Buster Keaton died just a year later who was just starting to have a quiet renaissance in the mid 60s and would have been loved by the Beatles generation with his “little man up against the establishment” persona.
Thank you for sharing this rare gem from the past. How extraordinary. I will always love Stan Laurel and seeing all these stars, like Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke, is such a treat! 🌹
I have a notion to second that emotion. The skits weren't all that funny, except for the one with iconic Buster Keaton. The dance numbers were ho hum. But everyone's heart was in the right place & everyone tried hard. At least there was this network homage to the late great Mr Laurel, seen the same year he passed away
This aired 9 months to the day that Stan passed. You would have thought that, in the time it takes a baby to grow from conception to birth, that SOMEONE would have been able to write a SALUTE to STAN LAUREL. This was just sad.
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A second comment if I may. It was likely a shameless plug for CBS but I still loved seeing Fred Gwynn as Herman Munster. I love that show as well as The Addams Family.
By the time this was recorded in Hollywood, both Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel had passed away. This show was a conglomeration of the slapstick comedy Laurel and Hardy used in their heyday.
The best tribute to Stan was done by Chuck McCann on WPIX Channel 11 in New York....I remember watching it and laughing hysterically....WPIX repeated it later in the week because of popular demand....I wish a video of it existed.
I agree with you..Irish Mike.."The Salute To Mr.Laurel & Mr.Hardy"hosted by Chuck McCann,Jack McCabe and Al Kilgore was much better than CBS TV's disgracefully bad tv tribute to the boys.
I could have sworn that is was broadcast in 67. It could have been a repeat of the show. Remember c.b.s di this every year for Cinderella remake. Well, I saw it on a black n white t.v and there were only 3 channels. The late show did not show Laurel and Hardy films, much less any silents. I'm glad it was preserved. I made another mistake in a clip of the show I another page typed that it included a segment making fun of part talking Laurel and Hardy films. I was wrong. that must have been another special.
The only really good tv tribute to Stan and Babe..was the one that Chuck McCann co-hosted with Prof.(Later Dr.)John McCabe and Al Kilgore on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC on Tuesday night March 9,1965(Ch.11's "Salute To Mr.Laurel & Mr.Hardy")was rebroadcast on Sunday evening March 23,1965.
That's because they were associated with (and co-founded) "The Sons of the Desert"- the OFFICIAL Laurel & Hardy "fan club" that's still going strong today.
"The Laurel special was loaded with top stars, including Dick Van Dyke, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Bob Newhart, Danny Kaye and Phil Silvers. It should have been great, but it wasn't. Instead, it sagged almost from the start into a parade of dreary routines and pathetic pantomime." -Clay Gowran, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, November 25, 1965
He was not asked to be a part of this special- which was VERY fortunate for him! Neither were ANY members of "The Sons of the Desert", the international L&H organization devoted to them and their legacy (which Chuck co-founded).
@@ianrivaldosmith No, there seems to be no copy of the program available. I did a simulated creation of the opening and posted it on RUclips but it has been blocked in the U.S.......here is the link ruclips.net/video/nhXrTw60fn8/видео.html
Truly awful. In the vein of the Star Wars Holiday Special, and the Paul Lynde Halloween Special awful. To call this amateurish would be a disservice to High School drama departments across the country. From the hokey dance numbers, to the exaggerated burlesque references, it shows how tone deaf Hollywood was.
jazzbo13 Leave out The Paul Lynda Halloween Show because in that we actually got to see Margaret Hamilton and Billy Hayes as The Wicked Witch Of The West and Witchypoo.
Those clips came from "Laurel and Hardy's Laughing '20s" (1965), complied by Robert Youngson. It's a MUCH BETTER tribute to Stan- and you get to see ALL the sequences as they were originally presented.
This special had very little to do WITH honoring Stan- as John McCabe once put it, this "had about as much to do with Stan Laurel as, say, the invasion of the Huns". Gene Lester's original idea for this program had been "hijacked" by Henry Jaffe and Seymour Berns, who decided to fill the hour with standard "variety show" material (including Bob Newhart's "Uncle Freddie Show" routine, which he originally recorded in 1961), tacking "tributes" to Stan on each. Very disappointing "salute" to a true Laurel and Hardy fan.
You call this show..Disapointing..Barry..I would prefer to call it a damn disgrace and an insult to the boys' work. And I found that "Uncle Freddie"skit of Mr.Newhart's equally insulting to fans of local kids tv shows and to L&H fans..as well.
The only memorable segments of this forgettable tv tribute to Stan Laurel..is The color silent home movie footage of Stan..clowning with his Oscar in 1961 and Mr.Gregory Peck's speech at the end of this Network conceived travesty.
This video was the first in which I have seen Buster Keaton as an old man and in colour. His sketch with Lucille Ball was not only amusing but clever. Sadly I had to turn off when the overlong overdone sketch with Dick Van Dike came on and went on and on and on and zzzzzz
Color TV sets came down considerably in price during that period. CBS presented about half of its prime-time schedule in color during the 1965-'66 season......including Red Skelton, who hadn't produced his show in color since 1960, when the network declared a "moratorium" on color programming- except for certain specials- because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC. It wasn't until the fall of 1965, when NBC decided to expand its schedule of color programs to almost 100% {"The Full Color Network"}, did CBS realize their rival might become "the #1 network", as color sets were counted among Nielsen ratings, and discovered that people who owned color sets tended to watch more color shows. So their "100% black and white" line-up was eliminated that fall- and by September 1966, presented "all-color" programming in prime-time with the other networks.
Amazing that both Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart are still living in 2017. But this show in general was a waste of air time and has little to do with paying a tribute to Stan Laurel. It is just a weak showcase of lame prat falls and cameos by otherwise famous comedians who are miscast in this excuse for a special.
They appeared with the understanding their salaries would be donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. That was perhaps the one saving grace of the entire special.
I suppose it helped that Marilyn Monroe had been dead for 3 years , but I didn't know she had a brother named Martin....did you Stanley?" "I don't have a brother named Martin, Ollie...."
umm, it does work. Laurel and Hardy for one. Okay Stan was English and James Finlayson was Scottish, but still pretty much American made comedy. But there are loads of good classic comedy shows from the USA, especially in movies. The Phil Silvers Show, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Mork & Mindy, Cheers, Third Rock from the Sun, Fraiser. This just isn't one of them. In the UK, I don't think we've really made a decent new comedy show or movie in years, apart from Red Dwarf being recently resurrected.
Buster Keaton died just a year later who was just starting to have a quiet renaissance in the mid 60s and would have been loved by the Beatles generation with his “little man up against the establishment” persona.
You speak the truth, Kemo Sabe !!
Thank you for sharing this rare gem from the past. How extraordinary. I will always love Stan Laurel and seeing all these stars, like Lucille Ball and Dick Van Dyke, is such a treat!
🌹
God should have arranged for Stan too live for ever so everyone could appreciate his talent,
He already did! We got the films!
@@Mabumba_Lego As I do when I take off my hat, you make a good point !
I have wanted to see this for many years. I was hoping it wasn't as bad as they say. But it was. However, thanks for putting up here, Jeffery!
Did not know this was out there. Great historic footage.
For a salute to one of the world's greatest comedians on earth they didn't half make a complete and utter mess of it.
A so wonderfull Hommage for the great Stan Laurel with so many awesome colleagues
whata honour for Stanley.. nice to see.. they still are watched all over the world, unforgetable.. Nice to see this honour he is given.. nice..
You've got to see the good in bad things. It was nice to see all of the legends paying homage to silent movies.
I have a notion to second that emotion. The skits weren't all that funny, except for the one with iconic Buster Keaton. The dance numbers were ho hum. But everyone's heart was in the right place & everyone tried hard. At least there was this network homage to the late great Mr Laurel, seen the same year he passed away
This aired 9 months to the day that Stan passed. You would have thought that, in the time it takes a baby to grow from conception to birth, that SOMEONE would have been able to write a SALUTE to STAN LAUREL. This was just sad.
I love Stanly♥️♥️♥️ Stanlyyyyyyyyy😄😄😄👌🏽👌🏽👌🏽 O' Hardy went 1st to GOD, poor Hardy♥️♥️♥️ GOD Bless dem, both of dem!!! My fav Comedians fe all Eternity n ever.👑👑👑
Buster Keaton was 70 years old here !!!
What a trouper ! Still giving his all !
A second comment if I may. It was likely a shameless plug for CBS but I still loved seeing Fred Gwynn as Herman Munster. I love that show as well as The Addams Family.
By the time this was recorded in Hollywood, both Oliver Hardy and Stan Laurel had passed away. This show was a conglomeration of the slapstick comedy Laurel and Hardy used in their heyday.
wish I was able to meet Stan Laurel wish it was 1965
Stan Laurel would tell you to fuck off
Buster Keaton's was the funniest.
I heartily concur !
I love Laurel and Hardy the best comedy team ever .
They live forever in our hearts.
Ollie died in 1957 and Stan in 1965, they will keep the world laughing forever 😂
You'd never know it after watching this "special". 😐
So very true !
The best tribute to Stan was done by Chuck McCann on WPIX Channel 11 in New York....I remember watching it and laughing hysterically....WPIX repeated it later in the week because of popular demand....I wish a video of it existed.
He was best of friends with him called him from NYC
He talked to him as a kid and they met up with each other.
I'm sorry Irish Mike..but there are no videotape of kinnie tv film prints of WPIX Tv Ch.11 NYC's "Salute To Mr.Laurel & Mr.Hardy!".
I agree with you..Irish Mike.."The Salute To Mr.Laurel & Mr.Hardy"hosted by Chuck McCann,Jack McCabe and Al Kilgore was much better than CBS TV's disgracefully bad tv tribute to the boys.
I could have sworn that is was broadcast in 67. It could have been a repeat of the show. Remember c.b.s di this every year for Cinderella remake. Well, I saw it on a black n white t.v and there were only 3 channels. The late show did not show Laurel and Hardy films, much less any silents. I'm glad it was preserved. I made another mistake in a clip of the show I another page typed that it included a segment making fun of part talking Laurel and Hardy films. I was wrong. that must have been another special.
Bad as it gets for 1960s...poor Stan deserved better
The only really good tv tribute to Stan and Babe..was the one that Chuck McCann co-hosted with Prof.(Later Dr.)John McCabe and Al Kilgore on WPIX TV Ch.11 in NYC on Tuesday night March 9,1965(Ch.11's "Salute To Mr.Laurel & Mr.Hardy")was rebroadcast on Sunday evening March 23,1965.
That's because they were associated with (and co-founded) "The Sons of the Desert"- the OFFICIAL Laurel & Hardy "fan club" that's still going strong today.
@@kevinbutler1126 hi do you know if it’s possible to watch this anywhere?
50:45- "If I had known what kind of 'special' this would be, I would rather have stayed alive."
"The Laurel special was loaded with top stars, including Dick Van Dyke, Lucille Ball, Buster Keaton, Bob Newhart, Danny Kaye and Phil Silvers. It should have been great, but it wasn't. Instead, it sagged almost from the start into a parade of dreary routines and pathetic pantomime." -Clay Gowran, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, November 25, 1965
Where was Chuck McCann he personally knew Stan Laurel.
He was not asked to be a part of this special- which was VERY fortunate for him! Neither were ANY members of "The Sons of the Desert", the international L&H organization devoted to them and their legacy (which Chuck co-founded).
@@fromthesidelines Chuck McCann did his own special previously that year on WPIX Channel 11 in NYC
@@irishmike3514 is it on RUclips?
@@ianrivaldosmith No, there seems to be no copy of the program available. I did a simulated creation of the opening and posted it on RUclips but it has been blocked in the U.S.......here is the link
ruclips.net/video/nhXrTw60fn8/видео.html
Le monde entier aime stan et ollie les rois du rires eternel
At least Dick vandyke didnt do his cockney accent, mercifully.
This was quite embarassing, wasn´t it? Nice to see the great Buster Keaton, though.
Good tribute for a hilarious icon.
I agree with the last two words of that sentence. First two words, not so much.
Truly awful. In the vein of the Star Wars Holiday Special, and the Paul Lynde Halloween Special awful. To call this amateurish would be a disservice to High School drama departments across the country. From the hokey dance numbers, to the exaggerated burlesque references, it shows how tone deaf Hollywood was.
jazzbo13 Leave out The Paul Lynda Halloween Show because in that we actually got to see Margaret Hamilton and Billy Hayes as The Wicked Witch Of The West and Witchypoo.
Agree with Barry. Some grade A names performing grade Z material and almost nothing to do with Stan Laurel. Even the silent clips are of poor quality
Alconcelos Productions THIS WAS A SLAP IN THE FACE TO STAN LAUREL AND IT WAS MORE A PROMO FOR CBS STARS.
Those clips came from "Laurel and Hardy's Laughing '20s" (1965), complied by Robert Youngson. It's a MUCH BETTER tribute to Stan- and you get to see ALL the sequences as they were originally presented.
Buster Keaton was a great actor died 1967,1968
1966
Unfortunately, more of the supporting actor is thought of than the brilliant Stan Laurel ....
I hated this show..when it first aired 51 years ago..I still hate it.
You can say that again..brother.
You hate it but yet you’re watching it again! LoL by the way we don’t care what you think ;-)
hardlines4 To be fair us that hate it don’t care what YOU think
Terrible
Lol, oh goodness!
Did I miss something? What about the salute to Stan Laurel? I did, however, see a cute Buster Keaton and a handsome Gregory Peck.
He was no Percy Helton (what a Hollywood heartthrob !) but the late great Mr Peck was indeed one good looking fella !
This special had very little to do WITH honoring Stan- as John McCabe once put it, this "had about as much to do with Stan Laurel as, say, the invasion of the Huns". Gene Lester's original idea for this program had been "hijacked" by Henry Jaffe and Seymour Berns, who decided to fill the hour with standard "variety show" material (including Bob Newhart's "Uncle Freddie Show" routine, which he originally recorded in 1961), tacking "tributes" to Stan on each. Very disappointing "salute" to a true Laurel and Hardy fan.
You call this show..Disapointing..Barry..I would prefer to call it a damn disgrace and an insult to the boys' work. And I found that "Uncle Freddie"skit of Mr.Newhart's equally insulting to fans of local kids tv shows and to L&H fans..as well.
I had to turn this off after 5 minutes. It is awful and nothing to do with Stan at all.
28:07- Topical gag....and yes, having NOTHING to do with Stan AT ALL. I applaud your courage in sitting through the first five minutes, Good Wolf.
Acordo, agree.
WTF have I just seen ? Appalling tripe
The only memorable segments of this forgettable tv tribute to Stan Laurel..is The color silent home movie footage of Stan..clowning with his Oscar in 1961 and Mr.Gregory Peck's speech at the end of this Network conceived travesty.
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This video was the first in which I have seen Buster Keaton as an old man and in colour. His sketch with Lucille Ball was not only amusing but clever. Sadly I had to turn off when the overlong overdone sketch with Dick Van Dike came on and went on and on and on and zzzzzz
color TV episodes was very expensive in 1965 to air
Color TV sets came down considerably in price during that period. CBS presented about half of its prime-time schedule in color during the 1965-'66 season......including Red Skelton, who hadn't produced his show in color since 1960, when the network declared a "moratorium" on color programming- except for certain specials- because of their rivalry with RCA/NBC. It wasn't until the fall of 1965, when NBC decided to expand its schedule of color programs to almost 100% {"The Full Color Network"}, did CBS realize their rival might become "the #1 network", as color sets were counted among Nielsen ratings, and discovered that people who owned color sets tended to watch more color shows. So their "100% black and white" line-up was eliminated that fall- and by September 1966, presented "all-color" programming in prime-time with the other networks.
We need a new word. Awful just doesn't begin to describe this.
im sure many of the stars here had great affection for stan laurel but this is not funny its to be honest embarassing
I wonder what Richard is up to! He's probably laying around the house in his nightgown,a woman's nightgown at that.
47:30 Gorgeous Gregory Peck.
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50.45 😢😢
They saluted Stan but not Ollie? I guess Ollie wasn't a Hollywood liberal. :(
Harvey Korman the Cop..
At the time, he was a supporting player on "THE DANNY KAYE SHOW".
Amazing that both Dick Van Dyke and Bob Newhart are still living in 2017. But this show in general was a waste of air time and has little to do with paying a tribute to Stan Laurel. It is just a weak showcase of lame prat falls and cameos by otherwise famous comedians who are miscast in this excuse for a special.
Tina's still with us.
They appeared with the understanding their salaries would be donated to the Motion Picture Relief Fund. That was perhaps the one saving grace of the entire special.
Even the musical numbers were unnessicary and unfunny.
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lost TV special
I thought it was me, but after reading other comments, this show really was a total flop.
Who dislike??????
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Lucille Ball was very beautiful but Agnes Moorehead was more beautiful even more than Martin Monroe
I suppose it helped that Marilyn Monroe had been dead for 3 years , but I didn't know she had a brother named Martin....did you Stanley?" "I don't have a brother named Martin, Ollie...."
A truly abomination of a tribute.....the great Stan Laurel deserved so much much more than this truly dreadful so called show to honor his name.
Jeez that was awful, a particular low point was that fool Phil Silvers trying to make it about him.
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THIS WAS HORRIBLE EXCEPT FOR HERMAN MUNSTER SHOWING UP.
At 35:52.
WTF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How naff is this?
Phil Silvers was awful.
35:50
Don't forget to see 'THE MUNSTERS"! Thursday at 7:30-- 6:30 Central Time, over most of these stations.....
drivel
Americans doing comedy....just doesnt work.
umm, it does work. Laurel and Hardy for one. Okay Stan was English and James Finlayson was Scottish, but still pretty much American made comedy. But there are loads of good classic comedy shows from the USA, especially in movies. The Phil Silvers Show, Bewitched, The Munsters, The Addams Family, Mork & Mindy, Cheers, Third Rock from the Sun, Fraiser. This just isn't one of them. In the UK, I don't think we've really made a decent new comedy show or movie in years, apart from Red Dwarf being recently resurrected.
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The stooges, Marx brothers, Ollie
This is horrible!