Our Tent was established in August, 2006 -- "Mighty oaks from little acorns grow"

Our original website was established on Apr. 25, 2000 and was last updated on May 15, 2012 (see below)

"[Oliver Hardy played] in short comic film subjects produced by a company based in, of all places, Jacksonville, Florida." -- Laurence Maslon and Michael Kantor, Make 'em Laugh: The Funny Business of America

"Billy! Come and tell me about Babe in Jacksonville!" -- Stan Laurel's constant request to Billy Bletcher, Jacksonville co-star to Oliver Hardy (and voice of The Big Bad Wolf in Disney's Three Little Pigs)

June Tent Meeting: Our next Tent meeting will be on Mon., June 11, 2012. As always, it will be held from 7:00 to 8:45 p.m. at Pablo Creek Branch Library, 13295 Beach Blvd. (between Kernan and Hodges Blvds.) in Jacksonville, FL. Admission, light snacks, sodas, and entertainment are free to all visitors. For more information, call the Tent's "Grand Sheik" (and our webmaster), Steve Bailey, at (904) 314-5801.

Our Laurel & Hardy Mini-Film Festival: Below is a new feature for our site. We will post clips of Laurel & Hardy for you to watch. Sadly, there's not much of L&H that's legally available online, so we will use YouTube as our source for mini-clips, and we will switch them out every so often. (If somebody has posted these clips illegally on YouTube, that's their problem, not ours!)

Below, we are proud to show the complete 1974 BBC documentary Cuckoo. It must be said that it is not 100% factually correct (e.g., the myth about Stan Laurel having been married eight times), but what it lacks in accuracy, it more than makes up for in spirit and heart. Enjoy!

Welcome to our Laurel & Hardy website. Scroll down to the dark-gray box below, and click on the appropriate button to go to any of our site's many features. Why, nothing could be simpler!

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Special thanks to Tent member Carroll Hebbel for his creation of our Tent's logo (shown at above left), and to John Brennan of Laurel and Hardy Central for his invaluable contributions.

As befits its subject matter, this website is presented in glorious black-and-white. Death to colorization!!

If you are ever in the Jacksonville Beach, FL., area, visit or stay at the beautiful Casa Marina Hotel. Opened in 1925 one block from the Atlantic Ocean, its guests have included movie greats such as Laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton. Click on the photo at left to visit the hotel's website.

Be sure to visit our "sister" site, devoted exclusively to Laurel & Hardy's classic comedy Western Way Out West! Click on the site's logo (above) to visit!

Leave 'em Laughing is a proud member of The International Laurel & Hardy Appreciation Society (a/k/a Sons of the Desert)! Click on their logo (above) for more info on their work in preserving and spreading the great work of Laurel & Hardy!

A terrific, British-based discussion group for all things L&H! If you're a buff, prepare to spend several hours posting your opinions on a wide range of Stan-and-Ollie-related topics!

The Leave 'em Laughing Page has been dubbed an "official friend" of Laurel and Hardy Central, and we couldn't be prouder! Stuffed to the margins with insightful reviews and great tributes to The Boys, there's truly "everything from soup to nuts" at this site! Click on the logo to visit! (Also, click here to visit L&H Central's subsidiary website, "Stuff You Gotta Watch.")

Other entertainment websites from our Grand Sheik:

Salty Steve's Popeye Page Reviews of the 1933-1942 Fleischer Bros. Popeye cartoons.
Another Charlie Chaplin Website Reviews of Chaplin's classic movies.
Buster Keaton's Classic 30 Reviews of Keaton's great 1920-1928 comedies.
The Marx Bros. in "A Day on the Internet" Reviews of Marx Bros. movies.
So You Want a Joe McDoakes Website Reviews of the hilarious 1942-1956 Joe McDoakes short subjects.
Yahoo! Group: Coal Black an de Sebben Dwarfs A tribute to one of the most politically incorrect cartoons ever, complete with a downloadable version of same.
Gilligan's Id The webmaster's attempted Freudian explanation of the TV series "Gilligan's Island."
Sit On My Monty Python Website Reviews and random thoughts about the British comedy troupe.
Steve Bailey's Lost in America Page A tribute to Albert Brooks' classic 1985 comedy.
"Atomic Shakespeare" and Other Moonlighting Minutia Devoted to the most famous episode of the 1980's TV series.
It's All Too Much A song-by-song analysis of The Beatles' recorded music.