Ted Healy

That's cool.

And the next day I was listening to Uncle Miltie tell me about Ted Healy and his influence on his career.

These are great stories.

Throw in drinking beer with Harry Nielsen at a Davy Jones book signing and a crazier than a shout out mouse.

You might not know this about About the Three Stooges.

But, you know, they started a long, long time ago with Ted Healy.

And it was the Howard brothers, Moe and Shimp.

And then they met Larry Fine, who was actually like a concert producer.

concert violinist if you can believe that I know that's probably hard for some of you to believe but that's true holy crap and so they all come together and then it's Ted Healy and his stooges and then they become the three stooges well Pat McAfee started off as like a stooge he's doing backflips off of boats and And I'm going to give him credit for this.

If there's credit to be given, it's this.

The money that they have given away to college kids with this field goal kicking competition is absurd.

So you've got three feature excerpts.

And then you also have three gentlemen by the names of Moe, Larry, and Jerry, a.k.a. Curly, as they were part of Ted Healy and his Stooges when they were making shorts at MGM in two-color Technicolor.

And this film was called Hello Pop.

This was considered a lost film until about 20 years ago, where a collector print turned up in Australia and the collector was kind enough to to lend us the print so that we could copy it and preserve it for our archives.

These leaders of laughter know how to get a bellyache out of their audiences, but their personal lives are very often wreathed in suffering, struggle, scandal, and controversy.

That was certainly true of Ted Healy, the laugh master extraordinaire and creator of the absolutely God tier Three Stooges.

With roots going all the way back to Vaudeville, Healy was a staple of Hollywood and is widely cr- uh, credited with being one of the great minds behind the creation of slapstick comedy as a genre, as he should be.

Like, go and watch some Three Stooges.

The following year, 1937, the couple had their first and only child, a son named John Jacob Healy.

And I just wanna go, John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt, um, who was born in Culver City.

Ted Healy was said to be over the moon about the birth of his son.

He was stoked.

He does not, in fact, help rescue his daughter.

Um, but it's, it's, it's, it's the Ted, he, not Ted Healy, Healy, because Ted Healy was the three stooges guy.

Anyway, um, getting my Healy's messed up too many, but I, you know, I have stories about Ted Healy.

Anyway, um, Not that many, but Ted Healy was not a nice guy.

That's why the Three Stooges left him.

He was abusive and a drunk, and he kept more of the money.