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  The Three Stooges trivia
The Three Stooges actually started way before the fifties, but they were almost done until their comedy-shorts were released on television in the fifties.
Jerome "Curly" Howard, the rotund, bald Stooge with the high voice was the most popular member of the Three Stooges.
Curly also filmed a scene for the Three Stooges short Malice in the Palace (1949) as a chef, but was left on the cutting room floor.
www.tvcrazy.net /tvclassics/americantv/stooges.htm   (690 words)

  
  Three 'stooges' plead guilty in $20m scheme to gain loans - The Boston Globe
Three local men have pleaded guilty in connection with their roles as ``straw borrowers" in a $20 million fraudulent loan scheme to buy construction equipment, the US attorney's office for the District of Massachusetts said yesterday.
A lawyer for one of the men described them as ``three stooges" who had been duped by the scheme's ringleader.
Referring to Havey, Paradiso, and Sacco, Witkin said: ``The three stooges are the three guys in the press release.
www.boston.com /business/globe/articles/2006/06/17/three_stooges_plead_guilty_in_20m_scheme_to_gain_loans   (450 words)

  
  Three Stooges - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Three Stooges got their name and their start from a vaudeville act called Ted Healy and His Stooges (originally called "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen"), which was founded in 1922.
In 1999's The Mummy, Rick O'Connell uses Moe's eyegouging gag on one of the revenant mummy swordsmen in the the chambers underneath the statue of Anubis in Hamunaptra.
Stooges folklore has it that the Soviet government asked permission for the aging Stooges shorts to be shown on Soviet TV, and that the Stooges declined, their theory being that the Soviets planned to use the Stooges as Cold War propaganda, i.e., evidence that the American people were pathologically violent and/or stupid.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Three_Stooges   (5651 words)

  
 Metroactive Movies | The Three Stooges
A gangster or a monster or a guy in a gorilla suit, one of those nameless contract-playing heavies who used to stooge for the Stooges, was pursuing Larry, who had decided to hide his head in a row of cabbages.
The Three Stooges are the most long-lived and notorious of comedy teams, but they are buried under a reputation as the lowest and the worst that the movies have to offer.
Kathleen Chamberlain, of Emory University's English department (and a fan of the Stooges, as she is a student of the "zanni" in Italian commedia dell'arte, the traditional slapstick comedy that kept Europeans laughing for centuries), has written that "women are never realized as individuals" in the Stooges pictures.
www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/01.16.97/cover/stooges1-9703.html   (3067 words)

  
 Three Stooges Marathon
(1937) The Stooges are lazy-bum husbands, inept salesmen, and misfit fugitives in a hospital.
(1939) The Stooges are salesmen stranded south of the border, and caught in the middle of a revolution.
The Stooges are fugitives from an irate dentist.
www.mortystv.com /stooges.shtml   (2389 words)

  
 Three Stooges - Free net encyclopedia
The Stooges got their name and their start from a vaudeville act called Ted Healy and His Stooges (originally called "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen"), which was founded in 1922.
The same year, the Three Stooges (as the Howard brothers and Fine renamed their act) signed on to appear in two-reel comedy short subjects for Columbia Pictures at just a few hundred dollars a week.
Stooges folklore has it that the Soviet government asked permission for the aging Stooges shorts to be shown on Soviet TV, and that the Stooges declined, their theory being that the Soviets planned to use the Stooges as Cold War propaganda, i.e., evidence that the American people were pathologically violent and/or stupid.
www.netipedia.com /index.php/Three_Stooges   (4328 words)

  
 Three Stooges
When it comes to the knockabout comedy team the Three Stooges, movie fans are in two groups: those who love ‘em, and think they’re hysterical (“Stoogeophiles”) and those who think they’re dumb, repetitive, and painfully unfunny (“women”).
The Stooges were unceremoniously fired by Columbia Pictures in the late 1950s and their shorts sold to television, where they became a sensation.
Stooge fans have clamored for updated sets, perhaps in year-by-year order, of all 190 shorts, remastered and restored in beautiful BandW, but so far, Sony (which has the Columbia catalog) is keeping mum.
www.inthebalcony.com /shorts/page28.html   (2490 words)

  
 Pure Slap Shtick: The Three Stooges' school of timeless social order," by Richard von Busack
The Three Stooges Gravesite Tour features an article by Jonathan Green, titled "Pie in the Face in the Sky," which leads you to the graves of all six of the Stooges -- and Ted Healy, too.
Academic Stooge is an interview with Jon Solomon, a professor of classics at the University of Arizona.
Kathleen Chamberlain, of Emory University's English department (and a fan of the Stooges, as she is a student of the "zanni" in Italian commedia dell'arte, the traditional slapstick comedy that kept Europeans laughing for centuries), has written that "women are never realized as individuals" in the Stooges pictures.
www.ratical.org /ratville/3stooges75yrs.html   (4872 words)

  
 Three Stooges
The Stooges are forced to disguise themselves as Indians to avoid the local sheriff.
The Stooges are beginning beauticians who cause three showgirls to lose their hair.
The three bachelors become foster fathers when a baby is abandoned on their doorstep.
home.neo.rr.com /grizzly/stooges.html   (1352 words)

  
 VH1.com : Movies : Person : The Three Stooges : Biography
Healy preferred his stooges short, stupid-looking and adorned with bizarre hairstyles -- Moe, Shemp and Larry fit the first two qualifications naturally, meeting the third requirement by having Moe wear a Beatles-style trim, Shemp an unkempt mop of hair split down the middle, and Larry a frizzy Einstein-like hairdo.
Ted Healy and his Stooges hit Broadway in the late 1920s in Earl Carroll's Vanities, and when Healy made his first film, Soup to Nuts (1930), the Stooges appeared (with a fourth member, Fred Sanborn), as "the Racketeers." Shemp disliked Healy and dropped out of the act to become a solo.
As always, the Stooge humor was a matter of taste, but even nonfans enjoyed such nonsensical outings as The Three Stooges Meet Hercules (1963) and The Outlaws is Coming (1965).
www.vh1.com /movies/person/62365/bio.jhtml   (734 words)

  
 ThreeStooges.net :: Recurring Three Stooges Routines
When the Stooges are given the choice to either have their heads chopped off or to be burned at the stake as their death, Curly decides to go with being burned at the stake.
When a Stooge or supporting character is watching others fight, he cheers them on and makes mock punching motions with his arm, but he accidentally punches himself in the chin.
One Stooge tries to revive another unconscious Stooge by throwing water in his face, but the water misses and instead splashes on knocked-out enemies, bringing them back to.
www.threestooges.net /routines.php   (786 words)

  
 Wee Wee Monsieur: A Hollywood Harem Video Review By Shira
Naturally, the Three Stooges decide to rescue her and have adventures along the way.
I enjoyed this one, partly because the Three Stooges were singing assorted nursery rhymes (Jack Be Nimble, Miss Muffet, etc.) put to music with suitable sight gags to accompany them, and it was humorous to see them prancing about in medieval garb.
I've mostly outgrown the Three Stooges, and many of their episodes (like Pardon My Clutch) just don't make me laugh the way they did when I was 12 years old.
www.shira.net /videorevws/weewee.htm   (760 words)

  
 MySpace.com - The Stooges-Official Page - Ann Arbor, Michigan - Psychedelic / Punk / Metal - ...
The Stooges were street corner punks with no further mission in life than to get laid, loaded and watch TV.
The fledgling Stooges hitched up with fellow Ann Arbor residents the MC5 who, under the guru guidance of John Sinclair, were in their revolutionary White Panther phase.
The Stooges went to New York in June '69 to record their debut album.
www.myspace.com /iggyandthestooges   (2526 words)

  
 The Three Stooges - Moe, Larry, Curly, Shemp, Joe and Curly Joe | clown ministry | History | Three Stooges
The Three Stooges are a trio of the greatest slapstick movie clowns of the 20th century.
The Three Stooges became famous for their work in movies, primarily in short features that showcased their slapstick comedy, as well as in feature films in their later years.
The Stooges appeared in a short-lived television show called The New Three Stooges which ran from 1965 to 1966 and featured animated Stooges shorts sandwiched between live action segments with Moe, Larry and Curly Joe.
www.clown-ministry.com /index_1.php?/site/articles/the_three_stooges_moe_larry_curly_shemp_joe_and_curly_joe   (1378 words)

  
 tv38.com - The Wide World Of Stooges
Likewise, here at the Three Stooges New Years Eve Marathon, nothing is official until we haphazardly and chaotically drop the "ceremonial ball of meat" at or around the stroke of midnight.
The Stooges are in the Royal Kingdom of Anesthesia when they learn they are of royal blood and offer their protection to the Queen, who is promptly kidnapped.
When the Stooges learn their brewery is having a golf tournament, they sneak off to a nearby course to get in some practice.
tv38.com /stooges   (837 words)

  
 Home - The Three Stooges Collectors Showcase
Their crazy antics and slap-happy foolery is timeless, and has delighted many over the past several decades.
Stooges midi theme song courtesy of Charlie Carchedi
The Three Stooges™ is a trademark of Comedy III Productions, Inc. The Three Stooges™ characters, names, and all related indicia are trademarks of Comedy III Productions, Inc. © 1998 Comedy III Productions, Inc. All rights reserved.
www.3-stooges.com   (231 words)

  
 The Three Stooges NES game. Hateful men save orphanage; saw heads.
The "Three Stooges" were, basically, a gang of three somewhat retarded individuals who beat the shit out of each other on a regular basis.
Thirdly, one of the shittier things that Ma asks of the Stooges is that they not only earn enough cash to SAVE her orphanage, but that they earn more.
If "Three Stooges'" mini-game mishmash format is the ancestor of Mario Party, then the hospital mini-game is the ancestor of F-Zero.
progressiveboink.com /archive/stooges.htm   (2034 words)

  
 Images of Lawyers & The Three Stooges
Shortly after Curly died, two of his daughters sued the Three Stooges, claiming that they were entitled to profits from the act since their father had contributed to it.
To the extent that the Three Stooges portrayed their opinion of the legal system through their comedy films, we should not be surprised that Larry, Moe and Curly lampooned the law as they did.
During their careers, the Stooges were in court often, and on occasion even got what they asked for (and I don't mean a ham sandwich, nyuk nyuk nyuk).
tarlton.law.utexas.edu /lpop/etext/okla/coyne22.htm   (3093 words)

  
 Three Stooges biography, information, news, links, pictures (pics) and products (comedians)
The Three Stooges were an American comedy slapstick act in the 20th century.
The Three Stooges got their name and their start from a vaudeville act called Ted Healy and His Stooges (originally called "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen"), which was founded in 1922.
The three comically kidnap the main character, convinced that he is the messiah (Also parodying the Torah), and, while waiting for him to speak the "Word of Truth", engage in hijinks such as clamping pliers on one another's noses over theological arguments.
www.popstarsplus.com /actors_threestooges.htm   (5789 words)

  
 The Three Stooges - Sites, Sounds and Sights.
Home - The Three Stooges Collectors Showcase - a place to stop and view a variety of collectibles or to learn more about the Stooges.
Sanctioned by original Stooges Moe & Larry before their deaths, the fan club's newsletter "The Three Stooges Journal" is crammed with interesting interviews, collector info, bios on the supporting players, unpublished photos, reviews, and much more.
Three Stooges Sights and Sounds Page (Updated March 23rd) - A lot of WAV files and a handful of JPEG's.
www.byrum.org /3stooges/sites.htm   (567 words)

  
 Three Stooges: Free Movie Theatre
The Three Stooges have been a favorite slapstick comedy team for decades.
The Three Stooges got their name and their start from a vaudeville act called Ted Healy and His Stooges (previously called "Ted Healy and His Southern Gentlemen" and "Ted Healy and His Racketeers"), which was founded in 1922.
The Stooges went on to star in 190 film short subjects over the next twenty-three years, the longest such series in history.
emol.org /movies/threestooges/index.html   (401 words)

  
 HTF Review: Three Stooges In History [Archive] - Home Theater Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Spoken like true comedians, The Three Stooges never fail to deliver a uniqueness to their comedy acts as they have for so many years, for so many generations.
This is my own opinion (I hope Stooge fans don't hit me on the head with a hammer and throw a pie in my face), but I find that I enjoy the shows with Shemp as one of the Stooges more than Curly.
The only reason why I keep avoiding the Three Stooges discs is because I think the price to the amount of content ratio is pretty poor for a DVD retailing at around $20.
www.hometheaterforum.com /htf/archive/index.php/t-137157.html   (1242 words)

  
 Blockbuster Online - The Three Stooges in Orbit   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Following his success as the villain in "The Three Stooges Meet Hercules", George N. Niese returns to play the role of villain, this time a malevolent Martian named Ogg.
The Stooges prove their patented brand of slapstick comedy and sight gags work with or without gravity.
This is the second Three Stooges film produced by Norman Maurer, who was Moe Howard's son-in-law.
www.blockbuster.com /catalog/movieDetails/76287   (344 words)

  
 My Life is Beer!: Three Stooges Beer - Panther Beverage Co.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
I have a CASE of the three stooges beer and hope it goes up in Value.
My brother is really into the three stooges and I was wanting to get this beer for my brother's birthday, but I haven't been able to find it.
The interest was, of course, the Three Stooges on the label.
www.mylifeisbeer.com /beer/bottles/bottledetail/664   (3376 words)

  
 Three Stooges DVD movies at Video Universe.
The three jokers find themselves in any number of sticky situations from which there is only one solution: run!
Three Stooges - Disorder in the Court/Malice in the Palace/Brideless Groom
Three Stooges - Goofs on the Loose/Stooged and Confoosed
www.cduniverse.com /search/xx/movie/star/1015511/a/Three+Stooges.htm   (303 words)

  
 When the Three Stooges Went Into Real Estate
Of the six men who played in the Three Stooges troupe over the course of the years, three were brothers: Moe, Curly and Shemp (born Samuel).
Despite his screen persona as a hot-tempered smart-aleck, Moe was actually a somewhat quiet and very devoted family man. (He relied largely upon clever photography and sound effects to give the appearance of inflicting serious injury upon his film sidekicks).
He then went back to being a full-time Stooge, eventually leading his band of misfits into fame and fortune.
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