Laurel and Hardy: it's still comedy genius

telegraph.co.uk ^ | Jan. 18, 2016 | Martin Chilton

[dfwgator]

There’s something funny about a fat guy and a skinny guy together. Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello, Jackie Gleason and Art Carney, Moe and Curly Howard etc. etc.

This one, not so much...

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

True. That’s just gay.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Alta Kaker always sounded funny to me so maybe so....

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

Well within reason ...

[liberalism is suicide]

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.

[Organic Panic]

An L&H movie? Will white people be allowed to play them?

[Intolerant in NJ]

“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......