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  • <3<3<3<3

  • Best comics in the history of man. There is nothing better than good clean comedy. Just like our country's principles were founded on Christ like kindness towards one another despite our differences.

  • my 6 y.o daughter watched her first L&Hardy film and its pretty amazing that their work lives on and new audiences are loving them... Legends!!

  • old fat ollie. his wife sued hal cockroach ollie and stan's boss for years and wound up with nothing

  • Very well put together I love how the pictures match the topics, esp. laurel sleeping when writing is being spoken of.

  • legends. utter utter legends.

  • This is a gem! Thanks for uploading it.

  • the interviewer was pretty bad which is a shame, but fantastic to hear Stan in this way

  • It's true; the thing that made the teaming rather unique was that there was no "straight man;" it was two comics.

  • Thank you.  From James Earl.

  • Sono stati immensi,unici e irripetibili, il massimo dell'arte comica del loro tempo 1929 - 1939 decennio nel quale il loro valore si espresse ai massimi livelli, credo che l'incontro fra HARDY e LAUREL sia stato un miracolo artistico predestinato e il doppiaggio geniale di accenti storpiati con le voci straordinarie di ZAMBUTO e SORDI, hanno completato l'opera. Grazie amici. TOTY BOTTALLA.

  • We love you...and always we well love you...

  • It was a week after he lost his best friend.  He's not going to be be on top of the world.

  • Oliver is my favourite

  • @maltesers55 It probably is to someone who is not a genuine fan. Stan sounds crestfallen.

  • these guys brought so much laughter into my life even after their death, you can't do much better than that.

  • I have milk in my ear. Thankyou.

  • Timeless .. gone but never ever forgotten.. my grandfather loved them, my father loved them, I love them and my kids love them... god bless the best comedy duo the world has, and ever will see

  • @TheAngmarwitch

    100% agree!!!

    When I was Born in 1969 they both had already left this world. But I feel all the time that they are still living with us. Their Films, their kind of humor are unreachable for all time. I wish I was born a few years earlier just to spend some Time with those two geniuses on the same world. I think you know what I mean..

  • I feel so dumb. I had NO idea how brilliant Stan was. I mean II got his humor duh but OMG HE WASa GENIUS!!

  • I agree. Thet were the greatest screen comics and actors!

  • By any standard the best comedy duo ever to grace our screens! Often copied, emulated with respect and empathy, but never too be matched. Thankyou Mr. Laurel and Mr. Hardy... a belly full of laughs from childhood well into adult hood and beyond.... Priceless, Timeless and always loved x

  • Thanks for the download--what fascinating history!!! To actually hear Stan Laurel speaking about his show business experiences and his time with Oliver (Babe) Hardy. It was so sweet to hear him continue to correcting himself as he remembered that Oliver had just died.

  • How refreshing it is now, to hear gentlemen speaking.

  • I was about to remark about the guy doing this interview when I noticed an earlier comment basically on similar lines. The guy was totally patronising and liked the sound of his own voice. In a lot of stuff I have seen with Laurel and Hardy, in interviews during that 1950's period, including things like This is Your Life, they seem to have been regarded as a couple of dumbos to be patronised.

  • @Nojnotpu OMG! I know! "This is Your Life" is horrible because they laugh when bringing up something sad in the star's life and the star begins to cry. The 50s were weird like that.

  • Laurel and Hardy are timeless and will never get old, they may be gone but they're FAR from forgotten.

    God bless you both:)

  • Best comedians ever :) Todays' should watch how real comedy is done.

  • GENIUS

    

  • An unskillful interviewer for a most skillful performing artist.

  • "i am with Grandma "Doof" and "Judas Iskariot" someone from a knowing from me, dead this year, is in him, "Dick", and I believe, he is is menthor, his, in him be..."

  • Sandra - How wonderful..a truly magical pair

  • What was all that sons of the desert stuff all about?

  • Just wonderful... (:-)

  • Be'd nice if he let Stan Laurel do the most of the talking instead of himself. :(

  • The man interviewing has many facts worng this is very bad as he said he was looking forward to interviewing him for a long time.

  • Blimey! I thought the interviewer wasn't going to let him speak. Stan Laurel was born in Lancashire, England. You can hear a lot of it in his accent. But he sounds a bit North East (UK) at times too. Maybe it's the mixture.

  • @ToneSpectra Yes the interviewer hardly lets him get a word in for the first 3 minutes!!

  • After Stan Laurel's funeral Buster Keaton was heard to say to Andy Clyde, "Stan was the greatest. Even greater than Chaplin. Charlie was second. And don't let anyone fool you about that!"

  • What a gentleman, they were great I loved their movies so much

  • a broken man who lost his soulmate!.......

  • can so tell hes down,so lost just lost hes best mate and acting partner over 30yrs,live nxt town where stan born in cumbria,every1 loved them,nice to listen to him chatting her,

  • @sunnydayle ✞ ✟ Oliver Hardy ✞ ✟

  • my daughter of 2 years 8 months sat and watched one of their movies and enjoyed and laughed. I have always been a fan of these 2 boys and its nice if only once my daughter shared this with me. I happened to pull out a video of laurel and hardy while my daughter was out and she queired what I was watching when she came home.

  • nu se compara nimeni cu ei la comedie genii ce sa mai respect ;) and RIP... :(

  • I have 2 sons, aged 26 & 21, a couple of years ago I sat down to watch Hog Wild on the t.v, the lads said what's this crap, it ancient & black & white, 5 mins later the 3 of us were in stitches at the antics of a great pair of comic geniuses, my eldest son has the box set, & watches a few dvd's on a regular basis, my youngest son wanted to take them to Afghan on his tour as he felt these two fine men, Laurel & Hardy would certainly have raised the morale of his battalion, their humour lives on

  • Stan attended school in a small town called Bishop Auckland in England. Its literally only 5 miles away from where i live. Apparently Laurel said he never fully got over the death of Hardy, they were like brothers.

  • Stan here sounds like a man who new his time had passed and had lost a dear friend. What a modest and sincere gentleman. What a great comedian and writer. Old school...RIP.

  • I feel so sorry for Laurel having to live 8 years without Ollie. They were such best friends and its sad really. These guys are legends

  • "Just 30 years" aw :/ These two will be dearly remembered

  • I'm glad I've found this video as I could see how sound and strong of a character was our dear Stan and at the same the most kind, but this was such a terrible interviewer that I couldn't even finish it.

  • This interview makes my heart hurt.

  • the best double act of all time, you gave the world so much happiness and laughter,and still do, thanks for this interview really interesting

  • The best can never bet these 2 sadly missed.

  • He was a man of such great humour, tempered with tragedy, right to the end. I wish I had met him . He seems such a kind and unassuming man, him and his fine friend, Babe, who he loved so much.

  • God bless him.

    He was a genius.

    George Vreeland Hill

  • @GeorgeVreelandHill So you're the legendary George Vreeland Hilll!!! wow,  this is most interesting. you have been everywhere, and yet no where. I long to find out the true George Vreeland Hill.

  • He died on 23 February 1965, aged 74, several days after suffering a heart attack.[7] Just minutes away from death, Laurel told his nurse he would not mind going skiing right at that very moment. Somewhat taken aback, the nurse replied that she was not aware that he was a skier. "I'm not," said Laurel, "I'd rather be doing that than have all these needles stuck into me!" A few minutes later the nurse looked in on him again and found that he had died quietly...

  • @scoobyGR

    Thanks Mate,That quote always had Me in stitches!

    Stan Laurel 1890-1965

    Oliver Hardy 1892-1957

  • They're with the Father in Heaven now. The flesh may not last long, but the spirit lasts forever. They are still alive, just not in a flesh body now. [Ecclesiastes 12:6-7] Quoting from Dr. McCoy in Star Trek II The Wrath of Kahn, they're really not dead, as long as we remember them. God bless.

    donboy65

  • Gotta love them they were very special .

  • Very fascinating story.

  • The DVD box set .... Treasure...the greatest and highest art form. Laurel & Hardy the best of the best... Crazy that they did this at the begining of what was a new technology. Genius.

  • Two ' gentle ' men.

  • The world is a different place now .Nobody could possibly hope to capture what they had .New genius will come from people who keep trying .Don't give up

  • Love ther moivez and showz they are everyday are missd

  • THEY WHERE THE BEST!

  • Thanks for uploading this. Great stuff!

  • Stan Laurel was the BEST. When I was 13 years old, I wrote a letter to him, simply put: "Stan Laurel, Hollywood California." He wrote me a personal letter (typed it actually), signed it and personally signed a picture to me. The letter was sweet and heartfelt. I still have it. They were true gentlemen, funny in a way that today is sadly, lost.

  • @SandraWrites What did the letter say?

  • @SandraWrites I quite agree, they were and always will be the best that there has ever been.

    I'm glad no-one has ever tried to copy or recreate it, as you simply can't recreate genius :)

  • @SandraWrites beautiful memories my friend.

  • @SandraWrites What did you write??? And what did he answer????

  • @SandraWrites WOW!

    no words just wow!

  • they are the BEST and will live on for EVER and EVER EVER EVER

  • What a sweet, gentle speaking voice.

  • Laurel & Hardy we're well ahead of their time, i have so much love for the both of them.

  • IT IS COMING...! The 'Decoding Laurel and Hardy Project' website - very soon - one unique place where all your comments regarding the Return of Laurel and Hardy can be displayed and viewed by all who feel the same way - that it's about time that Laurel and Hardy were back on our screens, big and small. For further details - website launch etc - please contact laurelhardyladyno12010

    @hotmail.co.­uk and join in one united effort to bring Laurel and Hardy back into all our lives!

  • these 2 greats are well before my time but i was a kid i the 70s watching all the replays on a saturday morning in england these 2 are up there with the greats the likes of chaplin and the marks brothers and so on ...never tier of there movies even 35 years on .....

  • There is no greater Comedy team than Stan and Ollie. The laughter from millions who watch their films is still being heard.

  • Too bad this gasbag doesn't give Stan a chance to talk

  • Lovely, lovely man. Hysterical comedy!

  • Stan Laurel u. Olliver Hardy waren die besten Komiker aller zeiten .

    Jetzt lachen sie uber seine eigene Dummheit .

    Im Comedy Scheiße

  • lol no he is not the father of clint eastwood

  • Absolute Legends my Heroes Always, Thanks 

  • had the honor of visiting Stan Laurel's Apartment in Malibu, CA. My father sent him a card and it was such a wonderful honor to visit him. He was so polite and liked it when how thanked him for making me laugh.

  • i love them for about 40 years now, since i was a child.

    i've read a funny story some time ago:

    stan annoyed oli just before movie shots to get an even more bugged face from him in the scene :-D

    i don't remember exactly how he did that, i think he let him wait some extra minutes or something like that.

  • is he the daddy of clint eastwood

  • Very interesting! Thanks for posting.

  • two great men ,they had great gifts to make people happy.

  • Its pretty amazing to hear them talk about these other comedy teams at the beginning - teams that I and probably most people today haven't ever even heard of. Just goes to show you how extraordinary the longevity of their popularity is, and how extraordinary their material must have been to be this popular for this long.

  • I wish our entertainment industry could still be this great! I'm only 16 and I have many fond memories of watching old Laurel and Hardy, and W.C. Fields movies with my dad (who grew up with it). Those are the best memories I have and I have great old comedy like this to thank

  • @yepuhuh93 Crikey!!! Your Dad grew up with these old movies??? How old is he??

  • @mitchsmith71 1953-2006, He also loved W.C Fields, and all the other good stuff :D

  • Lucieboy;van mij mogen ze regelmatige films tonen,het waren de beste komieken van al derest,er kan er geen komiek aan tippen,zeker niet,ik heb ze alle gezien en zou ze nu nog bekijken en met plezier en er zijn er zo nog zeker weten,zulke mannen worden niet vergeten in beeld en geluid,prachtig.

  • I remember some years ago ! BBC2 played many of their movies during the day ! I loved having the day off , closing the living room curtains , with a duvet over me on the couch , lay there all day and watch these funny men ! I miss them being on the telly. bring them back on please BBC.

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  • I loved em as a kid and I still love em, I always will. They were true masters of comedy. Long live the memory of Laurel and Hardy.

  • its a shame because i still think theyre funny and im 13 so thats 40 years after this interview. we will remember them

  • For me Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy are the best humor couple of all time. There is never gonna be another like Laurel & Hardy.

    I am 38 years old and I remember when I saw they for the very first time on TV when I was 5. I cried of laughing everytime I saw a movie of them.

    R.I.P. Stan & Ollie. I never forget you.

  • @raulox71 You got it mate. I was a young un' myself when I first had seen sme of their comedy shorts, and now at 45 I'm still a big fan. I remember when they were on Saturday afternoon showcases on UHF TV and some of the New York stations back in the mid 70's. If I remember right, WPIX 11 was one of those stations..

    I hope they're waiting for me at the Pearly Gates, along with Moe, Larry and Curly, and Spanky McFarland and the other Little Rascals.

  • @Shawnster65 Of course.

  • Anyone else reckon Stan developed a bit of an American twang to his accent? :)

  • I grew up watching Laurel and Hardy on the BBC. They were simply wonderful and to this day, I remain a devoted fan. It is and always will be an honour to watch them.

    Thankyou Stan and Ollie for enriching my life and may you both rest in peace, now and always, Amen.

  • Brilliant. Thanks. X

  • they set the mark for comedy duo's. no one can match them. only crew that can make three 2 reelers in one day. . . .fish. . ice. . and piano . .beautiful

  • Thanks for posting this. You have brought them into Y2K.. And by todays standards, they were up there on top... The funniest comedy team up ever. Purest form of comedy. God rest them both. Best Regards..Alan

  • Stan Laurel was so upset after the death of his friend. He never got over it.

  • What a difference 53 years have made to attitudes, and none of it  for the better.

  • I spoke to an American colleague the other day. He's 30 years old, and has never heard of Laurel and Hardy. I then mentioned John Wayne, and he said he thought he had heard that name before.

  • @nitramgnal facepalm

    

  • @nitramgnal

    That's beyond an embarrassment. He should literally be ashamed. I'd describe it as being "culturally illiterate." John Wayne and Laurel and Hardy are more than mere dismissible dated entertainment. They were a defining force of the arts which were so powerful, they had an impact spidering outwards into all corners of American and western civilization which continues today. To be so wholly disinterested in one's national background, personal taste be damned, I find one unfit to live.

  • @TheJediCharles I agreed with you wholeheartedly until your last statement.

  • @nitramgnal

    Just be careful to not inject meaning into it that I haven't said. That doesn't mean I wish death or harm on such people. A life that lives only for itself in "the now" that is self-absorbed and doesn't care about history, ergo people in the past (or future), are little more than a meaningless parasite on his fellow man.

    "The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."

    -Albert Einstein.

  • ... gods ... they are ...

  • The best there ever was and ever will be.

  • @leahcimber test

  • @leahcimber No that is Bret Heart.

  • @Anavengertg Bret Hart

  • @JRGrange25 Yep

    

  • @leahcimber Agreed!!

  • @leahcimber so true i loved them

  • Thanks a million.

  • This is awesome So many thanks for Posting this

  • ich liebe sie.

  • Though it has been tried no one can remake them, they arent the same...

  • @TheDogDover yes there were a few modern Laurel and Hardy films. They tried to remake them but it is not the same.. nobody can match Stan and Ollie.

  • love them two very likeable is there any books on them

  • makes me emotional to think that these guys are gone and that my grandchildren will never be able to understand what a pair of genius's they were, wish i could have met them both ! god bless them...

  • Absolutley thee GREATEST comedy team of all time !!!!!!!

  • I have nothing but the greatest respect for the both of them, they have made me laugh for years, I have recently started to watch their films again and they still crack me up.

  • Very nice post.

    Thanks for putting it up here.

  • A fan's dream come true. Can't thank U enough.

  • I think a Laurel & Hardy biographical film is long overdue. I vote for Ewan MacGregor to play Stanley and Johnny Depp to play Ollie.

  • I loved them both...I hope they have a place in heaven. I want to see them again.

  • So neat to hear him out of character! Lovely ...remarkable.

  • The pair of them are one of the greatest comedy duos ever, their films were made over 50 years ago but I love them just as much as all these modern films with advanced technology and effects.

  • @computer11111111111 their last film was made in 1951. close to 60 years.

  • Love these guys...comedy legends!!

    Fan from Ireland

  • Well Done!

  • the greatest comedy duo of all time.

  • So true. I just wish I had been lucky enough to have seen them live.

  • Thank you so much

  • Such a sweet man from all I read about him.

  • 53 years later and the world still love them both. Chaplin, Laurel & Hardy, Presley & Jackson. Love them all left a legacy in our hearts. RIP

  • After Ollie died, Stan continued writing material for them both even though he knew it would never be performed. It must have been heartbreaking for him to write with Ollie on his mind but he did it anyway. It's funny how we sometimes deal with the death of someone we are close to.

  • @gamewizard test

  • @gamewizard That´s right.

  • @gamewizard

    That choked me.

  • @gamewizard - I know this comment was made over a year ago, But maybe instead of it breaking his heart, it made him happy to do it, maybe he felt that somehow he was still here if he wrote material for them both still, it probably gave him some comfort instead of it breaking his heart.

  • Laurel & Hardy set the standard.

  • Interesting listening, thanks for uploading this. Laurel & Hardy were pure genius.

  • Really enjoyed this. Thanks for posting.

  • This was a great interview with a GREAT ACTOR, Comedian, gentleman, If you want to know Mr. Stan Laurel, you will listen to this interview. It was given one week after Mr. Oliver Hardy's death. REST IN PEACE MR LAUREL AND MR HARDY. Thanks for the memories...

  • Thanks for posting this, how wonderful, these two will always be my heroes.

  • doesnt sound at all like stanly?

  • Was anyone else surprised that the two weren't closer in their Hal Roach days?

  • All I can say is...

    ... RIP Laurel and Hardy.

  • very humble gentle fella,amazing insight thanks for upload!

  • Brilliant pair!!!

    I was wondering,has Stan drank something before this interview?

    God rest their souls!!!

  • I believe he suffered a stroke in his

    older years, if memory serves me correctly. In their final home movie footage from 1956, it seems Stan is getting around somewhat slower, and has a somewhat apathetic look overall.

  • the two guys are by far the best ever comedy duo that ever lived the things that they invented in comedy was next to none compared to the shit that is on tv today i only wish in my hart that they was around today and i could have seen then.

    plus how many people have noticed this if a picture or a statue is around a house or shop i bet you a dollar that any generation will say look that's

    Laurel and Hardy R.I.P boys your loved by all

  • plus how many people have noticed this if a picture or a statue is around a house or shop i bet you a dollar that any generation will say look that's

    Laurel and Hardy R.I.P boys your loved by all

    I don't get what you're saying...can you explain?