gdo@aluxz.UUCP (ODONNELL) (03/07/85)
How about some talk about my favorite tv show of all time:
The Three Stooges
How about this one? What are the real-life names of all of the stooges?
Curly Howard was really Jerome Horowitz (known as "Babe" to his brothers
Moe and Shemp because he was the baby of the family)
Moe Howard was really Harry Horowitz
Larry Fine was really Larry Fineberg (really an accomplished violinist)
Shemp Howard was really James Horowitz (I think ... darn!!! now it evades me)
Joe Besser is his real name as well. (Note his voice in some cartoons now)
Curly Joe is really Joe DeRita
** Shemp was really the first person to play the role of the third stooge
in the trio as most people know it. They began as a vaudeville act by
the name "Ted Healey and his Stooges". Ted Healey was the head man of
the team and the stooges were his patsies. They did a few MGM short films
in the early 30's and after the first, Shemp had a disagreement with
Healey and Shemp quit. Curly, then with a full head of hair, shaved
and became the new stooge.
Truly the best comedy team in history.
Glenn O'Donnell @ AT&T Bell Laboratories in Allentown, PAspl@mgwess.UUCP (Steve Lorenz) (03/08/85)
I must agree !!!! The Three Stooges were the GREATEST comedy team EVER !!! Does anyone remember the title of the film short in which all three of the Horwitz brothers appeared (Moe, Curly, and Shemp) ???? Steve Lorenz AT&T CP@MG
gdo@aluxz.UUCP (ODONNELL) (03/12/85)
> > I must agree !!!! The Three Stooges were the GREATEST comedy team EVER !!! > > Does anyone remember the title of the film short in which all three of the > Horwitz brothers appeared (Moe, Curly, and Shemp) ???? > > > Steve Lorenz > AT&T CP@MG Great!! We have a Stooges discussion started! Of course I know which short film starred all three brothers. The film was titled "Hold that Lion" (one of the Shemp films) and Curly played a sleeping passenger on the train that the boys jumped while pursuing Icabod Slipp. When the Stooges removed the hat covering Curly's face and removed the clothespin from his nose, he let loose with the CLASSIC Curly snore, "ZZZZZZ WOO WOO WOO ARFF ARFF ZZZZ, etc." Most people I know say to me, "Boy that sounds like Curly, but he has hair on his head!!??" Right they are, but it definitely IS the puddinhead himself. Here's one ... there was a guy who played Old Man Goodrich, Shemp's rich uncle Phineas Bowman, and other elderly, usually wealthy, figures. He played in many of the Shemp films, some of the Joe Besser shorts, and possibly a few of the later Curly films. He was actually quite young at the time and is still alive and well and living in California. What's his real name??? Thanks for the reply Steve (a moron after my own heart)!! -- Glenn O'Donnell (AT&T Bell Laboratories - Allentown, PA) * a senior member of the Amalgamated Association of Morons (AAM) Local 6 7/8
paveleck@ihuxf.UUCP (Paveleck) (01/13/86)
I believe the "...slowly I turn, and step by step, inch by inch..." sketch is part of some old vaudeville routine (but I'm not sure what the whole routine is about). The reason I say this is that I was watching an old "I Love Lucy" episode in which Lucy takes part in that same sketch in order to get into Ricky's show (after an unsuccessful attempt to get into a number with a ballet troupe). Lucy was the "straight man" in the "...slowly I turn..." sketch for a seltzer-spraying comedian. I don't remember the gist of the sketch, but as Lucy and this comedian rehearsed it in the Riccardo's living room, it had a very distinctive vaudevillian look (very deliberate speech lines, the seltzer-sprayer prop, both characters in ridiculous hobo-like costumes, etc.). The 3 Stooges, however, didn't go as far into the sketch as Lucy and her partner did (at least, in the cut-for-TV Stooges episode I saw). "...say Jasper, what comes after 75?" "Seventy-six!" "That's the spirit!!" Bob Paveleck ihuxf!paveleck
stu16@whuxl.UUCP (SMITH) (01/14/86)
> I believe the "...slowly I turn, and step by step, inch by inch..." sketch
I remember this .....slowly I turn ...... routine from
an old Abbot and Costello movie. If anyone said "Pocomoco",
that started the routine. I seem to remember it being the
movie where they are on a sled or toboggan zooming down a
slope with a bear on the back of the sled. But maybe not.
My kid brother used the routine for years after - he
must have been all of 5 or 6 at the time of the movie.
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whuxl!stu16rjwouthuis@watnot.UUCP (rj) (02/05/86)
> > I believe the "...slowly I turn, and step by step, inch by inch..." sketch > > I remember this .....slowly I turn ...... routine from > an old Abbot and Costello movie. If anyone said "Pocomoco", > that started the routine. I seem to remember it being the > movie where they are on a sled or toboggan zooming down a > slope with a bear on the back of the sled. But maybe not. > My kid brother used the routine for years after - he > must have been all of 5 or 6 at the time of the movie. > -- > The Niagra falls routine is a variation on the classic burlesque sketch entitled FLOOGLE STREET. The comic would ask a passerby for the location of Floogle Street as he had to make a delivery to a company on the street. Hearing the name of the street would cause the passerby to go crazy. Ie, 'Oh my god, my brother was killed on Floogle Street', or 'My husband met and ran off with a girl on Floogle Street'. Then the person would generally beat the shit out of the comic for reminding him. The sketch was so popular because it could be built on indefinitely and never grow old. Abbot and Costello used at least three variations of it. The best being Lou trying to locate the Sesquahana Hat Company and being beaton up by anyone he asks. I don't think any one person can claim to have originated the FLOOGLE STREET aka NIAGRA FALLS aka SESQUAHANA HAT COMPANY sketch. : whuxl!stu16