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"Mr. Hardy was beginning to ignore things, but Mr. Laurel possessed no concern with losing his storage area - as a matter of known fact, Mr. Laurel never had a memory to reduce." (Title cards in Hog Outdoors) A whole lot of ink has been spilled within the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees and shrubs? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in enough time it takes to finish a commute, while learning interesting facts long overlooked or never known. From the 1920s British comic Stan Laurel have been in dozens of films, and American Oliver Hardy possessed came out in hundreds, but it had not been until they produced a duo collectively in 1926 that they commenced to be found. Once they did, however, Laurel & Hardy became one of the most famous comedy clubs in American background, with a job that spanned four ages and included over 100 blended shorts and show films. Right now, nearly 60 years after their last performances collectively, Laurel & Hardy are still popular, alongside legends just like the Three Stooges and Abbott & Costello, and their exercises are still viewed throughout the world. Perhaps most importantly, Laurel & Hardy were forerunners of slapstick humor and thus affected those that adopted. Their complementary styles of slapstick humor, with the thin, childish Laurel acting as a foil for the heavy and overly pompous Hardy, offered a template for others to follow, and the duo set up several famous gags that other acts, like the Stooges, eventually mimicked.
