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BinHere:
I have seen a short video file of this same routine but it is with joe derita.  I laugh every time I think about it.  The Stooges are doing this skit in front of an audience on a stage and I assume it is from a day time talk show but I cannot find any information on it.  Culy joe is the maharaja and is almost blind....when moe holds up a pizza pan and asks him what it is.......curly replies...a half a dollar....then curly proceeds to shoot a raisin off of larry's head with a rifle....can anyone identify this for me.

Thanks

BeAStooge:

--- Quote from: BinHere on July 11, 2005, 11:58:14 AM ---I have seen a short video file of this same routine but it is with joe derita.  I laugh every time I think about it.  The Stooges are doing this skit in front of an audience on a stage and I assume it is from a day time talk show but I cannot find any information on it.  Culy joe is the maharaja and is almost blind....when moe holds up a pizza pan and asks him what it is.......curly replies...a half a dollar....then curly proceeds to shoot a raisin off of larry's head with a rifle....can anyone identify this for me.

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The Stooges performed "The Maharaja" routine twice on national television during the DeRita years...
 -   4/5/59 THE STEVE ALLEN SHOW (NBC) *
 - 10/6/63 THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS)

And once with Shemp...
 - 10/10/50 THE TEXACO STAR THEATRE (NBC)

* Included on GoodTimes' DVD "The Three Stooges: Kings of Laughter."

BinHere:
BeAStooge,

Thanks for the Info.... now that is what I call a serious Stooge enthusiast when you produce information like that. 
Now I just have to try and find those routines for my collection.... It is some of my all time favorite stooge routines.

Thanks Again!

CouncilmanGoodrich:
Hi,

Did you know ... Moe also performed this routine on the Mike Douglas Show on Sept. 11, 1973, with Mike Douglas as the Majarajah, and Soupy Sales more or less playing Larry's part.  After the sketch everyone engaged in a pie fight, naturally!

--Councilman Goodrich

Dog Hambone:

--- Quote from: wallawalla on April 30, 2005, 08:55:10 PM ---You asky-tasky so I'll try to answer... ;)

I thought I had read somewhere that is a mixture of Yiddish and doubletalk. They worked Yiddish into a few episodes - Larry's toast in Pardon My Scotch, and his lengthy spiel to the cop when dressed up as a Chinese laundry worker that ends in "...and I don't mean efsher."

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I realize we are getting off on a tangent here, but not too long ago on the ThreeStoogesdotcom site, someone explained at least part of Larry's line to Officer O'Halloran outside the Chinese laundry (from Mutts To You) - referenced above. I am not Jewish & I don't know any Yiddish, so I can't personally verify anything, but the quote was "Huck mir nisht a chynek, and I don't mean efsher" which he said translates as leave me alone, or stop bothering me, and I don't mean maybe. 

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