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The Joe Besser Forever YouTube Channel is the ultimate tribute to the legendary comic Joe Besser, best remembered as a member of The Three Stooges comedy team. Launched in 2022 by Besser's ...
- The Three Stooges - Joe Besser (Solo) - YouTube
All shorts of Joe Besser! Before he's the official third...
- The Three Stooges - Joe Besser (Solo) - YouTube
Apr 12, 2023 · A calvacade of clips from Hollywood's most profilic Stooges' miscellaneous movie and television roles. Includes a live TV performance of Besser's famous and ...
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- Joe Besser Forever
All shorts of Joe Besser! Before he's the official third stooge with Moe and Larry!
Besser made many comedy shorts for Columbia before joining The Three Stooges in 1956. Joe left the Stooges in 1958 and went on to star in feature films and had a successful television career. On March 1, 1988, Joe passed away in his North Hollywood home of heart failure. Fourteen months later, his wife Erna died on July 1, 1989.
- Early Life
- Began to Acting
- The Three Stooges Years
- After The Stooges
- Death
- Trivia
Besser was born in St. Louis, Missouri, making him the only Stooge member not born on the East Coast. He was the ninth child of Morris and Fanny Besser (Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe). He had seven older sisters, and an older brother Manny who was in show business, primarily as an ethnic Jewish comic. From an early age, Joe was fascinated w...
Besser remained in show business and developed a unique comic character: a whiny sissy who flew into temper tantrums with his painfull whimpers . Besser, with his frequent outbursts of "You crazy, youuuuu!" and "Not so faaaaaast!," was so original and so outrageously silly that he became a vaudeville headliner, and movie and radio appearances soon ...
After Shemp Howard died of a sudden heart attack on November 22, 1955, at the age of 60 his brother Moe suggested that he and his teammate Larry Fine continue working as "The Two Stooges". Studio chief Harry Cohnrejected the proposal. Although Moe had legal approval to allow new members into the act, Columbia executives had final say about any acto...
Besser returned to films and television, most notably as the superintendent "Jillson" for four seasons (1961–1965) of The Joey Bishop Show, and the voice of Babu the genie in Jeannie, an animated version of I Dream of Jeannie. He also made occasional appearances on the ABC late-night series, also called The Joey Bishop Show between 1967 and 1969. B...
Joe Besser died of heart failure on March 1, 1988. His wife Erna died on July 1, 1989, from a heart attack at age 80, the second longest living member of all the stooges after Joe DeRita who died at the age of 83. Both spouses are buried in the same plot in Glendale's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery.
Besser never appeared in any feature films with the Stooges, nor did he make any public appearances as a member of the group, due to his retirement from the act and being soon replaced by Joe DeRita.
For more than six decades, Joe Besser brought gales of laughter to millions—in vaudeville, on Broadway, on radio, in motion pictures, and on television. From his days working as a bumbling assistant to the world-famous Thurston the Magician, he carved out success with his own act—that of a childlike sissy who brandished his foils with a flick of the wrist and such hilarious verbal assaults ...
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JOE PALOOKA MEETS HUMPHREY (1950) Joe Besser (Solo) Mr. Carlton. OUTSIDE THE WALL (1950) Joe Besser (Solo) Diner owner. WOMAN IN HIDING (1950) Joe Besser (Solo) Salesman with drum.
