"The Taxi Boys" was a series of comedy shorts from the 1930s, produced by Hal Roach, who also did "Laurel and Hardy". (The music from L & H is even reused for this series). The taxi boys are two bumbling taxi drivers who bumble and stumble across crazy situations. One is a portly fellow, like Hardy, and the other is a manic, impish fellow who is the leader of the two. The duo never became famous; there were only a handful of these shorts made. And they are not very funny.
Aaron's blog The Third Banana recently featured a good post on the Taxi Boys.
6/27/2009
The Taxi Boys (1930s comedy shorts)
"The Taxi Boys" was a series of comedy shorts from the 1930s, produced by Hal Roach, who also did "Laurel and Hardy". (The music from L & H is even reused for this series). The taxi boys are two bumbling taxi drivers who bumble and stumble across crazy situations. One is a portly fellow, like Hardy, and the other is a manic, impish fellow who is the leader of the two. The duo never became famous; there were only a handful of these shorts made. And they are not very funny.
Aaron's blog The Third Banana recently featured a good post on the Taxi Boys.
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I believe the Taxi Boys were none other than Billy Gilbert & Ben Blue. Gilbert mentions them as "awful" in his intro to Maltin's book, Movie Comedy Teams.
ReplyDeleteIMDB lists nine shorts. Recently saw Ben Blue in 1937's Artists & Models, he's really annoying!!