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Jerks of All Trades (1999)

Reviewed by Michael Sauter | Apr 09, 1999

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EW's GRADE

C-

Details With: The Three Stooges

Only Stooge-aholics should bother with Jerks of All Trades, a little-seen 1949 TV pilot (with Moe, Larry, and Shemp) filmed before a live audience — which means there were no second takes for the badly played sight gags that pop up in this by-rote painters-for-hire farce. The same goes for Kook's Tour, an obscure 1970 ''last known performance'' (also conceived as a TV pilot); here, the now-geriatric Moe, Larry, and Curly Joe DeRita are sent on a doddering travelogue, with nary a sight gag in sight. On second thought, not even Stooge cultists should see them this way.
Jerks: C-
Kook's: D-

Originally posted Apr 09, 1999 Published in issue #480 Apr 09, 1999 Order article reprints

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