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Article: Stooge Heir Hopes Fans Still Want to Nyuk It Up
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- June 4, 1993
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HOLLYWOOD Some thought they were hilarious, others sadistic. But
the slapstick humor of these three hugely popular knockabout comics
has rarely been successfully imitated.
Television audiences in the late '50s and '60s thought they were
watching a TV sitcom, when, in fact, they were tuned into broadcasts
of old two-reelers that had been shown before feature films in the
'30s, '40s and early '50s.
Now the grandson of the trio's ringleader has movie plans for
the trio he calls the Icons of Idiocy.
Need we say more? It's the Three Stooges. Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk.
"They were idiots, famous idiots. I think the term's actually a
validation of how successful they were," said Jeffrey Scott, the ...