Near Death - Moe Howard Tells All - From The Life and Sad Ending®

[@spinaxchin]

Moe looks to be having the time of his life telling old stories. Thanks for this. These guys were such a huge part of my childhood.

[@byronmartin6459]

Amen.😊😊😊

[@miqallen6393]

The really cool thing about what you said was, WHEN was your childhood ? Because I am 50-years old, born in 1974 and I often say the same thing. Just as an 87-year old born in 1937, as well as a kid born in 1950 or even in the year 2000. These guys transcend time in a way extremely few ever have. These guys were special, alright. I will add that my 87-year old mom and I STILL watch the Three Stooges EVERY Saturday...and the day after tomorrow will be Saturday November 23rd, 2024 and we'll be watching ...and nearing the 100-year mark with every passing day, month, and year. Priceless..

[@spinaxchin]

@miqallen6393 Well I am a year older than you! 😆 But yes, I agree with you. Their humor really transcends generations. My name (spinach chin) is taken directly from a line by Moe from Malice In The Palace 😅

[@hectormedina7198]

Priceless memories. May they all Rest In Peace, Amen! ❤

[@anakatrien2463]

Mr. Howard on this show, we all see the charming, funloving man that he was. Rest in peace dear man ❤

[@johnlloyd732]

Loved that interview with Moe , Pure Gold 👌

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Thanks John. I appreciate you taking time to leave a comment.

[@williambrown6721]

How time has changed' Comedy back in the early days, was full of fun.. today comedy hour is nothing but hatred and discrimination, Thanks for the 12 minutes of great memories my friend 👍🏻🇺🇲 ..

[@JusticeRyan-n6d]

I remember going to the theatre in 1962 (10yrs old) and looked forward more to the stooges episode which started first than seeing the 2-hour regular movie.

[@MicheleHuffman-d8c]

Loved The Three Stooges since I was a kid, my son loved them watching reruns, and my husband thought Larry Fine was hilarious. Moe is so great telling all these stories. Ted Knight looked like a kid at Christmas.....lol. They were the best comedians ever. God Bless them all.

[@weatherboi]

The 3 Stooges are an American classic.

[@rongendron8705]

In 1963, at age 16, I saw Moe Howard, Larry Fine & Joe DeRita, (Three Stooges), when they made a personal appearance, at my local theater. for their movie "The Three Stooges go Around the World in a Daze! They all came within a few feet of me & I was surprised how short they all were! It was great fun seeing them in person!

[@allwheelsdown5646]

How about that!

[@larrygrebler5054]

Us Jewish guys tend to be on the short size. Even though DeRita sounds Italian.

[@dazed-n-confused6439]

I think you what you meant to say was you met Moe Howard, Larry Fine and one stooge impostor Joe Dumrita but your were lucky to meet Moe and Larry!!!

[@78tag]

I still have (one of my favorites) a poster of the three of them standing proud with golf clubs with the caption - "GOLF WITH YOU FRIENDS" The clubs are almost taller than they are. Love that poster. (I was 13 in '63 and watched them regularly growing up)

[@marilyn6979]

So cool for you!😊

[@lmcoopie]

A comedic legend.

[@kathleenking47]

Loking at thumbnail They were all short Their parents were 1st cousins

[@theoregan4183]

I've heard that Mr. Howard was a class act, encouraging kids to study hard and be good, they don't made men like him anymore God bless you Mr. Howard and thanks for all the laughs! Rest in Peace❤

[@sqd37l]

this brings back memories when life was simple and it was easy to have a good laugh

[@Frankpford]

Thanx for this they were part of my life still are

[@PA-uf4wd]

The sound effects was top notch for the Stooges. Actually made the show.

[@timemerich]

as a kid who was born in 1970 and grew up on 3 Stooges, this is wonderful. thank you!

[@pattyheitzman8635]

I met Moe in person when my family and I were in North Carolina. I think it was in 1972. He was nice. He was a friend of my late dad's friend of his. His name was George . Moe had a motor home that he didn't want anymore, so he gave George his motor home.

[@allwheelsdown5646]

How about that! Amazing.

[@lionheartroar3104]

The stooges are the most watched comedy act of their time.

[@Loydstardeli2017]

Three stooge are the greatest phyical comedy is timeless

[@emmitstewart1921]

I remember seeing them do a guest visit to a local show that included their movies, along with Our Gang and Laurel and Hardy. The important part of the interview was when they turned to the camera and spoke to all the children watching and said basically, "Don't do the things you see us doing on the screen. We're professional stunt men and we know how to do it without anyone getting hurt." You see, when they made those shorts, they were intended to run between the second and main features of movies made for adults mostly. The idea that they would be shown to audiences of mostly children never occurred to them. When they found out what was happening, they did their best to help the children understand.

[@JonByrd-ip6ko]

They were good men.

[@O.D.F-i8x]

Does it fricken matter how tall he was???? he was super talented. That's all that matters.

[@richardgreen9330]

When I was younger that was the thing to watch THE THREE STOOGES, Miss them good old days.❤❤

[@lowbaritonewwj]

I've seen this interview in the last year or so, somewhere else on KZbin, and what I tecall the most is all the times that Moe touched Mike on his arm, when he is talking to him. I found it sweetly endearing. :)

[@GeorgeMaster-xg7lg]

Moe was referring to Half Wits Holiday(1947)where Curly had his career-ending stroke.

[@catfish24]

Moe was the greatest. Rest in peace my friend.

[@bethclark9319]

Awesome - Jerome Lester Horwitz aka Curly died on January 18, 1952 (aged 48) and Samuel Horwitz aka Shemp died on November 22, 1955 (aged 60)

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Thanks for checking it out.

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

Almost four years apart.

[@svenmartin840]

I watched the show with my Mom. When I was 5. And I had a very big laugh with the pies. It was very funny. I watched The Stooges when I was a boy. And now I am a man of a certain age. And my grandkids have a laugh watching them.

[@hotknight1335]

Nice interview....... THANKYOU

[@jaelge]

Moe Howard was the shortest of the Stooges at 5' 3 ½". Larry, Joe Besser and Joe DeRita ("Curly Joe") were all 5'4". Brothers Jerome ("Curly") was 5'5" and Shemp was the tallest at 5'7".

[@Omar_Zazzle]

I never knew they were so short, I am 5'7, well almost. I still enjoyed them all.

[@kathleenking47]

5'7" is actually not that short...my dad was that

[@richardcademartori2515]

I remember seeing this originally and unfortunately literally fine. Passed away soon after but there was a question he asked about his brother curly and has a question. Mike Douglas asked Mo began to cry and Mike Douglas. Leaned in and said I’m glad I asked asked. I’ve never seen that segment ever again.

[@marilyn6979]

Thx for ur input 2 as we watched...great to have Moe on M Douglas

[@lancemanion981]

He may have been 5'4" but he's 10' tall to me!

[@glenpitts6813]

The stooges are from my generation and I'm proud of it.

[@dad7275]

Ive been a big stooge fan for many years. Even in his mid 70's Moe seems very coherent and sharp.

[@KevinDick-h6f]

Ted Healy and his stooges set the bar that very few performers have gotten close too being at that same place. The Stooges doing most of their own stunts long before any safety prevention . They took alot of bumps, bruises, broken bones yet still delivered their brand of comedy .

[@jasonmillion5970]

Ahhhhh wise guy nyuck nyuck nyuck nyuck !!!

[@montyrose78]

Moe Howard was the fifth Beatle

[@Eddie62070]

Look at Moe, literally looking up to Mike while shaking hands

[@rongendron8705]

Mike was standing on a step when that picture was taken, so the height difference wasn't as much as appeared! I stood near Moe (read comment above) in 1963 & he was about 5'4"!

[@rongendron8705]

Mike was standing on a platform, but Moe also was only 5'4" tall, so the difference was accentuated! I saw him, in person, in 1963.

[@johnking8896]

Shemp came before and after Curly. All those shorts you see with Shemp were after Curly had a stroke.

[@MrElliotc02]

He looks so young!

[@kathleenking47]

Hevdied at 78 Probably ftom smoking😢

[@christopherfoster3744]

Hi ! Television does make you look big. That's why they ,Actors all try to be real skinny so they look the right size on TV

[@T.L.A.S.E.Classics]

Great!

[@Bugf1]

Grew up watching 3 Stooges in the 60's we acted out some of the funny stuff but was brought up not to hit others knew it was fake anyway. $90 in '27 was like $1600 today.

[@americanwriter2533]

🤩🇺🇸👍⚖️👁️👁️⚖️ We are ALL...originalz! Tanx Moe! 🤪😂🤣😇

[@drewgrows7765]

My favorite is when Moe pulls out fist fulls of Shemps hair.

[@america1st721]

Ironically I have the 3 stooges running my State of Michigan. whitmere (Gov), nestle (AG) and Benson (sec of State) I'm actually insulting the original Stooges as they actually accomplished something.

[@clydeb7713]

Let go of the politics

[@oldcop18]

I’m in my late 70s and still a BIG Stooges fan.

[@rogereverett4467]

The Three Stooges as well as Looney Tunes were made for adults, not children, to show at movie theaters, not television. Folks didn’t really take their children to movies theaters then. There weren’t many television sets in homes during this time.

[@pamelamays4186]

Joe Besser may have been an awful Stooge, but, he provided voices for a lot of funny cartoon characters.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

Joe Besser also kept Moe and Larry employed before his contract ended and Curly Joe DiRita was able to step in to continue the Three Stooges (until 1970).

[@TonyFuentesTV]

Love it! 😂❤

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Thanks Tony!

[@TerryB751]

Great stuff. Google says Moe was 5 foot 3 inches, so yep, pretty short.

[@averydaymond1560]

That means the entire cast and side players, guest actors and so on was short because viewing the three stooges I never got the feeling he was super short.

[@jasonmillion5970]

Curly (Jerome Horowitz) died 21 years before this video

[@rodandrews3416]

The Stooges were the best😅

[@bryonhogg485]

They brought Curly back in " Hold that Lion " - He had no dialog . . .

[@angus-eats]

I loved the THREE STOOGES. I remember the first film of theirs I saw in 1959 was HAVE ROCKET WILL TRAVEL. My all time favourite was CURLY. I WAS DISTRAUGHT WHEN HE HAD HIS STROKE. R.I.P SHEMP, MOE, LARRY, CURLY, CURLEY JOE. There will never again be another THREE STOOGES, and there was but ONE CURLY!.

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

Shemp was originally the leader in I think the first film. In Soup to Nuts, Shemp appears to be the "leader" of the three. He has most of the dialogue and does a lot of the pushing and hitting, and he was billed before the other two in the credits The actor who played Rocky on the Rockford files (not the original Rocky but the replacement) Noah Berry Jr.’s uncle Wallace Beery was allegedly in a fight with Ted Healy that may have caused Ted’s death. Mantan Morland and Shemp had a scene together in the movie the strange case of Dr. X. In the same film actress Anne Gwynne (mother in law to Robert Pine of CHiPs fame worked with Noah Berry Jr.) Shemp told Moe that Mantan would make a great stooge if ever needed. The studio put Besser in rather than Mantan. Mantan was in the Charlie Chan movies.

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Great info thanks!

[@phillipmarlowe0525]

My pleasure

[@lamper2]

Now, knowing Moe was pretty short, I found it charming that Ted Knight made himself shorter( 1:15) when he shook his hand. 10:16 BUT Joe Besser was STINKY in the Abbott & Costello Show and VERY FUNNY!

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

Shemp suffered a fatal heart attack in 1955 while on his way home from the fights. Shemp died on a Tuesday night, and the fights at the old Hollywood Legion Stadium were on Friday nights, so how could he have been on the way home from them?

[@Eddie62070]

Moe was 76 here.

[@johngerard3218]

Moe was so short he once sued NYC for building the sidewalks too close to his ass

[@allwheelsdown5646]

I asked a Moe to lend me 5 dollars once. He said, “Sorry, I’m a little short.”

[@Omar_Zazzle]

@@allwheelsdown5646 The only reason he was so successful with women was because his skin flute was almost taller than himself.

[@tomjones5650]

How do you know? Did you toot on his skin flute?​@@Omar_Zazzle

[@cu6454]

You're right they were starting in early with the whole thing 😵‍💫

[@WinningWinningWinning]

$90 a week is $1600 today either less tax.

[@karlbrumbeloe2714]

[@captainsatellite2112]

Moe and Judge Smails next to each other? Doesn't get any better for a guy who grew up watching the 3 Stooges in the 60s and was 19 in 1980.

[@averydaymond1560]

Ted Knight gets a bad rap. He seems nothing like the rigid, tense, tightened up characters he played. People need to realize it was just ACTING. That’s the characters he was great at, to the point people seemingly thought that was his real persona.

[@travelerM45]

Subscribed to your channel. KUDOS

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Welcome aboard!

[@RobertR-t5l]

I discovered that all the Three Stooges were pretty short but I guess moe may have been the shortest but I remember when I used to watch the old videos I realized they were all pretty short but are you sure Moe wasn't more like 5 ft cuz he looks very short with mike

[@tom_olofsson]

Moe was a little taller than Danny Devito.

[@travelerM45]

Steve, like your channel. Hopeful you continue with more, Marx Brother, Mae West, W.C. Fields etc.

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Thanks so much.

[@RobertR-t5l]

They were treated the same way as the actors of Gilligan's Island they weren't paid any royalties for all of the reruns that were shown they never got a penny of it very poor treatment by the studios

[@KevinMiller-xn5vu]

The boys were all short in stature.

[@leonelquintanilla479]

Ive always enjoyed watching the lovely ladies .Lucille ball Very young .my favorite was a cute actress,hilda title.

[@MajorWolfgangHochstetter]

Yeah, well, Moe was an old man at the time. We do indeed shrink considerably as we age!

[@leestoner4337]

Ever now and then I Will ask someone,How many stooges were there. And you can guess what their answer is. Then I'll say no guess again. And there surprised to hear Six.

[@foresttemple1380]

Really I count 17.

[@Verge63]

7 if you count faux Shemp. Joe Palma.

[@Verge63]

Moe is confused Hoi Polloi was indeed written by Hellen, and she took cash instead of credit but Nitwit Holiday is a remake where Curly had his stroke.

[@michaelmckenna6464]

NOT SO HARD, NOT SO HAARRRD! You nasty little you! I agree that Joe Besser was not the best Stooge. When I got the complete DVD set of The Three Stooges, I was expecting the Stooge shorts with Joe Besser to be low point but I was pleasantly surprised at how funny he really was.

[@WilliamSchlegel-s7t]

Dont blame stooges for sick in the head kids!!!

[@javierdenardo2607]

They get triggered

[@Verge63]

Moe was the shortest stooge.

[@shaystern2453]

he already gone

[@bryonhogg485]

Moe did alright - Had a ni e home in Talooka lake . . .

[@henrybucki7813]

i went to see have rocket will travel when it first came out

[@marblox9300]

Greatest Comedy Team EVER. Followed probably by Seinfeld. Love the Stooges - FOREVER.

[@JAMESPATTERSON-mk9sr]

Since the Stooges were short men most of the leading ladies in their movies taller than average women , think Amazonian who could not be cast with most leading actors because of their height.

[@Huskysarecool2025]

Mo absolutely wonderful I loved the three stooges

[@WilliamSchlegel-s7t]

Who cares how tall he is!!!

[@jubalcalif9100]

That's what I was thinking. What difference does it make how tall or how short he was. The important thing is that his talent was HUGE!!

[@gonavy1]

Steve did I miss something? Did you start a new channel?

[@allwheelsdown5646]

This is my throw anything against the wall to see what sticks channel. I am having a hard time getting the watch hours needed to monetize this one so I try anything and everything. Mostly my personal life projects and hobbies.

[@gonavy1]

@@allwheelsdown5646 Ok got it.

[@WayneKuffel]

I've seen every episode the stooges ever made for TV. Curly was in a class of his own. No one was ever funnier than he was. Ted Healy was a jerk!

[@tlcasey1002000]

ALL THE STOOGES WERE SMALL MEN! NO BIGGIE!

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Exactly! Thanks.

[@stephenberson7236]

Of course they didnt make the money they make today.

[@RobertGraziose]

Yea but I wouldn't mess with him.

[@evdallas123]

He was diminutive

[@PeterWilliamson-nn9et]

Moe was a born leader so highly respected by Angela Merkel that she copied his hairstyle

[@qualityman1965]

See ya later moe...

[@clasicradiolover]

I'm 5'6". What's wrong with not being 6' tall? Not something one can control.

[@larrygrebler5054]

Nothing at all, (I'm 5'4" myself) women tend to like taller men though.

[@clasicradiolover]

@larrygrebler5054 Yeah. I know they do. Women today have many crazy expectations. Luckily I've been taken for almost 30 years

[@jackcollin2476]

Wokeism has had a nice 60-year run but it's over

[@eddielane9569]

Joe comes across as gay no matter if he was or not he definitely seemed it. That no doubt did not go across good with stooge fans or the American public back then and it still shouldn't today.

[@terry_willis]

All wheels down: I would rather look at Moe than your mug taking up 1/3 of the screen. Why do these youtube "creators" do this? SMH

[@allwheelsdown5646]

Terry. You think I want to do it this way? KZbin only lets you do it this way. That's why every damn video you click on is doing this, I don't like it either.

[@bornr2797]

Mo was great

[@stevemastnick5034]

Besser was a great Stooge. DeRita was lame and wimpy.