Curly or Shemp

[maveric]

Your favorite 3rd stooge.
Joe Besser or Joe DeRita dont qulify.

[Az_lefty]

1. Curly Howard "N'yuk- n'yuk-n'yuk!"

[maveric]

3. Proper name=Jerome Horowitz

Curly is the greatest stooge.

[mac56]

2. Both good, but a slight edge to Curly.

My 9 year old nephew blasphemed the other day. Was watching "The Three Stooges In Outer Space", and opined that he thought "Curly-Joe" DeRita was funnier then Curly.

GAAAAAAAAAAK

[USA_1]

4. Stooges!

Having grown up in Brooklyn, I always loved the Three Stooges.

The critics (showing what a bunch of geniuses they are) hated the Stooges. Strangely, the one guy they liked was Sam who was the oldest of the Horowitz brothers. "Shemp" was a perfectionist. He would re-shoot a scene if he felt it wasn't good enough. Critics felt that "Brideless Groom" was the Stooges' best episode.

You may remember the famous (or perhaps infamous) scene in which Shemp portrayed a music professor that was slapped around by the beautiful Christine McIntyre. HOW DARE YOU PRETEND TO BE MY COUSIN BASIL???

Shemp insisted that the scene be re-shot several times because it did not appear sufficiently realistic to him. Miss McIntyre was a very gentle lady who refused to strike him the way the scene was written. But he insisted that she actually strike him in the face in order to give the scene more realism. After a while he decided that the scene was perfect. But he got dizzy as a result of the slappping that he voluntarily took!!! And that's because he was real perfectionist.


Curly or Shemp? I tell in all sincerity that the Stooges are a part of my life. They are "family" to me. And you don't choose favorites from among your family members. I love them both and will do so forever.

[maveric]

5. They are family to me too. Growing up in Boston during the 50's-60's

They were aired on TV four times a day. We watched them before school in the morning, during lunch at school they had an old B&W TV on with the Stooges, After School around 4:00 PM, more Stooges and around 7:00 PM the independant station from Manchester NH showed, you got it, the Stooges.
I had two younger brothers and we would recreate the antics of these comic geniuses, much to my parents worry.
Sometimes I would come home from school and find my news journalist dad sitting in the living room watching the Stooges.
They have been a big part of my life.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

6. Curly was a national treasure.