Student: Pardon me but haven’t you come to the wrong college? The pair are enrolled at Oxford University. In A Chump at Oxford, Laurel and Hardy find themselves in the most unlikely of places. He fell through a trap door and broke his neck. Ollie: Didn’t you once tell me that you had an uncle? This next piece is from the film The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case and centres around one of Stan’s relations who had met an unfortunate death. Although back in 1930 when the comedy film was shot, this was probably an original slice of humour. In Another Fine Mess, Stan and Ollie prove that old jokes are sometimes the best ones. Ollie: I would say about fifty cents a street. Lady: About how much money do you boys average a street ? The two friends have been known to sing a tune or two in their time together but their efforts in trying to raise money by singing on the city streets in Below Zero didn’t impress one lady. (Stan places the thermometer into Ollie’s mouth and starts to take his pulse) Ollie: Thermometer! You’ll find it on the shelf. Ollie: You’d better take my temperature…. Oliver is in bed feeling a touch sick but luckily his good friend Stanley is around to help.

This sketch from Sons of the Desert is one of my favourite Laurel and Hardy routines. Stan: Well, I know he was but it was only in a small way. You once told me your father was in the lumber business.

Stan: Well, I don’t know anything about cutting wood. In One Good Turn the boys have an interesting conversation over who should chop up some wood. Ollie played the overweight rhetorical ‘brains’ of the lovable pair, and Stanley the bumbling and ham-handed soul whose ideas often got them into ‘another fine mess’.ĭoes classic comedy grow old and stale as time passes by? I’ll let you make up your own mind on that one by reading my select choice of quotes from some of Stanley Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s best films. Slapstick comedy kings Laurel and Hardy reeled out their funny double act in over 100 films and their progression from silent movies to ‘talkies’ brought about many funny and somewhat confusing conversations between them.

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