Moe was *NEVER* absent from *ANY* of the skits, on stage or on film.
It was also rumored that Curly had to shave his head because he looked to similar to Moe and they wanted him to have his own specific look, he had a great head of hair as all the Howard brothers did. There's an later episode where Curly made a cameo appearance in a train scene where he had a full head of hair slick back.
That short was "Hold That Lion!" And the only one with all three of the Howards.
That's true and Curly was never happy about. Columbia Pictures insisted on it for him to be a Stooge. There is one episode where Curly is on a train where he has a full head of hair and Shemp is also in the same episode.
Yeah, that’s just another thing I envy about Moe, Shemp and Curly. They didn’t have receding hairlines. Especially think of Shemp. By the time he rejoined the act, he was around 52 and he still had a full head of hair. And When Moe got older, he had a nice head of gray hair with no noticeable bald spots.
That scene was after Curly’s stroke. It’s why he barely does anything.
When I was a kid I bought a 45 single called The Curly Shuffle by Jump In The Saddle. Weird and funny stuff then and now. Those guys were comic genius!
Good times! Although pretty sure the wacky band was actually 'Jump 'n' The Saddle' Chicago bar band hitting it (somewhat) big with the novelty favorite, late 70's, as I recall, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck, nyuck.....!
My dad used to watch them and Monty Python in the 80's, so it's nostalgic and comforting when I see them for that reason
The Three Stooges are my favorite comedy trio
Always watched the 3 stooges when I was a kid came home from school and watched them on TV with officer Joe Bolton Always enjoyed it
Curly Howard was the funniest one of them all in my opinion. Liked that skit about taking off his hat and raising his right hand in the court room. I think they called the skit, "Disorder in the court."
Veta-graph Studios???...... It is pronounced Vi-A-graph Studio.....😶
In 2122 people will still be watching the Three Stooges and laughing their butts off.
Yes Check out various 3 stooges Trivia books & you'll see that there's more Stooge Trivia than meets the eye like in the following Moe Howard and The Three Stooges; Stroke of Luck by Larry Fine; Also in The 3 Stooges Scrapbook; One Fine Stooge; and My Brother Larry The Stooge in the Middle by Morris "Moe" Fineberg.Even The Three Stooges Trivia Quiz book,and Stooge Mania.
There's also the book Curly, an Illustrated Biography of the Superstooge written by Moe's daughter Joan Howard'Maurer.
@@stevegallo8483 Yes I know I got that one for Christmas Eve on 12/24/1984 but happened to leave it out on the above mentioned.
I've had and loved most of those over the years.
The original jackass crew. The greatest
I remember being a kid in the early 2000's and very early in the morning around 5 am I'd sometimes get up just to watch an hour of the Three Stooges before school. I still love their act to this day! They were true pioneers of the slapstick genre of comedy and never failed to get some laughs. I enjoyed the presence of Curly, Moe, Larry, and Shemp. Wasn't too crazy about Joe Besser or Curly Joe as they kind of felt like cheap imitations of the originals.
Perhaps I misheard what you said, but Moe was the second eldest to Shemp of the Stooges, not youngest. Jerome/Curly was the youngest. Larry Fine was an excellent violinist -- an instrument he took up to help his fingers, hands after an accident which he was severely burned as a child.
Actually, Moe's brother, Shemp was a year older.
@@daveogarf Yes, I misspoke on Shemp being, eldest.
@daveogarf, Shemp (born March 1895) was 2 years older than Moe (June 1897) who was 5 years than Larry (October 1902), who was 1 year older than Curly (October 1903)
He, like Jack Benny, was an accomplished violin nist who would pretend to be terrible.
I showed them to my friends in Russia. They rolled watching Curly battle the clam!
In the 70s, they either came on REALLY early in the morning, or in the afternoon, mixed in with Scooby-Doo and the Warner Brothers/Hanna Barbara stuff.
Often, they also showed Saturday mornings. I preferred animation, but the Stooges definitely rocked, and I now appreciate them far more.
I loved the Three Stooges and watch them on cable TV
Shemp left the act because of Healy's heavy drinkng and temper, and because he was offered a role in a series of Vitagraph shorts based on the comic strip character Joe Palooka. When Moe, Larry and Curly split with Ted Healy it was also because of Healy's drinking and temper. Healy was also abusive. After Larry's stroke, Moe had plans to continue the act with Emil Sitka taking over for Larry, but Moe's own health problems (a diagnosis of lung cancer) prevented it from happening.
Shemp left because he thought he could do better on his own.
@@johnsieff2921 Partly, and he also left because of Healy's temper and heavy drinking.
Healy got killed by someone close to the Mafia.
@@chriscoker7794 Says who?
Favorite line from Curly.........'I'm tryin to think an nuthin happens", I still use it today and I'm 76.
Larry started playing the violin because he spilled acid on his hand
Always a 3 Stooges clip before the Saturday matinees at my local theater. Grew up with these guys.
Yeppers, they are my favorite still . Many many years of happiness and entertainment for my brother and sisters and myself.
So, what facts did they hide? Nothing new here. All has been common knowledge forever.
Hey, at least he didn't say they were "insane facts"
The Beatles copied Moe Howard’s hair cut and the rest is history.
These guys really helped shaped in many ways the Baby Boomers and our ant-establishment attitudes…They were great in so many ways and as funny as it gets.
They may be gone but not forgotten they brought laughter for generations here we are laughing hysterically to the funniest men ever who invented slapstick and eye poking and pie fights as we know it you made my weekend keep the laughs coming the howards and fine family would be proud and laughing after all these years later appreciate you guys thanks you guys rock thanks ! Joe
The Stooges did not always do their own stunts. For example, dial up the classic Disorder In The Court. When Curly falls over backwards in the witness chair, it's clearly not Jerome.
I’m a victim of soicumstance.
Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk...
1:30 is when the “secrets” are finally revealed! 😏😏😏😏😏
Curly 's was known as Babe to the family.
Yes, he was the 'baby brother' to Moe and Shemp.
Bet it got complicated when Shemp got married. Shemp's wife was named Babe.
Curly was my favorite stooge
My mom got Moe's autograph in the '40s and said he was a nice guy. When I watched them as a kid, their short films were in poor condition with crackling and skips, so we assumed they wouldn't be around much longer. Thank goodness for computer enhancement technology.
These men created the comedy routines that are still copied today. They have never been duplicated yet always imitated.
I am 58. Loved to watch the Stooges with my Dad !💜
New Year's 99/00
I was about 11 days beyond my 12th bday. Dad had gone to bed for work while me, my mom, and little sister stayed up until really really late watching an all day and all night Stooges marathon. I had never seen anything like them, and I loved every bit of it. Curly was my instant favorite.
We had probably 3 bottles of sparkling cider throughout the night, and didn't care about the fireworks. At all.
Couple years later, I would race home from the school bus every day to catch an hour long special collection of their shorts on AMC.
In the Army, I bought a few of their greatest hits collections.
Happy Days is my favorite TV show ever but, the Stooges are a very close second
I don't think the Stooges tried to hide the fact that there were six Stooges. That doesn't even make sense.
Shemp left the group to pursue a solo career and curly was when he joined the group. Shemp only returned to takeover for curly temporarily, since curly suffered serious health issues that caused him to be unavailable to perform. But sadly curly died in 1952 and Shemp served as the permanent replacement until he died in 1955.
I still watch The Three Stooges. Every Saturday from 6-8pm.
Anyone out there from the metro Detroit area remember watching the 3 stooges in the late 60s-70s on WKBD CH 50 ?
This was a good history of them. However I may have missed some thing because there were times I was laughing at the ridiculous clips you included in this video. The Three Stooges were a lot of fun! My vote for their best short is Hoi Polloi.
There were 7 actors who were in the 3 Stooges. 8 if you include Emil Sitka. Emil never got to play a Stooge because Moe Howard died before he could.
Those Stooges got only a fraction of what they actually rated. Pig feed to be exact.
Couldnt wait get from
School to laugh my
Ass off
woke up got ready for school ate my breakfast and watch them at 7 am ..on the B/W tv...
Shame on those that stoled money from the three stooges.
Shemp was NEVER "Curley". Jerome was named that because of his curly chestnut brown hair. he was forced to shave it when he joined Ted Healy and His Stooges, after Shemp left to do his own solo gig.
next.
Love the stooges love love
THE
BEST
HELLO...HELLO..HELLO!!!
Years ago as a little kid. Me and my brother along with Dad and Mom. Had met the comedian Moe at a Renaissance Fair. Mom sold Moe's autograph to purchase groceries.
Some of the movie sets the Stooges had were top notch! And look at them gals! Holy smokes!
Thanks…Nothing new here to a die hard fan like me, however…and you can hardly say they hid these facts from their fans since they are all in Moe Howard’s book.
the stooges were great. still love them.
Loved your movie! Thanx! ( O - a wise guy!)
How did they keep the fact there were six stooges from the fans? What are you people, blind?
Shemp did good work Besser horrible
Shemp is my favorite, even before Curly!!! I love Shemp so much! He's brilliant and also a beautiful creature as well! 🙂
This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid n now even my older boys have watched all their shows what a great video so nostalgic Curly was by far my favorite character but I remember all of the stooge #3s 😂
not a sole came here hoping to find out if this was your show, this isn't about you get over yourself
@@slowery43 Chill
@@slowery43 Not about you either you TOOL.
@@slowery43 - (*soul)
3 stooges were awesome.
Lol whenever moe would slap shemp and his slicked up hair would fly into in mess.
Curly was funny.
They kept getting Curly and Shemp mixed up!
5:42 Soup to Nuts was written by the famous cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who is famous for his illustrations of overly complicated machines to mundane activities.
No real surprises here if you are even a casual Stooges fan.
I'm starting a campaign for Vernon Dent
The 7th stooger that nobody talks about!
Crazy times, but there’s hope for our world, my grandkids all watch 3stooges with there grandpa
The were all pertinent to each other. None of them outshines the other.
back in the mid 2000s my dad bought a load of 3 stooges dvds and me and my 2 sisters watched it every night at 7pm before we went to bed. Even though the film may look outdated, the three stooges were peak in my childhood.
I loved the Stooges as a kid and still do. Watched them on WPIX with Captain Joe Bolton. Years later in LA when they weren’t on TV, we would go see them at a movie theater in Hollywood. It was always jammed. Also, when my dad was a kid he saw them with Ted Healy in a theater in Brooklyn.
You forgot the forth stooge Emil Sitka, and shemp came out with Larry and Moe before curly
Emil was a significant part of the troupe for decades. There were plans to have him replace the aging Larry, but Moe's health took a downturn.
My dad said I would always call it the 2 dooges. He would tell me no 3 stooges I would say uh uh 2 dooges