As a kid I always liked Curly the most, but since I'v aged (all the way to 22!) now I appreciate the comedy of Shemp. I also like Joe Besser, although I have a feeling I'm gonna get beat up for admitting that. But Shemp is my favorite stooge.

Just for fun, here's a list of all 190 shorts

Moe-Larry-Curly
001. Woman Haters (1934)
002. Punch Drunks (1934)
003. Men in Black (1934)
004. Three Little Pigskins (1934)
005. Horses’ Collars (1935)
006. Restless Knights (1935)
007. Pop Goes the Easel (1935)
008. Uncivil Warriors (1935)
009. Pardon My Scotch (1935)
010. Hoi Polloi (1935)
011. Three Little Beers (1935)
012. Ants in the Pantry (1936)
013. Movie Maniacs (1936)
014. Half-Shot Shooters (1936)
015. Disorder in the Court (1936)
016. A Pain in the Pullman (1936)
017. False Alarms (1936)
018. Whoops I’m an Indian (1936)
019. Slippery Silks (1936)
020. Grips, Grunts, and Groans (1937)
021. Dizzy Doctors (1937)
022. Three Dumb Clucks (1937)
023. Back to the Woods (1937)
024. Goofs and Saddles (1937)
025. Cash and Carry (1937)
026. Playing the Ponies (1937)
027. The Sitter-Downers (1937)
028. Termites of 1938 (1938)
029. Wee Wee Monsieur (1938)
030. Tassels in the Air (1938)
031. Flat Foot Stooges (1938)
032. Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb (1938)
033. Violent is the Word for Curly (1938)
034. Three Missing Links (1938)
035. Mutts to You (1938)
036. Three Little Sew and Sews (1939)
037. We Want Our Mummy (1939)
038. A-Ducking They Did Go (1939)
039. Yes, We Have No Bonanza (1939)
040. Saved by the Belle (1939)
041. Calling All Curs (1939)
042. Oily to Bed, Oily to Rise (1939)
043. Three Sappy People (1939)
044. You Nazty Spy (1940)
045. Rockin’ Through the Rockies (1940)
046. A-Plumbing We Will Go (1940)
047. Nutty But Nice (1940)
048. How High is Up? (1940)
049. From Nurse to Worse (1940)
050. No Census, No Feeling (1940)
051. Cookoo Cavaliers (1940)
052. Booms in Arms (1940)
053. So Long, Mr. Chumps (1941)
054. Dutiful But Dumb (1941)
055. All the World’s a Stooge (1941)
056. I’ll Never Heil Again (1941)
057. An Ache in Every Stake (1941)
058. In the Sweet Pie and Pie (1941)
059. Some More of Somoa (1941)
060. Loco Boy Makes Good (1942)
061. Cactus Makes Perfect (1942)
062. What’s the Matador (1942)
063. Matri-Phony (1942)
064. Three Smart Saps (1942)
065. Even as I.O.U (1942)
066. Sock-A-Bye, Baby (1942)
067. They Stooge to Conga (1943)
068. Dizzy Detectives (1943)
069. Spook Louder (1943)
070. Back from the Front (1943)
071. Three Little Twerps (1943)
072. Higher Than a Kite (1943)
073. I Can Hardly Wait (1943)
074. Dizzy Pilots (1943)
075. Phony Express (1943)
076. A Gem of a Jam (1943)
077. Crash Goes the Hash (1944)
078. Busy Buddies (1944)
079. The Yoke’s on Me (1944)
080. Idle Roomers (1944)
081. Gents Without Cents (1944)
082. No Dough, Boys (1944)
083. Three Pests in a Mess (1945)
084. Booby Dupes (1945)
085. Idiots Deluxe (1945)
086. If a Body Meets a Body (1945)
087. Micro-Phonies (1945)
088. Beer Barrel Polecats (1946)
089. A Bird in the Head (1946)
090. Uncivil Warbirds (1946)
091. Three Troubledoers (1946)
092. Monkey Businessmen (1946)
093. Three Loan Wolves (1946)
094. G.I. Wanna Home (1946)
095. Rhythm and Weep (1946)
096. Three Little Pirates (1946)
097. Half-Wits Holiday (1947)

Moe-Larry-Shemp
098. Fright Night (1947)
099. Out West (1947)
100. Hold That Lion (1947)
101. Brideless Groom (1947)
102. Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947)
103. All Gummed Up (1947)
104. Shivering Sherlocks (1948)
105. Pardon My Clutch (1948)
106. Squareheads of the Round Table (1948)
107. Fiddler’s Three (1948)
108. The Hot Scots (1948)
109. Heavenly Daze (1948)
110. I’m a Monkey’s Uncle (1948)
111. Mummies Dummies (1948)
112. Crime on their Hands (1948)
113. The Ghost Talks (1949)
114. Who Done It? (1949)
115. Hocus Pocus (1949)
116. Fuelin’ Around (1949)
117. Malice in the Palace (1949)
118. Vagabond Loafers (1949)
119. Dunked in the Deep (1949)
120. Punchy Cowpunchers (1950)
121. Hugs and Mugs (1950)
122. Dopey Dicks (1950)
123. Love at First Bite (1950)
124. Self Made Maids (1950)
125. Three Hams on Rye (1950)
126. Studio Stoops (1950)
127. Slap Happy Sleuths (1950)
128. A Snitch in Time (1950)
129. Three Arabian Nuts (1951)
130. Baby Sitter’s Jitters (1951)
131. Don’t Throw That Knife (1951)
132. Scramble Brains (1951)
133. Merry Mavericks (1951)
134. The Tooth Will Out (1951)
135. Hula-La-La (1951)
136. Pest Man Wins (1951)
137. A Missed Fortune (1952)
138. Listen, Judge (1952)
139. Corny Casanovas (1952)
140. He Cooked His Goose (1952)
141. Gents in a Jam (1952)
142. Three Dark Horses (1952)
143. Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo (1952)
144. Up in Daisy’s Penthouse (1953)
145. Booty and the Beast (1953)
146. Loose Loot (1953)
147. Tricky Dicks (1953)
148. Pardon My Backfire (1953)
149. Spooks (1953)
150. Rip, Sew and Stitch (1953)
151. Bubble Trouble (1953)
152. Goof on the Roof (1953)
153. Pals and Gals (1954)
154. Musty Musketeers (1954)
155. Knutzy Knights (1954)
156. Shot in the Frontier (1954)
157. Scotched in Scotland (1954)
158. Income Tax Sappy (1954)
159. Fling in the Ring (1955)
160. Of Cash and Hash (1955)
161. Bedlam in Paradise (1955)
162. Gypped in the Penthouse (1955)
163. Stone Age Romeos (1955)
164. Wham Bam Slam (1955)
165. Hot Ice (1955)
166. Blunder Boys (1955)
167. Husbands Beware (1956)
168. Creeps (1956)
169. Flagpole Jitters (1956)
170. For Crimin’ Out Loud (1956)
171. Rumpus in the Harem (1956)
172. Hot Stuff (1956)
173. Scheming Schemers (1956)
174. Commotion on the Ocean (1956)

Moe-Larry-Joe
175. Hoofs and Goofs (1957)
176. Muscle Up A Little Closer (1957)
177. A Merry Mix-Up (1957)
178. Space Ship Sappy (1957)
179. Guns A-Poppin (1957)
180. Horsing Around (1957)
181. Rusty Romeos (1957)
182. Outer Space Jitters (1957)
183. Quiz Whiz (1958)
184. Fifi Blows Her Top (1958)
185. Pies and Guys (1958)
186. Sweet and Hot (1958)
187. Flying Saucer Daffy (1958)
188. Oil’s Well That Ends Well (1958)
189. Triple Crossed (1959)
190. Sappy Bullfighters (1959)

I'm a girl and I've always heard that it's rare for us to be able to enjoy these guys, but I think they're funny. :lol: Anyway, I voted for the movies and cartoons.

The Stooges were definitely at their best with Curly!
Although I do like Shemp too!

The Stooges without Curly is like Lucky Charms without the Green Clovers.

The Stooges without Curly is like the Red Sox without 85 years of misery. :lol:

Curly was so overrated because he was a part of the original team. I like Shemp the best.

Larry Moe and Curly - for the sole reason that my grandmother met all three of them and we still have the autographed picture in which Curly misspelled "sincerely" :)

Originally posted by Brian Damage
Curly was so overrated because he was a part of the original team. I like Shemp the best.

Matter of opinion and most people's opinion is that Curly is the man. :talk:

Curly! Curly! Curly!

Shemp was the best of everyone, ever. Shemp was the funniest, imo. Just don't get me wrong, I like Curly. He's pretty funny too. But Shemp was always my favourite.

Originally posted by Brian Damage
Curly was so overrated because he was a part of the original team. I like Shemp the best.

:cheer:

Shemp, Shemp, Shemp............

Shemp. Curly had his moments, But Shemp was the Comedic Genius.

I like Shemp but Curly is the best.

Originally posted by mr roper
I like Shemp but Curly is the best.

I agree, but I also agree with Captain Juke N Jive, Shemp did have his moments. When they were working in the dry cleaners, and they were trying to figure out what the initials T.H. meant in one of the jackets, and Shemp answers "Thomas Hedison". I still laugh at that!!

Moe-Larry-Shemp
098. Fright Night (1947)
099. Out West (1947)
100. Hold That Lion (1947)
101. Brideless Groom (1947)
102. Sing a Song of Six Pants (1947)
103. All Gummed Up (1947)
104. Shivering Sherlocks (1948)
105. Pardon My Clutch (1948)
106. Squareheads of the Round Table (1948)
107. Fiddler’s Three (1948)
108. The Hot Scots (1948)
109. Heavenly Daze (1948)
110. I’m a Monkey’s Uncle (1948)
111. Mummies Dummies (1948)
112. Crime on their Hands (1948)
113. The Ghost Talks (1949)
114. Who Done It? (1949)
115. Hocus Pocus (1949)
116. Fuelin’ Around (1949)
117. Malice in the Palace (1949)
118. Vagabond Loafers (1949)
119. Dunked in the Deep (1949)
120. Punchy Cowpunchers (1950)
121. Hugs and Mugs (1950)
122. Dopey Dicks (1950)
123. Love at First Bite (1950)
124. Self Made Maids (1950)
125. Three Hams on Rye (1950)
126. Studio Stoops (1950)
127. Slap Happy Sleuths (1950)
128. A Snitch in Time (1950)
129. Three Arabian Nuts (1951)
130. Baby Sitter’s Jitters (1951)
131. Don’t Throw That Knife (1951)
132. Scramble Brains (1951)
133. Merry Mavericks (1951)
134. The Tooth Will Out (1951)
135. Hula-La-La (1951)
136. Pest Man Wins (1951)
137. A Missed Fortune (1952)
138. Listen, Judge (1952)
139. Corny Casanovas (1952)
140. He Cooked His Goose (1952)
141. Gents in a Jam (1952)
142. Three Dark Horses (1952)
143. Cuckoo on a Choo-Choo (1952)
144. Up in Daisy’s Penthouse (1953)
145. Booty and the Beast (1953)
146. Loose Loot (1953)
147. Tricky Dicks (1953)
148. Pardon My Backfire (1953)
149. Spooks (1953)
150. Rip, Sew and Stitch (1953)
151. Bubble Trouble (1953)
152. Goof on the Roof (1953)
153. Pals and Gals (1954)
154. Musty Musketeers (1954)
155. Knutzy Knights (1954)
156. Shot in the Frontier (1954)
157. Scotched in Scotland (1954)
158. Income Tax Sappy (1954)
159. Fling in the Ring (1955)
160. Of Cash and Hash (1955)
161. Bedlam in Paradise (1955)
162. Gypped in the Penthouse (1955)
163. Stone Age Romeos (1955)
164. Wham Bam Slam (1955)
165. Hot Ice (1955)
166. Blunder Boys (1955)
167. Husbands Beware (1956)
168. Creeps (1956)
169. Flagpole Jitters (1956)
170. For Crimin’ Out Loud (1956)
171. Rumpus in the Harem (1956)
172. Hot Stuff (1956)
173. Scheming Schemers (1956)
174. Commotion on the Ocean (1956)

Originally posted by phoebe7165
I agree, but I also agree with Captain Juke N Jive, Shemp did have his moments. When they were working in the dry cleaners, and they were trying to figure out what the initials T.H. meant in one of the jackets, and Shemp answers "Thomas Hedison". I still laugh at that!!

The movie you're thinking of is "Sing A Song of Six Pants" my favourite short. I laugh at that part too!

Originally posted by Colonel Juke "N" Jive
The movie you're thinking of is "Sing A Song of Six Pants" my favourite short. I laugh at that part too!

I'm sure I'll see it in the 3 Stooges marathon that I taped from AMC on New Year's Day, but I've yet to watch!!

Curly was by far and away the funniest Stooge. There's simply no comparison.