Today's Video Link

Here's a nice mini-doc on Joe Besser's days with The Three Stooges. It takes the viewpoint I have — that he has been unfairly unappreciated. Yeah, the sixteen films he made with Moe and Larry were not great…but I don't think they were not great because of him. They were not great because Columbia was making these films for a buck and a half with a deliberate intention to shoot them in a day or three through the use of old scripts and old footage. Also, Larry and Moe were getting older and the Stooges' act was also getting older. Joe just had the misfortune to join the act when it was on its way out, at least insofar as the short subjects market was concerned. He brought a new energy to old material as this video shows…