mo. >> osgood: and now a page from our sunday morning almanac. june 19, 1897, 114 years ago today. if launch of a zany comic tradition. >> here's twosy. >> reporter: that was the day mosess born in brooklyn, new york. as a young man with a bowl- shaped haircut he drifted into vaudeville and adopted the stage name mo howard. >> that's not the place. >> there it is. >> reporter: in the 1930s he hit the big time when he and a younger brother jerome, stage name curly, and fellow valued jillian larry fine won a hollywood contract as the three stooges. >> i'm a victim of circumstance. >> who are you hitting? >> osgood: over the years the stooges slapped and wise-guyed their way through nearly 200 comic shorts with a no holes barred style that was all their own. >> just a second now. >> now, ready. hold it. >> hello. >> oh, hello. >> reporter: mo's older brother schemp took curly's place in 1946. there was a few other changes, the stooges soldiered on. in 1973 mo and his signature haircut even made an appearance on the mike douglas show. mo howard died in 1975 at the age of 77. >> what's going on here. >> osgood: but the stooges live on to this day in reruns not to mention the