Laurel and Hardy!!

Stan Laurel, the skinny half of one of America's most popular old-time comedy duos, was actually born in England on this date in 1890. Laurel began his career as a comedian in English music halls where he was an understudy to Charlie Chaplin. He moved to the US in 1910, began to perform in vaudeville theater, and was officially paired with Oliver Hardy in the mid-1920s. They made dozens of films – both shorts and feature-length – before ill health caused them both to retire in the early 1950s.