Happy Birthday Curly Howard

Love me some stooges!!!!

The Curly Shuffle

The Horwitz brothers, Samuel (Shemp), Moses (Moe), and Jerome (Curly) that were, at various times part of the Three Stooges were all raised in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. Shemp was the oldest and Shemp and Moe were in the Vaudeville version of the Stooges first. They were originally billed behind Ted Healy as "Ted Healy and his Stooges" and the 4 (along with middle Stooge, Larry Fine) made 1 film together - similar to what the Marx Brothers were doing - Soup to Nuts - which was directed by none other that Rube Goldberg.

But Shemp decided to pursue a solo career - and was replaced by Curly. Moe, Larry and Curly left Ted Healy a couple of years later and the rest, as they say, is history.

No one seriously questions that Curly was the funniest. And died so young. Along with Harpo Marx, all physical comedy since has been influenced by Curly Howard.