1 00:00:06,25 --> 00:00:13,07 What can I do for you Well Ali but I was sitting here reading from real 2 00:00:13,08 --> 00:00:19,47 life and you think YOU SO MUCH know so much about comedy 3 00:00:20,06 --> 00:00:26,30 I don't think I know I got some questions from you one of them on OK. 4 00:00:27,75 --> 00:00:34,71 Well then. How many three so how many Stooges were there over the 5 00:00:34,72 --> 00:00:41,58 decades. Big Show. Obviously they call themselves the Three 6 00:00:41,59 --> 00:00:43,35 Stooges there were three. 7 00:00:54,01 --> 00:00:58,26 That was right and. Right there was 8 00:00:58,27 --> 00:01:03,74 a television comedian who was personally mentor and by Buster Keaton she appeared 9 00:01:03,75 --> 00:01:10,56 in films with both the Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges. Claim this comedian. 10 00:01:14,23 --> 00:01:19,99 There are some friends of mine and I know my sister and how much Charlie I never 11 00:01:19,100 --> 00:01:25,54 shared any of his broads with me. Can you give me 12 00:01:25,55 --> 00:01:31,56 a hint. Betty White Mary Tyler Moore or Carol Burnett. 13 00:01:35,96 --> 00:01:42,14 My. Oh I remember Carol. I'm guessing Carol Burnett. 14 00:01:46,10 --> 00:01:51,13 Started I mean their play is me turn about turnabout is fair play. 15 00:01:53,10 --> 00:01:59,100 I got one for you now bring it on. OK. Which 16 00:02:00,06 --> 00:02:05,54 was the only comedy. It was relayed. 17 00:02:07,81 --> 00:02:13,58 You know wasn't. It wasn't. Think I was 18 00:02:13,59 --> 00:02:16,52 a rabbit and Costello. 19 00:02:26,76 --> 00:02:33,48 I'm skull I got one for you. Which comedian. Is the only 20 00:02:33,49 --> 00:02:38,88 one. To be born in the United States. Was 21 00:02:38,89 --> 00:02:45,32 a challis job when I was at you. It's so easy. 22 00:02:46,42 --> 00:02:49,95 It was in me. Got to be our own place. 23 00:02:57,57 --> 00:03:01,82 Give me one more. OK. 24 00:03:04,51 --> 00:03:11,39 Which comedian said of the talkie. That it wouldn't last more than six months and 25 00:03:11,40 --> 00:03:12,18 maybe after 26 00:03:12,19 --> 00:03:19,19 a year at most he did. Who of us obviously 27 00:03:19,20 --> 00:03:23,97 didn't know what he was talking about. I'm going to go with you. 28 00:03:31,00 --> 00:03:31,23 That was 29 00:03:31,24 --> 00:03:38,26 a very smart. My final question for you. There 30 00:03:38,27 --> 00:03:38,39 was 31 00:03:38,40 --> 00:03:44,57 a comedian who passed away. Three days after Elvis Presley and nine hundred seventy 32 00:03:44,58 --> 00:03:50,53 seven. The media was so wrapped up and they did not pay much attention to this 33 00:03:50,54 --> 00:03:57,30 Canadian. Name. Just. 34 00:04:03,62 --> 00:04:05,60 Wonder if it's our pal. 35 00:04:15,48 --> 00:04:22,35 Or do you have any more questions will mean. No I don't in fact I 36 00:04:22,36 --> 00:04:28,31 don't want to sit here or there are no more questions. Here we go that's another 37 00:04:28,32 --> 00:04:29,98 fine mess you've gotten us into. 38 00:04:53,23 --> 00:04:59,97 Well Frank let's hope that these tears are rigged I think with. A 39 00:05:01,11 --> 00:05:08,08 So what to me. OK you think that. Our audience out there is ready for 40 00:05:08,09 --> 00:05:12,49 any more just slapstick madness and I think the key word here is madness. 41 00:05:13,54 --> 00:05:19,25 Absolutely absolutely slapstick comedy How can you actually I can actually get 42 00:05:19,26 --> 00:05:22,27 enough of that there's no way I know this is the kind of thing you can watch all 43 00:05:22,28 --> 00:05:27,06 day long the whole idea of slapstick is that it is just so over the top and so 44 00:05:27,07 --> 00:05:32,19 exaggerated and so visual it's that's it just makes it so funny there's no language 45 00:05:32,19 --> 00:05:37,52 . But their own people have been saying for decades that the three stooges of cause 46 00:05:37,53 --> 00:05:44,01 more injuries than they were worth but. The thing about it is that slapstick there 47 00:05:44,02 --> 00:05:48,23 is just no way that any slapstick joke would work if any of the characters involved 48 00:05:48,24 --> 00:05:48,85 had an I.Q. 49 00:05:48,86 --> 00:05:53,52 Over three because yeah I know everything to task to rely totally on that but those 50 00:05:53,53 --> 00:05:56,51 two chuckleheads that were asking for those questions they didn't even have the 51 00:05:56,52 --> 00:06:00,06 right answers they were asking for the questions and they were no they're giving 52 00:06:00,07 --> 00:06:04,44 each other these options and all right so the true let's show them how done OK 53 00:06:04,48 --> 00:06:07,99 let's show them how done by Topi put their way to interest at this time I think I 54 00:06:07,100 --> 00:06:14,82 think they did we did. All right so. I'll go first so which I don't think 55 00:06:14,98 --> 00:06:21,33 film comedy is the only one born in America Charlie Chaplin Stan Laurel 56 00:06:21,93 --> 00:06:28,89 Oliver Hardy. I'm going to go with Oliver Heidi. And 57 00:06:28,94 --> 00:06:31,86 you know it was really one that was right as 58 00:06:31,87 --> 00:06:36,34 a chaplain to the chapel and Stan Laurel They both grew up in England that Laurel 59 00:06:36,35 --> 00:06:40,41 was challenged happens understudy at one point. OK. 60 00:06:43,31 --> 00:06:43,59 There was 61 00:06:43,60 --> 00:06:47,38 a comedian who said I get the talky six months long at the most one year and then 62 00:06:47,39 --> 00:06:54,32 that done. And I guess as to which one is that. It's got to be one 63 00:06:54,33 --> 00:06:59,13 that was an honor yes it will be. A good. 64 00:07:04,19 --> 00:07:10,11 Charlie Chaplin Salish I thought it was. Chaplin adequately hated the idea of sound 65 00:07:10,12 --> 00:07:17,04 in films yes I know it's true OK Which comedian 66 00:07:17,05 --> 00:07:21,62 die only three days after Elvis in August one thousand nine hundred seventy seven 67 00:07:22,77 --> 00:07:29,35 and there was very little coverage about. Either way to look at it you have to feel 68 00:07:29,36 --> 00:07:33,60 bad for whoever it was because all four of these guys are absolutely in Derry but. 69 00:07:35,80 --> 00:07:42,44 I'll go with Groucho Marx and I'm glad I did the great show of say the magic Lloyd 70 00:07:42,44 --> 00:07:48,15 . He had a great show too. Right there are 71 00:07:48,16 --> 00:07:52,30 a lot of slap the county teams that were actually family acts but out of these 72 00:07:52,31 --> 00:07:53,09 three right here 73 00:07:53,10 --> 00:08:01,52 a lot on Heidi Three Stooges and Max brothers who was not related I 74 00:08:01,53 --> 00:08:07,17 would say Laurel and Hardy actually on how to organize they were not related to 75 00:08:07,58 --> 00:08:12,89 three stooges they were brothers my brothers were brothers keeper so crazy but. 76 00:08:15,74 --> 00:08:20,84 It Over the decades how many actors in total made up the Three Stooges definitely 77 00:08:20,85 --> 00:08:26,46 thought because what you have and all that they have curly and sharp and I know 78 00:08:26,47 --> 00:08:30,37 that after champed left that there was a sort of a new Carly and I think there are 79 00:08:30,38 --> 00:08:37,35 a couple of them from that mistake and some of the sex. And that's what I did 80 00:08:37,36 --> 00:08:42,06 because there were two additional to the on the four that one knows everyone knows 81 00:08:42,07 --> 00:08:47,96 now Larry Curly and there was Curly Joe De Rita and there was Joe Besser and both 82 00:08:47,97 --> 00:08:51,91 of them are hired because they work really look alikes but for 83 00:08:51,92 --> 00:08:57,42 a. I mean to be fair they did the best they could but there's only one and only one 84 00:08:57,43 --> 00:09:04,17 bill really one curly. And I would comedienne started 85 00:09:04,18 --> 00:09:08,82 slapstick films with the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers and had Bush to keep 86 00:09:09,12 --> 00:09:14,55 their personal mentor I would love to be able to say it was Cal Burnett I know she 87 00:09:14,56 --> 00:09:16,76 was so legendary with her sketch comedy she was 88 00:09:16,77 --> 00:09:23,64 a God I read she was the. She was good in her own right but I would have to go with 89 00:09:23,65 --> 00:09:27,14 the of the Lucille Ball and Betty White because the two of them are the ones who 90 00:09:27,34 --> 00:09:33,08 have the one Japanese. Thing As I look the Obama of one of the flaps the queen is 91 00:09:33,53 --> 00:09:40,38 yes it was conceivable Lucille Ball. So. Take 92 00:09:40,39 --> 00:09:44,20 a look at some famous comedians from the slapstick era and 93 00:09:44,21 --> 00:09:47,91 a couple of clips from all of them Harry Langdon is probably one of the lesser 94 00:09:47,92 --> 00:09:52,29 known one of the lesser remembered from the time but he is the one who really 95 00:09:52,30 --> 00:09:55,72 defined the idea of running away from home to join the circus because it's exactly 96 00:09:55,73 --> 00:10:00,82 what he did at the age of twelve Wow And he worked for max on it his heyday was the 97 00:10:00,83 --> 00:10:01,81 one nine hundred twenty S. 98 00:10:02,06 --> 00:10:06,62 And his trademark has on screen persona was having this baby face that you see 99 00:10:06,63 --> 00:10:11,87 right here the wide eyes the innocent Grand very childlike demeanor. 100 00:10:13,14 --> 00:10:20,13 Unfortunately for him that's not the way he was in real life meaning. From 101 00:10:20,14 --> 00:10:23,43 what I've you know from what they say you know his ego that carried away he 102 00:10:23,44 --> 00:10:28,39 actually tried his hand at directing and didn't exactly manage to do not work out 103 00:10:28,40 --> 00:10:33,42 very well so they tried that but in the sound are one of the talkies you know him 104 00:10:33,43 --> 00:10:39,11 in his his career was very athletic that was going to be very very out of which you 105 00:10:39,12 --> 00:10:42,08 have to be for slaps I know they all were amazing they all probably could have been 106 00:10:42,09 --> 00:10:46,86 efforts in any other sport at the time they were on. Board but enough of them are 107 00:10:46,87 --> 00:10:47,74 you see The Three Stooges. 108 00:11:10,99 --> 00:11:17,86 Pretty much of. The. 109 00:11:20,55 --> 00:11:25,44 Thing it. Was like man. 110 00:11:30,01 --> 00:11:31,48 Almost like acting like a kid in 111 00:11:31,49 --> 00:11:37,25 a grown. And that's and that's what he went for I mean and if something works for 112 00:11:37,26 --> 00:11:41,33 you. You know milk it for all it's worth you know in the acting profession whether 113 00:11:41,34 --> 00:11:41,99 it's you know 114 00:11:42,23 --> 00:11:48,69 a certain. Trademark are certain persona and for him that was being The Has he said 115 00:11:48,89 --> 00:11:53,61 the little man with the little boy trapped in the man's body the girls and the 116 00:11:53,62 --> 00:12:00,06 women all fall for. The clearly falling. As you can see here literally falling 117 00:12:00,16 --> 00:12:04,05 literally fall and I know that's one of his this is one of the best this is one of 118 00:12:04,06 --> 00:12:11,03 the most famous ones but this is the one. He was just as. If 119 00:12:11,04 --> 00:12:17,21 funny because when we goes up the stairs it goes up the ladder words. On the the 120 00:12:17,22 --> 00:12:22,13 promise of so many of the early slapstick man's words that was that there's alcohol 121 00:12:22,14 --> 00:12:27,26 involved and you have to wonder is that would that be as prevalent these days as 122 00:12:27,27 --> 00:12:31,92 a source of humor and maybe it would be but. You know whether it was you know 123 00:12:32,91 --> 00:12:36,91 stumbling around because you've been drinking or carrying 124 00:12:36,92 --> 00:12:43,22 a. Semi-conscious person up the stairs I'm you know slapstick way in the Senate 125 00:12:43,23 --> 00:12:49,30 stuff or falling over because of the body weight that way but then there drugs you 126 00:12:49,31 --> 00:12:56,22 know. The way for the autobiography is to find that it's really. 127 00:12:57,69 --> 00:13:02,29 That's one thing about slapstick pratfalls you got it you got the buffoonery you 128 00:13:02,30 --> 00:13:07,43 got. And like I said earlier you have the complete and total lack of common sense 129 00:13:07,88 --> 00:13:13,24 yet it was always well I had expression I got to get out of here I got to save this 130 00:13:13,25 --> 00:13:15,46 person or I have to save myself there's always 131 00:13:15,47 --> 00:13:18,27 a sense of of panic and desperation right with 132 00:13:18,28 --> 00:13:22,10 a lot of these comedies and that's where it all comes from the know it was true and 133 00:13:22,11 --> 00:13:25,10 the other part of it is that no matter what kind of trouble they get into or how 134 00:13:25,11 --> 00:13:31,97 they get hit or how they form. Trip over something. We all walk 135 00:13:31,98 --> 00:13:38,20 away and Scaife pretty much at the end so no realistic consequences and. The other 136 00:13:38,21 --> 00:13:41,04 critical address in the film. And 137 00:13:41,05 --> 00:13:46,18 a lot of times what you see here is you know all the romantic interests and almost 138 00:13:46,19 --> 00:13:51,85 always clearly in play the underdog they always play the one you know never got to 139 00:13:51,86 --> 00:13:55,41 go on the end you know this week that was very interesting because there is like 140 00:13:55,91 --> 00:14:01,28 trying to make an imprint on impression and like. The doing everything she can to 141 00:14:01,29 --> 00:14:06,25 try to work in story and in some recognizing they are just like it was. 142 00:14:11,89 --> 00:14:12,23 Probably what 143 00:14:12,24 --> 00:14:17,72 a lot of the audiences found on the Aryan was the fact that he was never the hero 144 00:14:17,73 --> 00:14:21,13 who was so far out of reach from the audience that they could identify with them I 145 00:14:21,14 --> 00:14:26,51 mean. Identifying with the underdog I mean that's the key to success but it's true 146 00:14:26,52 --> 00:14:30,93 that so much of the stuff you know in this in these kind of comedies. No I would 147 00:14:30,94 --> 00:14:36,64 say so you like the every man kind of personality Right right right every guy that 148 00:14:36,65 --> 00:14:42,20 you that you root for to get the girl or to succeed Yeah it's spite of everything 149 00:14:42,21 --> 00:14:43,77 that's against you and that's 150 00:14:43,78 --> 00:14:48,23 a challenge happened with Suzette Yes next comedian Charlie Chaplin I mean he 151 00:14:48,88 --> 00:14:49,40 played 152 00:14:49,41 --> 00:14:54,01 a character who was known throughout most of the films as the tramp the Little 153 00:14:54,02 --> 00:14:56,86 Tramp and it was a costume that he put together 154 00:14:56,87 --> 00:15:01,23 a self the derby hat the cane the baggy trousers the coat that was always button 155 00:15:01,24 --> 00:15:06,00 too tightly and the idea behind the trap was that he was the underdog he was always 156 00:15:06,01 --> 00:15:10,16 trying to make his way in the cold cruel world that always just seemed to be 157 00:15:10,17 --> 00:15:14,09 spinning out of in the face no matter what his efforts were it was just something 158 00:15:14,10 --> 00:15:21,06 that just never worked out farms. Where you have here I mean chased by some. Bully 159 00:15:21,07 --> 00:15:23,96 or bigger guys. And things like very much 160 00:15:23,97 --> 00:15:29,72 a Popeye and olive oil and Bluto done and then you have the love interest you have 161 00:15:29,73 --> 00:15:35,36 the scrappy underdog and then you have the hulking bully who the love interest goes 162 00:15:35,37 --> 00:15:38,29 for at first until she sees that he's no good that he's 163 00:15:38,30 --> 00:15:44,95 a you know blow had. We have here three clips from three different Chaplin 164 00:15:44,96 --> 00:15:51,83 films and the first one is the rank and it's Chaplin with his frequent coast 165 00:15:51,84 --> 00:15:57,29 at the provider and so it was fine comedienne in her own right the rank is 166 00:15:58,99 --> 00:16:03,40 honestly like so much slapstick that right the basic premise of the rank is that 167 00:16:04,12 --> 00:16:11,02 here is drawn on roller skates and you can't he can balance himself you can't 168 00:16:11,03 --> 00:16:16,64 balance him but he's but he makes it around and he pulls the dead guy with them 169 00:16:16,98 --> 00:16:23,25 yeah yeah and I don't provide ends. As somebody of the romantic interest would 170 00:16:24,15 --> 00:16:27,43 I think part of that just reflects the times that they wouldn't be you know deep 171 00:16:27,44 --> 00:16:31,89 characters but I'd never buy and she would just look on and shock or in disbelief 172 00:16:31,90 --> 00:16:36,59 as she would see him tripping over himself or you know breaking his neck and she 173 00:16:36,60 --> 00:16:40,59 would just log on and say oh no little and you know per hands and cheeks and you 174 00:16:40,60 --> 00:16:44,20 know I'm concerned farm but she never I got no common sense when I was that does 175 00:16:44,21 --> 00:16:49,26 anything to try to you know actually getting up and speak you know to keep them 176 00:16:49,27 --> 00:16:55,98 going. But that wasn't he always has the the 177 00:16:55,99 --> 00:17:01,27 wherewithal to like. You know go away get the bad guys and the ads even though is 178 00:17:01,28 --> 00:17:05,39 that really that. Is not my skater. 179 00:17:08,21 --> 00:17:10,17 But the chaplain is very had 180 00:17:11,03 --> 00:17:16,32 a lot of you know it's like you're saying some of them are very athletic and what 181 00:17:16,33 --> 00:17:19,73 they had to be you know the public kind of stuff you know you have to have really 182 00:17:19,74 --> 00:17:24,49 good mastery over your over your body over the way that your body I mean he's 183 00:17:25,47 --> 00:17:28,77 played up a laugh he trips the fall the stumble but if you take 184 00:17:28,78 --> 00:17:32,19 a look right here with this cane I mean that's I mean that's 185 00:17:32,20 --> 00:17:37,73 a great one at that at five years because. You have to have you have 186 00:17:37,74 --> 00:17:43,21 a certain amount of dexterity and grace to be able to pull from one job. And Harry 187 00:17:43,22 --> 00:17:50,11 actually is successfully warming the romantic interest but as you can see you 188 00:17:50,12 --> 00:17:56,09 have the bully who's trying to. We're trying to bring him down. 189 00:18:07,51 --> 00:18:11,82 Just like going to dance on the piece and that they're going over these are going 190 00:18:11,83 --> 00:18:18,21 to be convinced that. That's. The next town that's I mean did that very them that 191 00:18:18,22 --> 00:18:20,97 they did that planned out and the procession. 192 00:18:26,91 --> 00:18:31,18 That was there was a good courtesy of the students on a group that was 193 00:18:31,19 --> 00:18:37,66 a rank. The next clip of chap one is. Called. 194 00:18:38,89 --> 00:18:43,40 The Neighbor Yes And like I said so many of these jokes are based on alcohol 195 00:18:43,41 --> 00:18:44,82 consumption keep in mind 196 00:18:44,83 --> 00:18:47,40 a lot of the stuff was during prohibition too so that was probably of 197 00:18:47,41 --> 00:18:52,87 a carious well but before we get to the neighborhood there's actually just this I 198 00:18:52,88 --> 00:18:56,63 think it's just a clear this is from a film called The circus and he's trapped in 199 00:18:56,64 --> 00:19:03,20 a lying cage I know it's into areas. It's like first you want to get out. 200 00:19:04,31 --> 00:19:07,27 You can't get out we actually close to them so. 201 00:19:15,99 --> 00:19:22,10 You'll get. The dog comes out. This is funny 202 00:19:22,11 --> 00:19:27,14 a dog comes by and wakes up. He's trying to shift the dog to. 203 00:19:29,24 --> 00:19:34,17 The city. And see how you get. 204 00:19:40,52 --> 00:19:47,47 That lion had to be pretty routine. Thing at the moment where I go how 205 00:19:47,48 --> 00:19:52,78 dedicated I have to my craft I'm not going to end what I want in the livable. And 206 00:19:52,79 --> 00:19:57,88 through the. Years he comes home. 207 00:20:06,10 --> 00:20:07,71 And nobody but the scruffy on the dog will be in 208 00:20:07,72 --> 00:20:12,70 a situation like this one to see the bully not in this vulnerable position. 209 00:20:14,64 --> 00:20:17,93 And therefore the boy being afraid as vulnerable at all. 210 00:20:22,92 --> 00:20:24,99 She keep is the fact the only thing done with 211 00:20:24,100 --> 00:20:27,78 a human being would do was funny and she seems to think that. 212 00:20:45,22 --> 00:20:50,07 Modern day like the sort of stepping up to stuff like this and even though you know 213 00:20:50,76 --> 00:20:55,49 the truth about the title of the tiger the tiger the Battle of it all and yeah it 214 00:20:55,50 --> 00:20:58,83 was great. Cause these days you have C.G.I. 215 00:20:58,84 --> 00:21:01,77 So you can does digitally put in the tide us over the long of 216 00:21:01,78 --> 00:21:08,67 a being. As much peril. So now he's only thinks he's 217 00:21:09,66 --> 00:21:11,62 lines of freedom or something pretty easy. 218 00:21:16,59 --> 00:21:20,59 For him to think he's safe in a minus cage is pretty amazing me for him to what 219 00:21:20,60 --> 00:21:27,41 a. That he. Doesn't want to leave. Another classic 220 00:21:27,42 --> 00:21:30,40 example of Michael Pollan something that's ready to. 221 00:21:46,62 --> 00:21:51,72 Believe the polls. Will flee he has to eat. 222 00:21:55,28 --> 00:21:55,55 Meat 223 00:21:55,56 --> 00:22:11,36 a little something. He did. That's 224 00:22:11,37 --> 00:22:12,15 what you would see me as 225 00:22:12,16 --> 00:22:16,81 a whole. Was it that's what you would see me yeah I can look up all 226 00:22:20,70 --> 00:22:21,69 of the climate up there. 227 00:22:28,34 --> 00:22:33,12 This next one is. Next. 228 00:22:36,01 --> 00:22:40,90 He's the one with the revolving door. And like 229 00:22:40,90 --> 00:22:45,14 a sudden you know the timing on that had to be perfect you know I'm always the one 230 00:22:45,15 --> 00:22:50,20 I mean the fact that this came out during the era of prohibition. People got that 231 00:22:50,21 --> 00:22:55,12 the role that of seeing onscreen characters basically sticking it to the man 232 00:22:55,13 --> 00:22:58,88 defying authority doing things that they knew that you know in real life they 233 00:22:58,89 --> 00:23:03,20 wouldn't be able to be able to do so you see the bad behavior on screen you've got 234 00:23:03,21 --> 00:23:03,91 to carry us through 235 00:23:03,92 --> 00:23:09,31 a lot of it. I think that comedians knew that I mean they were savvy people they 236 00:23:09,32 --> 00:23:13,02 knew what clicked with audiences though it's such 237 00:23:13,03 --> 00:23:17,74 a long as they kept this kind of thing up as long as audience except clamoring for 238 00:23:17,81 --> 00:23:22,87 them. To take the town. 239 00:23:26,54 --> 00:23:30,45 And as is the case of slapstick I mean the more physical pain of the idea is the 240 00:23:30,46 --> 00:23:34,58 most physical pain than the funny the joke is the bigger the cotton revolving door 241 00:23:34,59 --> 00:23:36,57 why not have the guy have a broken product with 242 00:23:36,58 --> 00:23:42,17 a cap on. His head. It's pretty. 243 00:23:46,50 --> 00:23:46,73 For. 244 00:23:55,11 --> 00:23:58,67 A few weeks it was. Good but. 245 00:24:01,98 --> 00:24:08,85 Difficult life was. I mean this was the depression this is 246 00:24:08,86 --> 00:24:11,67 what it was the right of the Depression right after World War one so there was 247 00:24:11,68 --> 00:24:15,45 a lot going on that evolvement apply movie Succop you have to wonder what movies 248 00:24:15,46 --> 00:24:19,41 have been what they wore where they still be around today if they think on the just 249 00:24:19,42 --> 00:24:23,17 the right time you know you have the post-war generation the last generation 250 00:24:23,18 --> 00:24:30,04 feeling restless you had prohibition which totally divided American society. Today 251 00:24:30,05 --> 00:24:35,37 get a depression with people. Going to soup kitchen the bread lines you have 252 00:24:35,38 --> 00:24:38,94 a good kitchen you have people in their homes you had the you know the tough 253 00:24:38,95 --> 00:24:44,19 balling everything that was gone not right so whatever could get you even if just 254 00:24:44,20 --> 00:24:50,38 for a couple of hours away from all that that's right. Well we just really came at 255 00:24:50,63 --> 00:24:57,34 a good time. Harold Lloyd Harold Lloyd speaking of 256 00:24:57,35 --> 00:24:59,87 comedians making an impact Harold Lloyd is 257 00:25:00,62 --> 00:25:06,49 a comedian who like Harry Langdon may not be as remembered by name but he hit one 258 00:25:06,50 --> 00:25:11,84 of his sticks was probably one of the most iconic images from all of slapstick he's 259 00:25:11,85 --> 00:25:16,78 hanging from the hand of a huge clock outdoors on the side of a size of 260 00:25:16,79 --> 00:25:20,90 a skyscraper and that film is from one thousand nine hundred three it's called 261 00:25:20,91 --> 00:25:26,27 state the last which the file itself you know the take off on the fifty first fact 262 00:25:26,28 --> 00:25:26,45 how 263 00:25:26,46 --> 00:25:31,64 a lot with his luck the glasses and like Karen lengthening of the look of innocence 264 00:25:31,65 --> 00:25:38,24 about him the idea is that he is lost he is an innocent lost in this cold cruel 265 00:25:38,25 --> 00:25:39,87 world that never can give him 266 00:25:39,88 --> 00:25:46,29 a break his luck in fact was the inspiration for class can't because of Superman in 267 00:25:46,30 --> 00:25:50,54 the comic strip the comic books came out how what was the inspiration for the for 268 00:25:50,55 --> 00:25:56,93 the physical look of class. How wide the trademark was the real comedy stunts 269 00:25:57,24 --> 00:26:01,27 action bets hanging from the clock anything that really presented 270 00:26:01,28 --> 00:26:06,62 a sense of of serious danger to incredible camera work for them to have even 271 00:26:06,66 --> 00:26:10,79 attempted to do something like that I mean I mean they had to build 272 00:26:10,80 --> 00:26:17,67 a set where he was actually you know outside doing. Well 273 00:26:18,31 --> 00:26:24,17 Howard Lloyd I mean he lived up to his reputation as being the stunt man early in 274 00:26:24,18 --> 00:26:25,48 his career there was 275 00:26:25,49 --> 00:26:32,47 a prop bomb that exploded and he actually lost his thumb and his forefinger and 276 00:26:32,51 --> 00:26:37,46 the. Image so for the rest of his life from that point on this is before he really 277 00:26:37,47 --> 00:26:41,02 had the big time so throughout most of his well known films if you take 278 00:26:41,03 --> 00:26:46,52 a close look. On that show how you actually you know how visible it would be but he 279 00:26:46,53 --> 00:26:50,07 was actually wearing flesh colored prosthetic gloves as 280 00:26:50,08 --> 00:26:54,83 a way of covering up the covering up the injury so the fact that he is the 281 00:26:55,30 --> 00:26:59,64 slapstick comedian who's trademark is the real comedy is pretty ironic and of 282 00:26:59,65 --> 00:27:04,37 itself because. That damages damage you know here they go so there was 283 00:27:04,38 --> 00:27:10,34 a scene where he's running. For scape from a time yeah right from 284 00:27:10,35 --> 00:27:14,47 a train wreck on top of the many of them you know just as long as he keeps running 285 00:27:14,48 --> 00:27:18,23 then he won't go crashing into the top of the tunnel and the as the train goes 286 00:27:18,24 --> 00:27:24,85 through. That was that was his that was his thing was through 287 00:27:24,86 --> 00:27:30,39 dangerous stunt pieces the real it wasn't really so much like Chaplin was very much 288 00:27:30,40 --> 00:27:35,63 into the characterization of the Little Tramp Chaplin loved mixing slapstick with 289 00:27:36,18 --> 00:27:42,59 passes and. Harry Langdon he went for the baby face you know underdog. 290 00:27:43,65 --> 00:27:49,25 Appeal Howard Lloyd he had the look of innocence about him but his he was known for 291 00:27:49,33 --> 00:27:54,66 the really outrageous running on top of trains hanging from the side of skyscrapers 292 00:27:54,67 --> 00:27:57,85 walking on the ledge of buildings trying to save 293 00:27:57,86 --> 00:28:03,00 a sleep walker Oh I saw one where he was on a ledge on 294 00:28:03,01 --> 00:28:08,17 a construction site yeah it's almost falling off and he's like holding on another 295 00:28:08,18 --> 00:28:14,27 piece comes up and goes on to the next piece like. He was deputy solicitor from 296 00:28:14,28 --> 00:28:19,50 that. And hey if it works for him then you know good for him this is 297 00:28:19,51 --> 00:28:25,59 a compilation of some clips from how Boyd's most famous films. 298 00:28:53,95 --> 00:28:57,94 You know if you really think about it if you look out I'm. Just looking really you 299 00:28:57,95 --> 00:29:02,45 can almost see I can't come and I. Just. 300 00:29:04,81 --> 00:29:05,30 Believe that it's 301 00:29:05,31 --> 00:29:24,50 a good good good for them. Because 302 00:29:24,51 --> 00:29:24,89 he's the one. 303 00:29:31,66 --> 00:29:38,53 So. This is 304 00:29:38,54 --> 00:29:40,16 a good one and when we get 305 00:29:40,20 --> 00:29:47,15 a reprieve Senator Coats. Have 306 00:29:47,16 --> 00:29:52,26 to make flaps like watch psychotics like that. And it's almost drawn out of an 307 00:29:52,27 --> 00:29:56,69 object is acrobatic but it's what they have to do you have to be able to pull this 308 00:29:56,70 --> 00:30:00,40 kind of thing off the fact of what I mean anybody can walk around in for time to 309 00:30:00,41 --> 00:30:02,82 stop something in the face but to be able to hold this kind of thing off 310 00:30:02,83 --> 00:30:07,07 convincingly. I mean I think that's 311 00:30:07,08 --> 00:30:13,10 a good strictly by expression and and physical action and God just even got to be 312 00:30:13,11 --> 00:30:15,42 and I can go high and out of the face the face of 313 00:30:15,43 --> 00:30:21,50 a monkey that close already and just but for you know. It's so entertaining even 314 00:30:21,51 --> 00:30:28,22 without any set kind of dialogue I mean so. It's that what's amazing about people 315 00:30:28,23 --> 00:30:34,08 who look at it now ideally the good slapstick wouldn't need dialogue slabs are so 316 00:30:34,36 --> 00:30:34,82 slapstick 317 00:30:34,83 --> 00:30:40,98 a so visual just sight gags that at that. Moment I think that's kind of the reason 318 00:30:40,99 --> 00:30:45,65 why Chaplin they're so against the idea talkie is busy because he famously said 319 00:30:45,66 --> 00:30:52,44 that sound would be the death of the film and. He 320 00:30:52,45 --> 00:30:59,20 refused Chaplin refused to make talkies even after talkies became the thing and he 321 00:30:59,38 --> 00:31:04,47 held up as long as he could and he continue making silent films and he finally gave 322 00:31:04,48 --> 00:31:06,36 in and one nine hundred thirty six with 323 00:31:06,37 --> 00:31:12,67 a movie called Modern Times and he finally he didn't speak in that film 324 00:31:13,32 --> 00:31:13,92 he sang 325 00:31:13,93 --> 00:31:20,40 a song. That was. The first time you heard the travel 326 00:31:21,25 --> 00:31:27,09 you heard the traps Loisa on film and that was also the final appearance on screen 327 00:31:27,10 --> 00:31:30,60 of the trap. After modern times trap one made 328 00:31:30,61 --> 00:31:35,70 a couple of other realms but the most most famously the great dictator over a play 329 00:31:35,71 --> 00:31:40,13 a couple like characters I. Despised playing a little tramp once 330 00:31:40,14 --> 00:31:43,14 a little tramp sang on screen in nineteen thirty six in modern times 331 00:31:43,65 --> 00:31:49,24 a little trouble retired. And I know several days of his career I saw of Robert 332 00:31:49,25 --> 00:31:55,54 Downey he was. In the movie part. It was scary how he wanted to capture the film I 333 00:31:55,55 --> 00:32:01,28 saw he was incredible Oscar nominated he's great. You know that he has 334 00:32:01,29 --> 00:32:07,44 a lot of physical ability having walked in here but I imagined Sherlock Holmes the 335 00:32:07,45 --> 00:32:13,97 issue of Holmes right so Howard Lloyd was like Harry Langdon Howard Ward might not 336 00:32:13,98 --> 00:32:14,12 be 337 00:32:14,13 --> 00:32:22,05 a name that's remembered but his luck and his. The trademark was very. He 338 00:32:22,06 --> 00:32:28,26 mean his his contributions to slapstick really can't be can't be overstated I've 339 00:32:28,27 --> 00:32:31,22 caught the eye of the Mack brother and the macros are probably the one to 340 00:32:31,23 --> 00:32:35,17 contradict myself here because the Mack brothers were are they actually got their 341 00:32:35,18 --> 00:32:39,60 start on Broadway as opposed to film they were already an established Broadway 342 00:32:39,61 --> 00:32:44,90 actor and saw a lot of no actual Broadway in the autumn and saw 343 00:32:44,91 --> 00:32:50,49 a lot of their routines were very wearable which like you know punch lines and the 344 00:32:50,50 --> 00:32:51,86 comeback in rap had 345 00:32:51,97 --> 00:32:58,84 a and I kind of. So when talking came around the idea was how 346 00:32:58,85 --> 00:33:04,77 can we have plastic comedy survive in this and these are of sound. 347 00:33:06,09 --> 00:33:12,91 Let's hire stage trained comedians and the Marx Brothers they were find. A deal and 348 00:33:13,83 --> 00:33:14,90 they did they turned out 349 00:33:14,91 --> 00:33:18,86 a lot of great films Oh my God probably one of the best films is Duck Soup from one 350 00:33:18,87 --> 00:33:25,17 nine hundred thirty three and. My favorite scene from Duck Soup is the famous magic 351 00:33:25,18 --> 00:33:31,20 mirror scene where Groucho is in his nightgown and his night cap he runs into 352 00:33:31,21 --> 00:33:35,38 America the glass smashes and there is somebody who has broken into his house 353 00:33:35,39 --> 00:33:39,35 dressed the exact same way he is trying to convince him that the matter is not 354 00:33:39,36 --> 00:33:44,02 properly looked at as on reflection that we have feeling that celebrities with duck 355 00:33:44,03 --> 00:33:49,62 soup that's hilarious because there's even. It's it's funny because even at the 356 00:33:49,63 --> 00:33:54,48 same they even had to say back at some point yeah they are going back to keep or 357 00:33:54,49 --> 00:33:57,95 you would like go back and forth and then he would like dance back and forth and 358 00:33:57,96 --> 00:34:02,50 many would like to throw weight around and then there's like perfect timing for 359 00:34:02,51 --> 00:34:06,40 both of those so the timing was perfect but I think what really made it work was 360 00:34:06,41 --> 00:34:10,01 the fact that they were related so they actually physically resembled each other if 361 00:34:10,02 --> 00:34:10,72 you know if you take 362 00:34:10,73 --> 00:34:15,37 a look if you go on to Google and then marvel images it's GIGO So that was Groucho 363 00:34:15,38 --> 00:34:21,87 if she could. Look at. These guys without their 364 00:34:21,88 --> 00:34:28,08 makeup and without their way exist if you see how those away gone it is I mean they 365 00:34:28,19 --> 00:34:33,53 you could have told one from the other room you really hit album of them Zeppo 366 00:34:33,54 --> 00:34:36,56 you'd probably be able to tell because up zero was taller than the rest of them are 367 00:34:36,57 --> 00:34:40,43 great you had them had the most fish Roger had the mustache but I'm talking about 368 00:34:40,44 --> 00:34:46,93 the face makeup is off the eyebrows the must have voted off that long curly wig you 369 00:34:46,94 --> 00:34:50,57 wear your reason I want to show you how to close together in the physical 370 00:34:50,58 --> 00:34:54,82 resemblance was uncanny but there was such incredibly separate characters when they 371 00:34:54,83 --> 00:35:01,81 were doing it. Chico had to fake Italian accent never spoke 372 00:35:01,82 --> 00:35:06,03 and played the how to write and road show was the wise cracking some 373 00:35:06,04 --> 00:35:07,79 a goal here with 374 00:35:07,80 --> 00:35:13,66 a put down job so he insults you. When if there are no other like rapid fire. In 375 00:35:13,67 --> 00:35:16,99 this right here this is actually one of the few lacks brothers gags that doesn't 376 00:35:17,00 --> 00:35:22,36 rely on sound on sound or Iraq and you know I mean this is all 377 00:35:23,97 --> 00:35:26,85 what slapstick was in the silent are ready. 378 00:35:33,71 --> 00:35:40,71 This was famously repeated in an episode of I Love Lucy Lucille Ball and Max did 379 00:35:40,72 --> 00:35:47,60 this. Was where in the hopper Max way again she was trying to 380 00:35:47,61 --> 00:35:54,54 convince him that he was looking at his reflection. Can You Tube that one 381 00:35:55,53 --> 00:35:58,20 that was sealed and I Love Lucy and ship it. 382 00:36:02,49 --> 00:36:09,17 I saw one the that they did the crowded cabin which was. Hilarious when they were 383 00:36:09,18 --> 00:36:09,24 on 384 00:36:09,25 --> 00:36:14,84 a cruise that everybody keeps coming into the cabin it's about six feet by six feet 385 00:36:15,83 --> 00:36:21,28 squeezing in about thirty people thirty people here. That was 386 00:36:21,29 --> 00:36:23,16 a talking with I've got 387 00:36:23,17 --> 00:36:28,93 a huge fan of him I love hate the races when he has to keep getting 388 00:36:28,94 --> 00:36:33,96 a different book you're trying to find out who the horse is making. Whatever the. 389 00:36:36,31 --> 00:36:40,91 Horsefeathers coconuts and animal crackers and their films were that it was 390 00:36:40,92 --> 00:36:46,62 a name too funny. And in all their films for most of the films they had the same 391 00:36:46,63 --> 00:36:53,56 actress playing the the female lead role. Magra demands and she was the 392 00:36:53,57 --> 00:36:57,67 one who is usually on the receiving end of homes because she gives less she gets 393 00:36:57,68 --> 00:37:00,15 pissed if you know it but in real life he had 394 00:37:00,16 --> 00:37:03,30 a tremendous amount of respect for her and he often referred to her as the fifth 395 00:37:03,31 --> 00:37:09,98 Max brother so if you are the fifth Max brother you know that he's got you right 396 00:37:10,13 --> 00:37:15,51 up here is the. Respect for your talent and the professionalism Yeah he did I know 397 00:37:15,55 --> 00:37:18,46 because he would have to I mean he she really put up with 398 00:37:18,47 --> 00:37:24,44 a lot and she kept the see. And speaking of stone face you have but there is just 399 00:37:24,45 --> 00:37:29,11 a Keaton I think is one whose stone face was not too far off the mark from the way 400 00:37:29,12 --> 00:37:31,83 he was in real life he started out as 401 00:37:31,84 --> 00:37:35,33 a child but villian with his parents they had an act called how to discipline 402 00:37:35,34 --> 00:37:39,36 a naughty child and it would by no stretch of the imagination of 403 00:37:39,37 --> 00:37:44,89 a get by today but he would be thrown out into the audience to be thrown around the 404 00:37:44,90 --> 00:37:47,76 stage and it was all played for laughs how to deal with and not 405 00:37:47,77 --> 00:37:54,19 a child's you know unfortunately. Sort of bit of seriousness and here is that his 406 00:37:54,20 --> 00:37:56,97 father had an alcohol problem so 407 00:37:57,01 --> 00:38:00,71 a lot of times that would be incorporated into the stage performance and the ACT 408 00:38:00,72 --> 00:38:07,02 dissolves and he went off into his own Korea which became legendary and he found 409 00:38:07,03 --> 00:38:12,24 his own production company and as far as his contributions to the world of 410 00:38:12,25 --> 00:38:15,49 slapstick. He had 411 00:38:15,53 --> 00:38:20,72 a good strong streak and he was probably only bested by Charlie chap. When the 412 00:38:20,73 --> 00:38:26,77 towers solo acts and silent film comedians are concerned. Unfortunately he also 413 00:38:26,78 --> 00:38:33,51 sank into alcoholism he wants his contract expired with an independent producer he 414 00:38:33,52 --> 00:38:37,67 signed on to N.G.'s He wasn't happy with the quality of scripts he was getting his 415 00:38:37,68 --> 00:38:39,98 career pretty much crashed and burned he had suffered 416 00:38:39,99 --> 00:38:44,31 a breakdown at one point. He was rehired by M.G.M. 417 00:38:44,32 --> 00:38:47,56 a Sort of a gag man like a tenth of the style or 418 00:38:47,57 --> 00:38:52,83 a that he had been making but at least it was work at least it was work and as the 419 00:38:52,84 --> 00:38:57,69 years went on he made cameo appearances in movies like Sunset Boulevard he was one 420 00:38:57,70 --> 00:39:02,06 of the he was one the whacked I guess playing call go with the Gloria Swanson 421 00:39:02,07 --> 00:39:07,60 character Beach Blanket Bingo funny thing happened the way to the farm and you know 422 00:39:07,86 --> 00:39:13,18 yeah I remember that it was and there was Zero Mostel there must be and his 423 00:39:13,19 --> 00:39:16,97 autobiography was called My wonderful world of plastic probably his most famous 424 00:39:16,98 --> 00:39:22,73 visual there and actually debatably his most famous visual is from 425 00:39:22,77 --> 00:39:26,56 a short film where there was this one right here where there's 426 00:39:26,57 --> 00:39:30,20 a tornado and well with what it's worth so. 427 00:39:37,89 --> 00:39:38,47 It was actually 428 00:39:38,48 --> 00:39:44,68 a really dangerous stunt to pull off because the real tornado wasn't 429 00:39:44,69 --> 00:39:49,36 a ponytail but it was a real all of this is like that's not a like that's 430 00:39:49,37 --> 00:39:52,56 a real good that's not breakable plaster like 431 00:39:52,57 --> 00:39:54,29 a Three Stooges would use to you know 432 00:39:54,47 --> 00:40:00,28 a boy really hurting themselves this was real wood like lumber would dare to break 433 00:40:00,29 --> 00:40:07,18 it. He was little badly that was that was legit I 434 00:40:07,19 --> 00:40:11,09 mean you know they carefully Max where he would be standing yeah so you know they 435 00:40:11,80 --> 00:40:16,50 planned it out that way but this was at a point where his career was really in 436 00:40:16,51 --> 00:40:22,67 a downward spiral and. It is said I mean who knows that wasn't the head but it was 437 00:40:22,74 --> 00:40:24,81 said that he was not in 438 00:40:24,82 --> 00:40:30,67 a good place at this point his career and that if he had been even half an inch if 439 00:40:30,68 --> 00:40:37,44 you had been hurt in any way that he really. At that point in the cab so 440 00:40:37,82 --> 00:40:43,48 it's always a strange feeling watching that clip but. I'm going to Sirius 441 00:40:43,49 --> 00:40:48,07 a lot and I know we'll just go Man three stooges here we go to be the best of the 442 00:40:48,08 --> 00:40:52,40 best based out of vaudeville like so many slapstick comedians did and what 443 00:40:52,41 --> 00:40:57,74 a lot of people forget is that Shemp was the original Shemp was the original day 444 00:40:57,75 --> 00:40:58,24 when they were 445 00:40:58,25 --> 00:41:04,34 a stage act with Ted Healy Ted Healy and his stooges what they were called they did 446 00:41:04,87 --> 00:41:09,43 you know Bob Belloc Broadway reviews said Healy he abused his power 447 00:41:09,44 --> 00:41:12,23 a lot you know he they basically were 448 00:41:12,24 --> 00:41:17,80 a strange monkeys and he actually had gotten into into Alcala cation with the 449 00:41:17,81 --> 00:41:21,71 producer of the broad overview that was starring in that that I'm leaving I'm 450 00:41:21,72 --> 00:41:25,88 taking my students with me Shumpert used to leave with them and stay behind and 451 00:41:25,89 --> 00:41:29,60 jump dropped out of the act and that's when Curly came in and of course that's when 452 00:41:29,61 --> 00:41:33,82 you have the Three Stooges and their heyday when the Three Mo Larry and Curly 453 00:41:33,83 --> 00:41:39,31 comedy magic and. By the time that the mid one nine hundred forty S. 454 00:41:39,32 --> 00:41:42,61 Rolled around. Curly had suffered 455 00:41:42,62 --> 00:41:49,23 a stroke and that's when he dropped out of the act the film Act and. Shemp agreed 456 00:41:49,24 --> 00:41:53,64 to come with Carly's blessing I want to emphasize that Shemp returns to the 457 00:41:53,65 --> 00:41:59,11 actually agreed to do the films and. QUESTION I mean nobody can ever talk to Curly 458 00:41:59,19 --> 00:42:01,26 and I'm fairly got a lot of 459 00:42:02,07 --> 00:42:07,65 a lot of flack for not being and not being Carly basically could have been curly 460 00:42:07,70 --> 00:42:12,32 because he's good with nobody did what he did I mean don't you think he was barking 461 00:42:12,33 --> 00:42:19,30 at me. He was like I simply 462 00:42:19,31 --> 00:42:19,42 got 463 00:42:19,43 --> 00:42:23,76 a bum deal because I think that if you had I think if we had been the budget on film 464 00:42:24,20 --> 00:42:29,43 or if Curly had never needed to join the act that Shemp had stuck with them from 465 00:42:29,44 --> 00:42:35,25 the Broadway days Broadway review day I mean who knows what could happen to fires 466 00:42:35,26 --> 00:42:41,33 or dancing or I'm really. Not going to start that we have 467 00:42:41,34 --> 00:42:45,17 a girl he would have had to come up on with somebody some other group would think 468 00:42:45,18 --> 00:42:51,57 of me because I can actually clearly comedian. There's no regrets about how it 469 00:42:51,58 --> 00:42:57,51 really was I mean. Let me take the punches or falls better than me guess. 470 00:42:59,79 --> 00:43:00,51 I came out when I was 471 00:43:00,52 --> 00:43:05,91 a little kid and my sisters and I would watch the three students. I want to use to 472 00:43:05,92 --> 00:43:11,68 feel bad for only. They can always mean they can fuck really was always getting the 473 00:43:11,72 --> 00:43:16,97 short end of the stick and. I mean he was because I think it looks like after work 474 00:43:16,98 --> 00:43:20,89 that I don't slap and what. You would want to cheer when you're 475 00:43:20,90 --> 00:43:27,72 a kid you go how do you think you are one next week my question. Is late. Will 476 00:43:27,73 --> 00:43:31,63 your hurt. When I get 477 00:43:31,64 --> 00:43:36,14 a lot of slaps that I like this that really it's one of the over the years for 478 00:43:37,14 --> 00:43:42,74 aggressive behavior and you know being responsible for kids hurting each other with 479 00:43:43,13 --> 00:43:45,18 stones or bricks or everything else you say 480 00:43:45,57 --> 00:43:48,50 a member in the early ninety's when the Home Alone movies were huge those 481 00:43:48,51 --> 00:43:53,51 a lot of controversy about here's this kid who's you know thrown bricks on top of 482 00:43:53,52 --> 00:43:54,83 the thieves heads from the top of 483 00:43:54,84 --> 00:43:59,10 a building you know stepping on nails and smashing their faces and you know so 484 00:43:59,11 --> 00:44:04,95 there's been you know I mean I'm not sure how prevalent it was but there has been 485 00:44:05,13 --> 00:44:09,56 out there have been outspoken people about that saying you know slapstick as you 486 00:44:09,57 --> 00:44:13,32 know bad for the bad for you know bad influence on the kids there's 487 00:44:13,33 --> 00:44:18,18 a Simpsons episode where the doctor said to almost some Son I'm not even the 488 00:44:18,19 --> 00:44:22,20 subject of the horrors of showing you at three studios one of the hospital where 489 00:44:22,25 --> 00:44:25,10 they have all the kids who were there with injuries because of all the you know 490 00:44:25,32 --> 00:44:28,79 reenacting the Three Stooges I don't know who it was popular even when they went 491 00:44:28,80 --> 00:44:29,49 out and they made 492 00:44:29,50 --> 00:44:35,06 a movie Three Stooges That was pretty popular too haven't seen it can I'm very. 493 00:44:35,60 --> 00:44:39,51 Good cautious but I don't know how you can be good because again you're our 494 00:44:39,52 --> 00:44:44,20 favorite Laurel and Hardy girl in already know that Honey they were not related but 495 00:44:44,21 --> 00:44:48,04 they were teamed up separately because of that contrast thing physical appearance 496 00:44:48,05 --> 00:44:54,31 as. The studio heads saw them and said these two will work really well together 497 00:44:54,98 --> 00:44:58,43 they were put together in fact the first film the parents they were not while on 498 00:44:58,44 --> 00:45:01,22 Heidi. It was best second from a parent 499 00:45:01,23 --> 00:45:05,96 a few years later that they established these characters and the clip that we have 500 00:45:05,97 --> 00:45:11,56 here is a classic a classic one this is not considered not in cement they have 501 00:45:11,57 --> 00:45:16,31 a couple of twins I think it is yeah probably true that yeah I know there's 502 00:45:16,32 --> 00:45:22,63 a segment they have who knew that they had twins but they have twins that exist and 503 00:45:22,64 --> 00:45:28,40 they're actually in the segment they're missed. With the word States identified for 504 00:45:28,41 --> 00:45:32,99 the people for the other things like the bed twins that's what these guys are 505 00:45:33,52 --> 00:45:35,05 kidnapped and put to next 506 00:45:35,06 --> 00:45:40,32 a man went by some thugs and I'm going away because they don't know what. 507 00:45:48,59 --> 00:45:54,99 You can say that. Shawn have. Come. 508 00:45:57,70 --> 00:46:02,92 Here. Probably should warn you because you don't think when you look at I think one 509 00:46:02,93 --> 00:46:09,46 is Alfie if you get the ones. I was thinking about. The bird to bark probably goes 510 00:46:09,47 --> 00:46:10,83 right out the young bird with 511 00:46:10,84 --> 00:46:17,65 a pretty OK I'm broke I was ahead by the best just to you but they did nothing to 512 00:46:17,66 --> 00:46:24,35 make me save your money even though. You know when we first came on the ship 513 00:46:24,36 --> 00:46:28,98 fifteen yes ago if we'd had as much sense then as we have now we could let him save 514 00:46:29,23 --> 00:46:36,16 money for us and they wouldn't be sitting on the. Bike it's all right but it's 515 00:46:36,17 --> 00:46:39,76 too late now my lad back there was a Jackie Gleason 516 00:46:39,77 --> 00:46:46,73 a shocking and. Fragile and I don't often make that money out of of 517 00:46:46,74 --> 00:46:53,58 a local talent show. And personated Laurel and Hardy so well 518 00:46:53,78 --> 00:47:00,54 Jackie Gleason was. It's OK with me like. That 519 00:47:00,55 --> 00:47:07,49 Laurel Yes my mother and it was almost scary how small they fit into those 520 00:47:07,50 --> 00:47:13,09 roles and they said that imitation is the highest form of flattery that's the way 521 00:47:13,39 --> 00:47:20,05 to get any money. That's why I'm so. I can see them 522 00:47:20,58 --> 00:47:25,97 to see. Oh it's on You Tube I have to check that I actually held the D.V.D. 523 00:47:25,98 --> 00:47:30,21 If you are looking. At it this way. 524 00:47:45,38 --> 00:47:48,40 I know. That. 525 00:48:05,11 --> 00:48:07,75 Who are always always scratching their heads Yeah this is good this is 526 00:48:07,76 --> 00:48:09,66 a drunk guy they think that he's single. 527 00:48:15,72 --> 00:48:22,50 And so we stand so. What's the matter you 528 00:48:22,76 --> 00:48:27,91 guys are you guys staying away from me you know what I'm going on what I'm just 529 00:48:27,92 --> 00:48:34,78 only two of us. We're going to do something. I know 530 00:48:35,16 --> 00:48:36,94 I'm going out for. 531 00:48:46,43 --> 00:48:50,37 Oh. Oh oh oh oh. 532 00:48:52,78 --> 00:48:59,24 Oh. Oh. 533 00:49:00,45 --> 00:49:05,63 Well it. Was so I thought about 534 00:49:05,64 --> 00:49:11,26 a good feeling that your son. Was. How could you. 535 00:49:12,77 --> 00:49:14,71 Tell us what. Over. 536 00:49:19,67 --> 00:49:25,13 Oh oh oh oh oh. Wow. 537 00:49:33,24 --> 00:49:40,05 Oh. Oh oh oh oh oh. Oh oh 538 00:49:40,34 --> 00:49:44,80 oh. Oh. 539 00:49:48,32 --> 00:49:55,08 OK. Pretty quick oh. 540 00:50:00,30 --> 00:50:06,28 A lot of Marlin How do you say oh shucks operetta like nobody comes along yeah. 541 00:50:08,34 --> 00:50:11,10 Totally so i situation. One 542 00:50:11,11 --> 00:50:17,85 a small bowl because I LOL there is often something else going by but you. 543 00:50:19,67 --> 00:50:23,03 Start out with a problem in that field the from not so much because I had 544 00:50:23,04 --> 00:50:23,78 a bucket I'm not 545 00:50:23,79 --> 00:50:27,70 a big Cummings I just it's just it's not that's why the problem I just the 546 00:50:27,71 --> 00:50:34,63 snowballing follow up becomes. All the lavishness all the. Yeah I saw another 547 00:50:34,64 --> 00:50:40,87 one. Trying to get prison. Time for people to. 548 00:50:45,06 --> 00:50:49,90 Leave the prison. And the. 549 00:50:51,89 --> 00:50:58,79 Like like. Like like. Like poles that windows of. 550 00:51:00,84 --> 00:51:07,44 You know. People overthinking. Everything everything they go by they think one 551 00:51:07,88 --> 00:51:09,90 of us working. Dress. 552 00:51:16,60 --> 00:51:18,02 What I Do you know. 553 00:51:39,82 --> 00:51:43,08 What. I know like. 554 00:51:47,79 --> 00:51:52,65 What are you doing here I noticed you told us. That we just arrived this morning on 555 00:51:52,66 --> 00:51:57,56 the freeway that explains everything they've been mistaken for us and we've been 556 00:51:57,57 --> 00:52:04,12 mistaken. So while back in the nineteen eighties but Medlar and Lily 557 00:52:04,13 --> 00:52:05,17 Tomlin did 558 00:52:05,18 --> 00:52:10,84 a movie called Big business and it was the same promise of what we just saw Laurel 559 00:52:10,85 --> 00:52:16,31 and Hardy where it was you know two sets of twins and they were separated you know 560 00:52:16,70 --> 00:52:22,41 you want to engage with yeah and you know you can't hold accountable stuff well the 561 00:52:22,42 --> 00:52:28,66 top one is great spirit feels great but it's. You know see it's not the same it's 562 00:52:28,81 --> 00:52:34,03 talking at the same stand Laurel I mean his big thing was I mean his on screen 563 00:52:34,04 --> 00:52:39,49 persona was being the the whiny he why me he was me and the world was against me 564 00:52:39,50 --> 00:52:43,33 kind of expression he was always scratching his head and he actually was 565 00:52:43,34 --> 00:52:48,74 a study done to Charlie Chaplin who was an understudy all about Heidi his shtick 566 00:52:48,75 --> 00:52:54,28 was being the arrogant know it all sort of swarming and snarky but the two of them 567 00:52:54,32 --> 00:52:59,03 I mean they. They had chemistry they had chemistry My God without 568 00:52:59,04 --> 00:53:03,86 a doubt and speaking of the snowball principle there probably is no better example 569 00:53:03,87 --> 00:53:07,69 of the snowball principle then in any slapstick film that involves 570 00:53:07,70 --> 00:53:13,44 a high fight how these things get started yes someone will trip and fall into 571 00:53:13,45 --> 00:53:18,73 a pie and that person will get mad and then you throw one and it'll hit the wrong 572 00:53:18,74 --> 00:53:22,48 person the wrong person when we get mad and turn around and have someone who is 573 00:53:22,49 --> 00:53:26,74 laughing and then it just goes on and on and on and then I just got right here 574 00:53:26,75 --> 00:53:32,39 slips on the banana peel that classic slapstick set up. Trying to throw each other 575 00:53:32,40 --> 00:53:38,79 under the bus on the one in the manner. To the other guys and then you know takes 576 00:53:38,80 --> 00:53:41,13 off from here you have the snowball principle. 577 00:53:52,83 --> 00:53:54,69 And then she's going to get the ball to really you. 578 00:54:06,06 --> 00:54:07,08 Know just so happens to be 579 00:54:07,12 --> 00:54:11,78 a truck full of pies up in here conveniently located you know isn't there always. 580 00:54:19,07 --> 00:54:19,09 Are. 581 00:54:31,72 --> 00:54:33,67 You know we get everybody in the Taliban on this. 582 00:54:39,42 --> 00:54:42,55 And walks into this office. So many. 583 00:55:19,31 --> 00:55:20,31 I'm. 584 00:55:27,60 --> 00:55:34,28 Remembering now you probably can't. Control. 585 00:55:47,20 --> 00:55:52,68 And all this little one I felt. When. They said Snow both. 586 00:56:15,94 --> 00:56:18,96 This morning. And like nothing had. 587 00:56:54,79 --> 00:57:01,66 Really. There we're not we had some few 588 00:57:01,67 --> 00:57:08,45 minor players but. That's the kind of classic. That was I don't 589 00:57:08,46 --> 00:57:09,16 know that's 590 00:57:09,17 --> 00:57:13,82 a. Good as I think it was the origins of it all I mean this is where it all began 591 00:57:13,83 --> 00:57:20,48 this is really the best stuff is is the early stuff. And watch that stuff you can't 592 00:57:20,49 --> 00:57:25,68 go wrong with the Marx Brothers and The Three Stooges. Laurel and Hardy and. 593 00:57:27,38 --> 00:57:31,13 Even hire Langdon and I really think probably what happened of course yeah Mike's 594 00:57:31,14 --> 00:57:34,12 brothers but lots of others go the Marx Brothers if you need to stop someone 595 00:57:34,48 --> 00:57:40,28 because they say they have it all their operator so we just want to thank you for 596 00:57:40,29 --> 00:57:45,76 watching our slapstick madness show on my quick door from Frank Mendoza and Frank 597 00:57:45,77 --> 00:57:52,15 I'm just wondering. From. All those chuckleheads if you have the right answers at 598 00:57:52,16 --> 00:57:56,69 the beginning or not they're just our friends I don't know I kind of take 599 00:57:56,70 --> 00:58:02,03 a look out to see what happened with them or they end up yeah. It'll. 600 00:58:05,58 --> 00:58:12,32 It'll. Want. To know. The only. 601 00:58:14,70 --> 00:58:15,40 Known one. 602 00:58:21,69 --> 00:58:27,80 I am I and out them now.