Remembering Shemp Howard
 Samuel Horwitz, aka Shemp Howard American Commedian and Actor March 11, 1895 – November 22, 1955 |
The Three Stooges was a comedy team which predominated the television habits of my childhood in their syndication reruns. I even suffered those accusations of "being retarded" when I persisted in my emulations of Curly because that was who I was.
Shemp Howard was in that mix along with Moe and Curly who were his younger brothers along with Larry Fine. I still have flashbacks of various routines involving these guys and by and large I keep those to myself lest I revisit that intolerance of my childhood due to my choice of figurative idols.
Shemp was that third stooge and he was a successful comedian and actor during those spates between that time he portrayed one of the Stooges.
He died on this day in 1955. I was a scant six months old at that time.