{"id":2724,"date":"2012-01-23T16:24:47","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/?p=2724"},"modified":"2012-01-23T16:25:07","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T16:25:07","slug":"laurel-hardy-this-is-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/laurel-hardy-this-is-your-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Laurel and Hardy &#8211; This is your life"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: left; margin: 0px 0px 0px 0;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- skool-response -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Laurel and Hardy -This is your life was a very special moment as they were\u00a0beginning\u00a0to loose the amount of public appearances as the years caught up with them.<\/p>\n<p>Early 1950s Laurel and Hardy took several months off, so they could recuperate. They then traveled to Europe and undertook a successful series of public appearances in short sketches Laurel had written: &#8220;A Spot of Trouble&#8221; (in 1952) and &#8220;Birds of a Feather&#8221; (in 1953)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2726\" title=\"Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life\" src=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life.jpg\" alt=\"Laurel and Hardy - This is your life\" width=\"638\" height=\"481\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life.jpg 638w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life-160x120.jpg 160w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life-300x226.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Laurel_and_Hardy_This_is_your_Life-397x300.jpg 397w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 638px) 100vw, 638px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In 1954 on 1st\u00a0December, they made their only American television appearance, surprised by\u00a0Ralph Edwards\u00a0on his live NBC-TV program,\u00a0<em>This Is Your Life<\/em>. Lured to the Knickerbocker Hotel as a subterfuge for a business meeting with producer\u00a0Bernard Delfont, the doors opened to their suite #205, flooding the room with light and the voice of Edwards. The telecast was preserved on a\u00a0kinescope\u00a0and later released on home video. Partly due to the positive response from the television broadcast, the pair was\u00a0renegotiating with Hal Roach Jr. for a series of color\u00a0NBC Television\u00a0specials to be called\u00a0<em>Laurel and Hardy&#8217;s Fabulous Fables<\/em>. However, plans for the specials were shelved, as the aging comedians suffered from declining health.<\/p><div class=\"e526d1e761560160a119e3b74cb2a974\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:5px 0 5px 0; text-align:center;\">\nskool\r\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"autorelaxed\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1609637348681190\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"3558122710\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<h2>Laurel and Hardy &#8211; This is your life Preserved<\/h2>\n<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"360\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tdgegW5Xmp0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed width=\"480\" height=\"360\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/tdgegW5Xmp0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to television, Laurel and Hardy came back into popularity in the 1950\u2019s, shortly before Oliver Hardy\u2019s death in 1957. They have remained in the spotlight ever since, proving that as much as tastes in comedy may change, the sight of a skinny man and a fat man smacking each other around will always be funny.<\/p>\n<p>Worth noting that Ricky Gervais puts a lot of his initial success from studying\u00a0Laurel<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post-new.php#\">\u00a0<\/a>and<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skooldays.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/post-new.php#\">\u00a0<\/a>Hardy. The main influence for Gervais was the &#8220;camera look&#8221;. 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