[8], In A Plumbing We Will Go (1940)one of the team's quintessential comediesthe Stooges are cast as plumbers who nearly destroy a socialite's mansion, causing water to exit every appliance in the home, including an early television set. Like Jerks of All Trades in 1949, the pilot did not sell. On October 30, 2007, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment released a two-disc DVD set titled The Three Stooges Collection, Volume One: 19341936. However, Moe believed that the team's slapstick style worked better in short form. In 1959, KTTV in Los Angeles purchased the Three Stooges films for air, but by the early 1970s, rival station KTLA began airing the Stooges films, keeping them in the schedule until early 1994. Mitch Vogel, who played Jamie Hunter-Cartwright, is still alive. The film is broken up into three continuous episodes that revolves around the Stooges characters. This is a list of actors who have co-starred in films with The Three Stooges. Gary Lassin, grand-nephew-in-law of Larry Fine, opened the Stoogeum[44] in 2004 in Spring House, Pennsylvania, 25 miles (40km) north of Philadelphia. Shemp returned, reconstituting the original lineup, until his death of a heart attack on November 22, 1955, three years and ten months after Curly's death of a cerebral hemorrhage on January 18, 1952. In general, the remakes had the traditional Stooges knockabout, such as 1958's Pies and Guys (a scene-for-scene remake of Half-Wits Holiday, which itself was a reworking of the earlier Hoi Polloi), Guns a Poppin (1957), Rusty Romeos (1957), and Triple Crossed (1959). While the network stopped airing Stooges shorts regularly from 2013 to 2015, they were occasionally shown as filler if a movie ran short, as well as in holiday marathons. Their characters lacked the emotional depth of Charlie Chaplin and Harry Langdon; they were never as witty or subtle as Buster Keaton. After the treatment, one of the doctors tells Winchester "Not bad for Three Stooges, huh? Over the years, several Three Stooges comics were produced. The team went on to appear on Camel Comedy Caravan (also known as The Ed Wynn Show), The Kate Smith Hour, The Colgate Comedy Hour, The Frank Sinatra Show and The Eddie Cantor Comedy Theatre, among others. [12] Sitcoms, however, were available for free on television, making the short film a throwback to a bygone era. Silent-comedy star Charley Chase also shared directorial responsibilities with Lord and White. The studio decided to downsize its short-subject division, resulting in producer Hugh McCollum being discharged and director Edward Bernds resigning out of loyalty to McCollum. Are there any Three Stooges supporting actors still alive? Besser had observed how one side of Larry Fine's face appeared "calloused",[22] so he had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit beyond an infrequent tap, though this restriction was later lifted. They received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 1560 Vine Street on August 30, 1983. You gotta give him props. They appeared in a larger capacity in 1963 in 4 for Texas starring Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin. With intense television exposure in the United States, the act regained momentum throughout the 1960s as popular kids' fare, until Larry's paralyzing stroke in the midst of filming a pilot for a Three Stooges TV series in January 1970. When Columbia/Screen Gems licensed the film library to television, the shorts aired in any fashion the local stations chose (examples: late-night "filler" material between the end of the late movie and the channel's sign-off time; in "marathon" sessions running shorts back-to-back for one, one-and-a-half, or two hours; etc.) Cur?" A story in The Hollywood Reporter stated that Will Sasso would play Curly in the upcoming comedy and that Hank Azaria was the front runner to play Moe. [8][opinion] They would not have lasted as long as they did as a unit without Moe Howard's guiding hand.[4]. [4] Other accounts have been given for how the Curly character actually came about. None of the Stooges is alive today, with Moe, the last one, dying in. [4][31] Mitchell had also replaced Shemp as the "third stooge" in a 1929 Broadway play, A Night in Venice,[citation needed] and appeared in two of the Stooges' short subjects in 1953. Their films have never left American television since first appearing in 1958. Menu. ((Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty . Columbia contract player Joe Besser joined as the third Stooge for two years (19561957), departing in 1958 to nurse his ill wife after Columbia terminated its shorts division. . [8] During his tenure, the films were assailed as questionable models for youth, and in response began to resemble television sitcoms. Why are the Three Stooges more popular now than the other comedy teams of that same period, such as the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, Abbott and Costello, or Martin and Lewis? ThreeStooges.net is a privately-owned non-profit site, and its' resources are made available to Three Stooges fans everywhere. During this period, The Stooges appeared on numerous television shows including The Steve Allen Show, Here's Hollywood, Masquerade Party, The Ed Sullivan Show, Danny Thomas Meets the Comics, The Joey Bishop Show,[27] Off to See the Wizard and Truth or Consequences. The films were aimed at the kiddie-matinee market, and most were black-and-white farce outings in the Stooge tradition, with the exception of Snow White and the Three Stooges, a children's fantasy in color. Larry suggested former Ted Healy stooge Paul "Mousie" Garner, but based on his tryout performance, Moe later remarked that he was "completely unacceptable." October 18, 2018, 12:02 am. During a five-month hiatus from August 1945 through January 1946, the trio committed themselves to making a feature film at Monogram, followed by a two-month-long live appearance gig in New York City, with performances seven days a week. Who were the six Stooges? [66] The first film, which will set the foundation for future films and television spin-offs, is set to begin production in November 2017,[67] and expected to be released in 2018. Columbia flatly refused, having promoted the team as "The Three Stooges" for decades. This volume is not available separately, and comprises two feature films and three cartoons featuring all three Stooges, and also some of their solo work (14 shorts featuring Shemp Howard, 10 shorts featuring Joe Besser, and four shorts featuring Joe DeRita). only to find that they are not there. By aligning themselves with the common man . [8] After it was discovered that the Curly-era shorts were the most popular, Moe suggested that DeRita shave his head to accentuate his slight resemblance to Curly Howard. White also contributed a few fair entries, such as Hold That Lion! Disorder in the Court (1936) features the team as star witnesses in a murder trial. In another cost-cutting measure, White would create a "new" Stooge short by borrowing footage from old ones, setting it in a slightly different storyline and filming a few new scenes, often with the same actors in the same costumes. [12], Despite their lukewarm reception, the Besser shorts did have their moments. In addition to the unsuccessful television series pilots Jerks of All Trades, The Three Stooges Scrapbook, and the incomplete Kook's Tour, the Stooges appeared in an animated series, The New Three Stooges, which ran from 1965 to 1966. [72], A VCR game was released by Pressman Toy Corporation in 1986, which utilized a number of classic Stooges clips.[73]. [71], The Three Stooges also have a slot game adaptation created by Realtime Gaming. Aug 6, 2015 - 3 Stooges Main Supporting Actors & Actresses. Cohn's scare tactics worked for all 23 years that the Stooges were at Columbia; the team never once asked for a salary increasenor were they ever given one. Two years later, after appearing in several movies, the trio left Healy and signed on to appear in their own short-subject comedies for Columbia Pictures, now billed as "The Three Stooges". Moe proposed that he and Larry could continue working as a duo, "The Two Stooges." In 1935, Columbia proposed to star them in their own full-length feature, but Moe rejected the idea saying, "It's a hard job inventing, rewriting, or stealing gags for our two-reel comedies for Columbia Pictures without having to make a seven-reeler (feature film). However there is one actor, who played a recurring character, who is the only one not around anymore. Based on the Stooges earning money by doing odd jobs to prevent the foreclosure of an orphanage, it incorporated audio from the original films and was popular enough to be reissued for the Game Boy Advance in 2002, as well as for PlayStation in 2004. [4] Curly's wild lifestyle and constant drinking eventually caught up with him in 1945, and his performances suffered. The act was also known as "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen" and "Ted Healy and His Racketeers". The Three Stooges continued with two other actors, Joe Besser and later Joe De Rita, playing the character Curly Joe. They were not disciplined enough to sustain lengthy comic sequences; far too often, they were willing to suspend what little narrative structure their pictures possessed in order to insert a number of gratuitous jokes. lighting technician Justin Yardley Jones . [58] Sasso was ultimately cast as Curly; Sean Hayes of Will & Grace was cast as Larry Fine,[59] while Chris Diamantopoulos was cast as Moe. Unsuccessful attempts were made in 1970 and 1975 to revive the act with longtime supporting actor Emil Sitka in Fine's role, but they were cut short by Moe Howard's death on May 4, 1975. Jail Birds of Paradise (1934) was also shot in Technicolor, but as of 2022 no print has been found. The studio then released all the shorts via Screen Gems, Columbia's television studio and distribution unit. [65], On February 3, 2016, C3 announced a new action/adventure film titled The Three Little Stooges. He was 83 and had been living at the Motion Picture and Television Hospital in Woodland Hills, Calif., for two years. Their other filmsremakes of older comediesrequired the familiar Stooge haircuts to match the older footage. A film featuring the Three Stooges, titled The Three Stooges, started production on March 14, 2011, with 20th Century Fox[53] and was directed by the Farrelly brothers. However, his whining mannerisms and the lack of slapstick punishment against him did not quite blend with the Stooges' brand of humor. With no active contract in place, Moe and Larry discussed plans for a personal appearance tour. AT the age of 105, you can safely say that nobody knows more about the history of showbiz than Julie Gibson. New director Edward Bernds, who joined the team in 1945 when Curly was failing, sensed that routines and plotlines that worked well with Curly as the comic focus did not fit Shemp's persona, and allowed the comedian to develop his own Stooge character. Moe and Larry were impersonating Chinese laundrymen in an attempt to fool the local cop. 6 (19491951)", "Classicflix.com Blog: The Three Stooges, Vol. for big shots and pretentious people. [4] Healy attempted to stop the new act with legal action, claiming that they were using his copyrighted material. Some films have been colorized by two separate companies. In their classic 1940 short No Census, No Feelings, the Stooges refer to Will H. Hays and his position as Hollywood's censor, when Moe tells Curly, We have a job now, were working for the census, and Curly replies, You mean Will Hays?. leader of the IMF was Steven Hill, probably best known for his role of. Lorna gray is the only one thats alive and she is. As for the remaining original replacement stooges, Joe Besser died of heart failure on March 1, 1988, followed by Joe DeRita of pneumonia on July 3, 1993. By 1956 Moe Howard and Larry Fine were carrying the short-subject series as a two-man team, apart from third member Shemp, who was seen entirely in older footage. DVD Talk critic Stuart Galbraith IV commented that "the Stooges' shorts became increasingly mechanicaland frequently substituted violent sight gags for story and characterization. three inferior people can overpower a superior person when they combine their strength. Quickly, though, his physicality and roots made him perfect for several westerns. Volume Five is the first in the series to feature Shemp Howard with the Stooges and the final volume to feature Curly Howard. Over 60 years since their last short film was released, the Three Stooges remain popular. This translates as "I'm a China boy from Slobatkya Gebernya [a made-up area in eastern Russia] so stop annoying me and I don't mean maybe. Dorothy Moore was also in Oily To Bed, Oily to Rise. The Stooges, brothers Moe, Shemp and Curly Howard, Larry Fine, and later Joe Besser and Joe DeRita, started as a vaudeville act, initially with Moe, Shemp and Larry as sidekicks for. The last 8 of the 16 shorts with Joe Besser were released over the next 18 months. The original thirteen volume titles were later reissued on VHS by its successor, Columbia TriStar Home Video, between 1993 and 1996, with a DVD reissue between 2000 and 2004. Great body, but his face is mid. Most of their songs were adaptations of. Kingman T. Moore (Director), Irving Mansfield (Producer) Camel Comedy Caravan / The Ed Wynn Show (CBS), March 11st, 1950 Wynn's 1/2-hour show, sponsored by Camel cigarettes, was the first live Los Angeles-based variety show. [8] Spook Louder (1943), a remake of Mack Sennett's The Great Pie Mystery (1931), is sometimes cited as the Stooges' worst film because of its repetitious and rehashed jokes. Michael Gross (Steven) and Merideth Baxter (Elyse)both born June 21st, 1947) are 74 now. and I'll Never Heil Again, both released before United States' entry into World War II despite an industry Production Code that advocated avoiding social and political issues and the negative portrayal of foreign countries. She was 90. Although the block was discontinued after AMC revamped their format in 2002, the network still ran Stooges shorts occasionally. was an inside joke which stood for Alte Kocker (Lit: elderly person who is defecating), a Yiddish idiom which means an old man or woman of diminished capacity who can no longer do things they used to do. Curly Howard net worth: Curly Howard was an American comedian and vaudevillian actor who had a net worth of $10 million. KTLA in Los Angeles dropped the shorts in 1994, but brought them back in 2007 as part of a special retro-marathon commemorating the station's 60th anniversary. Their final recording was the 1966 Yogi Bear and the Three Stooges Meet the Mad, Mad, Mad Dr. No-No, which incorporated the Three Stooges into the cast of the Yogi Bear cartoons.[4]. [6], During the final day of filming Half-Wits Holiday (1947) on May 6, 1946, Curly suffered a debilitating stroke on the set, ending his 14-year career. Comic actor Joe DeRita became "Curly Joe" in 1958, replacing Besser for a new series of full-length theatrical films. In response, Volume Four: 19431945 was released on October 7, 2008, a mere two months after its predecessor. Shemp wanted assurance that rejoining them would be only temporary and that he could leave the Stooges once Curly recovered. A/N: Hello everyone, yes I'm alive for those wondering. [43] On October 18, 2016, The Three Stooges: The Complete DVD Collection was released. . Larr? Columbia was the last studio still producing live-action two-reel comedies (the Stooges' last live-action competition, the one-reel Joe McDoakes series, had ended its run in 1956), and the market for such films had all but ceased. Three feature-length Columbia releases were actually packages of older Columbia shorts. Curly remained ill until his death of a cerebral hemorrhage from additional strokes on January 18, 1952. In late 1969, Howard, Fine and DeRita began production on another half-hour pilot, this time for a syndicated 39-episode TV series titled Kook's Tour,[28] a combination travelogue-sitcom that had the "retired" Stooges traveling to various parts of the world with the episodes filmed on location. Forrester, Jeff, with Forrester, Tom, and Wallison, Joe. Volume Eight: 19551959 was released on June 1, 2010. [54] The Farrellys, who wanted to make the film since 1996, said that they were not going to do a biopic or remake, but instead new Three Stooges episodes set in the present day. Like most actors, Alfalfa found work hard to come by, in his case because of his instant recognition and type-casting as the world-famous "Alfalfa of the Little Rascals." Still, he was a talented actor and comedian, and he did get small roles in several films. Film actor Joe Palma stood in (shot from behind to obscure his face) to complete four Shemp-era shorts under contract. The pilot was unfinished and several key shots were missing, but producer Norman Maurer edited the available footage and made the pilot a 52-minute special that was released to the home-movie and Cartrivision videocassette home video markets in 1973. In French and German usage, the name of the trio is partially translated as Les Trois Stooges (though the French version of the movie adaptation used a fully translated name, "Les Trois Corniauds") and Die drei Stooges respectively. Their final film with Healy was MGM's Hollywood Party (1934). (1965). It would be harder to have women do slapstick comedy because people are less likely to find women getting hurt to be funny. This, as any Stooge fan will tell you, was the beginning of the end. [6] Shemp, fed up with Healy's abrasiveness, bad temper, and heavy drinking,[6] decided to quit the act and toured in his own comedy revue for several months. Now controlled by DeRita's heirs, it has diversified into a brand-management company licensing personality rights to various nostalgia acts, including the Stooges. According to Moe Howard's autobiography,[7] the split was precipitated by Healy's alcoholism and abrasiveness. With Shemp gone, Healy and the two remaining stooges (Moe and Larry) needed a replacement, so Moe suggested his younger brother Jerry Howard. Other wartime entries have their moments, such as They Stooge to Conga (considered the most violent Stooge short),[11] Higher Than a Kite, Back From the Front (all 1943), Gents Without Cents (1944) and the anti-Japanese The Yoke's on Me (also 1944). In a 1980 episode of M*A*S*H, Charles Winchester shows disrespect for three Korean doctors by calling them "Moe, Larry and Curly", and says that they are "highly-respected individuals in the States". A.K. According to Jules White, this anomaly came about when Curly visited the set one day, and White had him do this bit for fun. ABC had even expressed interest as far back as 1949, purchasing exclusive rights to 30 of the trio's shorts and commissioning a pilot for a potential series, Jerks of All Trades. All 190 shorts, however, have been released to home video. Larry, Moe, and Shemp had played firemen in their first film, Rube Goldberg's Soup to Nuts (1930), during their lengthy stint in "Ted Healy and His Stooges". and Pardon My Backfire. [8], Wartime also brought on rising production costs that resulted in fewer elaborate gags and outdoor sequences, Del Lord's stock in trade; as such, the quality of the team's films (particularly those directed by Lord) began to slip after 1942. His weight ballooned in the 1940s, and his blood pressure became dangerously high. 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Screenwriter Elwood Ullman, who had worked closely with Bernds, also resigned. still photographer Kevin Jackson . [1] Moe Howard (born Moses Harry Horwitz) joined Healy's act in 1922, and his brother Shemp Howard (Samuel Horwitz) came aboard a few months later. [8], Within their first year at Columbia, theater bookings for the Stooges films took off. Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn was able to use the Stooges as leverage, as the demand for their films was so great that he eventually refused to supply exhibitors with the trio's shorts unless they also agreed to book some of the studio's mediocre B movies. Gleason, a control-freak who oversaw every aspect of. White was initially very subtle when recycling older footage: he would reuse only a single sequence of old film, re-edited so cleverly that it was not easy to detect. The Robonic Stooges later aired as a separate half-hour series, retitled The Three Robonic Stooges (each half-hour featured two segments of The Three Robonic Stooges and one segment of Woofer & Whimper, Dog Detectives, the latter re-edited from episodes of Clue Club, an earlier Hanna-Barbera cartoon series). [8] During their 23 years at Columbia, the Stooges were never completely aware of their amazing drawing power. However, Columbia had promised exhibitors eight Stooge shorts for the year but only four had been completed, forcing producer Jules White to manufacture four more shorts "with Shemp." Six men were members of the team throughout the years: Shemp Howard (original name Samuel Horwitz; b. This deception kept the insecure Stooges unaware of their true value, resulting in them having second thoughts about asking for a better contract without a yearly option. In a near 50-year span from 1922 to 1970, their vaudeville humor had a profound impact on the industr. Answer (1 of 2): Yes every main cast member is still alive. Their first Columbia film, Woman Haters, premiered on May 5, 1934. Aesthetically, the Stooges violated every rule that constitutes "good" comedic style. The following year, Legend Films colorized the public domain shorts Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Disorder in the Court and Brideless Groom. Columbia Pictures blocked the series from going into production, but allowed the Stooges to make television guest appearances. [6] His childlike mannerisms and natural comedic charm (he had no previous acting experience) made him a hit with audiences, particularly children and women (the latter usually finding the trio's humor juvenile and uncouth). The Three Stooges returned on December 31, 2009, on AMC, starting with the "Countdown with the Stooges" New Year's Eve marathon. [8], Three years after Curly's death, Shemp Howard died of a heart attack at age 60 on November 22, 1955, during a taxi ride home with a friend after attending a boxing match. I started this little series called "Prototype Fredbear's Ask Series." It's a concept where people can ask the characters to do random stuff; mainly, people make Shadow Fredbear beat himself up since he gets . As a result, Shemp resumed being a Stooge full-time for nearly a decade. It's largely a matter of the way the entertainment business evolved after their heyday. Three Stooges Fun-o-Rama (introduced in 1959) was an all-Stooges show capitalizing on their TV fame, again with shorts chosen at random for individual theaters. They were usually under- or unemployed and sometimes homeless or living in shanty towns. Lenburg, Jeff, with Maurer, Joan Howard, and Lenburg, Greg (2012). {#nodes} Jane Lynch Age 61, Credits: The 40-Year-Old Virgin, The Fugitive & Wreck-It Ralph Lin Shaye Age 78, Credits: A Nightmare on Elm Street, There's Something About Mary & Dumb and Dumber Sofa Vergara Age 49, Credits: The Smurfs, Four Brothers & Chef Kate Upton Thyssen died Saturday night at her Manhattan apartment after a bout with pneumonia, her daughter, Genevieve Guenther, told The Hollywood Reporter. We can make short films out of material needed for a starring feature, and then we wouldn't know whether it would be funny enough to click."[12]. While being questioned Larry says "Ech Bin A China Boychic Frim Slobatkya-Gebernya Hak Mir Nisht Ken Tshaynik And I Dont Mean Efsher". A Merry Mix Up (also 1957) and Oil's Well That Ends Well (1958) are also amusing, while the musical Sweet and Hot (1958) deserves some credit for straying from the norm. Michael J. . Two stations in Chicago and Boston, however, signed long-term syndication contracts with Columbia years ago and had declined to terminate them. In Italy they are known as I tre marmittoni. [15], They had an extremely brief cameo in the film It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963), appearing as firemen. In 1993, the Three Stooges won the MTV Lifetime Achievement Award. It was the only film that contained all four of the original Stooges (the three Howard brothers and Larry) on screen simultaneously. On January 9, 1970, during production of the pilot, Larry suffered a paralyzing stroke, ending his acting career along with plans for the television series. The final release, Sappy Bull Fighters, premiered on June 4, 1959. The act began in the early 1920s as part of a vaudeville comedy act billed as "Ted Healy and His Stooges", consisting originally of Ted Healy and Moe Howard. It sold about 10 copies, so they went now Bob Stanley is focusing on a smaller but an official book," says Stanley). After slipping into a coma, he died a week later from a cerebral hemorrhage on January 24, 1975. [16][17][18], The team appeared in 220 films, but it is the durability of the 190 short films they made at Columbia Pictures that is their enduring legacy. This website is made possible, in part, by displaying a few online advertisements to our visitors. He was replaced by his and Moe's younger brother, Jerome "Curly" Howard, in 1932. [4], Shemp appeared with the Stooges in 76 shorts and a low-budget Western comedy feature titled Gold Raiders (1951) in which the screen time was evenly divided with cowboy hero George O'Brien. They cranked out those shorts usually in a 4 day film shoot. Is any Bonanza cast still alive? The Three Stooges were a touchstone of American comedy. Barney MillerBatmanBaywatchBensonThe Beverly HillbilliesBeverly Hills, 90210BewitchedThe Big ValleyThe Bob Newhart ShowBonanzaThe Brady BunchThe Carol Burnett ShowCharlie's AngelsCheersCSI: Crime Scene InvestigationCSI: MiamiDallasDesigning WomenThe Dick Van Dyke ShowDiff'rent StrokesThe Drew Carey ShowThe Dukes of HazzardEverybody Loves [28] It is the last film in which the Stooges appeared and the last known performance of the team. The Three Stooges appeared in 220 films through their career. The Stooges also performed live when they weren't cranking out studio shorts. The AMC run ended when Spike TV (now Paramount Network) picked them up in 2004, airing them in their Stooges Slap-Happy Hour every Saturday and Sunday mornings. Another benefit from the Shemp era was that Larry was given more time on screen. By September 1959, all 190 Stooge shorts were airing regularly. He and his wife Helen owned a comfortable house in Toluca Lake, in which they raised their children. [8] His presence, though, did create verbal friction between Moe and Larry that improved their mutually insulting banter. [8], The Stooges made occasional supporting appearances in feature films, though generally they were restricted to their short subjects. AMC planned to put several episodes on their website in 2010. [15] Most acutely, it created the "Curly vs. Shemp" debate that overshadowed the act upon Curly's departure. On June 9, 2015, C3 Entertainment announced it is partnering with London-based production company Cake Entertainment and animation house Titmouse, Inc. to produce a new animated Three Stooges series, consisting of 52 11-minute episodes. The trio was featured in a series of musical comedy shorts, beginning with Nertsery Rhymes. Curly also entered a disastrous third marriage in October 1945, leading to a separation in January 1946 and divorce in July 1946. It was one of a few shorts to be made with an early two-color Technicolor process. Judge Alan. In an attempt to lighten the doom and gloom of society, the trio's slapstick comedy made an effort to mock the aristocracy which had previously been glamorized in film. In Spanish they are known as Los tres chiflados[77] or, roughly, "The Three Crackpots". [8], The Shemp years also marked a major milestone: the Stooges' first appearance on television. The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short subject films by Columbia Pictures.Their hallmark styles were physical farce and slapstick.Six Stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time): Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) were mainstays throughout . This is my post about my experiences with this amino since 2020. Volume Eight comprised three discs, and was the only volume to feature Joe Besser and the final volume to feature Shemp Howard. Columbia Laff Hour (introduced in 1956) was a random assortment that included the Stooges among other Columbia comedians like Andy Clyde, Hugh Herbert, and Vera Vague; the content and length varied from one theater to the next.