A GEM FOR THREE STOOGES FANS, SILENT COMEDIAN FANS AND STUDENTS OF COMEDY: Silent movie star comedian Harry Langdon tried sound movies but didn’t catch on. Here’s a clip from a sound short he did. And YES his foil with the moustache is the great Vernon Dent, who appeared in many Three Stooges flicks (he was the best of their foils). A very very funny bit:
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.