Oliver Hardy
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Oct 28, 2026
Tim HeideckerGUEST
yeah.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
Laurel and Hardy.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
Laurel and Hardy for two points.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
Laurel and Hardy.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
And I'll give you one more guess.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
Okay.
Tim HeideckerGUEST
Lenny Bruce.
Ike BarinholtzHOST
Stockhausen, WC Fields, Young, you said Edgar Allan Poe, Fred Astaire, Merkin, never heard of him, Hunts Hall from the Bowery Boys, Simon Rodia, you said Dylan, Audrey Beardsley, Robert Peel, Aldous Huxley, Dylan Thomas, Terry Southern, Dion, Tony Curtis, Wallace, Benham, Sorry, Wallace Berman, Tommy Hanley, Marilyn Monroe, William Rose, another Indian guru.
speaker_0HOST
Maybe he was a fan of the rainforest, and hated the idea of several hundred trees being cut down in order to produce the usual A2 version.
speaker_0HOST
But there is one big problem with Wagner, and it's similar to that of Laurel and Hardy.
speaker_0HOST
Whilst they were undoubtedly brilliant comics and screen legends, they did everything so slowly.
speaker_0HOST
One thinks of Oliver Hardy sitting in a river, spitting out water and looking upset.
Mark JenkinGUEST
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Mark JenkinGUEST
It's a sort of Laurel and Hardy kind of composition.
Mark JenkinGUEST
It's sort of two useless men.
Mark JenkinGUEST
I don't really know who's Laurel and who's Hardy in that situation, but I think maybe George looks a bit more like Stan Laurel in his look.
Norman BowmanGUEST
I'll tell you what it's like.
Norman BowmanGUEST
There's an old Laurel and Hardy film and Laurel and Hardy are in a darkened room and The wee sin, one of Laurel and Harley, Stan Laurel, he strikes a match and the plump one says, what are you doing? And Stan Laurel says, I'm checking to see if the switch is off.
Norman BowmanGUEST
and that's similar to the doubt i spoke to a person one time and they said to me the lights in my office were on but this individual said to me if you ask me are them lights on i couldn't give you a definitive answer You know, that burden of responsibility and that burden of doubt.
Norman BowmanGUEST
Here's the big issue.
Paul RustGUEST
They're always cleanly on each side of the screen.
Matt BesserHOST
Speaking of Mary Pickford, I've been watching Laurel and Hardy where they probably were the first guys to do that kind of stuff, and it looks so funny.
Matt BesserHOST
Yeah.
Paul RustGUEST
that's great.
CherieHOST
But again, it was in 1925.
CherieHOST
And another interesting fact, you might... recognized one of the actors as the Tin Man was played by Oliver Hardy of Laurel and Hardy fame.
CherieHOST
Yes.
CherieHOST
See, that's a fun fact, right?
MichelleHOST
Wow.
MichelleHOST
Yes.
MichelleHOST
Now, okay, how do I say this delicately? Oliver Hardy was a larger American.
MichelleHOST
Yes.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
His most exciting moments all seem to happen offstage.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
The narrators, like I said, would be Chaplin, Stan Laurel of Laurel and Hardy, and Anthony Newley as Anthony Newley.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
Smoo and begged Newley and Ross to dramatize those moments.
Robert W. SchneiderHOST
But no, Dice, what if there was less, I'm a tortured artist and my life is so sad, wah-wah, and more comedy? Nope, Newley didn't want that.
Chris DiamondHOST
But you wonder, like, why did you ever think this would make, you know, a sitcom like The Magnificent Evans or Fly Me For A Quid? Because you think, where's the stamina in that? That weird one where...
Chris DiamondHOST
him and Roy Castle play Laurel and Hardy?
Tyler AdamsHOST
Yeah, Another Fine Mess, it was called.
Chris DiamondHOST
Yeah, really weird.
Chris DiamondHOST
You couldn't sustain that over six episodes, could you? You wouldn't have thought so.
Chris DiamondHOST
And personally, much as I actually do genuinely love Laurel and Hardy, people pretending to be Laurel and Hardy is one of the most tiresome things ever.
Maggie OllerenshawSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
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Tyler AdamsHOST
I agree.
AndyHOST
You just need they're going to go off.
AndyHOST
I mean, it's almost like a Laurel and Hardy episode, isn't it, really? You know, they're just sent off to, you know, catch a bull and then put it back.
AndyHOST
And that's pretty much it.
AndyHOST
The stuff with Debbie and Penny is more of the plot, isn't it? Yeah, and it's quite a nice
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MarkHOST
This is a slightly more subtle bit of messing up, even though not necessarily a very subtle setup because the, yeah, the car in the mud is a classic cliche, isn't it?
AndyHOST
Yeah.
AndyHOST
I mean, it is a bit, I mean, you kind of know, as I said, it's Laurel and Hardy,
MarkHOST
isn't it? Yeah.
Lee Shallat ChemelGUEST
Oh my God.
Lee Shallat ChemelGUEST
Laurel and Hardy, of course.
Lee Shallat ChemelGUEST
And musicals, like Singing in the Rain.
Lee Shallat ChemelGUEST
And in those days, you could stay in the movie theater and stay as many times as you wanted.
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