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Article: Physical comedy unnerved mothers.(ARTS)
- Article from:
- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- February 15, 2003
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Byline: T.R. Ponick, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
All right, you knuckleheads. Spread out.
The Three Stooges are returning to TV Tuesday night at 8 in a one-hour NBC special inexplicably hosted by former "Cheers" bartender Woody Harrelson. Springing from 1920s vaudeville and evolving into the undisputed slapstick kings of the short film, these durably
popular, moronic, madcap miscreants were among the longest-running comedy acts on the silver screen. Their huge catalog of 15-minute shorts dwarfs the output of bigger names, from Laurel and Hardy to W.C. Fields and the Marx Brothers. After World War II, the Stooges went into a long decline. By ...
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