Laurel & Hardy were one of the few great silent movie acts to have even greater success in sound. This set contradicts itself by proving what any Laurel & Hardy fan knows: Their strong suit was ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Remembered as Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s best film, Sons of the ...

A new 'Laurel and Hardy' series from American Mythology Comics is set to debut in April. By Graeme McMillan Two comedic icons are making an unexpected return to comic books in 2019, with American ...

‘Laurel and Hardy: Year Two’ includes 10 comedy shorts of varying quality, each of which runs about 20 minutes in length. Even the best are loose-limbed, ramshackle, on-the-fly efforts. Oliver Hardy ...

The two might have been separated by a few decades, but Gary Larson's Far Side and the comedy of Laurel and Hardy share an affinity for ambitious slapstick humor. There's a lot for fans of Stan and ...

Not far from L.A.'s famed Sunset Boulevard sits an old flight of stairs, remarkable in that one, it's still there, and two, it has a name: the Music Box Steps. That long, long staircase was the stage ...

John McCabe, a Shakespearean scholar and show business biographer whose 1961 book on Laurel and Hardy was considered the definitive work that brought the comedy duo the critical respect that had ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marc Berman is a New York-based reporter who covers media. Friends and family, turkey and all the fixings, the Macy’s Thanksgiving ...

For the members of Sons of the Desert, the recent release of “Stan & Ollie” is akin to a new “Star Wars” episode for armchair Jedis. Sons of the Desert is the official international appreciation ...

The lithe Stan Laurel had yet again gotten his portly partner Oliver Hardy involved in “another nice mess,” this time in 1937’s Way Out West. (As any member of the diehard Sons of the Desert fan club ...

There are a lot of movies in theaters right now trying to grab your attention and dollars — everything from superhero spectacles and musical extravaganzas to awards darlings and wannabes. It’s easy to ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the first appearance in the same film, “The Lucky Dog” (1921) by Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, the comedy duo whose work featured a surprising amount of ...