Dick van Dyke still with us at the grand old age of 99. Let's hope he can make it to his 100 birthday 🎂 in December 2025. Oh and Laurel and Hardy were the best comedy duo for some time. 😂
In an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Dick got together with Henry Calvin, famous for his role of Sergeant Garcia on "Walt Disney's Zorro," to do a Laurel and Hardy sketch on stage.
I think you used to have to pay extra to have your number unlisted...Van Dyke said he was living in a small apartment....also, by that time in the early 60's most people probably thought he was dead....
He seemed to love interacting with his fans and would respond personally to all fan mail. There is a myth going about that he died almost penniless, however, his daughter has stated that this was not true. Indeed, he was offered film and tv work after Oliver Hardy died but he turned it down. I think he just liked to communicate with people. His daughter also mentioned he would have loved the internet and the increased interaction that it allowed.
@@alpha-omega2362 He loved his fans, he would personally reply with an hand written letter to everyone who wrote to him and he wasn't forgot their fan club 'The Sons of the Desert' had started in the 60s and their films were still been shown on kids Saturday matinee at the cinema, and on TV.
@@mrdave777 I don't recall the year they arrived - my guess is pre-war around 1912 or so. But they must have come for live performances - vaudeville and the like. The motion picture industry was still very experimental. The appetite for entertainment in the U.S. must have been huge to lure these people from overseas. Stan's father owned a theater in England so the easy path would have been for him to stay there.
Even though this was 4 years ago, I have to admit I'm surprised how strong Dick Van Dyke's voice sounds at 90 years old. Most people, as they age, their voice weakens, but this guys still sounds like he did when he was staring in Diagnosis Murder, which was now 30 years ago.
Don Lane who was an American entertainer who made a very successful career in Australia which included a long running tonight show told a similar story of how he found Stan Laurel listed in the phone book and rang. It was a lovely story of being invited to visit and have afternoon tea. Don said he was the perfect gentleman and he treasured the experience.
Stan Laurel was really the comic genius behind the duo. That takes nothing away from Oliver Hardy. The two together made PURE GOLD! Not getting residuals from their work was a shame. And to only have any recognition as a person was just a name in a phone book is sad. Stan lived on a small Social Security income and in a modest "SMALL" apartment. When he should of lived his last days in a mansion in Hollywood. Both gone now and we miss them so much, when we need them now the most. Their films live on, I hope forever.
Different world back then when people were much less crazy and nicer. Always had a lot of respect for the old stars as they were genuine and more down to earth many years ago.
You can really see the "takeoff" on Oliver Hardy by Alan Hale Jr. on Gilligan's Island. Everything from coconuts on the head to "OOP!" to looking straight into the camera. Pure Oliver Hardy.
Chuck McCann also found Stan's name in the Santa Monica phone book and called him from NY. He said the call cost him $50. This is one of the most amazing stories ever.
They used to show Laurel and Hardy films all the time on the telly when I was younger ( I'm 50 now) and thought they were great. Why don't they show them anymore? 🤔
Because the sophisticated masses have forked out a lot of money to purchase their highly sophisticated televisions so that they may never watch anything in unsophisticated black and white ever again. They'll still get their sophisticated comedy though. But something sophisticated does not make for clever or funny, necessarily.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both famously featured along with a small crowd of other household names on the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band album cover. I think both Paul and John were very fond of Laurel and Hardy comedies since their childhood.
@@rustshoo5068 Thanks. Back then Big Stars were accessable and social media would be used. Interestingly I've only had one autograph refused. John Denver. We walked back to his coach together. He stopped and said....would you not just shake me by the hand. I did. His own man.
Dick phoned stan up to say he liked his comedy brilliant stan and ollie was the best duo ever great comedy they we never be replaced rip stan and ollie keep them laughing up there
In real life Stan laurel was very smart and educated guy. But it won't be Stan laurel if he shows any brilliant and intelligence on Laurel and Hardy. My favorite character is Laurel but I can't leave Ollie out. These 2 guys were the most funniest, hilarious comedians ever in their heyday. RIP laurel and Hardy you 2 were true American Idols that spread to the entire world.💔😇👍🇺🇸😿🙀😺🎉🇬🇧
@@terrortornUlverston UK Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 in Argyle Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, to Arthur Jefferson, a theatre manager from Bishop Auckland, and Margaret (née Metcalfe), an actress from Ulverston. He was one of five children. Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles. He joined Fred Karno's troupe of actors in 1910 with the stage name of "Stan Jefferson"; the troupe also included a young Charlie Chaplin. The music hall nurtured him, and he acted as Chaplin's understudy for some time.[2][3] Karno was a pioneer of slapstick, and in his biography Laurel stated, "Fred Karno didn't teach Charlie [Chaplin] and me all we know about comedy. He just taught us most of it". Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe and toured the country.[4] During the First World War, Laurel registered for military service in America on 5 June 1917, as required under the Selective Service Act. He was not called up; his registration card states resident alien and deafness as exemptions.
Somewhere around 1910 Stan laurel was an understudy for Charlie Chaplin in something performed at a theatre in my hometown, Oldham in England. Not bad for a little theatre in a relatively small northern town, that theatre, the coliseum, still exists but not for long, they're hoping to have a new one built in a year or two.
He was living in Santa Monica? Yes, probably in the seafront apartment that's twinkling on the far side of the bay just over Dick van Dycke's right shoulder. I think he was trying for a split second to point it out to Conan.
Yep, he went over on the same boat as Charlie Chaplin for a short theatre tour and handed up staying there. He returned to the UK for a theatre tour with Hardy years later and was mobbed like The Beatles wherever they went. He gives an interview here about the early days of arriving in the USA. ua-cam.com/video/rmIFAdGGsvk/v-deo.html
Anyone know when this interview took place? (I know it was at least 3 years ago by seeing when the comments posted!) TIA I adore DVD. If you ever get to see the reruns of the old Dick VanDyke show, the one with the Petrie’s babysitting the German Shepherd dog had me gasping for breath it was so funny! 🤣
1:10 thats all? that sucks. This sounds like there should have been so much more. I mean the man doesn't deliver Stan Laurel's eulogy and end up with this much content on Conan.
When they talk about how ideas were stolen, it brought to mind "The Dick Van Dyke Show" episode where Rob Petrie got an idea for a talking bowling pin from his son, but the idea originated with Uncle Spunky "the suer"!
I do not think Johnny stole - he has publicly acknowledged, and to Jack Benny himself, that Jack was the greatest influence in his career. Some of the physical comedy may have been from Steve Allen
@@Bigstooler0 Actually, I looked it up and he did play Mr. Laurel on an episode of the "Dick Van Dyke Show" called the "Sam Pomerantz Chronicles"... But not a biopic.
A creative writing instructor explained; when you "borrow" something, that is plagiarism and you can be sued in court. However, if you steal it and make it your own, that is art.
Well Conan is 6'5 so he doesn't have to have a higher chair, he's taller than all his guests. Andy Kaufman did a bit where he is the host and his chair is about 50 feet higher.
Stan ended up in that small apartment because he went from wife to wife to wife over the years.I loved Laurel & Hardy but Chaplin was the wiser and more generous individual.
@RockManLP Fay was an enormous vaudeville star and Benny used to watch him from the side stage. Watch clips of the two and read Stanwyck's bios. She became close friends with Benny.. Maybe I should have said style instead.
Ana Nilce Alcantara ele está falando sobre como encontrou stan laurel na lista telefônica por acidente e, quando ligou, ficou chocado ao saber que era ele mesmo e como ele lhe contou ao longo dos anos que usou seu material e como stan estava ciente disso e depois dele. e Conan estão falando sobre como eles são influenciados pelas pessoas que cresceram assistindo e amando
Bill Maher channels a lot of Jack Benny. He does it well but , given Benny’s unfamiliarity to most of the audience, at what point does a tribute become an actual rip-off?
@@BigDogCountry Guess what, nature doesn't give a flying fuck where you lean politically. Maybe you'll finally get that through your head if you get the virus.
Stan Laurel was so open to his fans.
Dick van Dyke still with us at the grand old age of 99. Let's hope he can make it to his 100 birthday 🎂 in December 2025.
Oh and Laurel and Hardy were the best comedy duo for some time. 😂
This is brilliant! Stan and Ollie best comedians of all time
100% agree!!
M S Definitely!🤗
In an episode of "The Dick Van Dyke Show" Dick got together with Henry Calvin, famous for his role of Sergeant Garcia on "Walt Disney's Zorro," to do a Laurel and Hardy sketch on stage.
Better than Abbott and Costello? Cheech and Chong?
I’m always so blown away at how Stan Laurel had his name in the phone directory.
I think you used to have to pay extra to have your number unlisted...Van Dyke said he was living in a small apartment....also, by that time in the early 60's most people probably thought he was dead....
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Yeah, that's exactly how it worked.
He seemed to love interacting with his fans and would respond personally to all fan mail. There is a myth going about that he died almost penniless, however, his daughter has stated that this was not true. Indeed, he was offered film and tv work after Oliver Hardy died but he turned it down. I think he just liked to communicate with people. His daughter also mentioned he would have loved the internet and the increased interaction that it allowed.
The Fair Haired Boy With The Red Balloon Lois (Stans daughter) stated he was very comfortable financially towards the end of his life.
@@alpha-omega2362 He loved his fans, he would personally reply with an hand written letter to everyone who wrote to him and he wasn't forgot their fan club 'The Sons of the Desert' had started in the 60s and their films were still been shown on kids Saturday matinee at the cinema, and on TV.
While Stan Laurel was cut from the same cloth as Charlie Chaplain I always sensed that he had much less of an ego. Such a gentleman.
Totally agree. Laurel was a much better comedian than Chaplin. As well.
Coincidentally, Stan Laurel & Charlie Chaplin arrived in the US on the same ship at the same time.
@@maudeboggins9834 Yes, both were with the Fred Karno company of comedians.
@@mrdave777 Ah. Interesting. Well both very talented & certainly gave me lots of laughs growing up in the 70's.
@@mrdave777 I don't recall the year they arrived - my guess is pre-war around 1912 or so. But they must have come for live performances - vaudeville and the like. The motion picture industry was still very experimental. The appetite for entertainment in the U.S. must have been huge to lure these people from overseas. Stan's father owned a theater in England so the easy path would have been for him to stay there.
He looks great for 91/92. What a great career he has had.
@@johnlawrence2757 Did you really, or are you just saying that?
91 and did a full dance routine in Mary Poppins Returns
Even though this was 4 years ago, I have to admit I'm surprised how strong Dick Van Dyke's voice sounds at 90 years old.
Most people, as they age, their voice weakens, but this guys still sounds like he did when he was staring in Diagnosis Murder, which was now 30 years ago.
Don Lane who was an American entertainer who made a very successful career in Australia which included a long running tonight show told a similar story of how he found Stan Laurel listed in the phone book and rang. It was a lovely story of being invited to visit and have afternoon tea. Don said he was the perfect gentleman and he treasured the experience.
I loved the tip of the hat to Jack Benny at the end. He's probably less known today than Stan Laurel but also a genius in his own way.
I never noticed the Johnny Carson/Jack Benny connection till DVD brought it up here. Very perspective.
Stan Laurel was really the comic genius behind the duo. That takes nothing away from Oliver Hardy. The two together made PURE GOLD! Not getting residuals from their work was a shame. And to only have any recognition as a person was just a name in a phone book is sad. Stan lived on a small Social Security income and in a modest "SMALL" apartment. When he should of lived his last days in a mansion in Hollywood. Both gone now and we miss them so much, when we need them now the most. Their films live on, I hope forever.
Yeh actually they were pretty much robbed and there’s plenty of the thief’s family’s living in those mansions you wrote about
British humour at its best remember he was British
That said, Stan made sure Ollie got as equal amount of the laughs and screen time as well as the dominant one in the dialogue.
Can see the Laurel influence in Dyke's early career.
I’ve been on UA-cam talking about how I met Dick Van Dyke. No grovelling involved either
Dick seems incredibly contemporary, not like he’s stuck in a different era.
Different world back then when people were much less crazy and nicer. Always had a lot of respect for the old stars as they were genuine and more down to earth many years ago.
GOd bless you Mr. Van Dyke. Your a genuine human being.
As Mel Brooks said during one appearance on Conan "You have to know where to steal from."
You can really see the "takeoff" on Oliver Hardy by Alan Hale Jr. on Gilligan's Island. Everything from coconuts on the head to "OOP!" to looking straight into the camera.
Pure Oliver Hardy.
Chuck McCann also found Stan's name in the Santa Monica phone book and called him from NY. He said the call cost him $50. This is one of the most amazing stories ever.
I heard this story also, I believe he was 12 at the time. That must’ve been so exciting for him.
It's called . " Standing on the shoulders of Giants "
Two of the greatest comedians alive today, talking about one of the greatest dead ones. Awesome.
They used to show Laurel and Hardy films all the time on the telly when I was younger ( I'm 50 now) and thought they were great. Why don't they show them anymore? 🤔
Same here in Finland. When I was younger (I´m 56) I used to see them all the time. Not anymore. Too bad.
Because nobody would watch them. I'm not saying they're bad, it's just the truth
They are always on UA-cam.....ditch the TV it's only lies, propaganda and brain destroying drivel.
Because the sophisticated masses have forked out a lot of money to purchase their highly sophisticated televisions so that they may never watch anything in unsophisticated black and white ever again. They'll still get their sophisticated comedy though. But something sophisticated does not make for clever or funny, necessarily.
They still got showing in the UK sometimes on Talking Pictures TV channel.
He looks amazing for someone in their 90s
I'm jealous that he got to keep all his hair. :-)
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy both famously featured along with a small crowd of other household names on the Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts’ Club Band album cover. I think both Paul and John were very fond of Laurel and Hardy comedies since their childhood.
He's even doing an impression of him!
Do a search for "Oxford 0614 - Stan Laurel's real life phone number in a Laurel and Hardy film."
Here is another fine mess you've gotten me into
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CHRISTOPHER BREADLEY Why don’t you do something to HELP me?
And the reply from Stan must be his crying and mumbling like as always
Back then stars didn't just sign autographs. Stan Laurel wrote full scale letters back to his fans. He would have been brilliant at Twitter.
He would have hated it. Twitter is inimical to letter-writing.
@@rustshoo5068 Thanks. Back then Big Stars were accessable and social media would be used. Interestingly I've only had one autograph refused. John Denver. We walked back to his coach together. He stopped and said....would you not just shake me by the hand. I did. His own man.
My late Maternal Grandma was my heroine. A tiny old lady but larger than life. Miss you so much Nanna Irene xx
Wish this would had continued here
Just google 'Why didn't you tell me you had two legs' and watch a genius at work.
Thank you for that one. This must have been a rather late one for them.
This is great! I am so happy to have subscribed to your channel. Thank you.
Dick phoned stan up to say he liked his comedy brilliant stan and ollie was the best duo ever great comedy they we never be replaced rip stan and ollie keep them laughing up there
I do hope Dick lives to be over 100 years old. After all, he was born in the mid-1920s.
Remarkable that DVD has been a recovering alcoholic for 30 odd years.
Good Interview.
In real life Stan laurel was very smart and educated guy. But it won't be Stan laurel if he shows any brilliant and intelligence on Laurel and Hardy. My favorite character is Laurel but I can't leave Ollie out. These 2 guys were the most funniest, hilarious comedians ever in their heyday. RIP laurel and Hardy you 2 were true American Idols that spread to the entire world.💔😇👍🇺🇸😿🙀😺🎉🇬🇧
Stan was English.
@@terrortorn I already know that he was born in the southern part of London while Ollie was born in the South as a southerner.
@@terrortorn I have few 📀 DVD about them as Laurel and Hardy, in one DVD it talked about their lifestyle from birth, growing up, and their deaths.
@@stevenbaer4979 Stan was born in Ulverston in the NW of England.
@@terrortornUlverston UK
Arthur Stanley Jefferson was born in his grandparents' house on 16 June 1890 in Argyle Street, Ulverston, Lancashire, to Arthur Jefferson, a theatre manager from Bishop Auckland, and Margaret (née Metcalfe), an actress from Ulverston. He was one of five children.
Stan Laurel was an English comic actor, writer, and film director who was part of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. He appeared with his comedy partner Oliver Hardy in 107 short films, feature films, and cameo roles.
He joined Fred Karno's troupe of actors in 1910 with the stage name of "Stan Jefferson"; the troupe also included a young Charlie Chaplin. The music hall nurtured him, and he acted as Chaplin's understudy for some time.[2][3] Karno was a pioneer of slapstick, and in his biography Laurel stated, "Fred Karno didn't teach Charlie [Chaplin] and me all we know about comedy. He just taught us most of it". Chaplin and Laurel arrived in the United States on the same ship from Britain with the Karno troupe and toured the country.[4] During the First World War, Laurel registered for military service in America on 5 June 1917, as required under the Selective Service Act. He was not called up; his registration card states resident alien and deafness as exemptions.
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Stan: Ollie do you remember when I said I was stupid?
Ollie: Yes.
Stan: Well, I still am.
He stole the grin!
Dick Van Dyke once did a Laurel impersonation on the Dick Van Dyke show.
Buster Keaton said Stan was the Greatest of them all.. That’s good enough for me.
Somewhere around 1910 Stan laurel was an understudy for Charlie Chaplin in something performed at a theatre in my hometown, Oldham in England. Not bad for a little theatre in a relatively small northern town, that theatre, the coliseum, still exists but not for long, they're hoping to have a new one built in a year or two.
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He was living in Santa Monica? Yes, probably in the seafront apartment that's twinkling on the far side of the bay just over Dick van Dycke's right shoulder. I think he was trying for a split second to point it out to Conan.
Never knew til now that Stan Laurel lived, and died in America.
Where did you think he lived if he made films in the States with an American, Oliver Hardy?
Yep, he went over on the same boat as Charlie Chaplin for a short theatre tour and handed up staying there. He returned to the UK for a theatre tour with Hardy years later and was mobbed like The Beatles wherever they went. He gives an interview here about the early days of arriving in the USA.
ua-cam.com/video/rmIFAdGGsvk/v-deo.html
I always liked when ollie would be so afraid of his wife tying to get away with something with Stanley broke me up
Wonderful!!
Anyone know when this interview took place?
(I know it was at least 3 years ago by seeing when
the comments posted!)
TIA
I adore DVD. If you ever get to see the reruns of the old Dick VanDyke show, the one with the Petrie’s babysitting the German Shepherd dog had me gasping for breath it was so funny! 🤣
Mr. Dick Van Dyke is a national treasure...
LOVE Dick Van Dyke!!!!
I watched some MASH recently, and realised that Alan Alda is channelling Groucho Marx.
1:10 thats all? that sucks. This sounds like there should have been so much more. I mean the man doesn't deliver Stan Laurel's eulogy and end up with this much content on Conan.
When they talk about how ideas were stolen, it brought to mind "The Dick Van Dyke Show" episode where Rob Petrie got an idea for a talking bowling pin from his son, but the idea originated with Uncle Spunky "the suer"!
Unbelievable hair genetics!
A very cool story.
He looks like 75 still
Wow, Dick is starting to slur his words, he's outlived everyone from his show, except for the boy who played his son.
talk about a real cool old timer actor stories he can tell
Doesnt mention meeting stan at all
thats so freaking awesome!! lol
Johnny Carson stole alot of his gimmicks from Steve Allen.
What does that have to do with this wonderful clip?
Because Conan said that Johnny stole from Jack Benny (probably true in both cases actually)
I do not think Johnny stole - he has publicly acknowledged, and to Jack Benny himself, that Jack was the greatest influence in his career. Some of the physical comedy may have been from Steve Allen
So did Letterman
Didn't he play Mr. Laurel in a biopic?
No he played a fictional character named "Billy Bright"
@@Bigstooler0 Actually, I looked it up and he did play Mr. Laurel on an episode of the "Dick Van Dyke Show" called the "Sam Pomerantz Chronicles"... But not a biopic.
A creative writing instructor explained; when you "borrow" something, that is plagiarism and you can be sued in court. However, if you steal it and make it your own, that is art.
Sharp dressed man.
Why bother to have a guest when the host won't shut up?
That's how all of them are now. It's the one thing that they didn't steal from Johnny: the ability to just SHUT UP and let the guests talk.
Anyone else notice Conan's chair is so much higher than Dick's chair? What's THAT all about?
power play
As was David Letterman's, and Jimmy Kimmel's, and Jimmy Fallon's, etc.
Simple dominance. If Conan's chair were lowered, his wife would quickly file for divorce and his female fans would change channels and curse his name.
Well Conan is 6'5 so he doesn't have to have a higher chair, he's taller than all his guests.
Andy Kaufman did a bit where he is the host and his chair is about 50 feet higher.
Stan ended up in that small apartment because he went from wife to wife to wife over the years.I loved Laurel & Hardy but Chaplin was the wiser and more generous individual.
Jack Benny took his act from Barbara Stanwyck's first husband Frank Fay.
@RockManLP Fay was an enormous vaudeville star and Benny used to watch him from the side stage. Watch clips of the two and read Stanwyck's bios. She became close friends with Benny.. Maybe I should have said style instead.
@RockManLP The original film A star is Born is based on their marriage.
Him and Jerry Lewis were in contact with Stan Lauren in search of inspiration for their works.
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ele está falando sobre como encontrou stan laurel na lista telefônica por acidente e, quando ligou, ficou chocado ao saber que era ele mesmo e como ele lhe contou ao longo dos anos que usou seu material e como stan estava ciente disso e depois dele. e Conan estão falando sobre como eles são influenciados pelas pessoas que cresceram assistindo e amando
Johnny Carson "borrowed" from Oliver Hardy, too.
He was talking about a person who died almost 60 years ago...wow
That’s it??
Bill Maher channels a lot of Jack Benny. He does it well but , given Benny’s unfamiliarity to most of the audience, at what point does a tribute become an actual rip-off?
Comedy is the Best Medicine Right Now in 2020,; Stay Safe Everyone & Don't Forget to Wear a Mask, Whenever Necessary XX
It's never necessary. It's just you showing you're submissive.
@@BigDogCountry Shut the fuck up idiot. There's a pandemic going on. You wear a mask when necessary.
@@whereami2477 There's a DemPanic going on, and you're a sucker.
@@BigDogCountry Guess what, nature doesn't give a flying fuck where you lean politically. Maybe you'll finally get that through your head if you get the virus.
@@whereami2477 Wah Wah Wah. Cry me a river Chinese Cowboy.
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My man Dick is looking awesome in that velvet jacket! True badass!