Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy formed the most popular and longest running comedy team of all time but long before they teamed up both were successful movie comedians in the own right. This collection features them on their own in comedy classics as well as teamed together. Oliver Hardy frequently played 'heavies' in support of bigger comedy stars such as Charley Chase Larry Semon Chaplin imitator Billie West and Glenn Tyron but he also starred in his own films long before he had even met Stan Laurel. Stan Laurel came to America with Fred Karno's comedy troupe along with Charlie Chaplin and like Chaplin stayed on to venture into movie comedies. He spent much of the 'Teens and the 1920s in search of a successful comedy formula.