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  • The 3 Stooges were great. But I don't think that one was the best because they played off each other. They all were the best, but only as a team. 

  • Best humor ever! been watching them for 42 years, and not letting up anytime soon!

  • ''now looky here neighbour'' hehe

  • From 2:30 , it is also on the 4 for Texas -Three stooges

  • "food drink and a couple of dames" still true today

  • "Look here Nicklefeather!"

    "Pennyfeather!"

  • Shemp was first before Curly but left and came back after Curly got sick

  • watching this again makes me feel like it was back in time, amazing what good tvee can do ,a feeling only from back then, just happy and magical..

  • The Three Stooges worked from the mid 30's to the early 60's. They had at least 3 guys replace Curly, Shemp, his brother who of course was also Moe's brother, Joe, and Curly Joe. I maybe forgetting one there. Also, Larry was a highly trained musician and was an expert violin player. They were great.

  • What's with the fake laugh !!! Stooges known as who they were funny fake laugh just ruin it

  • ROFL at 7:49

  • ROFL at 7:49

  • Should have made this a tv series.

  • INCORRECT THE 3 STOOGES  WAS MADE IN THE 30'S NOT THE LATE FORTIES

  • there is something wrong with me, I don't understand their sense of humour. The lack of continuity in what they say hardly make any sense at all.

  • @PauleQueenie

    Kind of like how a lot of people don't understand Monty Python.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy, the monty python had a different kind of sense of humour and more continuity in their story. With these lots hitting people was normality, true enough there is not much vulgarity or obscene words except for "stupid". I just don't understand why people laugh to being hit, try that and the police officer or the army will come to either arrest you or go to war with your country.

  • @PauleQueenie

    War is a bit much.

    But it's just silly. And it isn't just the slapstick. If you listen to what they say, but their earlier shorts, it's pretty funny.

    Also look up stuff like Groucho Marx/Marx brothers and Abbott and Costello.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy, well WTC was only slapstick in 2 buildings no? There was NO vulgarity, no insult from either side except a few slapsticks. There was too much magic, too much laughing about from Texas... That is the problem maybe... Any pancit left to eat...Pancit is for long life...Have a good life

  • @PauleQueenie

    What the fuck? You just brought up 9/11? God damn man. And what does Texas have anything to do with this either?

    Are you trolling? I hope you are.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy, Where was President Bush from? Texas no?

    I am not trolling, I am only stating what I saw as an opinion, mine. My opinion is NOT your opinion. Different opinions imply different responses, I would not insult you, I would not practice slapstick on you either. As I said, I do not really agree or understand this sense of humour, that's all. 9/11 is an old story

  • @PauleQueenie

    You brought up 9/11 for some reason and I don't know why. And that was totally fucked up. A fake slap is nothing like 3000 people dying.

  • @AmericanNohbuddy, why are you telling? Go tell former President Bush. Maybe he and others don't know the difference between a fake slap, movies and reality anymore. The reasons are stated in my previous comment. 

  • curly curly curly was the best of the group and who agrees ¿?¿ R.I.P curly the comedy master

  • @greenhornet-- come on! shemp was HILARIOUS! methinks he was every bit as funny as curly...

  • God Bless the Three Stooges. But I prefer the lineup with Curly to Shemp.

  • @newkillergenius YES, ME TOO NOBODY TOPS CURLY,NUK,NUK,NUK LOL

    BOOMCC1

  • They werent made for TV.....when they lost Curly they lost their comic genius....

  • @Greenhornet270 yeah but they came out with shemp or curly joe i dont remember

  • The Three Stooges were and alway's be the best comedy team,ever! No one will ever replace them!

  • @heebieandjeebie i agree

  • This live show and their quickly edited shorts are two entirely different things. No wonder the pilot didnt fly, they used just about every one of their classic bits! Without the sound effects, this pales by comparison

  • Thank you so much for this gem of a post!!!

  • thanks to you tube we never be able see these classic stooges Bit ever on tv.comedy at there finest

  • Im sure these actors never thought they would be on the internet!!!!!

  • The stooges are the Greatest !!!!

  • this iseven funnier than some of their films. Wonder why it wasn't aired.

  • You might be interested to know that Moe even had to help Curly work out his Income Tax forms.

  • One of my favorite Stooges shorts!

  • Especially since Ted Healy took most of the spotlight. He also wasn't very good with money, since he spent of his paycheck at the racetrack, and couldn't save a cent.

  • Especially when it came to money!

  • 1:35

  • i never get tired of the stooges

  • Mrs. Pennyfeather was played by Symona Boniface, who appeared in many other Stooges shorts (she was Mrs. Bixby in "Micro-Phonies", and Mrs. Smythe-Smythe in "Half-Wits Holiday", which has one of the Stooges' better pie fight scenes). Sadly, she passed away of cancer the year after this pilot was made. She was only 56.

  • hahaha nakakatawa

  • Curly died in 1952, Shemp in '55, Larry in Jan. '75 & Moe in May of '75

  • Right, Curly of a Stroke, Shemp of a Heart Attack, Larry of a stroke, and Moe of something else but i cant remember I think it was something like Cancer or Stroke.

  • Moe died of Lung Cancer at 77 1/2

  • Moe died of cancer. RIP the Stooges.

  • Curly had several strokes and passed away in 1952.. Shemp died suddenly of a heart attack on the way home from a fight card in 1955. Larry had several health problems and died in 1974, shortly after suffering a stroke.  Moe died of lung cancer in 1975. Joe Besser died of heart faliure in 1988. Joe DeRita died of pneumonia in 1993. DeRita also was the longest-lived of the Stooges, just short of 84 years.

  • This is awesome! The closest thing you can get to seeing their original stage act!

    And you get to hear the real slaps . . . no wonder Larry had a calloused face!

  • there's no comedy on tv that can compare to this

    moes hair is hilarious

  • And so say all of us! Nyuk nyuk nyuk! Them too! Woo, woo, woo!

  • I guess if the show was picked up, then all the stuff they had on the door they would of probably done in other episodes

  • I love this one.

  • Give them the Razzle Dazzle

  • I want this room done robin's(bird) egg blue.

    Lady we ain't got no time to go out robbing (to steal) eggs... lmao!

    Lmao @ when Moe introduces Larry, too, CHAAARM!.

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  • Dam I was born this year. Luv these guys This is when you didnt need those laugh tracks (like on 2 and 1/2 men etc) and many of todays shows. These guys had to act. Love them to death

  • The 3 Stooges were GENIUSES.

    TV in the past 30 years SUCKED.

    THIS is how it's done. Bless the Stooges. FOREVER.

  • no 30 years,at least 20.

  • @Tommyr Can't agree more!

  • I can see that The Beatles and The Monkees got inspiration for their movies ,shows from the stooges shows. Take a look at a MOnkees episode and you can see. And HELP by The Beatles

  • we had to act this in drama class, it was really fun lol and shemp slipped on the ink remover at the end as he kicked pennyfeather out the door

    =D

  • Moe + Larry + Curly = Executive + Judicial + Legislative

  • click my name u can watch alot of stooge shorts all in one place

  • There is one part that they don't show. It's in the beginning when Shemp is typing. Shemp: I don't think, I know Moe: I don't think you know either (Begins) Moe: Dear sir.... (Shemp types really fast) Moe: What have you got so far? Shemp: How do you spell "sir." (Moe smacks shemp) Moe: In your case "Cur" (Ends)
  • skyhiatrists...LOL

  • damn watch this shit tripping face

  • Curly? Aww..no curly.

  • "How did you get SO stupid?"

    "I got a charge account, what's your excuse?"

    Lol!!!

  • I heard the announcer give the title of this show as "Inferior Decorating" but it's listed here as "Jerks Of All Trades". I wish this would have been a TV sitcom in the 50's!

  • TV wasn't invented then...c'mon

  • The video is from a TV pilot, NOT the movies, you dumbass.

  • You are correct. The age of two-reelers was fading fast. This was produced by Phil Berle, brother of Milton Berle. This was shot in Kinescope which had not been attempted with the stooges before. Unfortunately, ABC didn't pick up this pilot to series, Berle moved to NBC. In 1950 the Stooges returned to Columbia for another season.

  • This was shot live, then preserved on kinescope, which involved a camera taking the image off a television monitor.

  • I see you're only 15. That explains your stupidity.

  • "How do you spell sir?" where's that scene?

  • Fucking MASTERS.

  • "That's a queer contraption!"

    "Yeah, ain't that quaint?"

    "Ain't?"

    "Yeah."

    "You mean 'isn't.'"

    "Yeah. Isn't that quisn't?"

    LOL!

  • I've always been of the opinion Moe was the best. He was the best actor, and could deliver lines exceptionally well, and funny! But yes, he was mean. A couple of people have said Moe murmurs "fuckin" in this... I think he says "bucket"...???? x

  • You are crazy. Larry was the best. His unscripted comments were hilarious and his expressions in the background were timeless. Larry was the best of the group! After all, he did have a system for getting a bucket off someones head.

  • agreed, Larry's facial expressions were hysterical. So many classic lines he had.

  • @emmtampa

    I agree. That's why I have a YouTube video I made called "For The Love Of Larry". Check it out and let me know what you think. I'm working on Part 2 now, so much video to go through!

  • @emmtampa you kidding me? there is no best... and they were all scripted to a certain extent... its not like larry was unscripted and the rest were all scripted or something... all i know is the best trios were with shemp and curly i was never a fan of joe...

  • I never could figure out how canyone could think that Moe was "funny". He reminded me too much of my step dad. Full of abuse, and mean. I know, it was only a "show", but I never could ever understand it.

  • Up until a few years ago, I thought that the music that opens their clips were little kids yelling those notes we hear from,0:5-0:17 then. I came to find they were made with a trumpet mute moving back and forth on the end of the horn!

  • Some sad shit here. The Stooges could have gotten a fresh TV show in the early 50's and made a fortune, but this wasn't the vehicle. The best that happened was a rerun of their movie shorts as a TV program, and they never got a dime off of them.

  • curlys the best

  • my favorite stooge is curly with out him the show is not that funny

  • It's true - Stimpy does sound like Larry Fine!

  • That's because the guy who does Stimpy (Billy West) modeled that voice after Larry. He also got his big break on the Howard Stern show doing his Larry Fine voice. He now does voices for Futurama. You can hear some larry fine in the professor's voice.

  • That much I know - but I'd never really seen much 3 Stooges to judge until just recently! Stimpy makes some Curly noises too (although I realise Curly's not in this one)

  • @btmsk8ter West does zoidberg's voice as well, he calls the technique "marble mouth".... By the way,couldnt help but notice that Moe was a little sharp on that major 3rd when answering the phone, just sayin. Great episode

  • in a interview, billy west(voice of stimpy), he said he created the voice of stimpy off of larry, so thats probally why

  • spoke too soon. live audience.

  • why would they have not wanted to do this. not like its any less funny then the features. this great. lose canned laughter tho. didnt need em.

  • M: Are we Painters and Paper hangers? l: Are we Painters and Papers hangers? S: Are We?

    ROTF

  • lolz I remember I was around 8 or 9 years old and watching this with my cousin on tv laughing it up..haha those were the days

  • Symona Ferner Boniface

    I really loved Simona's portrayal of many a stooge foil for many years...sadly she passed away within a year of this broadcast.

    Died:

    September 02, 1950

    Woodland Hills, California, USA (cause: pancreatic cancer)

  • "Hey broccoli head!" hahahahaha

  • 8:40-8:45- That's a good one! How do they come up with these things?

  • moe looks like hitler

  • He did say he wanted to dictate, right? XD

  • He did portray Hitler in a few shorts back during the days with Curley.

  • wait. i thought they started in 1936..?

  • this was for tv there films in movie theaters started in 1936

  • we have this show every afternoon in the philippines and it made my problems gone

  • Wow. The Three Stooges were, and still are my favorite comedians. It's a shame they died. But, no one can live forever.

  • "How did you ever get so stupid?"

    "I got a charge account. What's your excuse?"

  • "Remind me to lower your salary and raise your forehead!"

  • what the fuck was with 1:38

  • if ur talkin about how they looked around its cuz he asked for gentlemen.

    they always do something like that wen someone calls them gentlemen

  • i get the gentlemen part but wtf "come in..

  • lol idk man there weird

  • "Went to Swedish massage college."

    "Why'd you go into that business?"

    "I couldn't find enough Swedes to massage."

    Love them Stooges!

  • very cool.i never seen this before.

  • Emil Stika rules!

  • It's not as funny w/o the sounds.

  • Indded, the slaps, doinks and poke noises really are missed here.

  • funny stuff!!

  • classic!

  • nuf siad

  • THE BEST T.V.

  • S:I don't think, I know

    M:I don't think you either

  • "That's a queer contraption."

    "Yeah, ain't that quaint?"

    "Ain't? You mean isn't."

    "Yeah, isn't that quisnt?" *slap*

  • this is on spike tv on fridays like 800 clock in the moring

  • This is the pilot episode for a sitcom they did, not to be confused with their shorts they had done in earlier years.

  • Iggy Pop certainly owes a debt to these fellas.

  • IT JUST DOES NOT GET ANY BETTER THAN THIS! I am proud to say that I was president of the Three Stooges Appreciation Society at Kings College London. So much for higher education!

  • How I absolutely ADORE the Stooges. I was born in the 60's and I'd lived to come home from school every day at 3.30 to watch my hilarious buddies. However, my fav will always be Curly. This video is a great pleasure. Thank you so much for sharing it. Send more Stooges! P.S. Check out Moe Howard as a guest on the Mike Douglas show from the early 70's on Youtube.

  • lol lol lol lol....i remember watchin 15 mins every evening at 5 in the late 80s, wen i was 5 probably..... used to be the most hilarious 15 mins of the day...!!!!!!

  • lol. man i love this show.

  • the other guy appearing was Emil Sitka, AKA The Fourth Stooge.. has his own web site too.

  • pilot episode? for a new network? 3 stooges have been doing work since the late 20's

  • Right, but this was a TV pilot. Network Television was brand new when this was filmed.

    Their work from the 20s until the time of this work was all for short films shown in movie theaters.

  • Revenge of the file cabinet! LOL

  • OH MAN, it stopped right when larry tossed the tomato! X(

  • great rare clip. without the sound effects the hittin' looks real and violent.

  • Emil Stika is the greatest!

  • OMG!! off-the-wall salad.... lol

    I only got to see bits and pieces of this video on a 3stooges VHS tape. It was probably edited for time, but the parts I didn't see in the VHS tape are in this video, and OMG, that was hilarious!!!

    they aren't from *clap clap clap* texas??

    What difference would that make?!

    You'd be surprised!! LOL!

  • whoa this is a rare freaking episode! it was never seen until the 90s

  • now llisten mr quarter feather

    IT'S PENNY FEATHER LOL!

  • The Three Stooges are perhaps one of America's most funny and versatile comedy acts of all time, considering their Vaudeville roots, their two reel shorts (later syndicated for TV, their attempt at an early Tv show (seen here), and their appearances in the movies.

  • Slapstick.

    Pioneers to what is considered funny now.

    Loved this!

    Thanks!

    And my little vid I posted kind-a shows why I said that!

    HAha!

  • nice timeming!!!

  • I saw this on a DVD.

  • lol the classics!!!

  • If Moe,Larry Curly and Joe De Rita

    had any flaw..it's this? They were to trusting of

    the wrong people and alot of

    them cheated them out of monies

    and creative freedom.

  • i see they messed up on the draw gag. you can tell because the guys like

    "Oh s*** well ...its this one...yeah hehe..."

    ..and you can tell by Larry's reaction.

    ..i guess thats live for ya.. heh..

  • At what time in the clip does this happen? I've watched it 2 or 3 times and I still haven't found it!

  • i didnt mean he really said that. lol

  • Oh! lol ^_^

  • i mean when Moe says "you got to use your head" you can tell that the dude pushing the drawers out hit the 3rd one instead of the top one. Its obvoise because Moe ingores the hit

  • Oh Yeah! :D HAHAHAHA

  • The gags dont work too well

  • Phil Berle {Milton's brother} produced this unaired pilot for ABC's consideration. But Columbia refused to allow the Stooges to appear in a weekly TV series while under contract to them, so the entire project was abandoned.

  • Just click my name then look in my vids for the 2nd half. Enjoy.

  • According to their biography that was aired on TV a few years ago, whenCurly Joe joined the group and they got back into show business, they were the highest paid act of their time. I did hear that Larry died pennyless. Moe and Curly Joe had done well for themselves. My guess about Larry is that he gambled his fortune away. However... prior to Curly Joe, the three Stooges were sevearly taken advantage of by just about everyone.

  • Sorry there alraczkowski - I was only going by their biography. They hired several managers that ripped them off - and Moe - generally did not want to continue after his brother (Curly) died in 1952. But I am sure you know more then their biographer - and personnel friend for more than 50 years. You're an idiot!!

  • Curly died on January 18,1952. Shemp died from a massive heartattack on November 22,1955. After Shemp's death, he was replaced by Besser but the studio wanted DeRita.

  • Besser was already under contract to Columbia, where he had his own series of shorts with Jim Hawthorne.

  • The Stooges had only one manager, Harry Romm, who ripped them off ruthelessly, and broke with him after the success of "Have Rocket, WIll Travel", due to the percentage of profits they wanted from their next film. Only Moe understood money better than the other Stooges. That so called biopic made for television is loaded with inaccuracies (suh as when they enter the Columbia pictures' entrance in 1934, you can see a 1939 Plymouth leaving the exit).

  • Actually the Stooges originally had another manager when they first started. His name was Ted Heely. He was the Technical Leader of the stooges when they first started.

  • That's spelled "Healy", and the Stooges weren't exactly happy with the way they were handling their finances, which led Moe, Larry, and Curly to break with him. There was also Moe's son in law, Norman Maurer, who directed three of the films with Curly Joe ("The Three Stooges Meet Hercules", "The Three Stooges Go Around The World In A Daze" and "The Outlaws IS Coming!" plus the aborted "Kook's Tour" pilot, which was never finished due to Larry Fine's stroke. How sad!

  • Unfortunatly - they all died in the 70's - and they died completely broke - all of their moeny was swiped by shitty managers and hangers on!! The last several years they all spent on welfare. This should tell you something about Hollywood!!

  • For your info, the stooges weren't broke when they died. Moe lived in a really nice home in CA, drove a huge Caddy & never wanted for money. Larry was sickly when he died from a stroke, but wasn't broke & Curly Joe was well off as well. The guy who had it bad was Curley whose 3rd wife took him for all he had.

  • How many shows did the 3stooges did..? I'd like to see more if they have any..

  • They did over 200 shows i think

  • Thank you so much for posting this. I'd heard of it before but never seen it until now. This is very rare 'live' performance footage.

  • I think this is the funniest episode of the 3stooges. i got this one on DVD.

  • amazing stuff! anac0nda, which is the name of the dvd? would like to have it.

  • That's simone boniface

  • Very interesting! I especially like it because it included Shemp, my favorite Stooge.

    The video is quite clear for something nearly 60 years old.

    Keeping in mind this was in front of a live audience,

    I wonder how much of this was ad-libbed?

    It's nice to see they had some long-time Stooge-shorts actors in it, too, such as Emil Sitka. I recognize the woman from the shorts, too, but I can't remember her name.

    Thanks btmsk8ter!