These guys were my absolute favorite on screen funnymen. Even to this day, I laugh just as hard at their films as I did when I was kid. To me, the best film they did was The Music Box, where they carry the piano up the stairs only to find out they could've drove around and up the hill. What do they do? They carry the piano back down, load onto their cart and drive it up the road to the same spot at the foot of the stairs. And about those stairs, if you watch some of the 3 Stooges films, they use the same stairs for a couple of their shorts.
And contrary to their onscreen characters, it was Stan Laurel who was part of the brains behind the production of them. He did alot of the writing for their scripts and thought up alot of the gags that you saw. Babe Hardy just followed directions, maybe put in a few suggestions of his own and film history was made. One thing is for sure, they had great chemistry together and that went a long ways towards their success.
