Steve Coogan, John C. Reilly and director Jon S. Baird on Stan & Ollie 

It's playing at a nearby theatre, and I want to see it this weekend. I am a true Laurel & Hardy geek. So glad that all these fine people decided to tell part of their story to new audiences.

Granted its only January but its the best movie that I've seen in 2019.

Its amazing! Its such a brilliant film, I urge everybody to go see it!

"Two double acts, for the price of one?"

Short For Me Was "Oliver the 8th"...…..Mae Busch And I Have Forgotten The Butlers Name!!!...……….In The Short, He Was "Jitters"!!!!!! a CLASSIC Episode :-) And Film "Sons Of The Desert" :-)

“Blotto” (we drank your liquor!”) and Below Zero (“Don’t forget, plenty of onions!”) are two that spring to mind. Honestly all those shorts from the early thirties were marvellous. If you watch any full length comedy movie, 2 or 3 belly laughs in the whole film would be considered a success, sometimes you don’t get any. Every one of those 20 minute shorts by L&H had at least 2 or 3 burst out loud moments, sometimes more.

First discovered Stan and Babe in High School back in 1974. For me, the short “Brats” where they play their own kids, has always been my favorite.

Tough one...I'd have to say the best of Laurel and Hardy.

For me: best silent Two Tars, best sound short Thicker Than Water, Best feature Way Out West (Babes in Toyland close runner-up.)

Yes, the L&H This is Your Life episode is tough to watch in spots. Ralph Edwards acted like an unctuous slimeball and kept making cracks about Ollie's weight (which Ollie later spectulated was about 360 pounds: www.lettersfromstan.com/stan-1956-07.html ). Check out the L&H Water Rats segment, recorded Sept 29, 1955: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ez2LXjsTN_k.html

So glad John was quick to put that fire out. I remember watching it the first time when it was on the end of a VHS tape of one of their features, and it was about as comfortable as watching the Nuremberg Trials.

Yeah, you watch scenes like the dances in Way Out West and the "Shine On Harvest Moon" dance in Flying Deuces, and you realize that, for a big guy, Ollie had TONS of grace and poise. He moved very effortlessly and gracefully.

A little unfair. She asked better questions than I've seen other interviewers ask and as a result got answers here that other interviewers didn't get (as John points out). It's a slip up but an understandable one in the heat of the moment I think. Great that John jumps straight on it and corrects here so no harm done. And to anybody who doesn't twig how Laurel and Hardy had been cruelly tricked in the set-up for This Is Your Life (and why would they?) it IS a good watch. You have to know the backstory to know how sad that particular show was.

@@iansmith7698 Anyone with an ounce of tact can see how rudely Edwards is treating Hardy. Sorry it escaped your notice. Try watching it with the sound on next time.

I love the fact that he's gone grey at the sides, exactly like his wig from the "I'm Alan Partridge" series.

He seems like he's stoned.