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Post by taylorfirst1 on May 4, 2018 20:37:05 GMT
My favorite is Abbott and Costello followed closely by The 3 Stooges but I'm a fan of all of the choices on the list.
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Post by snsurone on May 4, 2018 20:42:29 GMT
Why do we have to vote only once? I have three favorite comedy teams: Laurel & Hardy, the Marx Brothers, and the Three Stooges.
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Post by Doghouse6 on May 4, 2018 23:51:12 GMT
If I have to choose only one, gotta go with Stan and Ollie (but with the anarchic Marx Brothers close on their heels). I still get a kick out of Abbott and Costello for the smoothness, momentum and precision of their well-honed act, although Lou's shtick tends to wear thin, and I now get the most enjoyment from Bud; that man's timing and rhythm were what kept their routines on track, and he was probably the best straight man in the business...and the second-funniest.
Which brings me to the funniest straight man, who represents a team not included: George Burns and Gracie Allen. Their best work was done on television rather than in films, and with nearly 150 hours of it preserved, they were the most prolific. While Gracie never really changed over their 30-year career, it was astonishing how fresh her illogical logic remained, but George's mellowing from the constant exasperation of their early years to the affectionately patient mischief of their television ones allowed the act to develop without compromising its foundation. Additionally, they never stopped tweaking and refining the show's format while remaining on that solid foundation, so it never became stale. We still watch an episode or two a week, and each is just as funny the fourth or fifth time as the first.
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 0:07:25 GMT
No mention of Monty Python? I am surprised. Anyway, my favorite is The Firesign Theatre which is rather esoteric so I don't expect anyone else to like them, but they are "classic" to their audience. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be my second favorite followed closely by the Marx Bros. who I have enjoyed from an early age.
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Post by rateater on May 5, 2018 0:37:07 GMT
3 stooges
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on May 5, 2018 0:41:43 GMT
Bud & Lou followed by Marx Bros.
Also love Martin & Lewis live
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Post by movielover on May 5, 2018 1:30:10 GMT
The 3 Stooges and The Marx Brothers (need multiple voting options)
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Post by outrider127 on May 5, 2018 1:52:34 GMT
The Three Stooges, with Curly, will never be surpassed, funniest comedy team in entertainment history-----Still like Abbott and Costello also, watched their early '50's TV show a few years ago on METV channel, still funny, helped by funny supporting characters
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on May 5, 2018 2:05:22 GMT
No mention of Monty Python? I am surprised. Anyway, my favorite is The Firesign Theatre which is rather esoteric so I don't expect anyone else to like them, but they are "classic" to their audience. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be my second favorite followed closely by the Marx Bros. who I have enjoyed from an early age. I'd call Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, The State and Exit 57 comedy troupes
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 2:17:01 GMT
No mention of Monty Python? I am surprised. Anyway, my favorite is The Firesign Theatre which is rather esoteric so I don't expect anyone else to like them, but they are "classic" to their audience. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be my second favorite followed closely by the Marx Bros. who I have enjoyed from an early age. I'd call Monty Python, Kids in the Hall, The State and Exit 57 comedy troupes But I think Monty Python is the only one of those troupes that would be called "classic" and even that might be stretching the definition a bit.
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Post by politicidal on May 5, 2018 2:27:48 GMT
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Post by Deleted on May 5, 2018 2:33:50 GMT
The 3 Stooges. They were always hillarious and had great ideas for comedy situations. The Marx Brothers and Abbot and Costello are great too. I haven't seen much stuff with the others. I really need to check out more classic comedy groups.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on May 5, 2018 12:55:14 GMT
The Three Stooges have made me laugh the most.
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Post by marshamae on May 5, 2018 14:07:52 GMT
Marx Brothers.
I love Martin and Lewis on TV but did not care for their films.
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Post by louise on May 5, 2018 14:32:02 GMT
MArx Brothers
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Post by bravomailer on May 5, 2018 14:46:06 GMT
Peter Cook and Dudley Moore – second only to the Marx Brothers.
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Post by koskiewicz on May 5, 2018 17:29:45 GMT
Burns and Allen followed by WC Fields and Baby Leroy
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Post by Nalkarj on May 5, 2018 20:22:58 GMT
Good topic, taylorfirst1. I suppose I’d have to second what Doghouse said: I love the Marxes and probably have gotten more belly-laughs from their movies than from anyone else’s, but my heart’s with Stan and Babe. There’s something immensely endearing about Laurel and Hardy that only adds to the comedy; one simultaneously laughs and smiles sweetly. I also think that, for me, that’s one of the elements that makes Laurel and Hardy’s slapstick funnier than the Stooges, though sometimes the actual routines can be similar; Laurel and Hardy’s arises naturally out of their lovable, sweet characters, while the Stooges have that kind of antagonistic nature that, while certainly funny, makes it come across more as a few guys hitting each other. There’s this remarkable sequence in the otherwise not-so-remarkable The Flying Deuces where Ollie is going to kill himself (and that the joke does not at all come across as tasteless is a tribute to the Boys’ subtle comic art). Stan is sad, of course, and he murmurs out, “G’bye, Ollie!” Of course, Ollie is insulted: he expected Stanley to come with him! Well, why? Because we can’t imagine the one without the other, because they’re so perfect together—everything comes through as a comic turn on a very real and very deep friendship. It also helps, of course, that Stan and Ollie’s humor is not only slapstick, and not only situational or verbal, but a medley of all of them, with Stan’s signature “white magic,” a kind of pop surrealism, thrown in. (Teller, from the modern “Penn and Teller” team, does this incredible and beautiful trick “Shadows” that is pure Stan Laurel, as Teller has confirmed.) There’s a sequence in Blockheads, which is probably the funniest of their features (as, I think, Sons of the Desert is their best and Way Out West their best-mounted), in which Ollie thinks Stan has lost a leg in the trenches during WWI. Stanley hasn’t, of course, but he lets Ollie push him in a wheelchair and then carry him, Ollie being completely oblivious to Stan’s both legs—until the moment Stan stands upright, of course. Now, every aspect of that routine fits their characters, and there’s a complete lack of malice. The whole thing is utterly hilarious and utterly charming. Wonderful stuff. Well, my apologies for turning your thread into a Laurel and Hardy panegyric, but I was just trying to jot down a few offhand notes.
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Post by Nalkarj on May 5, 2018 20:52:32 GMT
No mention of Monty Python? I am surprised. Anyway, my favorite is The Firesign Theatre which is rather esoteric so I don't expect anyone else to like them, but they are "classic" to their audience. Monty Python's Flying Circus would be my second favorite followed closely by the Marx Bros. who I have enjoyed from an early age. Not know Firesign Theatre? Pfui! They’re just plain uproarious, and I know we have some other fans around here… Not really ‘classic film,’ but definitely one of the greats, if only for the pure comic anarchy (like Python, The Goon Show, and the Marxes). Also…one of the most quotable comedy teams: “a little brouhaha? Ha ha ha,” “no no no, the horizon is going up,” “which one? The one with the ever-widening hole in it,” “Abraham Lincoln did not die in vain. He died in Washington, D.C.,” ad infinitum, ad gloriam. (And those are all just from “How Can You Be…”)
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Post by teleadm on May 5, 2018 23:08:44 GMT
An OP choses what an OP choses, if someone don't like an OP choices one doesn't have to participate in a little harmless fun...
I voted for Marx Brothers, could have been Laurel and Hardy, but it tipped over to the Marxes.
I love Dean Martin, but I can't stand the Martin and Lewis movies.
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