Back in 1973 I met Larry at the home he was in and I still have the pictures from that day. Man , that was so cool for me as an 11 year old kid.

To me the Stooges, are very much alive today. I watch them every Saturday, from 6 pm to 8 pm eastern time on ME-TV.

These men made the studio rich and never got paid what they deserved.

I used to love watching The Three Stooges with my grandpa. I miss getting calls from him telling me when they were on TV. Thanks for posting this documentary.

The best comedians in history! Often imitated, never duplicated. R.I.P.

Here it is now, nearly 100 years and the stooges legacy still lives on. Generations of people still watch and laugh. No matter how old i get theyre still funny

How come no mention of The Stooges cameo in “It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World”? I know they had no lines but their mere presence in a film like that was funny

I literally bought a 3 Stooges tie from Goodwill and wore it to work. Everyone loved it, so I decided to look them up and found myself here. Great documentary. I had no idea about the history of these icons 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 I appreciate them much more now knowing what they did, how they did it and for how long. Legends ❤❤❤

20:00 Billy west really took the words out of my mouth with how important Larry was. He was almost the straight man to ground the comedy but wasn’t limited to just that. It was a special balance.

😂 That Court Room Music Act 🤣🤣 Best Ever !

I love Moe, Curly, and Larry, but Shemp is my all time favorite Stooge!!

Man, I used to watch the stooges as a kid in the 80s and they were always awesome. Even though there's bonking and slapping going on I think what's seriously underrated is how smart the comedy actually is. Like the scene in this documentary where Curly is writing down morse code and Moe asks him what is says and Curly responds seriously "beep beep beeeep beep"... that sort of thing would be hilarious in 1920 and it's still hilarious in 2024. Anyway, what a great act.

I never noticed how short they were.I have seen a lot of the movies over the years and they never get old

happy birthday in heaven Curly Howard. i miss you

My uncle is from Argentina and still speaks Spanish and only English with a thick accent, but he LOVES the Stooges to this day. Their comedy transcended barriers.

I was born in 1969...still love them as much as i did as a kid....God bless them for the laughter they brought to millions!😂

You don't hear the name Ted Healy these days. He is forgotten. Had he treated the original Stooges better that might have changed. But to say that there would be no Stooges without Healy is just ridiculous.

as a kid i was convinced there was a episode with Curly and Shemp in it. to me it was Curly and those two dudes. or Shemp and those two dudes. thanks for helping an old man feel young and a depressed suicidal freak smile.

In my opinion Shemp was the funniest of all the stooges. Liked!

This is what the 2012 Stooges movie should have been. Just this story.

I saw this documentary on KZfaq sometime in mid-2018, I believe & it's since gotten taken down because I can't find it. It's nice to see this documentary on The 3 Stooges, again...

This was a humbling documentary. Even the stooges I didn’t care as much for were stand up guys in their own ways. Curly with hair was a mix of moe and shemp. Such a great troupe and I’m glad to have grown up with them.

There is a nice wall mural , at 3rd and South, dedicated to Larry Fine in Philadelphia where he was born and grew up.

Curly looked pretty good with hair. Woop woop nyuk nyuk.

I have collection of The Three Stooges on super 8mm silent & sound films and 16mm TV prints. Nothing like watching the Stooges on a movie projector screen !!!

CLASSIC, TIMELESS COMEDY. LONG LIVE THE THREE STOOGES!!! M.O'B

42:55 Were SO Close to the Anniversary of this!!! I'd love to know what year this aired!!!

I used to watch Larry's faces he made also. he was a character in his own right and he was my favorite.

I grew up in Bronx N.Y.C.watching them on t.v.thru late 50's-mid 68's

Love the stooges

I still watch them

Shemp has always been equal to Curly. They both brought their own phenomenal cooking to the act.

I love the Stooges. Always have, always will.

37:50 I wish she could ask him those questions too but damn does she have a great way of looking at things. Made me tear up. She’s his legacy.

True legends in comedy. Always funny and they never get old

My stepdad LOVE(D/ES) them. He'll love em to the day he dies, just no longer around. I love em too. But when he watched em, he was like a giant kid lol. I collected their work for a while... Among other things, eventually sold everything on mercari. BUT that too was cool. Because I talked to some really cool people all over the U.S. and most buyers JUST wanted to share the same love I have/had with their children or loved ones. I never "got rid" of the stooges. I just don't own copies of their work anymore. Truly genius to their titles

It's sad that after 24 years Columbia didn't give even give a farewell party😢

Just when you think you know everything about The Three Stooges comes a GREAT VIDEO that tells more of their stories I learned so much watching this video I almost felt I was there with them😂🌹❤️ each one of the Stooges has an incredible story and are all insanely talented until their last days🙏 Here's to the comedy of The Three Stooges Still making us Laugh today🤣🤣🤣 RIP🌹🌹🌹❤️🙏🤣🤣 Thank You very much for this video 👍👍👍👍🌟🌟

I own most of their seasons. I couldn't get enough of them when I was younger in the 80s. they'd show them On saturday Mornings for at least I think it was two hours of straight stooges... still watch them all the time. R.I.P. Guys see you in heaven hope you're doing shows their.

This was well done! I’m glad I saw this because I never knew much about the Stooges personal lives or how the other Stooges really came about after Curly. As a matter of fact, I always thought Curly was one of the original stooges like most people. I never heard of the last guy, “Curly Joe,” So now I’m gonna have to look at some of the movies he was in with the other stooges. In my opinion, Curly was the funniest and more popular Stooge followed by Shemp. I always thought Larry was hilarious as well, and of course Moe was the glue that held them all together. Every now and then I’ll watch old footage of the Three Stooges on KZfaq and I laugh out loud every time. Believe it or not I liked that movie that was made, not too long ago, about the Three Stooges. I thought they captured their likeness and mannerisms almost spot on. The Three Stooges is one of the greatest comedy acts in the history of stage, television and movies RESPECT! ✊🏾

Started to watch this and saw that joe and curly joe were included and that was it for me... what a terrible dis service they both were.... I realize that Moe and Larry wanted to keep it going, but they weren't even in the same realm as the 3 Stooges had been up to the death of Shemp... It was truly all gone... even as a kid I never once watched an episode made after Shemp died all the way thru... I tried and it was just not watchable.... and I never watched a single cartoon or their movies either.... The Three Stooges Legacy ended when Shemp died... The years with Curly of course were their biggest/hottest years, But Shemp was one of the original trio for like 10 years before he quit and Curly luckily got in there after he cut his hair off, then HE was with them for like 12 or 14 years before a stroke forced HIM to have to quit, and Shemp came back until HE died from a heart attack... Shemp had like 6 more years in the Stooges than Curly actually did.... and I remember as a little kid the very first time I saw the train episode with Curly and Shemp at the same time, I knew something wasn't right with Curly how he acted and the way he talked... I sensed there was something wrong and it wasn't until I was a young adult that I found out that THAT episode was the last one that Curly ever appeared in and the only one where the 3 Howard Brothers were in the same episode in like 34 years of filming... I still fall asleep to them on DVD once in awhile.... I'm a die hard for Original Stooges... The Howard Brothers and Larry fine... Had a very dear friend that had Larry's hair and nose.... We'd go drinkin sometimes and he would just crack EVERYbody up... He was hilarious without even tryin.........

These documentaries are so great so interesting never dull or boring.thanks again too all who put them together.

Great documentary!

This was exactly what I needed after today. Thank you for this.

My grandpa saw the three stooges live when he was a kid. He said they did this thing where Larry played violin while one of the others, Curly I think, sang opera and stopped to do things like pick his nose and burp

Undoubtedly. Curly was the most period exquisitely outstanding stooge. IE performer in The Three stooges comedy act.

I always liked the way they stuck together, when some outsiders would pick on one of them the other two would help out. My favorite line was…. We better scram!

Moe shemp Larry and the original curly were my favorite

Bottom picture in the thumbnail, they look more like racketeering gangsters then slapstick comics.

Moe Larry. And curly 😮😅😊

33:25 I always felt Shemp had that gangster-like tough guy look that screamed “don’t mess with me” As I get to this point in the video, I am reminded of an episode w/ Moe, Larry & Shemp, they are on a plane and the guy who played Curly was taking the part of a random passenger- who was sleeping..

Ted Healy is on the plane with fellow actor and comedian Benjamin Kubelsky (commonly known as Jack Benny) in 1935 film It’s in the Air 2:19

My Ted Healy biography, " Nobody's Stooge" doesn't mention it, and this documentary doesn't mention it either. Back in the 1970s, I was in the attic looking through these used TV Guides, for the Letters to the Editor - one letter said, " How about a Ted Healy film festival? I've never seen my father's films. " by Ted Healy Jr. I thought then, why doesn't he go to a library, look thru a movie reference book and copy down ALL the movies that Healy made; around that time in the 1970s, KTTV Channel 11 was showing "Dancing Lady" (1933) and "San Francisco" (1936) constantly - in both, Healy plays Clark Gable's assistant ...

Stone cold geniuses of comedy

They were awesome great documentary. Definitely makes you respect them and actors and as great humans. Very touching I loved it.

I want to watch this...but I think it'll depress me. The Stooges always put me in a good mood because they remind me of my great childhood with my beautiful Grandpa, who died in 2006 when I was 18. He always watched Andy Griffith show, Carol Burnett Show, I Dream of Jennie (He had a thing for Barbara Eden...and yeah I don't blame him.) and OH DAMN, he loved his John Wayne movies. I always preferred The Stooges and he would always be a great Grandpa and make me laugh and happy. Even though I didn't live back that far...times were certainly better, even in the 90's. I feel almost blessed to be a 90's kids and to have been raised in the last Normal era/decade in the United States. "Entertainment" from Hollywood today is just pathetic at best and sick and twisted and blindly idiotic at worst.

Thanks fellas

Moe will always be my fave. I have no preference between Curly and Shemp

Ironic that Curly was nicknamed Babe also as that wife of Shemp was also named.

It's such a stroke of luck that they were able to get a good quality interview from Mousey Garner. He was about 95 years old when this was filmed, and died before the documentary even came out. In fact, I'm pretty sure they wouldn't have been able to find anyone who worked with Ted Healy and the Stooges if they'd waited even another few months to film this.

Curly was always my favorite but I loved them all!

Shortly after his dramatic role in "The Bravados" (20th Century Fox, 1958), Joe DeRita joined the Three Stooges. By the time the film hit the "last-run" movie theatre on the block, the neighborhood kids were shocked to see new Stooge DeRita's character shot dead in the middle of the forehead (with his eyes open!). "Nooo! They shot Curly Joe!"

The stooges, Bowerey Boys and the Abott and Costello TV show were Sat staples...usually in that order here in NJ in the early '70s. Our local, "cheap" stations, 5,9,11. Mostly 11, WPIX, in NYC.

From 1925 to 1975 3⃣ stooges love all there fans and families 2. From healy days to the success days 6 ⚅ men 🚹 created characters and made people laugh 😂 When they all passed it hurted people a lot 😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢 Dr howard ( leader), dr. Fine (middle), dr. Jerome Howard(goofy 1). Dr. Sam Howard( wild 1), dr. Besser ( sissy and sassy 1), dr. Derita( cubby 1). From Woman 👩 Haters To Kooks Tour. 1934 to 1970. Mo died 1975 or 74 i think Larry died "75 Curly "52 passed Shemp died "55 Joe died 1988 Derita died 1993 Rest In Peace 2 them 6 guys love u ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

I used to love watching the Three stooges with my parents they was very funny .

Miss them

I was so crazy about them! Made me laugh so much! I watched them for at least 2 Generations. Ummm... when my so was about 3 hrs old at the time. When I first put it on, he didn't know what to make of it. I was 19 at the time. Didn't realize how violent it probably was to him. But, being a young mother, he eventually thought it was funny. Every Saturday afternoon, at that time.

Woooooooo-woooo-woo-woo-woo-woo-woo! Nyyyyaahhhhh!!!!

Shemp Howard 1895-1955 moe Howard 1897-1975 Larry fine 1902-1975 Jerome curly Howard 1903-1952 ted healy 1896-1937 and enil sitka 1909-1997 of the three stooges rest in peace amen 🇹🇳🇷🇴🇲🇽🇲🇬🇯🇵🇮🇹🇮🇱🇮🇳🇩🇪🇫🇷🇬🇧🇪🇬🇨🇦🇧🇷🇦🇺📖🩴🩴🧴🧸💳💵📺📻🎸⛪🍾🍞🦍🦒🐊🐻‍❄️🐻‍❄️🐯🦁🌹❤️

33:02 - If anyone at Columbia truly thought this, they were daft. Moe and Shemp did not look very similar or even necessarily related. On the other hand, Moe was nearly a dead ringer for his eldest brother Irving Horvitz (check out the pictures!). They also had another brother Benjamin "Jack" who looked like none of them.

You can see Larry laughing in ed Wynn show

Adam West can say something that takes a minute in 10 minutes.

Why does everybody compare them ? I loved all the different Three Stooges. I grew up in the 1960's and saw the reruns on WPIX Channel 11 in New York City, & it was actually Joe Besser who i saw first not Curly or Shemp. Joe Besser years after The Three Stooges voiced a cartoon loosely based on I Dream Of Jeannie his character was an apprentice Genie named Baboo it was by Hanna Barbera in the 1970's . Curley Joe Derita i caught in a rerun of Bachelor Father. And Moe Howard made guest appearances on The Mike Douglas Show. No complaints they were all funny. I immitate Curly, Shemp, & Moe voices. Emil Sitka, & of course I can't remember his name he was African American he also apoeared on Our Gang The Little Rascals a few appearances on The Three Stooges as well. All of these I mentioned i liked them all. Soitentenly, Ruff, Cut it out, You See This , This house has gone plum crazy.. Hey Moe! & hsnd me that piece of pipe. Beeb, beeb, beeb, beeb. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂😂😂 All the cast of The Three Stooges I treasure all the performers. 🎥📽️📺❤

They didn't mention Joe Besser's role as Stinky on The Abbott And Costello Show

Raise your right hand!

Also, I should mention, that actor, Robert Young made at least 3 movies with Ted Healy. Robert Young is also the godfather to Healy's son.

Holy crap, I used to know the narrator, Paul in the past.

That cannot been the voice of shrimp in 1970 because he died in 1955

Making fun of the "Hoi Polloi" the uppercrust was what made them so appealing. The pretention of wealth is so predictable and totally useless. "We will now play the melody Uripides by Ziacron" funniest jab at the pretention of the aristocracy ever.😮

Moe, Larry, Curly and Shemp are the Stooges i know and love best. Sorry Joe's.

As an adult shemp was the goat

I love the Stooges, and I don't care who knows it.

A a plumber, my favorite episode is when they were construction workers. Especially, when they were plumbers ¿

Medicine was lousy in those days they were dropping like flies from strokes and nothing was being done. Bloody hell..

Curly made a gorgeous daughter.

Rip fellas ❤

The 3 knuckleheads lol i am a biggest fan of the three stooges and I have gotten the whole entire DVD box set collection in Australia 🇦🇺 here and I am a biggest curly fan

The movie "The 3 Stooges" was really good.

3:55 - Ted was long rumored to have sired Richard Nixon back in his mom's cocktail waitress days, those type of pregnancies were handled differently back in the day.

Those aren't the guys behind the original Mayhem!

I saw in 2013 documentary Hey Moe! Hey Dad. A female fan had dinner at Shemp Howard ‘s house with his family. Something would n’t see with celebrities and their fans today.

Like a naked eggplant 😂 lived the life of 3 men haha three stooges were hysterical those times had the best sense of humor the three stooges skit when they were mixing up that drink and Moe says its got teeth 😂😂😂 I'm gonna start saying that to the bartender mix up a strong one like its got teeth in it hilarious

"The Boys"

After Shemp (in my opinion just as funny and often funnier than Curly) the best of the Stooges was over.

42:23

Dad always told us they were not allowed to bomb the railway 🛤 loading to the camps?.was toldnot a priority target.

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

My dad who was born in 1892 absolutely loved the stooges whom he referred to as the 3 smooges . But the stooges gave us good clean comedy for many years. Unlike what is called comedy today with all the vulgarity. The only people that use such vulgarity are lacking in their vocabulary. You don’t have use bad language to be funny. The old comedians are proof of that.

Shemp was the best Curley replacment the the Stoogrs evet had the others id rather not think about

Hooray for the 2nd amendment! 😂😅