The Show Must Go On: The Tale of Comedy Pioneers, the Three Stooges

Doing Their Own Stunts

These days, everyone in Hollywood has a stunt double for the dangerous physical stunts that happen in movies and TV shows. Nobody wants to risk the safety of their bankable actors. But the Three Stooges were completely old-school. They performed all of their own stunts themselves.

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The Three Stooges. Photo By Hollywood Photo Archive/Mediapunch/Shutterstock

Even though it was hilarious for audiences to watch them getting slapped, poked, or hit with props, we have to give them extra credit and respect for performing their own risky stunts. That’s not to say that they didn’t get injured plenty of times on set, but the dedicated performers powered through.

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