Biography of Larry Harmon (January 2, 1925 – July 3, 2008) better known as Bozo the Clown
Born as Lawrence Weiss, he was better known to the world as Larry Harmon, the man who purchased the licensing rights to Bozo the Clown from Capitol Records, and turned Bozo into an international sensation.
Larry Harmon was born in Toledo, Ohio, on Jan. 2, 1925 as Lawrence Weiss, and was raised in Cleveland. After Larry Harmon served in the Army during World War II, he moved to Los Angeles where he attended the University of Southern California, where he majored in theater and was drum major in the Trojan marching band. While Larry Harmon was attending USC, he started acting in radio and movies and, in the early 1950s, he starred in the Commander Comet TV series. He later auditioned for the role of Bozo the Clown, and was one of many hired for various promotions for Capitol Records.
Together with a group of investors, Larry Harmon bought the licensing rights to the Bozo character from Bozo’s creator Alan W. Livingston and Capitol Records. Larry Harmon marketed the Bozo property very aggressively, and by the late 1960s, Harmon had licensed local Bozo TV shows in nearly every major U.S. market, and across the world in places as far away as Thailand, Greece and Brazil. In addition Larry Harmon marketed virtually everything imaginable related to Bozo the Clown, from lunch boxes to bedsheets to the classic Bozo Bop Bag. He also created the company that produced the Bozo the Clown cartoons shown on the various Bozo the Clown shows, and supplied the voice for Bozo as well. He also produced other cartoons, such as Popeye and the Laurel and Hardy cartoons. Years later, he was executive producer on The All New Adventures of Laurel and Hardy in ‘For Love or Mummy’.
On New Years day 1996, Larry Harmon dressed as Bozo for the first time in 10 years, appearing in the Rose Parade in Pasadena CA, to a deafening reaction from a thrilled crowd.
Kathryn O’Dell, the International Clown Hall of Fame’s executive director, stated that they had been duped into believing that Larry Harmon created Bozo the Clown, and did not discover the truth until Buck Wolf, an ABCNews.com columnist, reported that Larry Harmon was wrongly laying claim to having created the character.
On July 3, 2008 Larry Harmon died in his home of congestive heart failure at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, California. Larry Harmon is survived by his wife Susan, his son, Jeff, his daughters, Lori Harmon, Marci Breth Carabet, Ellen Kosberg and Leslie Breth; and four grandchildren.
Larry Harmon quotes
- Bozo is a combination of the wonderful wisdom of the adult and the childlike ways in all of us. Bozo is a star, an entertainer, bigger than life. People see him as Mr. Bozo, somebody you can relate to, touch and laugh with.
- We didn’t have satellite, syndication and networking like today. So, I created my own network of local clowns and productions, a cross-country operation that kept me on the road for 50 weeks a year for decades.
- Isn’t it a shame the credit that was given to me for the work I have done—they arbitrarily take it down, like I didn’t do anything for the last 52 years. (referring to having his induction into the Clown Hall of Fame rescinded)
- What I created for the world was me and my image: what I sound like, what I look like, what I walk like, what the costume looked like.
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Red Skelton - America’s Favorite Funnyman is a DVD collection of 10 episodes of The Red Skelton Show. Not a bad collection by any means, and inexpensive as well ($9.95 U.S. dollars at the time of this writing), and it has a collection of some of my favorite episodes as well. They are:
- Clem the Dentist
- Clem the Painter
- A favorite Clem Kadiddlehopper episode—where Clem, the ‘country bumpkin’ takes the art world by storm—a very funny episode where Red ‘artfully’ mocks the modern art movement.
- Deadeye and the Indians
- A very funny episode that, interestingly enough, runs out of time—and Red plays that for all it’s worth. Very rapid-fire, and very funny - “a hot stake is better than a cold chop!”
- Look Awards Show
- A very unusual show, where Red presents the Look Awards to various individuals, and performs some short related sketches
- Freddie and the Spies
- A very funny Freddie the Freeloader episode, where an American agent (played by Richard Deacon of The Dick Van Dyke Show) gives Freddie ‘the little black box’ to hide—and Edward Everett Horton makes an appearance as a fellow hobo who tries to find out why Freddie acts so suspiciously (hilariously funny!) and Freddie eventually gets contacted by the spies, who try to pry the information out of him—also hilariously funny! One of my all-time favorite episodes.
- Halloween Show
- How to Make a Salad
- A fairly funny Willie Lump Lump episode, with Willie in the Army on KP duty.
- Mr. Lasagna
- Red Skelton (playing a variation on himself, as opposed to one of his many characters) plays with his son Richie’s chemistry set, and inadvertently discovers a cure for smog. A gangster, Mr. Lasagna (George Raft) wants the information, and is willing to get rough in order to get it ...
- Bolivar Goes Hollywood
- The U.N. Show
- A very special show, where Red Skelton does a ‘command performance’ of pantomime at the United Nations.
Product Description of Red Skelton - America’s Favorite Funnyman
A clown with a heart of gold, Red Skelton‘s mission in life was to make people laugh. A first-class comedian, Skelton won the world over with his legendary alter-egos including Junior the Mean Widdle Kid (famous for the expression, “I dood it"); country bumpkin Clem Kadiddlehopper; clown hobo Freddie the Freeloader; con man San Fernando Red; henpecked husband George Appleby; drunkard Willie Lump Lump; boxer Cauliflower McPugg; and the not-so-honest lawman, Sheriff Deadeye. These characters and more made appearances on his popular television series The Red Skelton Show—the second longest running TV show in history at twenty years of broadcasting. For the duration of this time, Skelton’s series maintained top ten and top twenty ratings and won several awards. Packed with celebrity guests, pratfalls, pranks, and silly sketches, The Red Skelton Show continues to delight audiences time and time again, proving that Red Skelton is indeed “America’s favorite funnyman.”
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Red Skelton Unreleased is a fairly different DVD collection of The Red Skelton Show in several respects. It is digitally remastered, unlike most of the Red Skelton DVD collections out there. It is also authorized by the Red Skelton estate. It also contains a lot of episodes of The Red Skelton Show - sixteen episodes in all, as well three full-length color episodes from Red’s final year on broadcast TV, as well as a taping of one of Red’s live shows.
Table of contents for Red Skelton Unreleased
Volume 1 of Red Skelton Unreleased
- Cauliflower Loses His Birds:
- Guest Starring: Vincent Price
- Appleby’s Bearded Boarder:
- Guest Starring: John Carradine and Marie Windsor
- Clem’s General Store:
- Guest Starring: Jayne Mansfield, Jamie Farr and Jesse White
- Deadeye the Outlaw:
- Guest Starring: Mickey Rooney
Volume II of Red Skelton Unreleased
Volume III of Red Skelton Unreleased
- The Many Skeltons in Las Vegas:
- Featuring: George Appleby, Freddie the Freeloader, Clem Kadiddlehopper and Willie Lump Lump
- Clem’s Other Clem:
- Guest Starring: Hans Conried
- Go Van Gogh:
- Guest Starring: Pat Carroll
- Clem and the Beauty Pageant:
- Guest Starring: Arthur Godfrey and Keefe Brasselle
Volume IV
Free Bonus DVD’S
Bonus 1 - Full length color shows!
Good Night and Good Bless –3 Shows
- Episode #1 Guest Starring: Jill St. John
- Episode #2 Guest Starring: Phyllis Diller
- Episode #3 Guest Starring: Jerry Lewis
Bonus 2 - Rare Live Footage!
- Live at the Nugget Hotel in Sparks – and Pledge of Allegiance
Product description of Red Skelton Unreleased
Enjoy sixteen full episodes and two bonus discs packed with hours of outrageous entertainment and gut busting humor from Red Skeleton, America’s favorite clown Prince. Released for the first time since they aired live nearly forty years ago, episodes I-IV showcase endearing moments with some of Hollywood’s greatest legends including Mickey Rooney, Jayne Mansfield, Cesar Romero, and more.
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Wee Wee Monsier (1938) starring The Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard)
In Wee Wee Monsieur, the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) are three would-be artists, living in France, and working on their respective arts, and the short film begins with them singing The Lollipop Song ("the lollipop, the lollipop, the la-la-la-lollipop—woo woo!"). After some short slapstick, the Three Stooges try to ‘catch’ some food by ‘fishing’ out of their second story window, and catching bread from a vendor’s cart on the street—and accidentally ‘catching’ a French police officer’s pants as well! Being thrown out of their apartment for being 8 months behind on their rent, the Stooges espy the offices of the French Foreign Legion—and while thinking that this must be the French branch of the American Legion (and that they can send them home to America), the Three Stooges inadvertently sign up for the French Foreign Legion—which leads to the second part of the film.
Wee Wee Monsieur is available as part of The Three Stooges Collection volume 2 DVD.
Funny movie quotes from Wee Wee Monsieur starring The Three Stooges—Moe, Larry, Curly
Moe Howard: The landlord’s threatened to throw us out.
Curly Howard: What’s he squawking about, we only owe for eight months.
Curly Howard: Ah my fair beauty, open up thy curtains so that I might see your fair kisser.
Moe Howard: Oh boy! I’ll take the blonde!
Larry Fine: I’ll take the brunette!
Curly Howard: I’ll take the black and tan!
[after Moe conks Curly in the head with a chisel, and then apologizes]
Curly Howard: Oh, oui, oui, oui, oui.
Moe Howard: Oui what?
Curly Howard: “Oui” ("We") should be more careful about what we do around here… Chisler!
[Moe conks him again]
Curly Howard: [Moe has taken off Curly’s hat after his beard fell off and then slaps him] Oh you hit Santa Claus just for that no toys.
Curly Howard: [Moe bops Curlys head] Ow ooohhhh!
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Back to the Woods (1937) - starring the Three Stooges - Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard
Set in colonial times, the Three Stooges (Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard) are sentenced to defend the English colonies (instead of 50 years hard labor) and quickly fall for the Governor’s three pretty daughters (Faith, Hope and Charity) after a funny dancing scene with the daughters - and go hunting for turkeys against the orders of Chief Rain in the Puss, leader of the local tribe of American Indians - who will not allow the Pilgrims to go hunting until they pay 5,000 shekels. The Three Stooges exchange their pilgrim hats for coonskin caps—except for Curly, who puts on a skunk cap. Curly accidentally discharges his gun, shooting a large turkey (which lands on Larry, knocking him down). They fire upon a group of ‘turkeys’—which turn out to be Indians wearing headdresses, leading to the second half of the short film, where the Indians chase the Three Stooges, and the Stooges try to stay alive. There’s a very funny segment where Moe and Curly ‘lose’ Larry, and have to rescue him from being burnt at the stake—and from a woodpecker as well! This leads to one of the Stooges best slapstick fights, and the Three Stooges escaping via boat—in motorboat style.
Back to the Woods is available as part of The Three Stooges Collection volume 2 (DVD).
Funny movie quotes from Back to the Woods starring the Three Stooges
Larry: [an imaginary horse race] They’re off! Who’s in the quarter?
Curly: Whopper!
Larry: Who’s in the half?
Curly: Whopper!
Larry: Who’s in the stretch?
Curly: Whopper!
Larry: Who’s the winner?
Curly: Rosemont!
Moe: Who’s the winner?
Curly: Rosemont.
[Moe slaps him]
Judge: [shouting above the confused noise] Order! Order!
Curly: Order? I’ll take a ham sandwich!
Judge: Hold thy tongue!
Curly: Not tongue, ham!
Larry: [as Curly heads for Faith, who is more attractive than her sister Charity] What doest thou? I saw her first!
Curly: Pish-posh and tish-tosh! I’ll never give her up. Why does not thou take Charity?
Larry: I need not charity. I’m on the WPA.
Curly: WPA?
Larry: Aye! Willing Pilgrims Association.
Chief Rain in the Puss: Ugh! No more war. Give 5000 shekels.
Governor: But we have no more than this.
[He shakes a small pouchful of coins]
Chief Rain in the Puss: Mmmm! Good down payment. Take mortgage on balance - interest six per cent.
Pilgrim: Thank goodness! At last are we free to hunt?
Chief Rain in the Puss: No! No hunt till FOB!
Governor: FOB?
Chief Rain in the Puss: Fork over balance!
Curly: Indian givers!
Moe: Fire at will!
Curly: Which one is Will?
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Meet the Chez Family - a clown skit for two speaking clowns
(props required: a black envelope, easily made out of construction paper, and a large letter ‘E’ cut out of construction paper and placed inside the envelope)
(Clown 1 enters, walks to the middle of the stage, possibly sits in a chair, and pulls out the black envelope, concentrating on it. Clown 2 enters, looking high & low, frantically, for Clown 1)
Clown 2: (to Clown 1) There you are! I’ve been looking all over for you! We’ve got to get ready to do our skit about being nice to others!
Clown 1: (just beginning to notice Clown 2, looks up at him) Hmm? Oh.. Oh! I’m sorry! I forgot all about it… I just received this from the mailman, and I’m kind of worried…
Clown 2: (puzzled) Worried? About the letter?
Clown 1: (holds up black envelope for the audience) I think it might be ‘blackmail’
Clown 2: (groans, or otherwise reacts appropriately to the atrocious pun) Oh! Just open it, already!
Clown 1: OK! (opens the envelope, pulls out the red letter ‘E’)—Wow! I was worried about nothing! It’s E-mail!
Clown 2: (reacts again)
Clown 1: And now I’m ‘red E’ (holds up red letter ‘E’ as he does this) to read it!
Clown 2: (as though fearful of more puns) Who’s it from? And does it have anything to do with out skit about being nice to people?
Clown 1: (looks up from reading the letter) Sort of—it’s from my friend Pete from Atlanta, Georgia. Some people make fun of his name, and aren’t nice at all!
Clown 2: What’s to make fun of with a name like ‘Pete’?
Clown 1: His last name is pronounced ‘Chez’ (no, not ‘shay’—phonetically, ‘Chez’) Pete Chez.
Clown 2: (unable to repress a giggle) His name is Pete Chez? Like the fruit, Peaches? (laughs, but only a little bit)
Clown 1: That’s not being nice! He can’t help that his name is Pete Chez!
Clown 2: (still giggling slightly) And he’s from Atlanta? Does that make him one of the Georgia Peaches? (more snickering)
Clown 1: (now getting indignant) And you’re going to do a skit about being nice to people, and not picking on them? Remember what the Bible says: "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ’s sake hath forgiven you." (Ephesians 4:31-32)
Clown 2: (still giggling, trying to get control of himself) Sorry… really I am. Does your friend have anything to say?
Clown 1: Yes, actually. Apparently he and his brother Matt have been fighting, and now they’re not allowed to play together.
Clown 2: (starting to lose control again) He can’t play with Matt Chez? I can understand why! My mom always told me not to play with Matches! (laughs out loud)
(a short fire safety message could be inserted here, if you feel so inclined)
Clown 1: You’re making fun of both of their names! Now stop it!
Clown 2: (struggling to gain control of himself) You’re right, I’m sorry… hooh… hah… Okay, I’m better now. So, their mom won’t let them play together? What’s her name?
Clown 1: (innocently) Belle.
Clown 2: (losing control, starting to bend over with laughter, slap himself on the knee, etc.) Belle Chez! Wow, if she belches, maybe she should take Pepto Bismol! (rolling on the floor)
Clown 1: (becoming quite indignant) That’s really enough! And to think that people wanted you to talk about being nice to people, and not making fun of people! Why, if Pete’s dad were here, he’d really be upset with you!
Clown 2: (trying to recover) Hoom… hmm… so, what’s the dad’s name?
Clown 1: (innocently) Rhett!
Clown 2: (now totally losing it) Rhett Chez! If he retches, he must really be sick! Belle needs to share that Pepto Bismol!
Clown 1: (very upset) That’s enough! This whole time, you’ve not been nice at all! You’ve been picking on some very nice people, just because of their names!
Clown 2: Yeah! Peaches, Matches, Belches & Retches! Sounds like a law firm! (laughing at his own cleverness)
Clown 1: Oh yeah? Let me show you what it’s like to be picked on! (scene ends with a chase, possibly ending with the water bucket of confetti routine)
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Tom Raymond, aka. Raynbow the Clown, is a professional clown working out of Madison, Wisconsin, and is available for ministry events, conventions and conferences.Jonah - clown ministry skit courtesy of Clowns for Christ
Parts: Narrator, God, Jonah, Storm Maker, Helper, Sailors (one or more)
Props: Chair or step ladder, megaphone (can be rolled poster board), boat, sailor hats (newspaper), play money, storm (spray bottles and palm branches), blindfold, can of tuna fish (can be empty and clean), plate of shaving cream, cup of water
Narrator: I have a question. Have any of you ever been in Time Out? Did you know that in the Bible, God put someone in Time Out? It wasn't even a kid. It was an adult. Can you believe it? It is the story of Jonah. Today, Jonah will be played by Chuckles the clown. We call him Chuck for short. (Jonah comes in and bows) Well, one day God called out to Jonah.
(God comes out, sets up folding chair and climbs up on it and gets megaphone ready)
God: Jonah ... (no response from Jonah) (louder) JONAH . . . (still no response) JONAH!!! (still no response) Chuck!
Jonah: What?
God: You are playing Jonah today.
Jonah: Oh yeah!
Narrator: Anyway, God called out to Jonah and told him to go to a place called Nineveh.
God: Jonah, go to a place called Nineveh. (As he says this, God points in the direction opposite of Nineveh. Jonah points in the correct direction, to indicate that God had it backwards. God then points the way Jonah indicates).
Narrator: Well, Jonah had heard of Nineveh. The people there were really bad. They worshiped statues and did all kinds of weird things. They did not know God. Jonah didn't want to go.
Jonah: I don't want to go.
Narrator: Well, God insisted. He said, "I want you to go tell those people in Nineveh all about me."
God: Go tell those people all about me.
Narrator: You see God, being fair, wanted to warn those people that they were really messing up and that He was going to have to destroy them if they didn't straighten up. He had chosen Jonah for the job. Jonah was still a chicken though (Jonah acts like a chicken), so he ran the other way. He got on a boat trying to get as far away from Nineveh as he could.
(Sailors come on with boat, and Jonah jumps in, gives them some cash, and points where to go)
Narrator: Well, it didn't take long before God sent a storm.
(God waves out Storm Maker and Helper, who make wind and rain)
Narrator: Well, the sailors were scared!
Sailors: We are scared!
Narrator: Being pretty smart people, the sailors figured out that God was causing this storm, and that someone had made God mad.
Sailors: Someone here has made God mad.
Narrator: It didn't take them long to figure out who it was. Jonah admitted it was him, and told them that if they threw him over board everything would be OK. The sailors didn't want to, but they knew that if they didn't that storm was going to kill them all. So they threw him over.
(Sailors throw Jonah overboard, the storm stops, and they row away off stage)
Narrator: Well, Jonah was in the water sputtering around when something happened to him. Suddenly he was sitting in the dark.
(Helper runs out and blindfolds Jonah)
Narrator: Well, Jonah had no idea where he was, but he did know that he smelled something.
(Helper holds a can of tuna under Jonah's nose, Jonah makes a face)
Narrator: It smelled like dead fish, it was really gross! OK, so we know that where ever Jonah was, it was dark and smelly. Well, Jonah trying to figure out where he was started to feel around.
(Jonah feels around, and Helper puts plate of shaving cream near him. Jonah puts his hand in the shaving cream. Helper pretends to laugh very hard. Jonah makes a face, gropes around until he finds Helper's shirt or sleeve, and wipes off his hand. Disgusted, Helper runs off.)
Narrator: Jonah discovered that he was in a smelly, dark slimy place. He was in TIME OUT! Can you figure out where he was in Time Out? That's right, he was in the tummy of a giant fish. I think that would be really gross, don't you? (Jonah nods vigorously) Well, while Jonah was in there, he had a lot of time to think. He realized that he was wrong to run from God and to disobey God. He also realized that God could see him no matter where he was.
God: Duh!
Narrator: Well Jonah began to pray. (Jonah gets on knees) Jonah told God how sorry he was.
Jonah: I am sooo sorry God.
Narrator: Jonah then promised God that if he ever got out of the fish he would go to Nineveh and tell the people about God. Then suddenly, with a wave of God's hand, (God waves hand) the big fish threw up. (Jonah doesn't move) Oh come on. You are supposed to get up. Jonah, Jonah, Chuck get up! UP CHUCK! (Jonah jumps up. Helper throws water in Jonah's face. Jonah rips blindfold off)
Sailor: (coming back) Upchuck? Oh I get it, that is a lousy joke!
Narrator: Anyway, Jonah did as he had promised, and he went to Nineveh and told everyone about God. I hope that our messy little play will help you to remember to always do whatever God asks you to do.
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Jesus Loves Me - clown skit written by John Gravley
MAIN IDEA: to show that Jesus loves us and cares for us especially when we feel rejected by others.
HELPERS: at least one clown (who wears a sign that says "Jesus around his/her neck) and eight other helpers who can be clowns but do not have to be clowns.
SETTING: any stage area will work.
PROPS: a sign for Jesus to wear, a large report card showing bad grades, a basketball, a phone, book, rice bowl and chop sticks, some clothes in a laundry bag, a sign that says, "Boss" and some red hearts cut out of paper.
SKIT: as the skit begins, the helpers take their places on the stage. One person is holding the big report card, three people are holding a basketball, two people are pretending to be mother and daughter and two people are pretending to be a boss and worker. All these people move onto the stage and freeze as Jesus enters and walks among them.
Jesus walks around looking at all the different people. The people just stare straight ahead. After Jesus walks around all the people, Jesus stops and looks at the person with the big report card.
The person with the report card comes alive. That person walks to center stage and holds the report card for a moment and slowly opens the card. The report card has bad marks and the person is sad and upset with the bad grades. The person shows the card to everyone and shows how disappointed they feel. The person with the bad report card is very sad and unhappy. That persons begins to cry. Jesus walks over to that person to see what is wrong. The person shows Jesus the report card. Jesus listens to the person and finally hugs the person to comfort them. Jesus then takes out one of the red hearts and gives it to the person to show Jesus' love for them. The person feels better and hugs Jesus. Then this person moves back to the original position with the heart and freezes.
Next Jesus walks over to the three basketball players. Three players start to play with the ball, but one player is not very good and soon the other two stop playing with the other player. The other player wants to play but is not included. The two players make fun of and begin to laugh at the other player. Then the two players walk away leaving the one player all alone. The one player is very sad and upset. Jesus then goes to the one player who has been left out and "listens" and offers a hug to that player. Also Jesus takes out a red heart and gives it to the player. The player now feels better. The three players move back to their original position and freeze.
Next Jesus walks over to the mother and daughter. The daughter is holding a phone and pretends to be talking. The mother goes over to the daughter with a school book and tries to get the daughter to look at the book, to study. The daughter ignores the mother and continues to talk on the phone. The mother then gets a bowl and chopsticks and tries to give them to the daughter to eat. But the daughter ignores the mom and continues talking on the phone. The mother is sad. After this the daughter continues to talk on the phone and then takes some clothes and dumps them at the mother’s feet instructing her to wash them. The daughter then walks away still talking on the phone. The mother is very upset and sad. Jesus sees the mother and walks over to her. Jesus hugs the mother to comfort her and offers her a red heart. This makes the mother happy. Then the mother and daughter move back to their original position and freeze.
Next Jesus walks over to the boss and worker. The boss is yelling at the worker and motions that the worker is fired or sacked. The worker pleads for their job but the boss doesn’t care. The boss motions for the worker to leave. As the worker walks away, very upset, Jesus walks over to them. Jesus hugs and comforts the worker and gives the worker a red heart. The boss and worker return to their original position and freeze.
Now Jesus moves to the center of the stage and takes out 5 or 6 more red hearts and offers them to the audience. As Jesus offers the hearts, all the people on stage with hearts, hold them up for all to see.
THE END
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Time for my Medicine - A skit for two clowns (possibly 3), original by Goofy Grape
Clown 1 walks on stage, with Clown 2 following 1 step behind. As Clown 1 turns, Clown 2 swivels, to remain behind Clown 1 at all times
Clown 1: Now where's Clown 2? It's time for her medicine!
Clown 2: (from behind Clown 1) It's time for my medicine!
Clown 1: (turns around, looking for Clown 2 -- Clown 2 moves in order to stay behind Clown 1) Where is she? It's time for her medicine!
Clown 2: It's time for my medicine!
Clown 1: (turns the other direction, looking for Clown 2; Clown 2 mimicks her movements, staying behind her) Where can she be? (play with the audience here -- as they tell her 'behind you', she turns around, but Clown 2 stays behind her the entire time) I'm getting confused! It's time for whose medicine?
Clown 2: It's time for my medicine!
Clown 1: (looking puzzled) It's time for my medicine?
Clown 2: It's time for my medicine!
Clown 1: It's time for my medicine? (looks at the medicine, then at the audience -- asks the audience) Should I take this medicine?
(audience yells "no!" If they don't, just act as though they did)
Clown 1: Maybe I should, if it's time for my medicine...
Clown 2: It's time for my medicine!
Clown 1: (begins to open the medicine) Well, if it's time for my medicine, I guess I should take it...
(At this point, the teacher/pastor/authority figure, or third clown comes out, and explains to the children that you should never take someone else's medicine -- skit ends with the teacher telling the clowns that taking the wrong medicine can be very unpleasant)
Clown 1: I wonder what could be 'unpleasant' about the wrong medicine? (opens the medicine, and a snake pops out -- Clown 1 reacts & runs off-stage)
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You are here: Three Stooges Reviews >The Three Stooges Collection volume 2 1937-1939
The good news is that this second volume of The Three Stooges Collection is much like the first - digitally remastered, with the entire three years output of Three Stooges short films - unedited as well, so we don’t have to worry about the thought police cutting out politically incorrect segments.
All of these Three Stooges short films star Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard early in their film career, and at the top of their game. Some of their most famous films and routines are found here, and look as good as the day that they were released into the movie theaters—possibly better.
If you like the Three Stooges, there’s much to love in this collection of the early years of the Three Stooges, which include:
Table of Contents for The Three Stooges Collection : Volume Two (1937 - 1939)
Disc 1:
- Back to the Woods
- The threat of the white man is nothing compared to what happens when the Indians come face to paleface with The Three Stooges.
- Cash and Carry
- A very cute film, where the Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) try to help “little Jimmy get his operation”—and in the process meet President Roosevelt.
- Dizzy Doctors
- The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry, Curly) get a job selling ‘Brighto’, which they initially think is cleaning fluid.
- Goofs and Saddles
- The Three Stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) go out West.
- Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb
- Curly wins $50,000 and the Stooges move into the Hotel Costa Plente—only to find out that the winnings after taxes are only $4.85. Will marrying the rich widows at the hotel save the day?
- Playing the Ponies
- The Three Stooges go from owning a restaurant to racing a broken-down horse—until they feed him some red-hot peppers!
- The Sitter-Downers
- The Three Stooges are suitors who go on a sit down strike when their prospective father-in-law refuses to consent the marriages. The strike wins them fame and they receive numerous gifts including a lot and a prefabricated house. They win the strike and get married, but the wives decree no honeymoon until the house is built. The boys have some problems with the construction, especially since Curly burned up the plans. The eventually finish the house, a monstrosity that collapses when one post is accidentally moved.
- Tassels in the Air
- The Three Stooges are janitors in an office building who stencil the wrong names on all the offices, causing a rich lady to mistakes Moe for “Omay”, a famous decorator. She hires the boys to redecorate her house, which they quickly start destroying. The fact that Curly goes crazy at the sight of tassels doesn’t help, and then the real Omay shows up!
- Three Dumb Clucks
- “‘Til death do us part” takes on new meaning as The Three Stooges try to prevent their father from leaving their mother and marrying a gold-digging young floozy whose friends plan to kill him after the wedding. Curly in a double role as himself and as the Stooges’ father
- Violent is the Word For Curly
- Violent is the Word for Curly - The three stooges (Moe, Larry and Curly) blow up a gas station, impersonate three European professors, swing the alphabet, play basketball, and get blown out of the university.
- Wee Wee Monsieur
- They’ll always have Paris...even if Paris wouldn’t have them! Moe, Larry and Curly are having a hard time making it as artists, which means they have no means to pay for rent or food. An assignment with the French Foreign Legion might be just the solution.
- Grips, Grunts and Groans
- The Three Stooges are hobos who get thrown off a train and chased out of a railroad yard. Taking refuge in the “Hangover Athletic Club,” Curly is hired as a sparring partner for Ivan Bustoff, wrestling champion (shades of the WWE!) The boys are hired by Bustoff’s manager to make sure he doesn’t drink, and when they fail Moe sends Curly out into the ring disguised as Bustoff. A remake of “Punch Drunks” with a wrestler instead of a boxer - and, arguably better, depending on your tastes.
- Termites of 1938
- The Three Stooges, pest exterminators, are mistaken for male escorts and hired by a rich society woman to help impress her guest of honor.
- A Ducking They Did Go
- ‘A-Ducking They Did Go’ is a very funny, classic Three Stooges short film starring Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard. The Three Stooges are fooled into working as salesmen for a pair of con men, selling subscriptions to a duck hunting club—and they sell them to the mayor, the chief of police, and the entire police department!
- Calling All Curs
- Calling All Curs is one of the Three Stooges best short films, where Moe, Larry and Curly play veterinarians, who need to recover the kidnapped Garcon, a rich woman’s poodle - truly non-stop hilarity, with an energy level that never fades - highly recommended.
- Flat Foot Stooges
- ‘Flat Foot Stooges’ starring the Three Stooges - Moe, Larry and Curly - as firemen, who need to rescue the fire chief’s (Chester Conklin) daughter from a fire, set by an unscrupulous salesperson.
- Mutts to You
- Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise
- Saved by the Belle
- Three Little Sew and Sews
- Three Missing Links
- Three Sappy People
- Another classic Three Stooges short film where they make fun of the upper class—impersonating three psychiatrists (Ziller, Zeller, and Zoller) who try to ‘cure’ a irresponsible party girl—by showing her what irresponsible means! Ending with a classic pie fight, where the party girl gets her just desserts—literally.
- We Want Our Mummy
- Movie review of ‘We Want Our Mummy’ (1939) starring the Three Stooges—Moe, Larry and Curly—who have to go to Egypt to find a missing professor, and the lost tomb of Pharaoh Ruten-Tuten!
- Yes, We Have No Bonanza
- The Three Stooges are working as waiters in an Old West saloon alongside their girlfriends, trying to raise enough money to pay off the debts of their fiancees’ father to their crooked boss. Moe, Larry and Curly go prospecting to raise more money, and dig up $40,000 in stolen money. A chase ensues, ending with the crooks crashing into the Sheriff’s office.
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Editorial review of The Three Stooges Collection volume 2 1937-1939, courtesy of Amazon.com
By 1937, where Volume Two of this long overdue chronological collection picks up, Moe, Larry, and Curly had been performing together for over a decade, and appeared in several feature films and 19 short subjects for Columbia. They were just getting warmed up; there is nary a clunker among the 24 shorts on this two-disc set. Several rank in the Stooges pantheon, including “Grips, Grunts and Groans” (with Bustoff the wrestler), ”Violent is the Word for Curly” (with ”Swinging the Alphabet”), and ”Healthy, Wealthy and Dumb” (the Stooges live the hotel high life after Curly wins a radio contest). These comedies must have been a great escape for Depression-era moviegoers, particularly the ones in which the rich are reduced to food-throwing goofs (”Three Sappy People”). For the Stooges, it’s not prosperity that’s around the corner, but more often, con men on the lookout for “suckers” to swindle (”A Ducking They Will Go,” “Playing the Ponies"). Reflecting America’s can-do spirit, the Stooges are nothing if not resilient. These shorts may find them down, but they are never out. The boys are ungainfully employed as Calvary spies ("Goofs and Saddles"), janitors ("Three Missing Links"), dog washers ("Mutts to You"), firemen (”Flat Foot Stooges”), traveling salesmen ("Saved by the Belle"), and vets (”Calling all Curs”). Some of the best shorts turn on mistaken identity: They are confused for college professors in ”Violent is the Word for Curly,” high society escorts in ”Termites of 1938,” and famous decorators in “Tassels in the Air.” For all the hair-tearing, eye-poking, and shovel-clobbering, the Stooges surprise with the odd musical grace note, such as their rendition of the silly “The Lollipop Song” in “Wee Wee Monsieur,” and their music box-accompanied pas-de-trio with pilgrim lasses Faith, Hope, and Charity in “Back to the Woods.” One also does not ordinarily look to the Stooges for pathos, or, for that matter, heartwarming happy endings, but ”Cash and Carry” delivers both as the boys set out to raise $500 for a crippled boy’s operation. ”Flat Foot Stooges” is something of a milestone. It marks the debut of “Three Blind Mice” as the Stooges new theme song, which would replace the twittering “Listen to the Mockingbird.” The shorts are presented complete and uncut, which means the PC police are standing by to issue citations for such egregious stereotypes as the grunting, shrieking “savages” in the colonial comedy, ”Back to the Woods,” and the Stooges’ turn as Yiddish-speaking Chinese launderers in ”Mutts to You.” --Donald Liebenson
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Block-Heads (1938) starring Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Billy Gilbertson
Block-Heads is one of Laurel and Hardy‘s best films, a very rapid series of funny skits, strung together with a simple story. Set in 1938, decades after the end of World War I, Stan Laurel is still in the trenches, fighting the war! He is brought home to America and given a place to stay in a soldier’s home—and his old Army buddy, Oliver Hardy, decides to pick him up and bring him to Ollie’s house for a home-cooked meal. And so, the carnage begins ...
Some of their best slapstick ensues, with Stan Laurel (accidentally) running over Oliver Hardy with Oliver’s car (and destroying his garage in the process), causing Oliver Hardy’s wife to get angry and storm off (on their one year anniversary, no less), get Oliver Hardy in a fight with perennial foil Jimmy Finlayson, blow up Oliver’s kitchen (with the hilarious visual of the punch bowl being the only item to survive, balanced on one of the upturned table’s legs) which is then accidentally spilled on Mrs. Gilbert, who is locked out of her apartment and puts on Oliver’s pajamas while her husband, the gun-toting (and hilarious) Billy Gilbertson comes home and gives the boys advice on how to cheat on their wives while his wife is hidden in a box and ... well, you get the idea! It’s a frenetic, fast-paced, hilarious farce. I have rarely laughed so hard as when I first saw Block-Heads, and I hope you enjoy it as much.
Funny movie quotes from Block-Heads starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Stan Laurel: You remember how dumb I used to be?
Oliver Hardy: Yeah?
Stan Laurel: Well, I’m better now.
Stan Laurel: If you want me to go, I’ll stay as long as you like.
Oliver Hardy: But, Dear, I haven’t seen Stan in 20 years.
Mrs. Hardy: I couldn’t see him in a hundred years.
Stan Laurel: How long did you say it would take us to get up there?
Oliver Hardy: Oh, just a jiffy.
Stan Laurel: How far is a jiffy?
Oliver Hardy: About three shakes of a dead lamb’s tail.
Stan Laurel: I didn’t think it was so far.
Oliver Hardy: [Ollie’s house key, attached to his pants, is stuck in the lock, so to free Ollie, he had to remove his pants; Stan easily removes the key from the lock] Why didn’t you tell me you had the key out of the lock?
Stan Laurel: Well, you didn’t ask me.
Oliver Hardy: “You didn’t ask me”.
Stan Laurel: Gee, that’s pretty underwear.
Oliver Hardy: Don’t get personal.
Stan Laurel: Do you think your wife would mind if I smoked my pipe?
Oliver Hardy: Of course not. What’s all right with me is okay with her.
Stan Laurel: I know, but a lot of dames are particular.
Oliver Hardy: Well yes, but… What do you mean calling my wife a dame?
Stan Laurel: What’s a knick-knack?
Oliver Hardy: Oh a knick-knack is a thing that sits on top of a whatnot.
[repeated line]
Stan Laurel: There’s going to be a fight.
Mrs. Hardy: [adorably] And make that hour short.
Mrs. Hardy: [coming back from store] So you were only going to be gone an hour!
Stan Laurel: [to 901 guy] There’s going to be a fight.
Stan Laurel: [to bypassers] There’s going to be a fight.
Stan Laurel: [to guy going into apartment] Hey, there’s going to be a fight.
Stan Laurel: [to desk guy] You better call an ambulance. It’s going to be terrible. There’s going to be a fight.
Oliver Hardy: Ha ha ha! Come see my grandfather. My grandfather left. He said, “Hello, sugar!”
James, porter: [Responding after Hardy asks if there’s anything in the newspaper] Here’s a story about a fella who spent twenty years in the trenches and didn’t know the war was over.
Oliver Hardy: [Laughing] Really?
James, porter: Yeah; here’s his picture
[shows Hardy the paper]
Oliver Hardy: [Looking at a photo of the grinning soldier] I can’t imagine anybody being that dumb.
Oliver Hardy: [Realizes the grinning soldier is Stan; does a massive take and grabs the paper back from Morton; looks directly into the camera] Oh, yes I can.
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Lucy’s Club Dance—I Love Lucy season 3, episode 91, originally aired April 12, 1954
Lucy’s Club Dance begins with Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and Ethel Mertz’s (Vivian Vance) club, The Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League, once again being in dire financial strits. The idea of a benefit dance is proposed, and once again Lucy volunteers Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz) and his band. But this time, Ricky adamantly (and very humorously) refuses. What to do now? Well, the ladies realize that they all play different musical instruments, and so they decide to make their own all-girl band—and also decide to exclude Lucy, since they’ve heard her play the saxophone.
The other ladies, however, are nearly as bad as Lucy—including Ethel, who despite having played the piano well in previous episodes has apparently forgotten how to play—and Lucy decides to get back in the act by offering Ricky’s services to ‘mentor’ the group, and help them to be less lousy—in exchange for letting Lucy play. Ricky, however, is only human, and even after bringing his band in to show the ladies how the song (Twelfth Street Rag) should sound—and the ladies are just as lousy afterwards.
To make matters worse, Marion Strong has put an article in the paper about how band leader Ricky Ricardo leading an all-girl band. Lucy and Ethel try to prevent the boys from reading about it by clipping the articles out of their newspapers—and going a step farther by going to the news stand and clipping it out of their copies as well. Eventually, of course, Ricky reads the article, and can’t allow his reputation to be ruined by having this terrible band to have his name attached—so there’s only one thing to do!
In the conclusion, Ricky is present at the ladies club dance - as his band, dressed as women (and very homely as well) enter to play the Twelfth Street Rag. Lucy’s Club Dance is a very funny episode, and is available as part of the I Love Lucy season 3 DVD collection.
Funny quotes from Lucy’s Club Dance—I Love Lucy
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): You haven’t even heard them play, and you want them in your orchestra! Why not me?
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): I’ve heard you play.
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Lucy’s saxophone playing sounds like a bull moose with a head cold.
Ricky Ricardo (Desi Arnaz): If I didn’t do it, and you didn’t do it, who do’d it?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): I wouldn’t be in your band if you begged me to!
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Ah, you really mean that Lucy?
Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball): Yes, I do!
Ethel Mertz (Vivian Vance): Good!
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The Tie is Always Greener - an original clown skit by Goofy Grape, for 2 speaking clowns
(starts with Goofy Grape having a small table set up on stage, with some ties displayed for sale… straightening up ties, etc.—keeping her hands busy)
(Raynbow walks on-stage, spots the Tie Store, and does a take for the audience)
Raynbow: Wow! A new tie store! And I really need a new tie! (looks at tie he’s wearing) This old thing! I’ve had it for years.. It’s time for a change! (walks into the "store")
Goofy Grape: How can I help you?
Raynbow: I need a replacement for this tired, old tie! (takes off tie, puts it down on the table) What do you have that’s new, hip, happening, and cool?
Goofy Grape: (pulls out a red polka-dot tie) I’ve got this lovely green checked tie—try it out!
Raynbow: (models it for the audience—tries to tie it, and tightens the knot too tight—starts choking himself—removes the tie) No, I need a tie, not a choker. What else do you have?
Goofy Grape: I’ve got a super-duper Grape model! (pulls out a purple tie)
Raynbow: (turns to the audience, models the tie—obviously doesn’t like the tie—turns back to Goofy Grape)—I don’t like it—it must be the Grapes of Wrath model. What else do you have?
Goofy Grape: (an aside to the audience) Can’t please some people no matter what you do! (to Raynbow): Let me see what else we have in stock, sir (she turns around and starts rummaging through her ‘stock’)
Raynbow: (notices his old tie lying on the counter) Eureka!
Goofy Grape: (turns around, slightly miffed) Well, you don’t smell so sweet yourself!
Raynbow: No! I’ve found it! The perfect tie! (holds up his tie for the audience) Look at this tie! It has style! It has class! It has poise, and personality!
Goofy Grape: (in an aside to the audience) I know who else has a poison personality! (to Raynbow) But that’s your old tie!
Raynbow: (totally oblivious) It’s perfect! I want to buy it! How much?
Goofy Grape: (with perplexed look on her face) It’s not for sale!
Raynbow: (upset) WHY NOT?? (pulls out wad of money)
Goofy Grape: (yelling right back at him) ‘CUZ IT’S ALREADY YOURS!
Raynbow: (as the light slowly dawns) Oooh!
(lights dim, or the clowns walk off stage, as the pastor (or whomever) comes up to talk about what we already have in Christ, only to go looking for it someplace else)
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This was written as a children’s sermon to match an adult sermon by the same title.
(Clown One enters and walks up to where children are.)
Clown One (addressing kids): I am going to talk to you about Christian Love.
(Clown Tw