Moe Howard of The Three Stooges explained that their chaotic physical comedy was achieved through carefully choreographed movements, precise timing, and clever camera angles rather than actual violence. In 1960, he demonstrated that actions like eye pokes and slaps stopped just short of impact, with the victim's exaggerated reaction and sound effects selling the illusion of pain. Credit: @cbs | History In Pictures

Is it possible that this is the funniest scene in cinema history? | The Three Stooges

Today in The Three Stooges history, July 6 1933, Nertsery Rhymes was released starring Ted Healy and his very young Stooges. The Stooges play Ted Healy's children, and they're giving him a hard time about going to sleep. He tries singing them to sleep, but to no avail. The team's first musical comedy, and the first of two experimental 2-strip Technicolor shorts they made with MGM were billed as Colortone Musical Revues. Color was used as a means to match the musical numbers, footage from earlier