Not only was Healy exploitative and jealous of the Three Stooges, who were quickly beginning to upstage him, but he was also a heavy drinker prone to bouts of extreme violence. In 1932 ...

Shemp!: The Biography of The Three Stooges' Shemp Howard, The Face Of Film Comedy, by Burt Kearns, Applause Books, 280 pages, $32.95 When you think of the Marx Brothers, you likely think of ...

Steve Carell, Ramy Youssef, Jason Schwartzman and Cory Michael Smith star in 'Mountainhead,' about Elon Musk types trying to ...

The Three Stooges are arguably the most popular and influential comedy institution in Hollywood history. Yet Moe, Curly and Larry (and Shemp) did not receive the recognition and reward you might ...

Healy was the creator of the Three Stooges, and Shemp, who initially left the cast to pursue a solo acting career, would re-join the group following his brother Curly’s debilitating stroke in 1946.

while the Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers are performers who, in one form or another, persist as public figures to this day. The two new books focus on the odd brothers out in each team. Shemp ...