Laurel & Hardy

[Mcphisto]

vixen1700 said:

What's the one where they're trying to leave in a car to go on a holiday/vacation and they just can't get away? It contains an old man with gout too.

Had me crying with laughter as a kid.

Going on a picnic, it was called Perfect Day, could only find the coloured version on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj-RkC_WHKA

[shaunsmith]

A Chump in Oxford springs to mind "Hey fatty lift up your chin! & now the other one!!!"

Our Relations, too many to list. However, Olly ordering the flagon of beer is class that is near all head, then Stan asks for 2 spoons is master class.

Box set is coming out!

[keslake]

Great to see we have some fans!

Busy Bodies does it for me......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-qK6D8KvKI

[keslake]

What's the one called when they are working on a roof and Ollie falls down the chimney, ends up in the fireplace and the bricks keep landing on his head?

Edit:

Dirty Work

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kFDuLX7y4Y

Edited by keslake on Sunday 27th July 18:48

[lamboman100]

Laurel and Hardy are good but wildly overrated. Rarely funny.

Harold Lloyd was far cleverer in that era.

[FourWheelDrift]

There's always one.

[Mcphisto]

lamboman100 said:

Laurel and Hardy are good but wildly overrated. Rarely funny.

Harold Lloyd was far cleverer in that era.

[Morningside]

Leithen said:

Haven't seen them for ages. Was there a gramophone playing in a car, or is my memory playing tricks?

I remember that as well.

Eric Mc said:

selym said:

Where to start!

Blue Headed Mountains of Virginia,

"Blue RIDGE Mountains of Virginia". Although the song is actually called "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and was sung by Laurel and Hardy in the film "Way Out West".

I remember that being in the charts.

[whoami]

FourWheelDrift said:

There's always one.

And often the same one, too.

[selym]

Eric Mc said:

"Blue RIDGE Mountains of Virginia". Although the song is actually called "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and was sung by Laurel and Hardy in the film "Way Out West".

You know what I mean!

[Halb]

I'm gonna have to watch some of my library now. The combination of physical and verbal comedy was magic, Laurel was a top-level wordsmith. I don't think they were equalled in that respect, though I do also love the Marx Brothers and Abbot and Costello.

[selym]

Eric Mc said:

"Blue RIDGE Mountains of Virginia". Although the song is actually called "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and was sung by Laurel and Hardy in the film "Way Out West".

You know what I mean!

[Eric Mc]

selym said:

You know what I mean!

Of course I know what you meant. I wasn't implying that I didn't.

I was just setting the record straight for the benefit of others - who might want to look it up.

For some odd reason (I think because a Radio 1 DJ took to playing it as a kind of joke), the song did really well in the charts in 1975 and made it all the way to No.2

[selym]

Eric Mc said:

"Blue RIDGE Mountains of Virginia". Although the song is actually called "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and was sung by Laurel and Hardy in the film "Way Out West".

You know what I mean!

[Eric Mc]

selym said:

You know what I mean!

Still do.

[selym]

Eric Mc said:

Still do.

Damned turkish Internet!

[drivin_me_nuts]

I know little of the men themselves; we're they considered as 'stars' in their time? Or was the world of the comedian less glamourous than that of the Hollywood starlette?

[Eric Mc]

I think they most certainly were stars of their era. Both had had reasonable success appearing in silent "shorts" before they teamed up.

Their getting together coincided with the transition to sound movies and they were one of the few from the silent era to make this transition successfully.

In fact, MOST of the silent comedy stars just didn't survive into the sound era at all - stars such as Harold Lloyd, Buster Keaton and, most significantly, Charlie Chaplin.

Laurel and Hardy showed that their comedic skills transcended the ability to prat fall or kick somebody's bottom (which seemed to constitute a lot of Chaplin's antics).

[Halb]

They were considers huge stars back in the day, moreso in their talkie days, putting them together was just magic. Most of the silent stars fell flat on their face in the transition.

[stephen300o]

Still the best. Stan's face as he ponder a problem, Ollie's frustration, so many wonderful subtleties.