1. - Sean Hayes, The Three Stooges, 2011. In the mid-70s, Mel Brooks found it impossible to come up with a full-length slap-happy Stooges movie. He’d lined up Marty for the simpleton Larry Fine and De Luise for the manic Curly. Mel was to be Shemp - not in this Farrelly brothers’ version... which proved Brooks right. “It’s so hard to sustain a plot that could withstand their antics for that long.”