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Paul Metcalfe:
I see they have made a film, The Three Stooges.

Maybe it's just me but even as a child I hated the TV show.

All the slapstick but none of the timing, wit or pathos of the wonderful Laurel & Hardy.

It always struck me as 3 rather violent-looking ex-convicts punching each other repeatedly whilst not saying or doing anything funny.

Not a good premise for a film.

Anyone disagree?

Exit Stage Left:
I've no recollection of 'The Three Stooges' on TV, was this a Southern TV thing? I envisage the schedule as consisting of dated US comedy and Jack Hargreaves.

clarion:
I don't remember them on TV (except in cartoon form meeting Scooby Doo, which, like many of those guest appearances made no sense at all to junior UK audiences), but I have had the misfortune to see a couple of films.

It's like the Marx brothers without the edge, the social satire, and the jokes.

TimO:
I can't say I ever thought much of them, and as you say, they've been relatively uncommon in the UK, so sometimes allusions and appearances by them don't make a lot of sense, since we often lack the context.

I've never been a big fan of Laurel and Hardy or the Marx Brothers either, but all of these three have depended on a type of slapstick which has largely fallen out of favour with the relatively modern exposure to differing types of comedy.

Exit Stage Left:
Abbot and Costello were another mystifying act, although Mike and Bernie Winters did the same schtick. The one US comedy that did transfer was Bilko, which is more popular in the UK than the US, partly because every child in the UK was primed with 'Top Cat'.

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