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If you're tired of formulaic westerns, overdone melodrama, generic gangster shoot-'em-ups, and superheroes...this announcement is for you.
Turner Classic Movies is showing a group of the original Laurel and Hardy classics tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were comedic actors. I think their films go beyond simple slapstick comedy. There are no vulgar themes to their work, none of the profanity-laced tirades offered up as "entertainment" by today's so-called "comedians". My opinion is that their work is so far above that being done by today's "comedians" it almost defies description.
They had their career ups and downs. Their style of comedy fell out of favor. But just like Buster Keaton, they were rediscovered, and people realized what comedic geniuses they really were.
So if you're looking for just some good clean fun in your television viewing this evening, I can't think of a better place to start.
The last photo here is reportedly the last photograph made of them together in 1956.
Turner Classic Movies is showing a group of the original Laurel and Hardy classics tonight, beginning at 8:00 p.m.
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were comedic actors. I think their films go beyond simple slapstick comedy. There are no vulgar themes to their work, none of the profanity-laced tirades offered up as "entertainment" by today's so-called "comedians". My opinion is that their work is so far above that being done by today's "comedians" it almost defies description.
They had their career ups and downs. Their style of comedy fell out of favor. But just like Buster Keaton, they were rediscovered, and people realized what comedic geniuses they really were.
So if you're looking for just some good clean fun in your television viewing this evening, I can't think of a better place to start.
The last photo here is reportedly the last photograph made of them together in 1956.
