They survived the transition from silent to sound films and made more than 100 shorts and features together. As contract players for producer Hal Roach, they were first teamed in 1927. They appeared for the first time together, but not as a team, in the 1917 Laurel comedy, Lucky Dog.
Hardy, a native of Harlem, Georgia, was the mustachioed long-suffering big one, the deluded “strong” who grandiosely took it upon himself to help the “weak” Laurel. Laurel, a British-born music-hall performer in the same troupe as Charlie Chaplin, was the thin and perpetually befuddled one (offscreen, he took the upper hand in creating the team’s routines). Grande, himself a fan (“Who’s not?” he asked rhetorically), hung it in Joey and Chandler’s apartment, where it became a piece of iconic set design and, he proudly noted, introduced new generations to the comedy duo. studio prop house and found an unframed black-and-white Laurel and Hardy poster from their 1928 short Leave ’Em Laughing. And so it was kismet when he was poking around a Warner Bros. That visual Easter egg is a poster of Laurel and Hardy, perhaps the screen’s most beloved comedy team.įriends set decorator Greg Grande said in a phone interview he was reminded of Laurel and Hardy when he watched rehearsals for the fledgling series’ pilot episode and saw in roommates Joey and Chandler a similar comedy dynamic and close-knit bond.
Newfound fans watching the 25 weekday hours of Friends reruns on TBS or who are streaming all ten seasons on HBO Max may have noticed a poster in Joey and Chandler’s apartment of a rotund guy and a skinny guy. Laurel and Hardy in Battle of the Century.
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