The Three Stooges 75th Anniversary TV Special

The Three Stooges showcase their unique brand of comedy in the fun-filled one-hour, NBC Television Network prime time presentation The Three Stooges® 75th Anniversary Special produced by C3 Entertainment, Inc.
The world’s most renowned comedy team shares their greatest memories through clips of their favorite routines, plus looks at ultra-rare shorts, feature film clips, solo appearances and TV performances with many scenes new to network television audiences.
Classic clips include The Boys first film appearance during their vaudeville days; a TV stint with Frank Sinatra; and fans’ favorite scenes, as determined by an online poll.
The special also features celebrity appearances from Bridget Fonda, Michael Chiklis, Tracy Morgan, Cheryl Hines, Tom Arnold and Peter and Bobby Farrelly who all give viewers perspective about the Stooges’ lasting popularity and their impact on the entertainment industry. Stooge family members share home movies, photos and treasured personal memories.

[@deborapinheiro6984]

7:23 Shemp and Moe in 1929, amazing!

[@peggyvick935]

At 65, the 3 Stooges still make me laugh so hard. I love sharing them with my grandchildren. I have such wonderful memories with my Dad, when watching Stooges. Favorite episodes? The train with the monkey & the Lion. Another was the museum theft with the gorilla. Wish we had great comedy in this day & age.

[@kevinmiller6380]

Peggy Vick-A Pain In The Pullman, Dizzy Detectives, and Hold That Lion, the only short featuring all three Howard brothers.

[@KoshN]

How about the one where, in a warehouse, Curly falls into a trough of wet plaster, gets out, shakes off like a dog, and then is walking around as a plaster hardens, scaring the hell out of Dudley Dickerson's watchman character and a couple of crooks? Curly had fun in that one. 😂

[@maryisabel1856]

28:35 Great footwork Shemp, my favorite stooge.

[@KoshN]

The problem was that Shemp's head stayed fairly still. Shemp did that same routine with Ichabod Slipp (Kenneth MacDonald), got knocked out and a fishbowl landed upsidedown on his head.

[@unclequack5445]

@@KoshN The problem? it was comedy not fight training sir.

[@cleide7282]

One of my favorite shorts was the classic Brideless Groom and the "cousin basil" scene was great.

[@bobwallace9814]

Hold hands, you lovebirds!

[@KoshN]

Larry had a great expression when Moe and Shemp slugged him simultaneously from the phone booth. 😂 Larry also had a great expression in two short features with Emil Sitka, where Shemp is taking a picture with a view camera and he tells Moe and Larry to smile. What a silly-a** grin! 😂

[@Nick-ty9us]

I heard that shamp really got injured doing that

[@Challenger10B5]

The Farrelly brother's worked a long time to get that movie made. Said it would come out in '04, but it didn't premiere until '12, and thanks to stuff like "The Jersey Shore" didn't age well, unfortunately. Still, nothing makes me laugh like classic Three Stooges. What a gift.

[@johnwarren2420]

In April 2023 at 67 the Stooges still makes me laugh RIP Boys your comedy will live on as long as copies are transferred to what ever video media is in use in the future ...

[@1jessetaylor]

The Three Stooges I'm 62 and I still laugh and enjoy them. My wife loves to hear me laughing at them. The comedy that never gets old.

[@joncamop1]

my mom alway's told me it was too violent, but deep down she loved hearing me laugh & having fun everyday after school!!

[@michaelferreri1256]

Shemp did a terrific job taking over for his younger brother Curly. Those episodes are definitely funny. But for me, the Curly episodes were (and are) the funniest. He was so gifted with natural comedic talent.

[@cyclopstb]

When I saw this special, I knew there were other shorts that didn't air on television until now

[@Seabeagle10]

I'm 55, still watch. Three Stooges. The wife can't stand them. I called them, my educational show. When I watch the Stooges. My wife and daughter leave the room. lol my dad in his 80s, watches. The Three stooges with me, once awhile. lol

[@fromthesidelines]

Originally telecast on April 29, 2003.

[@robertdragoff6909]

I thought it looked familiar

[@djgill8043]

I still laugh. Timeless comedy. Very humble, classy men as well. God bless the Stooges!

[@cameronaceves2429]

My friend from college introduced me to “The Three Stooges” several years ago and I’ve been watching them ever since. I never get tired of these guys. 2 words: Comedy geniuses.

[@barrellracer]

2003 is when this came out as a tv special... It's STILL better than most current shows & movies ♥️♥️♥️

[@dad7275]

Nice Woody. Glad you hosted this. Its hard to pick a favorite. I like them all i guess.

[@Tiberius291]

It took me a while to warm up to Shemp but i eventually started liking him too.

[@morganophelia5963]

Shemp is my fave

[@bobbymartin7767]

Yes he is when he got his head in the stuck in the piano moe kick him in his bottom

[@morganophelia5963]

@@bobbymartin7767 lol

[@bobbymartin7767]

@@morganophelia5963 yes he is when he got his hand on the boxing ring then he cramped his head and it sounded like a drum simble

[@morganophelia5963]

@@bobbymartin7767 isn't that fright night ?? i love sing a song of six pants lol instead of pence

[@bobbymartin7767]

Oh yeah that one funny to

[@vanvorst1999]

😎👍 Definitely after-school-must-see-TV when I was a kid!

[@unclequack5445]

3 Pest in a mess 1 of my favs, and the phone booth scene in scrambled brains is so good.

[@melissacooper8724]

My favorite scene from The Three Stooges is from the short "Calling All Curs." It's where the Stooges are dining with the dogs! 🐕

[@eargasm1072]

Funny and cute 👍 I've read it was Curly's favorite! No surprise, owing to his love of doggies

[@cameronaceves2429]

36:59 - 37:46 This scene from “Disorder In The Court” always makes my day and makes me laugh. 😂

[@Seabeagle10]

One of my favorites. "Disorder in the Court" "Take the stand, Where did you want it. No, no. Just sit down.

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

Former NYC based kids tv host/performer.."Officer Joe"Bolton(then mc'ing WPIX TV Ch.11NYC's"Three Stooges Funhouse")appears brielfy with the boys in that silent home movie footage of one of their Pa's.

[@PlanetRockJesus]

Awesome. Just watched this with my 11-year-old grandson. We laughed out loud when Woody fell off the balcony and ended up with a neck brace. And my grandson also enjoyed the history of these great performers.

[@aharper113]

Loved and still love The Stooges 😂 I still remember my mom telling me to not laugh so loud!

[@robg8784]

50yrs of pure love and joy for these gems!! THANK YOU for the memories

[@paulhenry5174]

The best comedy ever.

[@eargasm1072]

My top 3 Three Stooges shorts 🤔..."You Nazty Spy", "A-Plumbing We Will Go" & "Micro-Phonies"!

[@justinturley7071]

Out of all of the Shorts used in this part at 3:03. They used a 1946 short. 1946 is considered a low point in the Stooges time at Columbia, as Curly's health began to decline in October of 1943 - May 6, 1946, leading to sluggish performances, by the filming of the 1946 Shorts (filmed in late 1945 - early 1946) Curly had already suffered his first stroke (shortly after Idiots Deluxe, 1945) which didn't help matters, If a Body Meets a Body was up next and Curly was down for it, every short (with the exception of movie, Swing Parade of 1946 and short Three Little Pirates) all were filmed on a 3 day schedule (with the exception of A Bird in the Head, as Roosevelt had just passed away during the second day of filming, so every studio stopped filming for the rest of the day to pay tribute to him) leaving no breathing room for Curly, led to terrible performances, the clip that I just mentioned, came from Three Lone Wolves (1946), a short that would've normally starred Curly, but Because he was such in bad shape on the first day of filming, Producer and Director Jules White, put Larry Fine as the star and Curly as more of a background character with his Brother Moe.

[@russellfarina9099]

Hilarious!!! Who can pick one great moment? There's about a hundred!!!

[@danbaranowski]

I’ve been a Stooges fan since I was 3 in 1999; since then, it’s NEVER gotten old; I would always be laughing myself silly 😂The slapstick comedy routines between Moe-Shemp-Curly Howard and Larry Fine is what makes The Three Stooges the most superior comedy team compared to Bud Abbott & Lou Costello and Stan Laurel & Oliver Hardy 20:29-20:58 long live Frank Sinatra 💙👑

[@TEXAS_4U]

WHAT A WONDERFUL SHOW I COULDN'T STOP LAUGHING 😂😂😂. THANK YOU...

[@Beth9228]

I started to liked them when I was 6 years old. I remembered watching their shorts after school at my neighbor’s home with her son and even my sister,too. Curly came my favorite one since then.

[@alexzabala2154]

I started watching them when I was six years old...in 1965

[@groovygirl2408]

Love my stooges. My dad looked like Curly.

[@tayloredwards4968]

I love The Three stooges 💘💝💖

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

When you go to the dictionary and says Mayhem and says... C The Three Stooges"

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

Actually it was Vaudeville humor so it was well developed well practice and well appreciated

[@lelandthomosoniii4743]

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[@robertdragoff6909]

Glad to have seen this Now I have to track down all the shorts we saw in this 19 year old TV show….. Enjoyed the laughs, God knows we can use some these days

[@georgedoty-williams2085]

Boy that rock rendition of Three Blind Mice hit hard

[@johnnymcneal5914]

You know, they were the best. Only a few comedians could even touch them with a 10th for Pole. That's how good they were.

[@davidsalyers234]

EYE POKING DOCUMENTARY!!! 🙉🙊🙈!!!!!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@BBJohnny52]

Curly is my all time favorite!

[@happymethehappyone8300]

1 Of My MANY Favorites By The Three Stooges Is "Disorder In The Court" & Years Back I Found It On 8mm. Film In Mint Condition & Bought It.

[@Dadsezso]

I've known a couple of people who claim to not like the Stooges. Their personality shows it too. Like a bunch of sour persimmons.

[@KoshN]

It's very tough to pick one favorite scene, because there are soooo many great ones. Favorites of mine are: • The dinner table scene in "Three Sappy People" (1939) with Ann Doran as the countess. • The pie fight scene "In the Sweet Pie and Pie" (1941), with Symona Boniface who takes a pie in the face, laughs wholeheartedly and then takes full part in the fight, and the lion hunter telling his hunting story while getting plastered with pies. • The pie fight scene in "Half-Wits Holiday" (1947). • The warehouse chase around all the crates in "Fright Night" (1947) [⬅️I should have said "Fling in the Ring" (1955).], especially what Shemp does to Big Mike when Big Mike's head is trapped in the sliding door. • The tailor shop scene at the end of "Sing A Song of Six Pants" (1947).

[@kevinmiller6380]

Mac Breck-You're thinking of the remake, Fling In The Ring, where Frank Sully replaces Harold Brauer as Big Mike, and gets his head caught in the sliding door. 😄😄😄😄😄😄

[@KoshN]

@@kevinmiller6380 Correct. I got them mixed up. Love it when Shemp twists his nose and plucks his eyebrows.

[@adamquiles2468]

Coughing feathers

[@neilforbes416]

8:25 The other Stooges *DID NOT* Shave Jerome's(Curley's) head, he went to a barber's shop for that purpose, then returned to the other two. It was Ted Healy who actually bestowed than nickname on him.

[@dale1k878]

It’s a rare woman that likes the Stooges…

[@Bondmanproductions]

I remember watching this back when it first aired on tv and Peter Farrelly said the movie will be out in the summer of '04, only to realize it was gonna be released 8 years later.

[@user-it5vl6oi5y]

MY ALL TIMEFAVORITESTOOGES FILM IS;A PLUMMING WE WILL GO:BE CAUSE I"VE WATCHEDIT ALLTHE TIME:AND ILOVED THE THREESTOOGES:❤❤😊😊

[@tracycc123]

Woot Woot!!! Thank you!

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[@Crackerjacks420]

0:51 hahaha

[@Nikolaos0603]

I’d appreciate it if there weren’t any ads every two minutes

[@itiswhatitaintanditaintwha1427]

I have heard that Micheal Jackson was a Three Stooges fan. Especially of Curly!

[@mrnobody2683]

Something nice to bust out once in awhile

[@timcronin8308]

To Funny!!!

[@bloqk16]

I recall Alan Thicke hosting a (US) primetime TV retrospective about The Three Stooges in the 1990s.

[@fromthesidelines]

That was a syndicated special, originally telecast in October 1990 ["Disorder in the Court: 60th Anniversary Tribute to the Three Stooges"], and produced on the cheap- using footage from the four public domain shorts, trailers, outtakes, the 1949 TV pilot, et. al.- and loaded with contemporary guest stars {Wil Shriner, "Just Say" Julie Brown, Janice Pennington, Jeff Altman}......and Emil Sitka.

[@FEdeRioBravo]

Larry Fines Elevator Dance from Soup to Nuts movie, is the funniest ‼ There not steps to it.

[@johnsmith1953x]

Its now approaching 100 years.

[@kevinmiller6380]

As many times as Larry has had clumps of his hair ripped out, it's a wonder he had any left.

[@melissacooper8724]

I'm sure there was a trick to it.

[@pooooo52]

Remember there was more people and was a party. Was on ch 3

[@joeyechevarria3304]

❤️👍🌎

[@rhuephus]

hey Woody .. you're about 20 years younger in this video ....

[@sixflagsshowspast9616]

Boy,when making this biography, they really didn't get alot of the history right. They obviously didn't read any of Moe's books,listen to his audio tapes or his appearances on television when he talked about the stooges in depth .Even Moe's children, in interviews, were closer to the truth than the anniversary special. They may have taken an online poll but the nation wide poll suggests that Violent is the word for Curly was the all time favorite, with the B A bay song.

[@teddyfurstman1997]

This Special aired on NBC or Bravo back in the day and it gives us the first look at what would lead to the Fox release of The Three Stooges in 2012.

[@HyperionHQ]

✌️❤️

[@jonathansabinvarietyfilms]

It's interesting Woody Harrelson hosted this, as he was later rumored to be cast in the remake film, while it was still in development hell.

[@migueltorello4663]

subtitulos , plis!

[@GisherJohn24]

Woody? Wow. Celebrities in 2022 never do this stuff anymore.

[@blukas76]

I would just like to say that Moe being a gofer at Columbia is entirely false. He did however sell real estate.

[@willsco76]

2009

[@Obeijin]

2022

[@TonyRigo23]

SUBSCRIBE? NO THANK YOU! Everyone is on this money mami train.

[@j.s.friedman9649]

It's cool you played Curly, but you butchered the hell out of it.

[@gunnerzane5230]

I couldn't stand Ted Healy. He wasn't funny.

[@rhuephus]

The movie they made was a flop

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[@Beth9228]

I started to liked them when I was 6 years old. I remembered watching their shorts after school at my neighbor’s home with her son and even my sister,too. Curly came my favorite one since then.

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