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Laurel and Hardy

Definitions

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  • proper noun Any duo who are so inept at practical tasks as to be humorous.

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  • noun United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together

Etymologies

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From the name of a famous American comedy duo from the 1920s and 1930s.

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Examples

  • Spent most of yesterday afternoon walking around Hanoi on a wild goose chase between Cathay Pacific and Qantas's offices .. (henceforth referred to as Laurel and Hardy).

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2009

  • He then turned producer, making the 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces, the 1942 romantic comedy Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth and Henry Fonda, and the 1947 musical bomb Carnegie Hall.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • He then turned producer, making the 1939 Laurel and Hardy comedy The Flying Deuces, the 1942 romantic comedy Tales of Manhattan with Rita Hayworth and Henry Fonda, and the 1947 musical bomb Carnegie Hall.

    A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

  • The patient assembly of the image into a finished whole, only to have it vanish beneath another image, brings to mind the Sisyphean tasks of Laurel and Hardy.

    The Banality of Fake Profundity 2010

  • For our last few lessons, Moss and I have been looking significantly more Laurel and Hardy than Torville and Dean.

    Riding and Writing, Part, um, 162. | Meg Rosoff 2010

  • Comedians and actors are significantly different in nature: Simon Russell Beale, for example, is a person who becomes other people for professional reasons, while "Roseanne Barr" or "Jerry Seinfield" (or, previously, Laurel and Hardy) are already semi-fictional characters created on the comedy circuit.

    Simon Amstell, Larry David and the rise of the 'sim-com' 2010

  • The streets retain traces of the footsteps of Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, the Three Stooges, and before that, a horse drawn streetcar trundled down the dirt road.

    Echo Park 2010

  • I was brought up in an environment where it was quite open to talk about films and directors and actors so from an early age, my first influences were Harold Lloyd and Laurel and Hardy and James Cagney.

    Tony London Serial Killer Interviews - Director Gerard Johnson and Star Peter Ferdinando | /Film 2010

  • Essentially a depiction of what would happen if Laurel and Hardy had to stoop to a less-savory profession to make their living, the film tells the tale of Arthur Blake (Lost's Dominic Monaghan) and Willie Grimes (Larry Fessenden, better known as the director of such films as Wendigo), two legendary grave robbers who specialize in the acquisition and redistribution of, shall we say, product that is very dead yet also quite animated.

    Dan Persons: Mighty Movie Podcast: Have You Hugged Your Cadaver Today? Glenn McQuaid on I Sell the Dead 2010

  • To add to your good suggestion how about Laurel and Hardy (Brown with CHOOSE) or Tom and Gerry? logdon

    Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I... 2010

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