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MichMan

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36. Loved them for 60 years.

Sun Jul 6, 2025, 05:26 PM

Jul 6

Curly was an animal lover and rescued a bunch of dogs. It is estimated that he rehomed 5000 of them in his lifetime. He would often pick up a couple strays in every town he visited.

Shemp had left for a solo career and upon Curly's health issues wasn't all that keen on returning , but realized that not doing so would likely mean the end of the careers of Moe and Larry. Unfortunately the studio never paid them appropriately considering their popularity.

Even though they had a lot of violent pranks, as kids we understood they weren't real and knew better than to try and throw bricks at each other or hit each other with hammers.

I always wondered since Moe, Shemp and Curly were all brothers, if they started performing these antics as kids. Wonder what their mother had to go through?

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The Three Stooges--Funny/Not Funny. Why/Why not. [View all] debm55 Jul 6 OP

Kinda funny, but BOSSHOG Jul 6 #1

Same here, BOSSHOG debm55 Jul 6 #7

Hilarious The Madcap Jul 6 #2

Thank you The Madcap. I agree with the anti-Hitler takes. debm55 Jul 6 #8

Interesting.Watched them pretty young - all that went past me. electric_blue68 Jul 6 #59

They did a couple of shorts where Moe was a Hitler like character. I didn't like that at all debm55 Jul 6 #61

This message was self-deleted by its author Omnipresent Jul 8 #76

I thought they were pretty funny when I was a kid. Ocelot II Jul 6 #3

Thank you very much Ocelot II Same here. debm55 Jul 6 #9

Intensely not funny. Eye-gouging is not gigg;e-inducing. Glorfindel Jul 6 #4

Thank you Glorfindel. debm55 Jul 6 #10

Never cared for that kind of comedy, even as a kid Jilly_in_VA Jul 6 #5

I get you Jilly_in_VA debm55 Jul 6 #12

I liked it as a kid kimbutgar Jul 6 #6

Thank you very much kimbutgar. debm55 Jul 6 #13

No wonder the water don't work, there's wires in these pipes. dem4decades Jul 6 #11

Thank you, dem4decades they were against fascism. debm55 Jul 6 #14

I thought they were hilarious ... crosinski Jul 6 #15

HAHAHAHAHA, Thank you very much for sharing with us.crosinski. debm55 Jul 6 #17

Well it all depends on who the third stooge is Fiendish Thingy Jul 6 #16

Thank you very much, Fiendish Thingy. I didn't know that there were four actors playing the Third Stooge at different debm55 Jul 6 #18

Agreed on 3rd stooge The Madcap Jul 6 #41

They had some pretty pointed social commentary in their dialogue rurallib Jul 6 #19

Thank you rurallib, debm55 Jul 6 #26

As a child, Moe frightened me. Harker Jul 6 #20

Same here. As a young kid My grandmother would cut our hair using a bowl. I looked like Moe debm55 Jul 6 #22

You've transcended much, to everyone's benefit. Harker Jul 6 #33

Omg! {hug} electric_blue68 Jul 6 #60

I wore a babushka when I was a kid so you could only see my bangs. debm55 Jul 6 #62

Curly was funny, Larry occasionally had some funny lines. subterranean Jul 6 #21

That's very true. The only short that I found funny was when Curley had to deliver a hunk of ice to a house with many, debm55 Jul 6 #24

That short was titled "An Ache In Every Stake." One of their best! subterranean Jul 6 #39

Hilarious! johnp3907 Jul 6 #23

Thank you johnp3907, but I don't read German. debm55 Jul 6 #25

Yiddish! johnp3907 Jul 6 #27

As a kid I spoke to my grandparents in Yiddish and don't remember those words.But it was many many years ago. debm55 Jul 6 #30

I kinda liked them---until I heard that Mel Gibson considered them to be comic geniuses. Paladin Jul 6 #28

Mel Gibson is a stooge. I think he is a Moe. debm55 Jul 6 #31

Mel Gibson is a trashy rightwing douchebag. Paladin Jul 6 #37

That too. Thank you Paladin. debm55 Jul 6 #49

Nyuck Nyuck Nyuck. Funny. My Mom forbid us from watching it. underpants Jul 6 #29

Thank you underpants. That is a funny memory. debm55 Jul 6 #32

Glorfindel's post #4 speaks for me. 3catwoman3 Jul 6 #34

Thank you very much 3catwoman3 debm55 Jul 7 #71

Funny ProfessorGAC Jul 6 #35

Im shocked, shocked I tell ya.HAHAHAH. Thank you ProfessorGAC debm55 Jul 6 #57

Loved them for 60 years. MichMan Jul 6 #36

Thank you very much for sharing that information, MichMan. debm55 Jul 6 #55

Hilarious as a kid SheltieLover Jul 6 #38

Thank you SheltieLover. debm55 Jul 6 #47

not fun justaprogressive Jul 6 #40

Thank you justaprogressive. I will add, and abused debm55 Jul 6 #46

Some very funny shorts Mystery To Me Jul 6 #42

Great post, Mystery To Me, and welcome to DU debm55 Jul 6 #44

Not funny. I'm not really into their type of comedy. sakabatou Jul 6 #43

Thank you very much sakabatou debm55 Jul 6 #45

If you wanna know my type of classic comedy, it's the Marx Brothers sakabatou Jul 6 #64

Very good choice, sakabatou. Thank you. debm55 Jul 7 #68

saw a latter three stooges movie where the stooges got a rocket into space and landed on venus and came back. AllaN01Bear Jul 6 #48

Thank you Bear. My aunt took us to the theater to see it. debm55 Jul 6 #54

i esp: liked the "unicorn" AllaN01Bear Jul 6 #56

Thanks bear. debm55 Jul 6 #58

Funny as hell. edbermac Jul 6 #50

Thank you edbermac.for sharing debm55 Jul 6 #53

They were awesome. LuvLoogie Jul 6 #51

That you , LuvLoogie. for sharing. debm55 Jul 6 #52

I liked them briefly as a young kid, but fairly quickly disliked the violence. The anti-fascist, and other social... electric_blue68 Jul 6 #63

Same here. thank you electric_blue68. debm55 Jul 7 #72

Definitely slapstick humor LogDog75 Jul 6 #65

i agree ,I really liked Laurel and Hardy. Thank you sharing LogDog75 debm55 Jul 7 #73

Once I was a little girl and I loved the fun of the Three Stooges.. Tikki Jul 6 #66

Thank you very much, Tikki for sharing with us. debm55 Jul 7 #70

What's funnier than the Three Stooges themselves ... Jeebo Jul 7 #67

So true, Jeebo.thank you. debm55 Jul 7 #69

Not funny. Slapstick is too broad. haele Jul 7 #74

Thank you very much, haele. for expressing your opinion. debm55 Jul 8 #75

I have never thought they were not funny. Emile Jul 8 #77

thank you so much. Double negative. You thought they funny. debm55 Jul 8 #78