 Dramatization of the lives and careers of the famed slapstick comedy team. Performing comparatively menial work at Columbia Studios, the site of his greatest success, Moe Howard reminisces in 1959 about the previous thirty years. He remembers his early vaudeville days with his brother Shemp and Larry Fine as stooges to comic Ted Healy, the breakup with Healy and Shemp s departure from the act, Shemp s replacement by brother Jerry ("Curly") and their triumphs (and low pay) as the top comedy team in Columbia s shorts department, and the sad departures from the act and the apparent demise of the team.