Didn’t care for the never ending violence.

So much poking fun at the aristocracy. Also some pretty good anti-Hitler takes.

Now, not as much; the slapstick gets a bit old.

I find everything about them repellent.

Now the Marx Brothers...THAT'S funny! I even thought they were funny when I was 7. Then when I was around 12 I started catching the meaning of some of the double-entendres, and they were REALLY funny!

And now as an adult I think Moe is such a bully, curley/ shemp are weak and Larry is irrelevant!

Sorry, that's funny, as they rip all the electrical wires out of the pipes and tie them into the plumbing system.

Yes, they were idiots, but they were against fascism, unlike today's idiots.

… because my dad thought they were hilarious! And even now, I can’t help but smile when someone gets a pie in the face.

With Curley: mostly funny
With Shemp: mostly not funny
With Joe Besser (the forgotten stooge, only made a handful of films in the 50’s): surprisingly funny
With Joe De Rita (“Curly Joe”): awful

times.

Except I did like Shemp. And the last few Curly films were not so good due to his stroke.

Didn't like Joe Besser nor Joe DeRita.

As they got older their jokes and routines didn't hit as well. But they were mostly funny and at time uniquely hilarious.

As did Ralph Kramden.

Moe, on the other hand, is not funny at all in my opinion. Most of his "humor" consisted of slapping and physically abusing the other Stooges.

I never found Shemp that funny, but some people I know think he's the funniest one.

They were probably all funnier to audiences in the 1930s and 1940s.

steps at the top of the hill. By the time he got to the top, it was an ice cube. He had to go down and get another hunk of ice for the ice box.Only time.

I particularly love the scene where Curly shaves the ice!

And if you don’t agree… ver gerharget! 🤣
And I don’t mean efsher!

Haven't watched them, since...

Hence my lack of enthusiasm for him.

So we watched to first 1/2 of each episode before she got home. She got home once and saw Moe picking up Curly by the temples with giant metal ice tongs. That’s horrible. You all can’t watch that anymore

She taught, librarian who make LESS that school teachers, so she’d get home about 20 minutes after we got on the bus. We’d run in - latch key - turn on the Stooges and watch for her to pull in the driveway. Change the channel (manually) and turn off the TV.

We’d act like we were finishing up a snack and jump on our bikes. Give her some time. Mom and 2 boys.

Shakey’s pizza had projection TV’s that ran the Stooges. Continuously. Good sort of deep dish pizza. Loved it.

Thoroughly repellant.

Theater of the absurd.
It's slapstick, machine gun humor.

Curly was an animal lover and rescued a bunch of dogs. It is estimated that he rehomed 5000 of them in his lifetime. He would often pick up a couple strays in every town he visited.

Shemp had left for a solo career and upon Curly's health issues wasn't all that keen on returning , but realized that not doing so would likely mean the end of the careers of Moe and Larry. Unfortunately the studio never paid them appropriately considering their popularity.

Even though they had a lot of violent pranks, as kids we understood they weren't real and knew better than to try and throw bricks at each other or hit each other with hammers.

I always wondered since Moe, Shemp and Curly were all brothers, if they started performing these antics as kids. Wonder what their mother had to go through?

That slap stick, unexpected behavior.

for kids who were picked on...

Especially the early stuff. Our daughter must have been about 5 years old when she saw Disorder in the Court. We had never heard her laugh so hard. My wife used to enjoy the occasional Stooges shorts with me until I got the complete works. She quickly reached her saturation point and now I have to watch them alone.

moe was always the instigator of that , and at the end of the movies the 3 were in a space car traveling from earth to the camera. as iris closed the other 2 grabbed 2 pies and let moe have it , poetic justice i think. dbm id say half and half .

have rocket will travel i think the name of the movie was .

Loved Moe's slow burns. Curly's fuck it attitude. Larry's dead pan.
Schemp's resilience.

commentary went right over my head.
Never watched them again.

Slapstick humor considering Moe did a lot of slapping. Their humor was funny for their time (30s - 50s).

Now, Laurel and Hardy were funny even though Oliver Hardy did a lot of hitting on Stan Laurel much the same way the Skipper used his hat to hit Gilligan on Gillian's Island. What I like about Laurel and Hard was their comedic timing. It was always joke, joke, pause, joke. Once I learned this timing of their I became a fan.

Now I am an older lady and I still love the fun that surrounded them.

Tikki

... are the impressionists who do imitations of the Three Stooges.

-- Ron

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Though the gags are well timed and acted out.
I can appreciate the art that went into it.
It's just not my sense of humor.