Laurel and Hardy: Two angels of our time

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “He was stunned that I knew he had appeared as one of the students in Laurel and Hardy’s 1939 movie A Chump at Oxford,” Hamill told The Ross Owen Radio Show. The scenes involving Didi and Gogo in Beckett’s Waiting for Godot closely mirror scenes Laurel and Hardy created on screen, which is no surprise given the Beckett said he “never missed” their films. open image in gallery John C Reilly and Steve Coogan as Laurel and Hardy in ‘Stan & Ollie’ Fahrenheit 451 author Ray Bradbury said that one of his happiest moments in life was seeing them on stage, while JD Salinger described them as “two heaven-sent artists and men”. open image in gallery Laurel and Hardy in 1932 Oscar-winning short ‘The Music Box’ “Chaplin was a genius but he did not get as much pure laughter as Stan,” said actor Dick Van Dyke.