Graham Linehan, who co-wrote Father Ted, said: "Ardal O Hanlon partly based Dougal on Stan Laurel. Matt Lucas ("I always thought of them as friends"), John Cleese ("they're wonderfully, wonderfully funny"), Steve Martin ("they are hard to top"), Steve Coogan ("they were geniuses of comedy") and Stephen Fry ("a constant joy") are among the Laurel and Hardy devotees. You can still get their films on DVD (ardent fans will have the 21-disc box set) or even visit the lovely and rather touchingly drab and heartwarming Laurel and Hardy Museum in Stan's Ulverston birthplace (although for marital harmony it's possibly best not to go, as I once did, as a wedding anniversary outing) but anything that brings this magical pair back into the limelight is welcome.ĭuring the Seventies, Laurel and Hardy short films were still regularly shown on BBC2 (usually at 6pm) and the comedians they inspired make an impressive roll call. Even better is that the 125th anniversary of Laurel's birth was celebrated by cinema screenings of Sons of the Desert and County Hospital throughout the UK. It is an interesting idea to focus on a period when their best film days were behind them but their deep friendship remained. In January 2016, it was reported that Steve Coogan will team up with John C Reilly to play the much-loved double act Those who love the Way Out West dance, which captures perfectly the charm and on-screen chemistry of the comedy duo, will already have been delighted by the news that the BBC1 is to film a one-off 90-minute drama called Stan and Ollie – written by Jeff Pope of Philomena note – which is based around their 1953 tour of the UK, during which Hardy suffered a heart attack. Perhaps we can all be divided by that Laurel and Hardy test. "If she didn't laugh, I instantly wrote her off as a future companion," said Skinner, conceding that this wasn't exactly rational behaviour. To mark what would have been his 126th birthday, Martin Chilton looks at why they comedy duo continue to make people laugh after many a generationįrank Skinner once admitted that new girlfriends were always "subjected to the Laurel and Hardy test", when he would play a video of the Laurel and Hardy dance sequence from Way Out West. .and Weep), ils jouent tous les deux les faire valoir de James Finlayson, mais, ds que celui-ci s’clipse, nos deux compres sont Laurel et Hardy.
Stan Laurel, the tall, thin, "dumb" half of the team of Laurel and Hardy, was born on June 16, 1890.
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