ENGLISH LIT 344 / COMEDY & SATIRE Who's Who in American Comedy
Comedy team popular in films of the thirties; Oliver Hardy, the fat, fastidious one bullied Stan Laurel, the thin, silly one. Their film "The Music Box" won an Oscar. If this clip from their film "Way Out West" doesn't make you smile something's wrong. (Notice how it starts out very simply and then moves into the absurd.)
[For more details on these people, check their listing in Wikipedia, but note--this is one of the rare times I can accept the use of Wikipedia as a source. I have found that most of the information there about these people is reliable.]
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