Posted on 01/18/2016 1:04:21 PM PST by PROCON
Frank Skinner once admitted that new girlfriends were always "subjected to the Laurel and Hardy test", when he would play a video of the Laurel and Hardy dance sequence from Way Out West. "If she didn't laugh, I instantly wrote her off as a future companion," said Skinner, conceding that this wasn't exactly rational behaviour.
Perhaps we can all be divided by that Laurel and Hardy test. Those who love the Way Out West dance, which captures perfectly the charm and on-screen chemistry of the comedy duo, will already have been delighted by the news that the BBC1 is to film a one-off 90-minute drama called Stan and Ollie â written by Jeff Pope of Philomena note â which is based around their 1953 tour of the UK, during which Hardy suffered a heart attack. In January 2016, it was reported that Steve Coogan will team up with John C Reilly to play the much-loved double act
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This one, not so much...
True. That’s just gay.
Alta Kaker always sounded funny to me so maybe so....
Well within reason ...
Back in 1965 a movie compilation of silent comedy scenes, with the emphasis on Laurel and Hardy was released to theaters. It was called “Laurel and Hardy’s Laughing 20s”. It was the most hilarious movie I had seen at the time. It made a Laurel and Hardy fan out of me. And if I were asked to name the 10 funniest movies I’ve ever seen, this movie would have to be on the list.
An L&H movie? Will white people be allowed to play them?
“I see a monkey” - don’t remember the circumstance, only that Laurel said it to Hardy with his usual bewildered naïvete - okay, since you can’t handle that one, how about bewildered innocence - in some movie that they were showing for some reason at our high school over sixty years ago - made me an instant fan......
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