The Stooges first formed in 1922, when brothers Moe and Shemp Howard, a comedy double act, were recruited alongside another ...

few have been as shortchanged by history as Shemp Howard,” he said during a recent interview, “and much of that is due to the deliberate mythologizing of the Three Stooges trinity of Moe ...

Moe realized there was only one person who could fill baby brother Curly's shoes: his older brother Shemp (who, ironically, Curly had replaced in 1932). The Three Stooges were born in 1925 when ...