Special Guest Blogger: Oliver Hardy

Before i met Stan Laurel, i went under the name Babe Hardy and before a career getting slapped around the head with planks of wood and carrying piano's up flights of stairs, i started out playing villains in silent films and met my future comedy partner in a film where i robbed him.   
I was the first Tin Man in the original 1925 Wizard of Oz movie but the most famous partnership in comedy came about due to me injuring myself with a leg of lamb.
I was due to appear in 'Get 'Em Young' but just as the filming started, i was unexpectedly hospitalised by the lamb and Stan who had been working as a warm up man was asked if he could step in at the last moment. Being English he of course said yes and that was his big break.
The studio noticed that my rotund figure and Stan looking like a walking stick-man looked funny and we had a chemistry and began teaming us together which led to the start of a Laurel and Hardy series and probably the second most famous toothbrush moustache in history after a certain Austrian gentleman.
This style of moustache was one of the most popular styles at the beginning of the 20th century with me and Charlie Chaplin sporting the tuft of hair below the nostrils but the German Chancellor made it an icon of the right-wing Nazi Party and sadly that brought it's popularity to an end.
As moustache's go, it is a bit of a silly one but it will now forever be known as the Hitler 'tache but we also popularised bowler hats and the painful act of people getting whacked with ladders as colleagues turned around on building sites ever since.