If you’ve never seen gymnast and co-inventor of the trampoline Larry Griswold’s comedy diving act, drop everything you’re doing for the next four minutes and check it out. Griswold’s act–he plays a somewhat inebriated man who’s standing in for ‘Larry Griswold, Amateur Diving Champion’ who can’t make the show due
‘Micro-Phonies’ (1945) is the 87th short film made by The Three Stooges for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, June 4 through Thursday, June 7th ,1945, and was released on Thursday, November 15th of that year. It was the second Stooge short directed by Edward L. Bernds, though it
‘Goof On The Roof’ is the Three Stooges 152nd short film made for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Monday, November 17th through Wednesday, November 19th, 1952 and was released a full year later on Thursday, December 3rd, 1953. The film is probably the most violent of any of the
‘The Sitter-Downers’ is the 27th Three Stooges short made for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed from Thursday May 27th to Wednesday, June 2nd, 1937 and was released on Friday, November 26th of that year. (Assuming that they took Sunday off, that means the shoot lasted a generous six days–most of
Here’s a quick dose of Jerry Lewis in his greatest period (1957-64 for my money) in a scene from ‘The Delicate Delinquent’ (1957). He’s part of a police line-up and his behavior is precisely what I’m sure mine would be if put in the same situation. The tough-ass cop is
Before the advent of dubbing–replacing the soundtrack recorded on set with another voice and/or actor and/or language in post-production–foreign language versions of movies had to be shot simultaneously with the English language versions. What a pain in the ass! It’s hard enough to shoot one scene correctly but then to
‘Dizzy Detectives’ (1943) is the 68th Stooge short made for Columbia Pictures. It was photographed over June 29-July 2, 1942 (Monday-Thursday of that calendar year) and was released on February 5, 1943 (which was a Friday). It’s one of the last of the great Curly shorts–his timing and physical comedy
What you’re about to witness is one of the weirdest, wackiest party-down dance clips in the history of telethons. This is from the Easter Seals Telethon which aired on March 22 and 23rd 1975 on KTTV–11, a local Los Angeles station. The dance team consists of Marty Allen, Charo, Adrienne
‘Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb’ (1938) was the thirty-first Stooge short, released on May 20th, 1938. This is prime Del Lord-directed Stooge stuff, with the pacing, characterizations and the plotting holding together in a brisk sixteen and a half minute ride of perfection. Curly’s running leap onto the top of the
Here’s Don performing at Ronald Reagan’s 2nd inaugural in 1985. The fact that I was surprised while watching it that nobody jumped on stage and slapped him says a lot about where we are in our current comedy culture, which is a very sad place indeed. That Rickles was free