I loved the three stooges when I was a child growing up in the late 70s early eighties.  
Larry, Moe &.Curly were the best.  Shemp sucked but I watched anyway.
I have often wondered what happened to them after Three Stooges.  What were their lives like off the screen?

Let's discuss.

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Blasphemy!!

Shemp kicked ass.  Curly-Joe sucked.

Double tap.  

Ahhh, finally, an intelligent topic of conversation!

Shemp didn't suck, its just that Curly was better.
I will still watch them when they come on TV.

The 3 Stooges? Do you mean barack obama, joe biden and rahm emmanuel? Well, I think they all suck but that's just my opinion.

They were all Jewish in case you didn't know.

Why, I oughta...

Wrong Curly.  Curly Howard was excellent.  

Curly Joe DeRita sucked.  So did Joe Besser.

Greatest comedy team of all time.  This picture comes in handy every so often.  

















 

Some of the best comedy of the 20th century, without a doubt.

After Babe's stroke and the end of the later stooges, Larry and Moe lived in obscurity and near poverty until Larry had his stroke and died in the early sevnties and Moe followed very quickly after.

They both never saw the fame and fortune that they deserved.

BTW:  Shemp is a comedy genius.

Oh, wiseguy eh?

You mean Sean Penn, Jim Carey, and Benicio Del Toro?

Shemp was awesome. See him playing it straight opposite John Wayne and Randolph Scott in "Pittsburgh" (1942)

Larry to Moe: I can't see, I can't see!

Moe to Larry: What's the matter kid?

Larry to Moe: I got my eyes closed.


Comedy would'nt be what it is today without the Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, W.C. Fields, Marx Bro's, Chaplin.

That's like the North American Union of libtards

Whenever somebody can't remember something (a name, place, whatever), I have to quote Curley:  

"I keep tryin' to think, but nothin' happens!"

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article5978824.ece

We need an animation of a smiley shooting itself in the head

Many of the quotes on IMDB are submitted by me.

Curly: -[Taking a census] I'm gettin' sick and tired of this! How old are you?
Football player: Ninteen!
Curly: Now we're gettin' somewhere!
Football player: Eighty-three! Twenty-seven! Twenty-two!
Curly: Why don't you make up your mind?

Moe: Pardon us, madame, we're census takers. What's your name?
Larry: And your address?
Curly: What's more important, what's your phone number? Nyuk, nyuk...
[Woman hits them with her purse]

Curly: [after finding money hidden in a can on the scrap metal pile] I didn't know they put money up in cans!
Moe: Well, they don't!
Curly: Sure, see?
[points at label, "canned corn"]
Curly: Canned coin!

Con-Man: This is the house I was telling you about, boys. A treasure was buried there by Captain Kidd's kid.
Curly: No kiddin'!
Con-Man: That's right!
Curly: Oh boy!
Con-Man: Just a minute! You have to pay us $200 for the privilege of digging it up!
Curly: Two hundred?
Con-Man: Two hundred or nothin'.
Curly: Oh, we'll take it for nothin'!

Moe: [looking through telescope toward Egyptian desert, but with Larry's head in the way] We're coming to a jungle. I can see the underbrush! And camels walkin' through it! No no, they're octopus!
Larry: I don't see anything!
Moe: [notices that he was looking at Larry's hair] You will!
[hits Larry with the telescope]

Dr. Crowell: That means we'll never find the missing king!
Curly: [looks surprised, takes card out of his front pocket] How did YOU know the king was missing?
[Moe turns his head to look]
Curly: I... Ooh!
[hides card before Moe can see]
Moe: Oh, so you're the one, eh? That's how you won my thirteen cents!
[smacks Curly]

Thug: [in tomb, with Curly laying on a table dressed up as King Rutin-Tutin] Hey, where are those jewels that are supposed to be buried with them?
Thug in Museum Basement: Oh, they always wrap 'em up inside the mummy. We'll have to cut him open.
[with thugs looking away, Curly cringes, and unzips the front of his mummy costume]
Thug in Museum Basement: Let me have that sharp knife you have there.
[looks at "Rutin-Tutin"]
Thug in Museum Basement: He's burst open!
[reaches inside Curly's costume, pulls out newspaper]
Thug in Museum Basement: "Yanks win world series." Can you beat that?
Curly: Yeah, and I won five bucks!
Thug in Museum Basement: No kidding? I had the Cubs, and... WHAT?

Moe: Listen Bustoff, you can't drink that. That's alcohol.
Ivan Bustoff: That's not alcohol. That's just a little tequila, vodka and cognac.
Curly: Oh, that's different, go ahead.

Tony: Bustov has the biggest fight of his life today, and you're here gettin' him stewed!
Curly: Yeah, but he's payin' for it!

Curly: I'll cook the supper. How about scrambled eggs smothered in steak?
Larry: Sounds swell to me. Where are the eggs?
Curly: On top of the burro, so they'll be nice and fresh in the sun.
Larry: Yeah, we'll... get goin' before we starve here. C'mon.
Curly: Oh, fresh henfruit. Handle with care.
[tosses eggs to Moe]
Curly: A sack of flour comin' down!
[Tosses sack of flour down. Moe is forced to drop the eggs to catch the flour]
Larry: Ya nitwit, now you broke the eggs!
[Newly hatched chicks are walking around the broken eggs]
Curly: So what? We'll have steak smothered in lamb chops... and maybe chicken on the side! Nyuk nyuk nyuk.
Larry: Well, you fix it, I've got some prospecting to do. Hand me down that dynamite, and be careful!
Curly: I'll handle it as if it were eggs!... I mean, I'll be careful!

Señorita Rita: But my General, the fat one does not look like a spy. He looks very innocent.
Curly: Oh, I don't know, I've been around!

Moe: [Dressed as Hitler] Ach, ich ich ich ach, ach ze vompen ze hast haben! Ja? You fail to catch three spies! Blow out your brains!
Herr Capitan: But mein fuher, ve are nazis! Ve have no brains!
Moe: Zen vat you got, blow out!
Herr Capitan: Heil Hitler!
Moe: Hang Hitler! Ven my field marshall counts three, start blowing!
Curly: One!... What comes after one?
Moe: TWO! Never mind, fat boy, I count myself. One! Two! Th . . t . . t . . ACHOO!
Herr Capitan: [Picks up mustache that Moe sneezed off] Oh, mein fuher!
Moe: Oh, my personality, thanks buddy.

Judge: Ye are accused of doing battle with his Majesty's guards. What say ye to the charge?
Larry: I can explain, judge. you see-eth, it was like this-eth. I...
Judge: Guilty! I sentence ye to Newcape prison for forty years! ye to forty-five! Ye to fifty!
Moe: Forty?
Larry: Forty-five?
Curly: Fifty? I got fifty. Fifty. Fifty, fifty, fifty, fifty, do I hear fifty-five, do I hear fifty five? Going once, twice, do I hear fifty-five? Who'll make it fifty-five?
Judge: [breaks gavel] I shall!
Curly: Thank you. I... Woo!
Judge: Fifty-five years for the lot of ye at hard labor!
Prosecutor: But your lordship, t'would cost the crown a pretty penny to feed yon wastrels for fifty-five years! Why not send them to our colonies in America to fight the redskin savage?
Curly: Oh, I just love corned beef and savage!
Judge: Silence! I now sentence ye knaves to defend our colonists from the savages!
Moe: Gadzooks! They'll scalp us alive!
Curly: Not me! Nyuk nyuk!

Blackie: You men ever sold anything?
Curly: Why certainly, anything we could lay our hands on!
Moe: The gentleman said "sold," not "stole."

Anyone been to the Three Stooges Museum outside of Philly?

The Stoogeum

I think we are all on the same page,  the world would be a better place if we still had the three stooges!  I miss the skits & antics, the just rocked!

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Shemp sucked that is all!

See that avatar picture of yours?  The one with God pointing the laser sighted rifle?

He's pointing at YOU!!!!



Shemp ROCKED!!!!!!  

"Dis house sho gone crazy."

Yeah, Shemp was 90% as funny as Curly.  Certainly different styles, but he was very funny.

They were geniuses. I've always thought Jerry Lewis borrowed heavily from them.

I don't think my generation appreciates them...

Which one dressed n that school boy get-up and yelled "I'll harm you!"?

Don't forget Abbott and Costello

There was a "made for TV movie" about those guys and thier careers as well as thier lives. I made a point to watch it.
It was all about their early days, finding larry to join thier trio and the deals to make the "shorts" in a time where full length movies were taking over. It wasn't all that glamourous.

It was done well and gave you insight as to who they really were.

Curly was a genious.

Sometimes I watch just one of the three, instead of getting distracted by Moe, just follow Larry for a while.  He was funny too.  Curly spent a lot of time trying to steal the scene.

And I try to use words like Chucklehead, and scram, whenever possible.

Lucille Ball  appeared in one of their shorts in 1934:

From: http://everythinglucy.youns.com/filmography.asp?offset=10


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Film #11 - Three Little Pigskins
Film Date: 1934
Film Type: comedy
Film Color: B&W
Studio: Columbia
Film Length: 20 min.
Lucy's Character: Daisy Simms
Film 11 of 81
       


Director/Producer: Ray McCarey (Director)

In their fourth 2-reeler for Columbia, The Three Stooges are mistaken for college football heroes by a beautiful gangster's moll, played by Lucille Ball.

Cast:
Moe Howard - Moe
Larry Fine - Larry
Curly Howard - Curly
Lucille Ball - Daisy Simms
Gertie Green - Lulu Banks
Phyllis Crane - Molly Gray
Walter Long - Joe Stacks
Joe Young - Pete
Milt Douglas
Harry Bowen
Lynton Brent
Bud Jaimson
Dutch Hendrian
Charles Dorett
William Irving - Photographer
Joe Levine - Young Larry
Alex Hirschfield - Young Moe
Billy Wolfstone - Young Curly
Bobby Burns - Street Man
Jimmie Philips
Johnny Kascier

Special Notes: Three Little Pigskins is one of the most enduringly popular comedy shorts of the 1930s, featuring The Three Stooges at their anarchic best. It's also famous for providing an early supporting role to Lucille Ball, who plays Daisy Simms, the gangster's girlfriend. Lucille Ball would always credit the Stooges with introducing her to "slapstick and physical comedy." According to Jack White, brother of Stooges producer Jules White, Lucille quickly left the studio because "Harry Cohn didn't want to bother with her. He didn't think she had any talent!"

I'd have to agree w/ the OP.  Shemp sucked.

 
 

Curly was a dancer by trade.  Just saying.  For a fat man he could cut a rug.

Look at the grouse!



Easel come, easel go.


Nyuk

Do anyone remember "Amos & Andy"?

Disorder In The Court.

Classic.

"Kindly speak English and drop the vernacular."

and

"Never fear, it's not loaded."

What I learned:

If you get your head stuck in a bench vice the best way to get it out is a crowbar hooked on your nose!

Without a doubt, the Stooges are the one thing that bridges the generation gap.

You can put a 17 YO tattooed kid with 16 piercings on one end of a couch an 83 YO stodgy old man on the other end. They will have nothing in common.

Put the Stooges on the tube and inside of three minutes the pair of them will start poking each other and doing Curly imitations.

Almost never fails.

Or, if you find your head stuck in a clay pipe, apply heat and twist!

For all things Stooge.  http://www.threestooges.com/


As a kid I laughed at the slapstick. As I got older I began to see the social commentary in some of those shorts. Saturday Night Live has nothing on those guys. The war time shorts were the best. Like the Warner Brother cartoons of the time they cut the Germans and Japs no slack.

I doubt the "violence" of the Stooges had no more effect on us than the video game violence of todays youth.

Are any of the episodes available online anywhere?

This thread reminded me of this page I had read some time ago.

Guy meets Moe in the early 70's

dont forget joe besser, he sucked too

You speaketh truth!

I loved the 3 Stooges when I was growing up in the 50s.

SHEMP ROCKED!!!!!!!