SuitabookWho were the Three Stooges?
Pamela Pollack
- Reading
- Read it as a starting point for exploring performance and fame. Pause after the career milestones to ask whose work, choices and audience responses receive the most attention.
- Themes
- Making comedy: The team develops a career from vaudeville into films and becomes known for physical comedy and doing almost anything for a laugh. The book’s stance on this remains unclear.
- Fame and change: The performers are presented as children of immigrants who moved from early performance into films, while the group continued through several personnel changes. The book appears to explain a career and the group’s development, including background and changes, rather than presenting a fictional story.
- Worth knowing
- The comedy involves pie fights and physical humour, and the performers are described as willing to do anything for a laugh. A child may want help distinguishing staged comedy from acceptable real-world behaviour.