![]() ![]() Shemp eventually returned and there were now three 'stooges', although Moe Howard also "retired" for a time in the late 1920s. Shemp bowed out in 1925 and was replaced by Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg), another vaudevillian. In 1922, the Howard brothers joined Healy in a slapstick act which centered around the latter with the former bearing the brunt of his barbs and physicality as his "stooges." The act, Ted Healy and His Stooges, was born. Howard worked with Healy on and off, but also concentrated on a song-and-dance act with his older brother Shemp (born Samuel Horwitz). In actuality, The Stooges in some form had a more than 60-year performance history with seven individuals who can lay some claim to having been a "Stooge." Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz), who would later become the leader of the group, met vaudevillian Ted Healy in 1909 and the two formed an act. ![]() Still, thanks to broadcasts on TV and cable, The Three Stooges play somewhere in America and the world everyday. The two-reel shorts and feature films of this raucous, knockabout-some might say violent-slapstick comedy trio have endured with a cult following despite the ongoing disdain of the critics and the horror of parents, educators and religious leaders who consider the Three Stooges the lowest of low-brow. ![]()
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