The Three Stooges.......Best Comedy Team Ever ?

[BigSwede]

Maybe it's my age, my upbringing, or just my puerile sense of humour, but for me it's Rik Mayall and Ade Edmondson in anything they've written and performed in together.

The Comic Strip is the best comedy team ever!
I have never understood why the three stooges is considered funny.

 

[larss]

The Goons - Harry Secombe, Peter Sellers and the inimitable Spike Milligan who wrote most of this anarchic humour.


The Goodies - Tim Brooke-Taylor, Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie.

 

[ThatRedWing]

Cheech and Chong!

 

[Jack Davenport]

Cheech and Chong!

/thread

 

[larss]

Not the Nine O'Clock News

 

[rivasky]

Leeds Utd

 

[larss]

Leeds Utd

Comedy not Tragedy.


Peter Cook and Dudley Moore - Derek and Clive

 

[John_8581]

Grahan Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and Terry Gilliam...



... Otherwise known as Monty Python's Flying Circus

 

[Mr_Stiffy]

Of course, the greatest British comedy writing team ever was never actually together, just a flight of fancy.

"Milligan, Cleese, Everett. Sessions."

 

[jlm555]

Yes they were the best, Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis are a close 2nd.

 

[StanScratch]

I am more of the Python guy, followed by the Marx Brothers and Kids in the hall...but I also think the John Candy years of SCTV deserve a mention, as well as Mr. Show.

 

[passenger57]

Can't argue against the Stooges. They were superb. I'm a Marx Brothers man meself, although I do allow that they have a less sizeable body of work and a couple of their movies were lame. I've often wished that the Marx Bros. would have made a career of 15 minute shorts like the Stooges did.

I can vaguely remember seeing clips of Grouch Marx doing a tv show in black and white. I can picture 2 of them. Did one of the Marx brothers do silent comedy also ?

 

[luis1972]

I am more of the Python guy, followed by the Marx Brothers and Kids in the hall...but I also think the John Candy years of SCTV deserve a mention, as well as Mr. Show.

Good point of view

 

[Mr. Daystar]

Personally, I can't think of a funnier comedy team...although I tend to not be a fan of the Curly Joe episodes, and as most Stooges fans, find Curly, better then Shemp. But yeah, I wouldn't argue they are the best.

 

[panther]

Laurel and Hardy
Amos and Andy

 

[bobjustbob]

bobjustbob

No sure about your post.

you didn't like Bob and Ray?

Bob Elliot is the father of Chris Elliot. I see where he gets his whackiness from.

When we look at comedy we have to understand the medium at the time. With as much TV as they did, it was early TV. Early TV was a flood gate opening up for established radio programs (Jack Benny, Amos and Andy, Dragnet, game shows, etc.) This was the time of a void for new talent coming into radio. After all the new medium was what people wanted. Bob and Ray changed the face of that dying medium of radio. Those shows that I mentioned were written the same way as in radio but actors and a set was built. Bob and Ray stuff was not visual. It was an exchange written purely for the ear. Here they set the bar for the audio medium. They created characters that you didn't have to see. The genius of it was that they didn't even change their voices for the characters. They were 2 guys that wrote and read their scripts and it worked. When the script and characters were put to bed it was still Bob and Ray. Ask anyone in radio and they will admit that there will never be another Bob and Ray.

Back to my earlier statement. Before film, people got their entertainment from stage. The 3 Stooges and Abbot and Costello were big draws in vaudeville. The Marx Brothers were established stars on Broadway. Film studios were chugging out anything as much as they could and gobbled up all of the best talent from vaudeville and stage. Shemp takes a lot of shit from Stooge fans but did you know that he and Moe were the were the act before Curly came along? Shemp got a movie deal and Moe gave him the go ahead and asked Curly to step in. Curly was on his own at the time and that's when Columbia Pictures signed them for shorts.

 

[passenger57]

<----------- Are you ready for me to hijack your thread?

The honor should go to you !

 

[bobjustbob]

Thank you. But before we get on with Stooge Nation I'd like to toss Jackie Gleason and Art Carney into the mix. Fun fact: Carney won 5 of 7 Emmy nominations for best supporting comedy actor. Gleason lost his only nomination for lead actor.

Xfire you are right, Mel Blanc was a one man comedy team. He will never be replaced and his name will live on until the asteroid hits the Earth and destroys us all.

 

[Thoros]

 

[passenger57]

I disagree.

Nothing wrong with that. Who are they ?