Gavin says: just to watch them as they were is a joy and no-one else knows how special they were until a group including you or I or anyone else watches their films or TV specials... thanks to all the box sets you can get now you can relive all the classics and laugh until your sides burst!!!
Fantastic and unique footage. I love that they did everything in character and were able to reproduce their unmistakable and hallmarked comic timing. The crowds clearly showed their appreciation !
As a person of color, I'm a big fan of theirs.i sure would wish I would've met them in person just to tell them how much I love the both of them and tell them face to face how much their comedy meant to me.
I do believe RHDR still have the carriage Laurel and Hardy travelled in. I remember cleaning the windows many a day during the school holidays and weekends. Fond memories and happy days.
For the first few years while they were making their movies, they had no real idea of how beloved they were. Then they did this tour of England and they were greeted like the Beatles would be in the future. Thank goodness they experienced moments like this while they could still savor them.
I love the RH&D railway, I have ever known this when I was about 3 years old, me and my nan would walk beside the tracks at Dungeness, but I never knew it was opened by Laurel and Hardy
It was the reopening of the Dungeness section a year after WW2. The 5 mile track was obliterated from enemy shells and military carelessness and a year later it was all renewed, but steel shortages meant it had to go from double track to single.
A lovely memory (the film) of 2 great comedians whose actions simply funny. Not many modern comedians come close to their simple humor that is still funny today.
The best of the best which will no longer be. Now comedians think it's funny to eat hot peppers online for views. 😕 I must be an old soul because I don't find the hot pepper gasp then rasing to grab milk afterwards to be funny. Wish I could have met them. True ledgends. ❤️
What is popular or considered really funny changes rapidly with time. I can’t believe that Abbott and Costello were more popular that L&H in the 40s and I am completely dumbfounded by the popularity of Jerry Lewis in the 50s. I like watching L&H, I know all of the gags and have seen their films many times and I still watch their films. I just like seeing them and being with them.
Laurel and Hardy were a little funnier then the Stooges.I think it's because when Laurel did something stupid Hardy would look at the camera which he would be looking at you,saying "can you believe this Guy?"
