The Three Stooges remains a pop culture phenomenon after 100 years. While that staying power in the zeitgeist alone may tell the story of a grand career and much success, that isn’t exactly the case.

The Three Stooges are legends, kings of comedy who took slapstick to wild extremes with bits of physical comedy that would surely have put anyone else in hospitals... or morgues. The classic lineup of ...

In 1954, the sociologist Fredric Wertham published Seduction of the Innocent, his argument that horror comic books were corrupting America’s youth. Widely read by troubled parents — and by their kids, ...

American film comedy used to be such a simple subject for people with any taste at all. It was almost universally accepted that slapstick physical comedy anyway -- got worse as movies went on: that ...

Mistaken for the new studio bosses, the Three Stooges give Hollywood the full "nyuk, nyuk, nyuk" treatment in their 1936 comedy short "Movie Maniacs." After their slapstick brand of lunacy reduces a ...