Classic Comedy Teams

Steve Allen hosts this collection of clips of some of the greatest comedy teams in movie and television history, including Our Gang, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers, Burns and Allen, The Three Stooges, The East-Side Kids, Abbott and Costello, and Martin and Lewis.

Documentary Comedy

Steve Allen

Stan Laurel

(Self (archive footage))

Oliver Hardy

(Self (archive footage))

Groucho Marx

(Self (archive footage))

Harpo Marx

(Self (archive footage))

Chico Marx

(Self (archive footage))

Zeppo Marx

(Self (archive footage))

George Burns

(Self (archive footage))

Dorothy DeBorba

(Dorothy (segment "Our Gang") (archive footage))

Gracie Allen

(Self (archive footage))

Moe Howard

(Moe (archive footage))

Larry Fine

(Larry (archive footage))

Curly Howard

(Self (archive footage))

Shemp Howard

(Shemp (archive footage))

Joe Besser

(Self (archive footage))

Joe DeRita

(Self (archive footage))

Ted Healy

(Self (archive footage))

Bud Abbott

(Self (archive footage))

Lou Costello

(Self (archive footage))

Dean Martin

(Self (archive footage))

Jerry Lewis

(Self (archive footage))

Shirley Jean Rickert

(Shirley (segment "Our Gang") (archive footage))

Carl Switzer

(Alfalfa (segment "Our Gang") (archive footage))

George McFarland

(Our Gang(archive footage))

Billie Thomas

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Darla Hood

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Eugene 'Porky' Lee

(Our Gang(archive footage))

Jackie Cooper

(Our Gang(archive footage))

Douglas Greer

(Our Gang(archive footage))

Buddy McDonald

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Mary Ann Jackson

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Allen 'Farina' Hoskins

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Norman Chaney

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Clifton Young

(Our Gang (segment "Bonedust") (archive footage))

June Marlowe

(Our Gang (segment "Miss Crabtree") (archive footage))

Joe Cobb

(Our Gang (archive footage))

Donald Haines

(Our Gang and The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Sunshine Sammy Morrison

(Our Gang and The East Side Kids (segment "Sunshine Sammy") (archive footage))

Leo Gorcey

(The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Huntz Hall

(The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Gabriel Dell

(The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Billy Halop

(The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Bobby Jordan

(The East Side Kids (archive footage))

Freeman F. Gosden

(Amos Jones (archive footage))

Charles J. Correll

(Andy Brown (archive footage))

Bert Wheeler

(Self (archive footage))

Robert Woolsey

(Self (archive footage))

Paul McCullough

(Self (archive footage))

Bobby Clark

(Self (archive footage))

Al Ritz

(Self (archive footage))

Harry Ritz

(Self (archive footage))

Jimmy Ritz

(Self (archive footage))

Edgar Bergen

(Self / Charlie McCarthy (archive footage))

Ole Olsen

(Self (archive footage))

Chic Johnson

(Self (archive footage))

Bob Hope

(Self (archive footage))

Bing Crosby

(Self (archive footage))

Harry 'Snub' Pollard

(Self (archive footage))

Bobby Vernon

(Self (archive footage))

Bela Lugosi

(Emil (segment "Ghosts On The Loose") (archive footage))