Just watched a documentary about Laurel and Hardy. Laughed, chortled and cried about them.
The best comedy duo ever.
What channel was it on, please? I'd love to see it. For anyone who's a fan, if you're ever in the Lake District and have the time, visit Ulverston, the town where Stan Laurel was born. Although you cannot visit his childhood home (a very simple terrace house) as it's privately-owned, there is The Stan Laurel Inn nearby which is plastered with photos of the duo and its beers are named after their films (I had a pint of 'Laughing Gravy'). Best of all is the museum, located in an old cinema, which is charmingly amateurish but has plenty of memorabilia and has the short films playing continuously in a curtained-off area - you can't help but smile as you walk around the museum and you hear the laughter from behind the curtains often preceded by a soundtrack of clanging metal or smashing crockery.
Just watched a documentary about Laurel and Hardy. Laughed, chortled and cried about them.
The best comedy duo ever.
What channel was it on, please? I'd love to see it. For anyone who's a fan, if you're ever in the Lake District and have the time, visit Ulverston, the town where Stan Laurel was born. Although you cannot visit his childhood home (a very simple terrace house) as it's privately-owned, there is The Stan Laurel Inn nearby which is plastered with photos of the duo and its beers are named after their films (I had a pint of 'Laughing Gravy'). Best of all is the museum, located in an old cinema, which is charmingly amateurish but has plenty of memorabilia and has the short films playing continuously in a curtained-off area - you can't help but smile as you walk around the museum and you hear the laughter from behind the curtains often preceded by a soundtrack of clanging metal or smashing crockery.
Just watched a documentary about Laurel and Hardy. Laughed, chortled and cried about them.
The best comedy duo ever.
What channel was it on, please? I'd love to see it. For anyone who's a fan, if you're ever in the Lake District and have the time, visit Ulverston, the town where Stan Laurel was born. Although you cannot visit his childhood home (a very simple terrace house) as it's privately-owned, there is The Stan Laurel Inn nearby which is plastered with photos of the duo and its beers are named after their films (I had a pint of 'Laughing Gravy'). Best of all is the museum, located in an old cinema, which is charmingly amateurish but has plenty of memorabilia and has the short films playing continuously in a curtained-off area - you can't help but smile as you walk around the museum and you hear the laughter from behind the curtains often preceded by a soundtrack of clanging metal or smashing crockery.
Just watched a documentary about Laurel and Hardy. Laughed, chortled and cried about them.
The best comedy duo ever.
What channel was it on, please? I'd love to see it. For anyone who's a fan, if you're ever in the Lake District and have the time, visit Ulverston, the town where Stan Laurel was born. Although you cannot visit his childhood home (a very simple terrace house) as it's privately-owned, there is The Stan Laurel Inn nearby which is plastered with photos of the duo and its beers are named after their films (I had a pint of 'Laughing Gravy'). Best of all is the museum, located in an old cinema, which is charmingly amateurish but has plenty of memorabilia and has the short films playing continuously in a curtained-off area - you can't help but smile as you walk around the museum and you hear the laughter from behind the curtains often preceded by a soundtrack of clanging metal or smashing crockery.
Sky arts. I recorded it a while ago.
Doh!
(I don't have Sky)
You might find it online. It’s a German film I think. Bizarrely, to me, it had German comedians giving opinions in German at times.
I thought the film was ok - though sad to see them having an unhappy time of things. But what it did for me in those areas where they reproduced the sketches was show how inadequate they were in comparison to the magic of the original. It was like seeing a paint by numbers version of a great masterpiece.
What I love about this thread is that, so far, no one has come on and posted anything negative about them (that'll change now I've mentioned it!). They may not be to everyone's taste but there can't be many comedians that have maintained such enduring respect and love. They've also influenced countless comedians such as Paul Merton, Frank Skinner, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, John Cleese, Steve Martin, Jennifer Saunders, Vic Reeves...
For me, watching Laurel and Hardy in the early 1980s (at 5.40 on BBC2) with my dad, is as nostalgic a memory as is the memory of going to see Charlton with my dad. I'm posting this just to keep the thread on Page 1 a little bit longer! Laurel and Hardy plus Charlton - love it.
(Cue the jokes about Charlton being run by Laurel and Hardy.)
Love Laurel and Hardy. The one where they’re on the road and they start helping themselves to a water well not realising it’s full of moonshine. A fella leaves his wife there to get his car mended and he comes back furious to find all three blind drunk.
Hardy “Well fan my brow, I’m from The South” Laurel “Well shut my mouth! I’m from the South too!” Hardy “The South of what, Sir?” Laurel “The South of London!”
Brilliant photo of Stan and Ollie visiting the Bull Inn in Bottesford, Nottingham at Christmas. Stans sister Olga, and her husband Bill were the licensees there.
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Remember a summer holiday when I was young when they had a laurel and hardy double bill every lunchtime. Pure class
For anyone who's a fan, if you're ever in the Lake District and have the time, visit Ulverston, the town where Stan Laurel was born. Although you cannot visit his childhood home (a very simple terrace house) as it's privately-owned, there is The Stan Laurel Inn nearby which is plastered with photos of the duo and its beers are named after their films (I had a pint of 'Laughing Gravy'). Best of all is the museum, located in an old cinema, which is charmingly amateurish but has plenty of memorabilia and has the short films playing continuously in a curtained-off area - you can't help but smile as you walk around the museum and you hear the laughter from behind the curtains often preceded by a soundtrack of clanging metal or smashing crockery.
Doh!
(I don't have Sky)
The greatest comedy duo ever.
For me, watching Laurel and Hardy in the early 1980s (at 5.40 on BBC2) with my dad, is as nostalgic a memory as is the memory of going to see Charlton with my dad. I'm posting this just to keep the thread on Page 1 a little bit longer! Laurel and Hardy plus Charlton - love it.
(Cue the jokes about Charlton being run by Laurel and Hardy.)
Laurel “Well shut my mouth! I’m from the South too!”
Hardy “The South of what, Sir?”
Laurel “The South of London!”