Topic: Female Fans and the 3 Stooges?

[kfdodgerfan]

I don't know if this is a hot button topic on here or not, but since I can remember, I have thought and have heard from other people that the 3 Stooges are largely a "guy thing", much like video games and pornography.

I have been playing the DVDs for my niece and nephew and both of them love comedy. From Spongebob to the Simpsons. But when it comes to the 3 Stooges, my nephew seems to like it 5x more than my niece.

Is it the violence that turns off women? Or are there as many female fans of the 3 Stooges and I just don't know it. I never really have met a female fan (one that will buy the DVDs and know the lines of an episode) of the 3 Stooges.

[jrvass]

FWIW the woman who prepared my mortgage papers is a Stooges fan. I loaned her one of my books to read for a few weeks.

James

[kfdodgerfan]

I don't go to conventions but I can't imagine there's a huge female audience there.

FWIW the woman who prepared my mortgage papers is a Stooges fan. I loaned her one of my books to read for a few weeks.

James

[Lola-Lou]

As a female and lifelong fan of the Three Stooges, in my opinion, it is a myth that mostly guys can "get into" the Stooges, video games, and porn. I have always loved the Three Stooges. I don't think it's the violence that turns away female viewers, I think it's probably the fact that Moe, Larry, and Curly weren't exactly Hollywood heart throbs. Video games are another thing that aren't gender specific. Many girls love the violence in video games. Alot of my girlfriends will spend hours on video games just like guys. However, in my house, it wasn't that my sister and I didn't want or like video games, we were jelous of our frinds who had them, our parents forbid video games in our house. Now my friends make fun of me because I can't play Super Mario Bros. As for pornography, I don't know really what to say. I haven't noticed any pornagraphic material aimed toward women that appealed to me. Why stare at a still photo of a naked guy when I can just hire a stripper?

[xraffle]

I don't know if this is a hot button topic on here or not, but since I can remember, I have thought and have heard from other people that the 3 Stooges are largely a "guy thing", much like video games and pornography.

I have been playing the DVDs for my niece and nephew and both of them love comedy. From Spongebob to the Simpsons. But when it comes to the 3 Stooges, my nephew seems to like it 5x more than my niece.

Is it the violence that turns off women? Or are there as many female fans of the 3 Stooges and I just don't know it. I never really have met a female fan (one that will buy the DVDs and know the lines of an episode) of the 3 Stooges.

I agree. All the stooge fans I've met are all guys. I have yet to meet a female that watches the stooges.

[kfdodgerfan]

But have you ever known a really good looking, really funny dude? Look at the top comics on stage, screen and standup (either male or female) and they're not the prettiest pictures on the planet. And yet women love certain comic geniuses. Just not the 3 Stooges.

As a female and lifelong fan of the Three Stooges, in my opinion, it is a myth that mostly guys can "get into" the Stooges, video games, and porn. I have always loved the Three Stooges. I don't think it's the violence that turns away female viewers, I think it's probably the fact that Moe, Larry, and Curly weren't exactly Hollywood heart throbs. Video games are another thing that aren't gender specific. Many girls love the violence in video games. Alot of my girlfriends will spend hours on video games just like guys. However, in my house, it wasn't that my sister and I didn't want or like video games, we were jelous of our frinds who had them, our parents forbid video games in our house. Now my friends make fun of me because I can't play Super Mario Bros. As for pornography, I don't know really what to say. I haven't noticed any pornagraphic material aimed toward women that appealed to me. Why stare at a still photo of a naked guy when I can just hire a stripper?

[Robbie883]

I wonder if the audience of the three stooges would be completely different if it were called The Three Stoogettes and female actresses played the parts. I know I probably wouldnt like it as much, not because I'm sexist, just because I dont think it would be as funny. But I may be wrong. I thnk the stooges attract men beacuse in most of their shorts they do ordinary jobs and act like ordinary men in most cases and we can relate to them. But thats just my opinion.

[brett11253]

I wonder if the audience of the three stooges would be completely different if it were called The Three Stoogettes and female actresses played the parts. I know I probably wouldnt like it as much, not because I'm sexist, just because I dont think it would be as funny. But I may be wrong. I thnk the stooges attract men beacuse in most of their shorts they do ordinary jobs and act like ordinary men in most cases and we can relate to them. But thats just my opinion.

Well.. If they had women hitting other women back then they were probably consider that abuse... But idk ya thay wouldnt be as funny to me ether.

[Curleys_Girl_Suze]

I came from the generation that had Officer Joe Bolton and the Stooges and Soupy Sales.

That accounts for me. nyuk.

[Robbie883]

I came from the generation that had Officer Joe Bolton and the Stooges and Soupy Sales.

That accounts for me. nyuk.

I know who Joe Bolton was, but who or what was Soupy Sales. I've heard that name about a million times but never knew what it was.

[Pilsner Panther]

I came from the generation that had Officer Joe Bolton and the Stooges and Soupy Sales.

That accounts for me. nyuk.

I know who Joe Bolton was, but who or what was Soupy Sales. I've heard that name about a million times but never knew what it was.

I must be getting older... you've never heard of Soupy? Pop over to Pilsner's Picks for a special Soupy Sales Supplement.

Soupy is still around, and he was going to jazz concerts in Greenwich Village as recently as two years ago, when a close friend of mine found himself sitting next to Soupy at the Village Vanguard when the great trumpet/fluglelhorn player and Duke Ellington band veteran Clark Terry was performing there. True story...!

For the real youngsters, it was Soupy who kept up the pie-throwing slapstick comedy tradition after the Stooges were (more or less) off the scene. He was hugely popular in the 60's... so goes fame, it is fleeting!

 

[jrvass]

http://www.detroitmemories.com/soupysales.html

It is said that he told the kiddies once, to get a dollar out of mommy's pocketbook or daddy's wallet and mail it to Soupy Sales c/o TV station.   

James

[Baggie]

 Me and my sister just watched them as a kid, and I carried on watching them when she stopped. I've always loved the Stooges but I don't really know why! It's doubly strange to be a British female Stooges fan. Not many over here like their kinda humour.

[stoogesarepimp]

I have never met a woman who was into the stooges.  Both my wife and my mother don't understand why I like the stooges.  I'm sure there are some women into them, but there are more men that women that are into them.

[Curleys_Girl_Suze]

Man, how my father hated Soupy Sales.

He'd come home from work and gripe, "You're watching that idiiot again[/i]"

He just never saw anything funny about it.

There was a guy I knew who worked for Metromedia back in the 80s -- rumor was out that somebody found outtakes of the old Soupy Sales show in a forgotten vault and they were supposed to be fairly raunchy.

And knowing Soupy's last caper, I'd not put it past him. 

Anybody here know what that button on the wall actually did? It was always marked "DO NOT TOUCH".

[stoogette]

I absolutely love the Stooges! People find it really bizarre, because I'm a 19 year old girly-girl. But I know everything about them and I love entertaining the old guys with stories about their lives. They're facsinating people, and their style of comedy was brilliant. It wasn't always just simply hitting each other around. They used carefully orchestrated and considered moves to bop one another. A great example of this is Moe's 'See that?' and he's hold out his fist, curly would smack it and Moe's arm would go right around and boink Curly on the head. He could have just whacked him, but there's a method to his madness which makes it extra special. They're fantastic and I wish they recieved more respect. But what an achievement- 100 years after they were born and young people like me still laughing at their antics

I do think this type of comedy appeals more to men, I believe it's all in our genes. There are a lot of female Three Stooges fans out there like me, but they are waayy outnumbered by the guys. I recently took a scientific test on the BBC website, which used a variety of activities to determine if your brain was  male or female, and not to my surprise, I was right smack in the middle ( explains my love for slapstick, star trek, and burping contests ). I'd be curious to see the results of other female three stooges fans. Perhaps it's the male side of our minds that allow us to appreciate this type of comedy?

[FineBari3]

OK you crumbs out there!  I am a female and a Stooge fan!!! I am 35 years old and have been a fan since I was 8.

Yes, there are women out there who like the Stooges and are KNOWLEDGABLE about them. (ahem....Team Stooge member here).

I have been to a few meetings, and I can say there is about a 10% representation of women Stooge fans there.

The strange thing is that I also play the drums and used to play hockey!

Hey, I like video games AND porn too!!!!

[Robbie883]

LOL, you sound like my kinda woman!

[Pilsner Panther]

LOL, you sound like my kinda woman!

Hey, I knew her before you did! Spread out!

 





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[FineBari3]

LOL, you sound like my kinda woman!

Hey, I knew her before you did! Spread out!

 

Hey!  Let's go places and eat things!!!!

[Robbie883]

Oh my gosh, that was halairous! 

[girlovestooges]

I am female and I am a huge fan of the stooges, Ive been watching them since I was a kid. They used to be on tv late at night. My 25th birthday is sunday and I found a 12 dvd collection of the the three stooges which I had my mom get for me, so Im very anxious to break em open and watch them.

Melanie(girlovestooges)

[McSnuff20]

I don't know why the Stooges have to be a guy thing.  I must admit my sister and I are the only girls I know who love the Stooges.  I'm 50 years old and have loved them since I was 6.  However, I only love Moe, Larry and Curley in the 30's and early 40's. I never liked the Shemps, sorry. I don't have to mention Joe at all he was awful.  They should have quit while they were ahead.  I gave my sister a Stooge quiz recently on famous great lines and she did well.  We just love 3 Little Beers, Pardon My Scotch (the Lowland Shin is classic), Back To the Woods, Tassels in the Air, Goofs and Saddles, Uncivil Warriors, Whoops, I'm an Indian, Pain in the Pullman, Wee Wee Monsieur.  All those old Curley greats.  Now that I'm older I see how they were all very sexy in their own way.  Curley was a cute man and a comedic genius.  They could move better than anyone else and their timing was perfect.  I think they were popular in the depression years becuz they too were down and out like most people.  Even though they're 70 years old they still got it.   The whole family can watch and enjoy classic entertainment.

[Bruckman]

Be that as it may, I once showed my girlfriend, who'd never seen a Three Stooges comedy (she led a very sheltered life) "Three Smart Saps" and she didn't even crack a smile through the whole thing - not even at the rhumba sequence, which is one of the most deliriously sublime sequences in the entire Stooge canon. She didn't get the whole "comedy of embarrassment" thing, nor the sublime illogic of breaking into prison. You must practically have a heart of stone to sit through this film without laughing, but her only comment was "Why is he called Curly when he has no hair?" The logical illogic of this stumped her too. Needless to say she was not converted to a Stooge fan then or ever.

[Shemoeley Fine]

My daughter was raised with me watching the Stooges whenever they were on TV, she tolerates them overall. Now her daughters,  my grandkids have seen me watching them on Spike TV and the youngest one, 6 years has a pretty good woooooo woooooo woooooooo in her arsenal.

I wouldn't say they are true fans but thay are amazzed no one gets hurt with so much physical abuse going on

Shemoeley