Oliver Hardy

Are these the greatest comedy double acts of all time?

In a festive episode of BBC Radio 4's Screenshot, Ellen E Jones and Mark Kermode look at the history of the double act and its evolution through the decades, speaking to comedy aficionados and performers, including Stephen Fry (no stranger to a comedy double act himself). Here are eight of the greatest pairings ever.

Stolen life-sized Laurel and Hardy statues found after a year

A pair of life-sized Laurel & Hardy statues have been found nearly a year after they were stolen from outside a home in east London.

Review: Comedy Greats - Laurel & Hardy

Children today, once they get accustomed to the strangeness of the pre-war clothes and the flickering black-and-white film, will still find their surreal antics hilarious. Bring back Stan and Ollie!

Couple have giant Laurel & Hardy statues stolen 4 times

A woman and her partner from London are "devastated" after their life-sized figures of comics Laurel and Hardy have been stolen from outside their home for a fourth time in the early hours of Thursday morning.

The real story of the relationship in Stan & Ollie

It's been said that offscreen, Laurel and Hardy were quite the opposite of their movie characters.

Russell Kane on his comedy heroes

Stand-up and TV guy picks an improv king and slapstick duo among his comic icons.

Laurel and Hardy: it's still comedy genius

Stan Laurel, the tall, thin, "dumb" half of the team of Laurel & Hardy, was born on June 16, 1890. To mark what would have been his 126th birthday, Martin Chilton looks at why they comedy duo continue to make people laugh after many a generation.

Tribute to Stan and Ollie's genius and friendship

It's been half a century since Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy died, but their comedy lives on. Lucky Dog Theatre Productions is celebrating their legacy with Hats Off To Laurel & Hardy, a brand new show.

The great television roles not only give the actor room to contribute but seem to draw upon his essential personality. In Dad's Army, Captain Mainwaring is an extension to absurdity of the fastidiousness Arthur Lowe brings to any role. Lowe's precise movements of the hand, as exquisite as Oliver Hardy's, are translated into Mainwaring's ferociously bulled kit, his hundred different low moans as the shambling platoon fails him yet again.