Nyuk! Nyuk! Nyuk! But Only If You're In Boston!

[Joseph_Gallant]

Traditionally, AMC had run a Three Stooges marathon on New Year's Eve, but this year, they're only broadcasting a pair of Stooge shorts between 5:05 and 6 A.M. EST on New Year's Day. Most of the night will be taken up with a "Walking Dead" marathon.

However, the first to broadcast a Stooges marathon, WSBK-38 here in Boston, will carry their traditional "Stooge-A-Thon" tomorrow night (December 31st), from 8 P.M. to 1 A.M.

For Stooge fans in Boston, it's a nyuk-fest of bopping on the head, poking out eyes, and squeezing and turning noses accompanied by goofy sound effects.

Are Stooges fans everywhere else jealous? Sointenly!

(BTW, WSBK will hopefully show only Curly shorts, because he is the Stooges!)

 

[mpepin]

Antenna TV showing marathon all day New Year's Day.

N/M

 

[ronald54321]

I lucked out a few months ago and got the Sony Ultimate Three Stooges Collection (all their Columbia stuff) for only $52.00.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

^^^ My Stooges CDs were much cheaper than that, and included footage of Mo's guest appearances on TV shows popular in the '60s & even the early '70s. Trouble is, since moving last year, I can't find it.

 

[KML0224]

While WSBK-TV will do their traditional run, Antenna TV will do a marathon of their own. Of course, your market would have to carry them. I get them here via WTIC-TV 61-2 of Hartford.

 

[Joseph_Gallant]

KML-224:

Thanks for the info.

 

[therealjm12]

This morning I caught Brideless Groom on AMC. It's always difficult to watch the Stooges on AMC or IFC because the editing is so bad and the commercial breaks are longer than the segments. So anyway, I believe, Groom must be in the public domain because it is shown so often and is in so many collections. I do watch it just to see Emil Sitka steal the show with "Hold Hands You Lovebirds". Like most people, I prefer Curly, but Shemp was great,too. The budgets were cut by the time he came along and it definitely shows.

 

[landtuna]

I do watch it just to see Emil Sitka steal the show with "Hold Hands You Lovebirds".

Did you know Emil Sitka was Moe's choice to replace Larry (after Larry's stroke) in a regurgitated version of The Three Stooges? Unfortunately Moe himself died a month or two later and with him, The Three Stooges.

Like most people, I prefer Curly, but Shemp was great,too. The budgets were cut by the time he came along and it definitely shows.

I have never found any significant film of Shemp when he was with the Stooges in the Healy days. It would be interesting to see his antics before Curly defined his role. Shemp was the first to quit Healy because of the physical pounding Ted gave the Stooges and that may explain why it wasn't such a large part of the Stooges act years later when Shemp rejoined the group.

 

[Mr. Mike]

For what it's worth. in the St. Louis area, where I live, Antenna TV is seen OTA on digital channel 2.2, or on Charter digital cable channel 88. 8)

 

[johnbasalla]

"From Soup To Nuts", a 1930 feature, has Shemp in it with Larry and Moe and Ted Healey. It was available back in the VHS tape days, so I presume it's available on DVD.

 

[RobertAnthony]

Antenna TV is on WPIX 11.2 (Cablevision 114). Now while 11.1 runs the Honeymooners marathon til 5:00, Antenna is running the Stooges, which were a Sunday morning staple for years and years on 11. Even as a kid in the 80's I saw them, before Abbott and Costello (AKA The Sunday Morning Movie).

 

[therealjm12]

Many years ago I was working at a TV station doing master control on Sunday nights. After our 11:00 news we ran the 700 Club. It was on 2" and totally self contained. That meant put it on the air and walk away for 58 minutes and 27 seconds. We had WPIX thru our switcher because we ran some Yankee games. PIX was running Stooges from 11:30 -12:30. So I would pop up the Stooges on preview, put my feet up and enjoy all the pokes while our viewers got milked.

 

[anotherguyTN]

I have never found any significant film of Shemp when he was with the Stooges in the Healy days. It would be interesting to see his antics before Curly defined his role. Shemp was the first to quit Healy because of the physical pounding Ted gave the Stooges and that may explain why it wasn't such a large part of the Stooges act years later when Shemp rejoined the group.

At one time TCM ran a documentary called The Lost Stooges that contained shorts and movie segments with them in their days with Healy, but it has been so long that I don't remember how much Shemp was in. I'd guess that some of it might be on You Tube.

 

[landtuna]

I have never found any significant film of Shemp when he was with the Stooges in the Healy days. It would be interesting to see his antics before Curly defined his role. Shemp was the first to quit Healy because of the physical pounding Ted gave the Stooges and that may explain why it wasn't such a large part of the Stooges act years later when Shemp rejoined the group.

At one time TCM ran a documentary called The Lost Stooges that contained shorts and movie segments with them in their days with Healy, but it has been so long that I don't remember how much Shemp was in. I'd guess that some of it might be on You Tube.

I've seen several historical films of the Healy-Stooges and Shemp was there but most of their performances were on stage, not on film, so the physical stuff didn't have the same impact without the sound effects. In one interesting interview with Moe's daughter (I think) she said Shemp was a very gentle soul and disliked Healy's style of comedy intensely. Larry wasn't a big fan of the physical stuff either saying he went years with callouses on the side of his face from being slapped.

I think one of the big failures of the Three Stooges directors and story writers was not taking advantage of Larry's talents musically and as a dancer. He was very good but it showed in only a few isolated scenes. Unfortunately, he seemed to be more interested in horse racing than performing so didn't push it himself.