Dozens of films? HUNDREDS! I freaking love them. I love that more recent movie, called Ollie & Stan, as I recall. I grew up with these guys, and they still make me laugh like hell.
Stan Laurel did not impersonate Charles Chaplin's little Tramp character in his early film career; but he did do it on the Vaudeville stage with two other performers impersonating Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling In an Act called the Keystone Trio.
Those two were great. I think that long set of stairs is the same one they used in another short where they were trying to deliver a block of ice before it melted. Or maybe I'm mixing them up with someone else. One of my favorite Laurel and Hardy short is the one where Stan is made a college professor and Ollie remarks: "He's the dumbest guy I know. He wouldn't know Einstein from a beer stein." Such cool stuff, even almost 100 years later it is still fresh.
When sound came along they also shot their shorts multiple times, with different stand-ins. Those shorts were produced for the non-English speaking markets, with stand-ins that were native speakers to the language. It's actually kind of weird when they speak German for example, totally mispronouncing the words, because they didn't know what they were saying, just going by what they had memorized.
Have you ever heard about the silent era comedic duo *Fy & Bi* ? It was a comedic act from Denmark in the era when the danish film industry has quite a presence on the international market, especially the film company *Nordisk Film,* established in 1906 (They still exist). When sound came around, the exports of movies from Denmark took a nosedive. I can't imagine why. Anyway, *Fyrtårnet og Bivognen* (Lighthouse and Sidecar) was a very popular dou who made over 50 shorts in the 1920s. They were renamed *Long & Short* in UK, and *Ole & Axel* in US, but they never made a big impact in the american market. Instead they inspired american filmmakers to create their own homegrown dou with a big guy and a short guy - at least that's how the story is told in Denmark.
UA-cam recommended me one of your videos and I found this awesome video on your channel too. I'm from Georgia myself and about every year for the past several years my sister and I have been going to Harlem Georgia to their annual Oliver Hardy Festival. I'm actually part of their Facebook group and a few other Laurel an Hardy Facebook groups. I'm going to share this video on those pages.
@@HatsOffEntertainment you're welcome. I've been a fan of old classics since I was young. My mom watched old shows when my sister's and I was younger. So we got used to them and loved them. I've been watching and collecting DVDs of old shows like this ever since. My top number 1 favorite is Red Skelton. I have a old friend who lives near Harlem Ga and that's how I found out about the Oliver Hardy Festival. Ever since then I've attended almost every year. We will see how this year goes though.
Most people don't know that breaking the fourth was perfected long ago by the Grand Masters of comedy. Share them with anyone and everyone. American History that deserves to be remembered by all.
Watched these guys as well as Abbott and Costello, The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton(who I prefer over and find funnier than Chaplin), the Stooges and more as a kid in the 90's. Now as a man in my early 30's I get alot more of the jokes and laugh more
The performances of Laurel and Hardy were not only humorous and inventive, they were also "beautiful," in a way that only the greatest of art is beautiful. We see that in some of the work done by Gleason and Art Carney or Lemmon and Matthau, but with Stan and Ollie the perfection was there almost always.
Yet, Laurel was the mastermind during their entire career. Babe loved golf, Laurel loved to direct. The dumbest person supposedly in the room was Laurel. That was key and it worked so well!
My father was a huge fan of the duo. And his description, concerning "the key" to their comedy, was exactly the way you have described it here. How cool.
Many people in the depression died from starvation, suicide or violence related to acts of desperation. Many others died of suffocation and cardiac arrest from laughing so hard at Laurel and Hardy.
My two year old granddaughter has a t-shirt that says, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into". Appropriate for a two year old, courtesy of Pops.
Laurel and Hardy were the greatest comedy team of all time. They were the among the few performers to make the transition from silent to sound and not miss a beat. And Oliver Hardy deserves credit for having invented the double take. My favorite thing about the relationship between the two is that Ollie always thought he was the smart one when in fact he was just as dumb as Stan.
I have some ideas: The Three Stooges (I know you already did one on Shemp but I'd love to see you did a video on the other Stooges) The Marx Brothers The Little Rascals Rik Mayall Peter Sellers Tony Curtis Robin Williams Jacques Tati
This was so good! I have to be honest, I've never watched Laurel and Hardy before, but I laughed at so many of the clips you shared that I've GOT to check out their work!
I lived in Harlem, GA when I was young, and the Laurel & Hardy fest was an annual tradition. They have a bunch of murals of them around town. One of which I'll never forget because I thought they made Laurel look like the Cryptkeeper.
The great thing about the duo was they were both truly good, fine, upstanding kind-hearted men who led good lives, never heard an unkind word about either, they were beloved for a reason ...and they put out some of the funniest comedy ever! 😁
Comediennes could be featured in your videos: Lucille Ball Eve Arden Ann Sothern Thelma Todd Carole Lombard Rosalind Russell Jean Arthur Gale Storm among many other great comediennes
@@rufust.firefly2474 Definitely. He's not a copycat. I only meant at that timestamp, before he came into his own. He was Charlie Chaplin's understudy on *vaudeville,* though, before they both got into films.
Always loved these guys. Another great one, who I only really began learning about......maybe 15 years ago.....was Harold Lloyd. TCM aired a bunch of his remastered silent films one weekend, and I eventually bought a big box-set of them. Of those....'Girl Shy' ( co-starring Jobyna Ralston ) is probably my favorite. ua-cam.com/video/MsB1VGu5Lls/v-deo.html
Ollie thinks Stanley is carrying a very long board, alone which is a mile long in the film, Great Guns in 1941. There are two of Stanley's who are carrying a very long board.
Laurel and Hardy pioneered the "fat and skinny" duo where the innocent skinny one keeps saying things that turn the fat guy instantly from cheerful to frustrated. How influential was this device? Think Ralph Cramden and Norton -- Gilligan and the Skipper.
I've just finished watching several other videos of yours and I am absolutely hooked! 13.6k subscribers though? That number should be higher. I can't wait to watch this channel grow. It's definitely up there with the likes of defunctland and your style and presentation make your videos informative and entertaining without spewing the same old facts we've seen covered over and over again.
Just wanted to say that I found this channel today and really love your vids. Keep up the good work and thanks so much for keeping the actors i’ve grown up with alive.
Only just found this channel while looking through Leslie Nielsen material. Loving these documentaries! Will you be doing one on Richard Pryor? I know you touched on him in the Wilder documentary, for obvious reasons but he's always been one of my all time greats and I'd love to one of these about him specifically. Subscribed :)
Man I was literally gonna suggest Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin. For your next video and then I see this one pop up. Excellent work sir, please keep it up. 👍
0:56 Buster Keaton. 1:10 Charlie Chaplin ❤ Although he continued making silent films until 1936, Charlie's first talkie, *The Great Dictator,* was his highest-grossing film.
I live near Ulverston where Laurel was born, there’s a nice little museum and a statue of the pair outside of the town’s Theatre, if you’re ever in the area it’s worth a look into! Glad this video was in my recommended hahah!
I first discovered L&H in 1981 on WNEW-TV(now WNYW Fox 5 New York City),it was Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons.Those were the silent films.1982 was when the talkies appeared on WPIX 11((The CW).
Oliver Hardy was born in 1892 and not in 1895. The Lucky Dog was filmed in 1919 and released in 1921. You could've shown a clip of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 in which only Oliver Hardy has a speaking part, while Stan's role is silent. Personally I find some of their silent shorts such as The Finishing Touch, You're Darn Tootin', Liberty and Big Business better than anything they made in the silent area. At that moment Laurel and Hardy weren't stuck yet to the characters.are their comedy routine they later became known to. Especially Hardy is very, very inventive. The silents are a lot faster paced and Laurel and Hardy had a lot better condition for physical comedy. Their young appearances are better fit for the "childish" personae they play. In some of their silents the camera work is excellent. (Maybe because sound made camera's less mobile.) Furthermore - if I'm not mistaken - Hal Roach would cut the budget for their shorts after Helpmates (1932). I really prefer their silents.
One day Stan and Ollie go into the ice cream parlour but only have enough money between them to buy a single milkshake. Ollie gives the glass to Stan and says, "Here, you go first." Stan proceeds to drink the entire beverage. "Why did you do THAT?? You drank the whole thing!" "I couldn't help it," says Stan. "MY half was on the bottom!"
Writing this after having seen this video a few years back, I've seen all your laurel & hardy videos and just wanted to say thanks for putting them on my radar, I just recently picked up a 10 Disc dvd collection of laurel & hardy from the thrift store and have been hooked watching their shorts. Might be the best thrift store disc find I've ever made. Just wanted to let you know and thank you, keep up the awesome work! (also! You should cover Mel Gibsons movie - silent movie, sometime)
I just found a Ray Bradbury Theater episode with a Laurel and Hardy side plot - they accurately referenced several L&H shorts! Please keep up the great work you have turned me on to several excellent movies I hadn't seen before. I still can't get the Dune Buggy tune out of my head😂😂😂
Would you agree that Stan could do anything Charlie could do? Granted it took Hardy to compliment Laurel and his qualities. I feel Stan was just as talented if not more than Charlie!
"When the advent of sound came...." is redundant. You could say either "with the advent of sound" or "when sound came to motion pictures," because "advent" means "arrival." As it is, your statements reads as "when the arrival of sound arrived...."
1:17 - Besides Stan & Ollie the ONLY other silent comic to have a second successful career in talkies was WC Fields! (And most people don't know Fields was originally a silent comic since most of his early films are now lost.)
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot about Laurel and Hardy. I haven't thought about them in so long, but they were right up there with the rascals and stooges when I was younger.
@13:13 I think the exact same set of stairs in this scene is the same set of stairs from a 3 stooges movie where Moe, Larry and Curly are in the delivery business and they have to carry these big blocks of ice up them same stairs, Also @11:02 This scene is very familiar, Seems to me that I recall a many of old films I've seen are shot at this location, Many gondolas scenes in various Comedies and love stories, I could be wrong but seems awful familiar
In Brazil they were always known as "the fat and the skinny". We always liked them because you don't need to understand a single word of English to get the jokes.
Have recently seen a few reviews from your chan, pretty well done would be interested in seeing what else you have, that being said, I love classic american cinema. I don't think the same magic will ever be so pronounced as it was during this era ,it's truly grand that we live now in a time when we can access all of the great works from this amazing period.
So many of the recent comedians owe their humor to L&H who were masters of delayed comedy punchlines. Set it up, do it, punchline comes several beats later. Just watch the original Top Gear. Joke is setup for the camera, punchline happens moments later in the background, then one one the hosts looks at the camera in disbelief.
I don't think you mean the original Top Gear. The first 515 episodes up to 2001 were serious car review shows. I expect that you mean the restructured series that started in 2002.
He's not Michael McCrudden, I don't think he'll pump out a video to capitalise on a celebrity's death. He seems much more respectful than that. Out of all the celebrities he's done videos on so far the most recent one to pass away is Gene Wilder who died in 2016.
Some of their early sound films were shot multiple times: once in English with the usual supporting cast, then in French with a French-speaking cast, Spanish with a Spanish-speaking cast, etc. Laurel and Hardy read their lines (that were written phonetically) from blackboards out of shot. Their stilted pronunciations suited their not-too-bright characters. Some of the foreign versions still exist. Unfortunately, the French version of "Pardon Us" (with Boris Karloff as The Tiger) is lost.
Dozens of films? HUNDREDS!
I freaking love them.
I love that more recent movie, called Ollie & Stan, as I recall.
I grew up with these guys, and they still make me laugh like hell.
Well, 106, actually.
@@mjemigh3304 it still counts!
This channel is the Defunctland for Classic Comedy Movies and their Stars.
High praise! Thank you!
"DefunctComedians"
Couldn’t agree with you more
except he doesn't get political
Very good point
Quality and commentary is top shelf. Thanks so much
Thanks for watching!
Stan Laurel did not impersonate Charles Chaplin's little Tramp character in his early film career; but he did do it on the Vaudeville stage with two other performers impersonating Mabel Normand and Ford Sterling In an Act called the Keystone Trio.
Those two were great. I think that long set of stairs is the same one they used in another short where they were trying to deliver a block of ice before it melted. Or maybe I'm mixing them up with someone else. One of my favorite Laurel and Hardy short is the one where Stan is made a college professor and Ollie remarks: "He's the dumbest guy I know. He wouldn't know Einstein from a beer stein." Such cool stuff, even almost 100 years later it is still fresh.
The Leslie Nielson video brought me to your channel and I'm glad I get to enjoy more of your genuine appreciation of these classics
When sound came along they also shot their shorts multiple times, with different stand-ins. Those shorts were produced for the non-English speaking markets, with stand-ins that were native speakers to the language. It's actually kind of weird when they speak German for example, totally mispronouncing the words, because they didn't know what they were saying, just going by what they had memorized.
Have you ever heard about the silent era comedic duo *Fy & Bi* ? It was a comedic act from Denmark in the era when the danish film industry has quite a presence on the international market, especially the film company *Nordisk Film,* established in 1906 (They still exist). When sound came around, the exports of movies from Denmark took a nosedive. I can't imagine why.
Anyway, *Fyrtårnet og Bivognen* (Lighthouse and Sidecar) was a very popular dou who made over 50 shorts in the 1920s. They were renamed *Long & Short* in UK, and *Ole & Axel* in US, but they never made a big impact in the american market. Instead they inspired american filmmakers to create their own homegrown dou with a big guy and a short guy - at least that's how the story is told in Denmark.
UA-cam recommended me one of your videos and I found this awesome video on your channel too. I'm from Georgia myself and about every year for the past several years my sister and I have been going to Harlem Georgia to their annual Oliver Hardy Festival. I'm actually part of their Facebook group and a few other Laurel an Hardy Facebook groups. I'm going to share this video on those pages.
Awesome! Thank you! I might be a member of some of the same groups. I'm a lifelong L&H fanatic.
@@HatsOffEntertainment you're welcome. I've been a fan of old classics since I was young. My mom watched old shows when my sister's and I was younger. So we got used to them and loved them. I've been watching and collecting DVDs of old shows like this ever since. My top number 1 favorite is Red Skelton.
I have a old friend who lives near Harlem Ga and that's how I found out about the Oliver Hardy Festival. Ever since then I've attended almost every year. We will see how this year goes though.
My dad and I always bonded over these guys and Three Stooges!!
Huge Laurel & Hardy fan! This video was awesome!!!
Thanks for watching!
Love your content. Keep up the good work. Now subscribed
Oh man, I love this. Thanks so much ❤️
Most people don't know that breaking the fourth was perfected long ago by the Grand Masters of comedy.
Share them with anyone and everyone.
American History that deserves to be remembered by all.
Excellent video, thank you very much. Have just subscribed to your channel.
Thanks for watching!
World class performance from the woman playing the nanny there. JFC.
Oh man that marrying a man skit at the beginning was golden
Watched these guys as well as Abbott and Costello, The Marx Brothers, Buster Keaton(who I prefer over and find funnier than Chaplin), the Stooges and more as a kid in the 90's. Now as a man in my early 30's I get alot more of the jokes and laugh more
Before sneaking off on dates Hardy says "And our wives will be none the wiser." Favorite line.
I would point out that though he is mostly remembered for his silent roles Buster Keaton had a very long film career in "The Talkies"
Keaton was a frequent co-star in the "Beach Blanket" movies with Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello in the 1960s.
Does anyone know the make ,model type of piano behind Oliver Hardy in the opening film clip? Thanks....
Anyone know the name of the tune that starts at 2:56?
Oliver Hardy was born in 1892, not 1895.
Farely and Spade
The performances of Laurel and Hardy were not only humorous and inventive, they were also "beautiful," in a way that only the greatest of art is beautiful. We see that in some of the work done by Gleason and Art Carney or Lemmon and Matthau, but with Stan and Ollie the perfection was there almost always.
Oliver Hardy was born in 1892, not 1895.
Thanks! Can't believe I mixed those up. I'll correct in the next one.
UA-cam randomly recommended me your Gene Wilder video the other day and I've been hooked. Keep up the good work!
jim varney for me
@@bevrosity Same for me. It must've been because UA-cam put some Ernest Movies on the Free Movie section.
Same for me with Gene Wilder. This channel is fantastic!
Same
"Laurel" was stupid, and he knew it; "Hardy" was stupid, but he DIDN'T know it-----That was the key to their comedy.
Yet, Laurel was the mastermind during their entire career. Babe loved golf, Laurel loved to direct. The dumbest person supposedly in the room was Laurel. That was key and it worked so well!
That's a great way of putting it.
2 stars, each a genius, together the best duo in commedy of all times!
Also, Oliver was aware of the fourth wall, Stan never is: We often get a 'Someone help me with this idiot' look from Ollie
My father was a huge fan of the duo. And his description, concerning "the key" to their
comedy, was exactly the way you have described it here. How cool.
Many people in the depression died from starvation, suicide or violence related to acts of desperation. Many others died of suffocation and cardiac arrest from laughing so hard at Laurel and Hardy.
Well....here's another nice video you've gotten me to watch! MMM!😁
Hope you enjoy!
My two year old granddaughter has a t-shirt that says, "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into". Appropriate for a two year old, courtesy of Pops.
They're the absolute greatest film comedy team.
Greatest duo, yes, but it is between them and The Three Stooges for the best team.
This channel is quickly becoming one of my favorites. Excited to watch! Cheers.
Thanks so much!
The duration of the stair fall is gold. A go-to standard for comedy that followed.
Laurel and Hardy were the greatest comedy team of all time. They were the among the few performers to make the transition from silent to sound and not miss a beat. And Oliver Hardy deserves credit for having invented the double take. My favorite thing about the relationship between the two is that Ollie always thought he was the smart one when in fact he was just as dumb as Stan.
Larry Shackle Not as dumb as Stan, but not brilliant.
Great job! I think I heard you say Oliver was born in 1895 though, but he was born in 1892. No biggie I loved your vid!
"If I had any sense I'd walk out on you!"
"Well it's a good thing you haven't any!"
"It CERTIANLY IS!"
Part 2 is now available! You can watch it here: ua-cam.com/video/-IBVB-HnRxQ/v-deo.html
Would love to see an episode on Red Skelton or Benny Hill. Two comedy juggernauts that you (or at least I) just don't hear about any more.
You earned yourself a sub. All it took was two videos. Good honest content speaks for itself.
I have some ideas:
The Three Stooges (I know you already did one on Shemp but I'd love to see you did a video on the other Stooges)
The Marx Brothers
The Little Rascals
Rik Mayall
Peter Sellers
Tony Curtis
Robin Williams
Jacques Tati
When will that other time be? :)
I really like your videos, but it would not hurt to go a bit deeper :)
Also, I would second the Marx Brothers!!!
@@JaredGriffiths2000 Great suggestions!
Laurel & Hardy were great in silent or sound films. They were truly GREAT!
When are you going to do a Marx brothers episode? Or anything about any one of the marx brothers? I'm dying for that one.
It'll happen at some point, for sure! I'm trying to do a healthy mix of the classics and 80's/90's stuff. Thanks for the suggestion!
they both lack self awareness but in different, perfectly complimentary ways.
Thank you so much for this channel, I am singing it's praises! I needed this :) Ps...I may have shed a tear at the John Candy episode. Keep it up! :)
Anyone remember Every frame a painting ?
Yes, I'm still subscribed to him, even though the end of the channel was announced since 2017.
This was so good! I have to be honest, I've never watched Laurel and Hardy before, but I laughed at so many of the clips you shared that I've GOT to check out their work!
Thank you so much! That's my honest goal in making these. Check out the short Helpmates (John C. Reilly's favorite).
Please watch shorts Music Box. Towed in a Hole is also terrific!
Their full length features. Way Out West and Sons of the Desert. Enjoy
I lived in Harlem, GA when I was young, and the Laurel & Hardy fest was an annual tradition. They have a bunch of murals of them around town. One of which I'll never forget because I thought they made Laurel look like the Cryptkeeper.
Awesome video! L&H are by far the greatest comedy team and must be passed on to future generations. If you dont like them than you dont like comedy
The great thing about the duo was they were both truly good, fine, upstanding kind-hearted men who led good lives, never heard an unkind word about either, they were beloved for a reason ...and they put out some of the funniest comedy ever! 😁
POM POM!!! ❤️
Comediennes could be featured in your videos:
Lucille Ball
Eve Arden
Ann Sothern
Thelma Todd
Carole Lombard
Rosalind Russell
Jean Arthur
Gale Storm
among many other great comediennes
Great suggestions!
4:05 Wow, after being Chaplin's understudy for so long, he actually has a lot of his mannerisms!
I really don't know why you say that, Stan is really completely original
@@rufust.firefly2474 Definitely. He's not a copycat. I only meant at that timestamp, before he came into his own. He was Charlie Chaplin's understudy on *vaudeville,* though, before they both got into films.
Chaplin practice in Fred Karno company. Same to Stan. Both learned pantomime from the same school. That's reason for perhaps similar mannerisms.
Oliver Hardy was born in Harlem, Georgia and they have a festival every year in honor of his birth!
Always loved these guys. Another great one, who I only really began learning about......maybe 15 years ago.....was Harold Lloyd. TCM aired a bunch of his remastered silent films one weekend, and I eventually bought a big box-set of them. Of those....'Girl Shy' ( co-starring Jobyna Ralston ) is probably my favorite. ua-cam.com/video/MsB1VGu5Lls/v-deo.html
Ollie thinks Stanley is carrying a very long board, alone which is a mile long in the film, Great Guns in 1941. There are two of Stanley's who are carrying a very long board.
Laurel and Hardy pioneered the "fat and skinny" duo where the innocent skinny one keeps saying things that turn the fat guy instantly from cheerful to frustrated. How influential was this device? Think Ralph Cramden and Norton -- Gilligan and the Skipper.
Fun fact: The creators of Spongebob Squarepants actually took influence from Stan Laurel when creating The character Spongebob Squarepants.
The quality of your videos is on level with some of the best I have seen. Keep up the great work! Any chance of doing one on Chris Farley?
It's coming! I have to do the appropriate research first.
I've just finished watching several other videos of yours and I am absolutely hooked! 13.6k subscribers though? That number should be higher. I can't wait to watch this channel grow. It's definitely up there with the likes of defunctland and your style and presentation make your videos informative and entertaining without spewing the same old facts we've seen covered over and over again.
You're too kind! Thank you for the support. I hope you enjoy what's to come.
I love these guys! I’m particularly amazed at how they silently acts out their thoughts. They were both golden.
I have enjoyed all of your videos. The Marx Brothers seems like they would fit in nicely with the rest of your content.
Just wanted to say that I found this channel today and really love your vids. Keep up the good work and thanks so much for keeping the actors i’ve grown up with alive.
Glad you like them!
Too many dates wrong. Lucky dog 1917. More.
Only just found this channel while looking through Leslie Nielsen material. Loving these documentaries!
Will you be doing one on Richard Pryor? I know you touched on him in the Wilder documentary, for obvious reasons but he's always been one of my all time greats and I'd love to one of these about him specifically.
Subscribed :)
Thanks the support! Pryor is on my list!
@@HatsOffEntertainment Awesome, looking forward to it any much more in the future!
Could you please do a video on Thelma Todd and Zasu Pitts? :)
They’re on my list! Thanks for watching.
The secret about the comedic duo Laurel and Yanni
is that they're actually the same person
Their shorts were superior to their feature films
Will you be producing a video on Charley Chase, both his silent and sound careers?
He's on my list!
@@HatsOffEntertainment Wonderful!
Man I was literally gonna suggest Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin. For your next video and then I see this one pop up. Excellent work sir, please keep it up. 👍
I'd love to tackle both of them in future episodes! Thanks for watching.
0:56 Buster Keaton. 1:10 Charlie Chaplin ❤ Although he continued making silent films until 1936, Charlie's first talkie, *The Great Dictator,* was his highest-grossing film.
I live near Ulverston where Laurel was born, there’s a nice little museum and a statue of the pair outside of the town’s Theatre, if you’re ever in the area it’s worth a look into! Glad this video was in my recommended hahah!
No one my age knows who these guys are. They are two of my fave actors and I love all their movies. My fave is Pardon Us. Such a funny duo!
I thought " Lucky Dog " was made in 1917 ???
I first discovered L&H in 1981 on WNEW-TV(now WNYW Fox 5 New York City),it was Laurel and Hardy Laughtoons.Those were the silent films.1982 was when the talkies appeared on WPIX 11((The CW).
Oliver Hardy was born in 1892 and not in 1895.
The Lucky Dog was filmed in 1919 and released in 1921.
You could've shown a clip of The Hollywood Revue of 1929 in which only Oliver Hardy has a speaking part, while Stan's role is silent.
Personally I find some of their silent shorts such as The Finishing Touch, You're Darn Tootin', Liberty and Big Business better than anything they made in the silent area. At that moment Laurel and Hardy weren't stuck yet to the characters.are their comedy routine they later became known to. Especially Hardy is very, very inventive.
The silents are a lot faster paced and Laurel and Hardy had a lot better condition for physical comedy. Their young appearances are better fit for the "childish" personae they play.
In some of their silents the camera work is excellent. (Maybe because sound made camera's less mobile.) Furthermore - if I'm not mistaken - Hal Roach would cut the budget for their shorts after Helpmates (1932).
I really prefer their silents.
One day Stan and Ollie go into the ice cream parlour but only have enough money between them to buy a single milkshake. Ollie gives the glass to Stan and says, "Here, you go first." Stan proceeds to drink the entire beverage. "Why did you do THAT?? You drank the whole thing!" "I couldn't help it," says Stan. "MY half was on the bottom!"
You’ve covered my favorites of all time! Thank you! Stan Laurel really was the comedic genius! He could do anything Chaplin could do, but more!
Writing this after having seen this video a few years back, I've seen all your laurel & hardy videos and just wanted to say thanks for putting them on my radar, I just recently picked up a 10 Disc dvd collection of laurel & hardy from the thrift store and have been hooked watching their shorts. Might be the best thrift store disc find I've ever made. Just wanted to let you know and thank you, keep up the awesome work! (also! You should cover Mel Gibsons movie - silent movie, sometime)
Watching the Boys try to move that piano up the stairs is still, just comedy of the heart.
I just found a Ray Bradbury Theater episode with a Laurel and Hardy side plot - they accurately referenced several L&H shorts!
Please keep up the great work you have turned me on to several excellent movies I hadn't seen before. I still can't get the Dune Buggy tune out of my head😂😂😂
I think Stan only impersonated Chaplin in vaudeville, not in his films, when he and two others called themselves the Keystone Trio.
Would you agree that Stan could do anything Charlie could do? Granted it took Hardy to compliment Laurel and his qualities. I feel Stan was just as talented if not more than Charlie!
"When the advent of sound came...." is redundant. You could say either "with the advent of sound" or "when sound came to motion pictures," because "advent" means "arrival." As it is, your statements reads as "when the arrival of sound arrived...."
1:17 - Besides Stan & Ollie the ONLY other silent comic to have a second successful career in talkies was WC Fields! (And most people don't know Fields was originally a silent comic since most of his early films are now lost.)
Oliver Hardy was actually born in 1892. They got Stan laurels birthday right? He was born 1890
Oh man, I can't believe I forgot about Laurel and Hardy. I haven't thought about them in so long, but they were right up there with the rascals and stooges when I was younger.
I think Laurel and Hardy and The Little Rascals were both much in sound films than silent films.
It's no wonder that a comedy legend like Dick Van Dyke idolized Stan Laurel.......
@13:13 I think the exact same set of stairs in this scene is the same set of stairs from a 3 stooges movie where Moe, Larry and Curly are in the delivery business and they have to carry these big blocks of ice up them same stairs, Also @11:02 This scene is very familiar, Seems to me that I recall a many of old films I've seen are shot at this location, Many gondolas scenes in various Comedies and love stories, I could be wrong but seems awful familiar
You didn't talk about how much spanish stuff they did as well. They had a pretty significant career in spanish speaking world.
In Brazil they were always known as "the fat and the skinny". We always liked them because you don't need to understand a single word of English to get the jokes.
Have recently seen a few reviews from your chan, pretty well done would be interested in seeing what else you have, that being said, I love classic american cinema. I don't think the same magic will ever be so pronounced as it was during this era ,it's truly grand that we live now in a time when we can access all of the great works from this amazing period.
The original and best.
That sketch they did with the gorilla and the husband next door looking for his wife! 😂😂😂😂
You should do a video on Abbot and Costello
Great suggestion!
Harold Lloyd couldn't pull off a fart-joke even if the studio payed for his hand-transplants.
@8:46 Stan thought seeing someone fall down stairs would be too painful to watch. They used sound to preserve the joke.
So many of the recent comedians owe their humor to L&H who were masters of delayed comedy punchlines. Set it up, do it, punchline comes several beats later. Just watch the original Top Gear. Joke is setup for the camera, punchline happens moments later in the background, then one one the hosts looks at the camera in disbelief.
I don't think you mean the original Top Gear. The first 515 episodes up to 2001 were serious car review shows.
I expect that you mean the restructured series that started in 2002.
Ollie always mooning camera. Don't without a good reason. Must have been a thing back then.
Oliver Hardy was born in 1892
I just saw a Canadian television show where Stans being an understudy to Chaplin figured in the plot.
It's seems obvious where Brent Spiner got his mannerisms for Data on ST: TNG.
Please do a video on Jerry Stiller soon!
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He's not Michael McCrudden, I don't think he'll pump out a video to capitalise on a celebrity's death. He seems much more respectful than that. Out of all the celebrities he's done videos on so far the most recent one to pass away is Gene Wilder who died in 2016.
Some of their early sound films were shot multiple times: once in English with the usual supporting cast, then in French with a French-speaking cast, Spanish with a Spanish-speaking cast, etc.
Laurel and Hardy read their lines (that were written phonetically) from blackboards out of shot. Their stilted pronunciations suited their not-too-bright characters.
Some of the foreign versions still exist. Unfortunately, the French version of "Pardon Us" (with Boris Karloff as The Tiger) is lost.