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The Three Stooges

American slapstick comedy trio

For other uses, see The Three Stooges (disambiguation).

The Three Stooges
The Three Stooges in 1937: (clockwise from left) Larry Fine, Curly Howard, and Moe Howard
Medium	Vaudeville, film, television
Nationality	American
Years active	1922–1970
Genres	Farce, slapstick, musical comedy
Notable works and roles	Disorder in the Court, Punch Drunks, Men in Black, Brideless Groom, Three Little Pigskins, You Nazty Spy!, A Plumbing We Will Go, Malice in the Palace, Sing a Song of Six Pants, An Ache in Every Stake
Former members

The Three Stooges were an American vaudeville and comedy team active from 1922 until 1970, best remembered for their 190 short-subject films by Columbia Pictures. Their hallmark styles were physical, farce, and slapstick comedy. Six total Stooges appeared over the act's run (with only three active at any given time); Moe Howard (born Moses Horwitz) and Larry Fine (born Louis Feinberg) were mainstays throughout the ensemble's nearly 50-year run, while the "t

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Imperioli was born Michael Imperioli in Mt. Vernon, New York on March 26, 1966. His film work began in the late 1980s. An early part that brought him recognition was in Martin Scorsese's Goodfellas (1990), as Spider, a local kid who works for the gangsters and has a run-in with a psychopathic mob soldier played by Joe Pesci. He worked throughout the 1990s in the New York independent film industry, especially as a regular in Spike Lee's movies, appearing in Jungle Fever (1991), Malcolm X (1992), Clockers (1995), Girl 6 (1996) and Summer of Sam (1999), generally playing working-class Italian-Americans from the "outer boroughs." While rooted in the New York movie scene, Imperioli also worked in Hollywood in the mid-'90s, in the formulaic movies Bad Boys (1995) and Last Man Standing (1996).

In 1999, Imperioli was cast in the HBO series The Sopranos (1999) as Christopher Moltisanti, a mafia soldier in the Soprano crime organization whose family connections to street boss Tony Soprano move him up the ladder in the organization. Imperioli's multi-layered port