Today would have been the 120th birthday of Oliver Hardy. I'm not going to post a photo of him because you can look up or down on this blog for one…and you know what he looked like, anyway. But I will point you to a fine essay by Randy Skretvedt about the man I consider the greatest comic actor of the 20th century, and it also talks about the guy who owned the studio, Hal Roach. I enjoyed reading it but wish my fez had arrived in time for me to wear it then.