An Interview with Moe Howard of the Three Stooges in 1973 

Moe is an absolute legend and so are Curly, Larry, and Shemp. They are hands down the funniest of all time. Thank you for all the laughs

Funny thing is you can watch episodes thousands of times and never get sick of them. My childhood is full of great times watching them. When I'm down, I immediately watch them to feel better.

A preserved piece of comedic history.

As a small child, I got to meet Moe. I was about 4 years old. He "Poked" me in the eyes.

I loved The Three Stooges as a kid and now at 53 I still love watching them. These guys are timeless.

Hearing Moe laugh is quite a treat. The Stooges were the greatest.

The Three stooges will always be the best.i love Them all so much may God bless them Amen .

Gift.. They had the gift of making people who watch them forget their pain and receive healing deep into their Spirit. May Jesus Bless Them forever.

Oh my God, these guys are the tops in my book, they used to bring me down in tears with their stunts totally hilarious. RIP.

the unmistakable voice of moe , timeless , , , , , , , , the three stooges comedy got us thru the decades , , thanks for the laughs boys

Been a Stooges fan for over 60 years, I’ve seen every Stooges comedy hundreds and hundreds of times. Even though I know exactly what’s going to happen, when certain scenes happen I still bust out laughing, can’t help it, and glad I can’t!

Priceless. What a world we live in, where treasures like this can still be found.

I've been a Stooges fan since I first saw them on TV in the late 1960's. Good on you for making the recording in the first place, and for keeping it for 50 years and then posting it here. Part of what I do for a living is to transfer old analog recordings to digital for people, and I am always amazed at what people have recorded and kept for decades.

I'm 49 and I still watch the 3 stooges....the 3 stooges will be watched for generations to come👍🏿👍🏿

Such a nice guy! I could listen to Moe for hours.

I was always impressed with how sharp Moe was even in his later years. Hes 76 here and he was still performing. His memory recall for dates, numbers, and facts regarding the stooges was amazing. The Stooges are legendary and have made many generations laugh.

My brother and I watched this interview in our living room when it was aired live. We never missed the Stooges on WTAF 29.

Being a child of the 90s, I feel very fortunate that my parents introduced me to "The Three Stooges". Some may look and see the shorts in black and white and think they're nothing that you be into as a kid, but we loved these. "Disorder In the Court" was the first one I can remember seeing, and it is to this day one of the funniest things I've ever seen. There are jokes that I get now as an adult that I didn't get as a kid that make me laugh insanely hard.

People today don't know what they missed growing up watching these guys I love this show.

My mother wouldn't let me watch the Three Stooges when I was growing up. So I watched them with my uncle. They still make me laugh.

What a thrill indeed to listen to this interview. The Three Stooges were geniuses. ☮️💟

I'm glad we have this preserved interview. The Three Stooges were one of the greatest comedy groups ever, and we unfortunately don't have humor like that anymore. It's sad they're gone, but really, their legacy is alive and well. ❤️

Their timing was impeccable. And it was all natural and instinctual. They are absolute legends. 15 feature films and over 200 shorts. Just unbelievable.

Any time any of the Three Stooges were on the Tonight Show back in the day, my mother (of blessed memory) would let me sneak out to watch them. I suffered a concussion once as a small child and had to stay awake as the treatment back then proscribed, and watched the Three Stooges Go To Mars or something on the late, late show on the only station that stayed on the air past midnight back then. I fell asleep in the middle of it, but somehow survived in spite of that.

Moe Howard Was My Hero And My Favorite And Kind Like A Father To Me And I'm Kind Like A Son To My Hero Moe Howard

these guys have no idea how much joy they have brought countless people....they will still be great another hundred years from now....

One thing you can say about Moe is that he always personally answered all fan mail letters sent to him. He was wrong about the title of the short in which Curly suffered his stroke-it was Half Wits Holiday from 1946, not Hoi Polloi. Holiday was a remake of Hoi Polloi.

I have so much respect for the stooges. They are pioneers and legends. They will be immortalized as some of the funniest physical comedians of all time.

Can watch them 100 times and still laugh like crazy. I wish I could think them personally for all the times they made me laugh and forget all the bad things in life. True legends.

So curious a thing....The unique ...very unique joy I get watching these 3 guys - Like no other comedians BY FAR

MOE was a CLASS ACT . Along with the rest of the stooges . Larry , Shemp & the GREAT Curly. I still watch them today ! Long live the 3 Stooges !

The world will never hear Curly out of character like this. And that might be for the better. It keeps Curly a mystery.

Moses Harry Horwitz (June 19, 1897 - May 4, 1975), better known by his stage name Moe Howard, was an American comedian and actor. The anchor man of the 3 Stooges.

Loved and still them all, all 6 of them, especially Curly. May they all rest in peace.

I think the interviewer was very skilled. He asked the right kinds of questions.

To all the stooges thanks for all the laughter and joy that you have gave us 😊

What a great interview. Thanks for sharing this.

That was a riveting wonderful interview! I've been obsessed with the Stooges since I was about 7 years old! I loved how they synced up what Moe was saying with the photos being shown! The interviewer was fantastic and it was wonderful how he realized what a treasure he had sitting in front of him and told Moe that he was his idol and called him a genius and fawned over him as he SHOULD have! LOL! Moe is so sharp and down to earth ! I have many books on The Three Stooges... And I even have Moe's autobiography but in this interview he said so many things that I didn't know! In Los Angeles late last year I went to an autograph signing event in Hollywood and I actually got to meet Curley's grandson who has a wonderful RU-vid channel! He signed a photo for me! Thanks for posting this great interview with one of the geniuses of our time!

a month later I was born…😂and I have been enjoying there comedy ever since…

Three stooges was my All time favorite show when i was growing up. I remember getting out of school 🏫🎒 running home 🏡 got me some snacks 🥨🥨 sat my butt down 👇 and watched my favorite show.

I hope Curly knew how absolutely loved he was

The 3 Stooges: the greatest of the great B&W comedy groups of their day.

Moe's mind is as sharp as they come, crazy he's 76 years old and doesn't miss a beat, a legit genius.

I love The Three Stooges! I’ve gotten a few people with this one “I can’t see! I can’t see!” and sometimes someone would ask what was wrong, and I would say either “I’ve got my eyes shut!” or “I’ve got my eyes closed”.

Not only were these men hilarious, they were also true gentleman in every way, RIP to all of them they are truly missed. Thank you for uploading this interview I loved listening to it.

I've been a Three Stooges fan for more than 50 years. but when I was a little kid The Three Stooges made me cry. Moe scared me because he was so mean to the other guys, always slapping them around. I became a fan in the late 60s when they started airing them every afternoon on a local channel. Unfortunately, my mother thought The Three Stooges were the epitome of no class and forbid me from watching them when she was home. She'd say "You think poking somebody in the eyes with your fingers is funny and what do you mean nyuck nyuck nyuck??" and that would make me laugh at her.

Well, I have to say truthfully, the Three Stooges and Abbott and Costello will always be the best comedic acts in history. Abbott and Costello. They were the highest paid act in the 1940s that’s how popular they were..

Thank you so much for sharing this!

It makes you wanna cry.

Wow l love it 2 watch The Three Stooges they made me laugh so much 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 From Breeley Colorado

Great stuff. My favorite comedians and shows’.

The 3 Stooges were the BEST!

Moe's there leader 😂😂😂😂rip MOE,🙏🕯️ thanks for sharing your talent to make us still laugh in 2024 😂😂😂😂 cheers Stephen 🤠⭐🦅🦅

This was awesome

I watched the Stooges on 29 also. Some of my fondest memories were from that time period.

😮 My favorite LARRY He was very underrated. And it's funny his name comes first. William s

Master's of Comedy

what a gentleman and well spoken a legend , i making a 3d printed statue of him now . the three stooges always made me laugh 😆 🙏

What an amazing man! He gave me so many laughs when I got home from school and watched all the re-runs.

Wow, good old channel 29, home of the Flyers.

I had to watch it sometimes as a kiddo in the 1980s with my grandpa and other great-aged relatives. It was interesting. That wouldn't work these days but it fit the era.

Cool getting Moe's favorite episodes. You Nazty Spies was very good and Moe played Hitler well. I read that the most violent one was Hoi Polloi, which is probably also my favorite though I like a lot of the shorts.

I was 11 at the time. I think I remember this! Did watch the stooges every day after school. Tastykake's ruled! I also remember seeing commercials with Moe selling his book. Of the Philly channels I loved 29 the best because of the stooges. Remember the others? 3,6,10, 12, 17, 29, & 48. (23 and 52 when there were no leaves on the trees!)

Pure Talent

We met the Stooges at Steel Pier in AC I’m guessing early 1960s. Parents took myself and 2 older brothers.

Looking at all those photos of them, they must have been some really busy guys.

This is a treasure

Moe was co-host on The Mike Douglas Show for 5 days straight.....which was aired from Philadelphia....sometime in the late 1960s as I remember. It could have been during the early 1970s.

Their brilliance showed by their totally convincing acting portraying 3 goofy, numbskulls. I miss every one of these guys!!

Legends for almost a century. Who else can lay claim to that?

Great interview and pictures. Thanks for sharing

Pennsylvania saved the stooges. Pittsburgh especially according to moe.

Loved the picture of the Stooges at Steel Pier singing with Sharkey the Seal

It wasn't when making Hoi Palloi, when Curley had a stroke, it was in the 1946 remake of Hoi Palloi. Hoi Palloi was made in 1935.

Excellent, thank you too

So interesting. Moe has such a good sharp memory ❤

Moe always tried to keep the act together. Otherwise, it would have died with Curly.

This is a very clean recording from a cassette recorder off of a radio in 1973. Your Dad must have had a nice recorder. Thanks for the upload.

so great!! thank you!!!

Moe Seems Like a good guy.

Gold

(2:26) For those of you who are curious, that marquee is from 1936. You can tell because the "flicker" is Bette Davis in ""Satan Met a Lady" (1936).

Ya just gotta love the Internet when it comes to these iconic types of things. Lucille Ball. How about that. And, she was beautiful

They made comedy real classic in those days.

They were exploited by Columbia which signed them for 20 years and Columbia massively underpaid them. They were a big theater draw during the 1930s and beyond, bringing in millions to Columbia’s coffers but their salary didn’t reflect how important they were to the studio. Moe unfortunately was the one who did the “negotiating” for the three.

Learning to listen is a valuable skill.

my first memories of the three stooges was also thanks to WTAF 29 in philly.

Very cool

NICE JOB, FIND MORE OF THESE!!!M.O'B

I love them and the original little rascals, why arent the on TV anymore? thats free

Moe sounds very much like Groucho in this interview.

I loved watching The Three Stooges as a kid during the 90's. When I was allowed to stay up later on the weekend I'd watch them either on TV Land or Nick At Night. My father didn't care if I watched them, but my mother wasn't a fan of their comedy style. I also watched a lot of the other old classic black and white shows as well when there wasn't anything else to watch. Sadly modern day tv shows are just total garbage compared to these classics.

📺👋😎

Happy Days!!

That over emphasized Beatles mop top bangs hair copied by a comedian, in our country I can remember the Coconut fruit trimmed to be used in cleaning the floor with floor wax, the bunot, similar with that, he he!

Definitely picked up the baton from buster and took physical comedy to the next level. All of them knew their stuff.

MOE U THE BOSS

The Three Stoogers did more than entertain people. They brought vaudeville into the electronic age. First movies, then TV, now the web. Seriously this is entertainment history.

Ironic....he quit smoking years back but died of lung cancer 2 years later after this..

Moe was a mean MF