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	Joe Besser - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Joe Besser (August 12, 1907 – March 1, 1988) was a comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as part of the Three Stooges.
		Besser was so excited by this, he snuck into Thurston's train after the St. Louis run of the show was over, and was discovered the next day sleeping on top of the lion's cage in Detroit.
		Besser returned to films and television, most notably as the superintendent "Jillson" for four seasons (1962-1966) of The Joey Bishop Show,and the voice of Babu the genie in the animated I Dream of Jeannie series.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_Besser (649 words)

	Encyclopedia: Joe Besser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser (August 12, 1907-March 1, 1988) was a comedian, known for his impish humor, and is now best remembered for his brief stint as part of the Three Stooges.
		Joe Besser was born in 1907 and is the only Stooge to use his real name in show business.
		Joe's career with The Three Stooges was short; he had been with the team only two years when their contract was cancelled by Columbia Studios, leaving all three Stooges unemployed.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Joe-Besser (1270 words)

	The Three Stooges - Joe Besser
		Joe Besser, who replaced Shemp Howard as the third Stooge in 1956 (not 1955), caught the attention of theater goers with his impish grin and child like demeanor.
		Joe's stooging began as a youngster growing up in St. Louis, Missouri, where he was born on August 12, 1907, to Fanny and Morris Besser.
		Joe became enthralled with magic and show business at an early age and was encouraged by his parents.
	www.3-stooges.com /text/besser.html (1618 words)

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		Joe appeared in several Abbott and Costello films and was a regular on their television show, playing a character named "Stinky."
		Joe made sure that his contract included a clause prohibiting Moe from doing bodily harm to him, and he took fewer punches and hits than the other Stooges.
		Joe Besser died on March 1, 1988 from heart failure.
	www.threestoogesonline.com /Joe.htm (277 words)

	The Three Stooges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser gets a bad wrap because the poor quality of the shorts were not his fault as much as they were the writers and the extremely tight budget.
		Joe Besser was gawd awful with his sissy moaning and cries of noooo when Moe would raise his hand to him.
		Joe Besser, WTF was he, he sucked as a stooge, dont even think about Curly-Joe making the stooges jump, they were done in by the time he came in, Curly was the best stooge, and if he didnt have health problems, the 50's wouldnt of been a problem for them.
	www.jumptheshark.com /t/threestooges.htm (11940 words)

	biography of Joe Besser of the Three Stooges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser, a star of vaudeville, movies and television, is today best known for his short-lived role as one of the Three Stooges.
		Joe Besser was born in St. Louis, Missouri, USA on August 12, 1907, the ninth child of Morris and Fanny Besser.
		Joe's wife, Ernie, had a heart attack, leaving him unwilling to travel in order to take care of her, and so Joe Besser left the Three Stooges after only three years.
	www.clown-ministry.com /History/three-stooges/joe-besser-stooges.html (744 words)

	Curly Joe DeRita - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		After Shemp Howard died in 1955, Moe Howard and Larry Fine tried to complete the "Three Stooges" act with Joe Besser, who left shortly thereafter over creative differences.
		Noticing his physical resemblance to predecessors Besser and especially Curly Howard, DeRita was renamed "Curly-Joe," and became the third Stooge in 1958.
		While the least distinctive member of the group, television shows that survive from that era, as well as the films "The Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze"(1963) and "Kook's Tour" (1970), show that when classic bits or deviations from the youth market were attempted, the results were far better.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Joe_DeRita (515 words)

	Biography for Joe Besser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe joined The Three Stooges in 1956, but quit the team to be with his ailing wife in 1958.
		Besser began his career in show business, first as a song plugger for a St. Louis-based music co. and later as a comedy asistant to the great magician, Howard Thurston.
		When Shemp died in 1955, use of doubles and stock footage kept the shorts afloat, until veteran comedian Joe Besser was hired to join the act for a last burst of comedy shorts in the late 1950s.
	www.imdb.com /name/nm0078798/bio (995 words)

	What A Character! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Although Joe Besser is probably best known to Three Stooges fans as “Joe,” the Stooge that replaced Shemp Howard in 1956, the cherubic comedian had been receiving acclaim almost from the instant his career started in 1920.
		Besser’s father was a baker, but performing was always in Joe Besser’s blood.
		Besser quickly found his true calling was comedy and began a successful stage career that included vaudeville and Broadway.
	www.what-a-character.com /cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=982797489 (241 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| More Stooges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		To Besser's eternal shame, he had it written into his contract that he would not be subject to slapping or bodily harm.
		Besser was present at the end of the Stooges' two-reel career, a time of many remakes, two-day-long shooting schedules and terrible production values.
		In the spring of that year, Moe, Larry and Joe Besser were playing Bakersfield to an audience Moe later characterized as "drunk sheepherders" and hating every minute of it.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.16.97/cover/stooges2-9703.html (773 words)

	Read about Joe Besser at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Joe Besser and learn about Joe Besser here! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He was born in St Louis, the ninth child of Morris and Fanny Besser.
		From a young age, Joe was also fascinated with show business, especially the magic act of
		Columbia Pictures ended their "shorts" film making, and the Three Stooges were without a contract.
	encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Joe_Besser (456 words)

	joebesser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser was born in Saint Louis, Missouri on August 12, 1907 to Fannie and Morris Besser.
		Around 1940, Joe took Columbia Pictures contractee Jimmy Little on tour as his straight man. Soon Joe became a headliner on the Orpheum, RKO, Paramount, and Loew's theater circuits.
		Joe left the Stooges in 1958 and went on to star in feature films and had a successful television career.
	threestooges.com /bios/joebesser.htm (272 words)

	Joe Besser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A close friend of comedian Lou Costello, Besser was amusingly cast as an effete gunman in Abbott & Costello's Africa Screams (1949) and as the bratty little boy (!) Stinky in TV's The Abbott and Costello Show (1951-1952).
		Flourishing into the 1960s and 1970s, Besser was a regular on The Joey Bishop Show (1962-1965), played supporting roles (sometimes surprisingly dramatic in nature) in films and on TV, and provided voice-overs for such cartoon series as Jeannie (1972) and Yogi's Space Race (1977).
		One of Joe Besser's last public appearances came about when the Three Stooges at long last received their star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
	www.djangomusic.com /actor_bio.asp?pid=P++5941 (245 words)

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		Joe was also a sportscaster in Philadelphia, but in 1950 he was hired by WPIX as a weatherman.
		Joe was willing, but didn't like the execs' idea of being a comical hobo.
		Moe kept in touch with Joe and since Moe's fingers were in such good shape from all the eye-poking, he never used a typewriter.
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	The Three Stooges - Joe DeRita
		Joe DeRita had contractual obligations otherwise he would have followed Shemp as the third Stooge.
		They had already had a Stooge named "Joe", and Joe DeRita kind of looked like Curly, so his name became, "Curly Joe".
		After Larry's death, Moe and Joe were going to keep the act going with, Emil Sitka.
	www.3-stooges.com /text/derita.html (455 words)

	Someday it happened that Joe Besser has found interesting to read Dutch . Joe Besser thought Dutch to be something new ...
		Someday it happened that Joe Besser has found interesting to read Dutch.
		Joe Besser thought Dutch to be something new with innovating ideas.
		Compared to Joe Besser everything is likely to appear as something bad.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy12144.htm (287 words)

	Joe Besser Bio
		OE BESSER, who replaced Shemp Howard as the third Stooge in 1956 (not 1955), caught the attention of theater goers with his impish grin and child like demeanor.
		or his age, Joe was a very independent and enterprising young man, working as a Western Union delivery boy, a song- plugger for the Waterson, Berlin and Synder sheet music store and as a distributor of handbills for the Fox Theater Circuit in St. Louis.
		n 1923, once Besser discovered that comedy was his forte, he decided to leave Thurston and went on to serve as magician's assistant to Madame Herrman; six months later he became prop assistant to Queenie DeNeenen, a circus tightrope performer.
	www.stoogeworld.com /_Biographies/Joe.htm (1576 words)

	Joe Besser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe began his acting career with a cliché so old it has to be true: he ran away and joined the circus - literally.
		When he was twelve, Joe could stand it no longer, and he hid on Thurston's train the night it was to leave.
		I never got to meet Joe, but stories about him and his life are abundant in my family.
	www.personal.psu.edu /users/j/m/jmd412/joebscale.html (788 words)

	The Three Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe and Curly Joe
		Joe Besser was the fifth (third) Stooge from 1956-1958.
		Joe Besser was probably the least popular stooge, relying more on verbal than slapstick humor - in fact, he had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit too hard.
		When Joe Besser's wife had a heart attack, he was unwilling to travel, and withdrew from the act.
	www.clown-ministry.com /History/three-stooges (1360 words)

	two reelers - frank black song index (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser became a Stooge after Shemp's death.
		In 1958, after making 16 Stooge two-reelers, Joe left the group to be with his ailing wife.
		Joe DeRita, the last Stooge, had contractual obligations otherwise he would have followed Shemp as the third Stooge.
	members.cox.net /fbsi/tworeelers.html (522 words)

	John Cawley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe spoke of how he had met Lou when both were very young.
		Joe said he later was told that Berle frequently didn't wear his glasses in public and might not have recognized Joe.
		Oddly, even though Joe felt he did not always get the historical respect he might have deserved, he was pleased that with the work he did he had gained so many fans.
	www.cataroo.com /081_04.html (578 words)

	HOOFS AND GOOFS Featuring Moe, Larry and Joe
		Joe Besser was 'funny', but he wasnt a stooge.
		As for this short itself, Joe and the talking horse degrade a short that is already boring and mundane, making it impossible to watch without wanting to throw your TV out the window.
		There is also the fact that Moe and Larry were fairly well along in years by the time that Besser joined them, and their performances tend to lack energy in the shorts with him (and in some of the later Shemp shorts as well).
	threestooges.net /episode.php?id=174 (2715 words)

	Page Title (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Joe Besser was a number two banana, a stooge.
		Joe is best recalled as the plump, sissified brat dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, hissing “O-o-o-h, I’ll harm you!” and taking ineffectual swats at those who annoyed him.
		He worked with Olsen and Johnson in Sons o’ Fun on Broadway, with Abbott and Costello on their half-hour television series and he replaced Shemp Howard, upon the latter’s death, in The Three Stooges.
	vaudeville.org /index_files/Page542.htm (105 words)

	Probably it happened one day that Joe Besser has enjoyed the trip in Westonia . Joe Besser thought Westonia to be a ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Probably it happened one day that Joe Besser has enjoyed the trip in Westonia.
		Joe Besser thought Westonia to be a very beautiful place.
		If you ever saw Joe Besser playing, you have seen the beauty and power of human spirit.We think that it is proper to bring an homage to Joe Besser.
	www.panpeople.net /actors/Actya12875.htm (371 words)

	DVD.net : The Three Stooges - Volume 3 - DVD Review
		Larry, Curly, Moe, Shemp, Joe, and Curly Joe (yes, I know that's more than three - be patient and I'll explain) are, arguably, more successful now, 32 years since the last Stooges film, than ever they were in their heyday.
		Shemp Howard died in 1955 and was replaced by Joe Besser.
		In 1958, Besser left the act to be replaced by "Curly" Joe De Rita.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=1609 (1190 words)

	Probably it happened one day that Joe Besser has enjoyed reading Passerella di Donna . Joe Besser considered Passerella ...
		Probably it happened one day that Joe Besser has enjoyed reading Passerella di Donna.
		Joe Besser considered Passerella di Donna to be something new with innovating ideas.
		In fact, surrealist thinkers have tried with little success to correlate the essence of Passerella di Donna with the essence of Joe Besser.
	www.bad-bad-bad.com /actors/Acsy12981.htm (303 words)

	Moe, Larry, & Joe
		The scene suddenly changes to Joe, sound asleep, mumbling, "I'm an uncle!" I'm and uncle!" Moe and Larry wake up Joe (who has dreamt the whole story), as Birdie, alive and well, comes from the kitchen carrying a casserole.
		Joe tells her he just dreamed that she was a horse.
		Far from flattered, Birdie crowns Joe over the head with her casserole.
	www.stoogeworld.com /_Videography/Filmography/HoofsGoofs.htm (388 words)

	Rotten Tomatoes Forums - Short Films of the Week #8 THE THREE STOOGES
		The Joe DeRita feature films are pretty sad, but at least the boys were working and getting lots of attention at the time, which they apprarently loved.
		The shorts with Joe (who's contract fobade him getting smacked) were usually very plot driven to make up for the lack of violence, the worst of all for me is the one where their sister comes back as a talking horse.
		Agreed on Joe Besser, who was a great comic in his own right (especially in his guise as Stinky in the Abbott and Costello TV show) but who did not fit in with the trio.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /vine/showthread.php?t=222865 (2414 words)

	ipedia.com: Three Stooges Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Shemp died of a heart attack in 1956 and Joe Besser was the fifth (third) Stooge from 1956-1958.
		Besser did not want to travel and had a clause in his contract specifically prohibiting him from being hit, and so was not a good third member.
		They went on to make a number of successful full-length feature films over the next decade and a short lived TV series that was part live action and part animation before age finally caught up with them.
	www.ipedia.com /three_stooges.html (780 words)

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