Good comedy never dates. Look at Laurel and Hardy! They started out in silent movies, but unlike most silent comedians they had a smooth tradition to sound. They made some really classic shorts, including one where they were chimney sweeps in a mad scientist's house. (In the end Hardy got changed into a chimp!) The butler looked at them and muttered, "Somewhere an electric chair is waiting!"
The made a really funny movie called Sons of the Desert, where they sneaked off to a convention while their wives thought they were going to Hawaii for Hardy's health, but the boat they were supposed to be on sank! (Of course, The Flintstones stole the idea.) And another really funny one was Way out West, where they came to a frontier town to give an heiress the deed to a gold mine, but gave it to the wrong girl and had to steal it back...
Are there any funny duos today? I like the movies Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson have made together, Zealander and Starsky and Hutch. Peter Cook and Dudley Moore made some funny movies like Bedazzled. And there was Wayne and Shuster on the CBC.
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