Free movies by classic comedy teams: the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy and more

Double acts and comedy troupes ruled the early sound era, often bringing routines straight from vaudeville and Broadway to the screen. These are complete feature films, free to play on demand.

For the biggest laughs, start with Animal Crackers or The Flying Deuces. Laugh Track (CH 3) runs classic comedies live all day.

The Marx Brothers

• The Cocoanuts 93 min · Laugh Track
  The four Marx Brothers' first film: Groucho runs a Florida hotel during the land boom, with the 'why a duck?' routine (1929).
• Animal Crackers 93 min · Laugh Track
  Groucho is the explorer Captain Spaulding at a Long Island house party where a famous painting goes missing (1930).

Laurel and Hardy

• The Flying Deuces 68 min · Family Room
  Stan and Ollie join the French Foreign Legion so Ollie can forget a broken heart (1939).
• Utopia 99 min · Laugh Track
  Their last film together: Stan inherits an island that turns out to be rich in uranium (1951).

Abbott and Costello, Martin and Lewis

• Africa Screams 79 min · Family Room
  Bud and Lou go on safari in search of a diamond mine, with Clyde Beatty and Frank Buck (1949).
• At War with the Army 91 min · Laugh Track
  Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis's first starring film, as a sergeant and a hapless private (1950).

Wheeler and Woolsey, and the first Stooges

• Half Shot at Sunrise 78 min · Laugh Track
  Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey as two AWOL soldiers loose in wartime Paris (1930).
• Hook, Line and Sinker 75 min · Laugh Track
  Wheeler and Woolsey fix up a run-down hotel and tangle with gangsters (1930).
• Soup to Nuts 70 min · Laugh Track
  Written by cartoonist Rube Goldberg, and the screen debut of Ted Healy's Stooges, with Moe, Larry and Shemp (1930).

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