The Three Stooges remains a pop culture phenomenon after 100 years. While that staying power in the zeitgeist alone may tell the story of a grand career and much success, that isn’t exactly the case.

For the Saturday matinee premiere at Grauman’s Chinese Theater, the three stooges of Twentieth Century Fox’s “The Three Stooges” arrived in character, but they took the occasion — or at least the ...

The Three Stooges didn’t invent physical farce and extreme slapstick. But they were the best at it. What began as a Vaudeville act in the 1920s made the leap to television and film, keeping audiences ...