I don't know if I don't get Laurel and Hardy, or if it's just that I don't like them... but I don't like them. I'm not very fond of Abbott and Costello, or the Marx Brothers either.
Some of the funniest Stooges shorts are ones that they have basically banned because of political incorrectness. The ones that make fun of Hitler are particularly funny.
Maybe it's because they were on the local Chicago channels back in the olden days when I was growing up without cable TV. You know what I'm talking about, Sass. We had the 3 major networks, public TV channel and 4 local channels here. One of the local channels was a Spanish channel and two of them were hard to get unless you had a really good antenna, which we did since my dad was such a sports afficianado.
Back in those days just about anything that was humorous seemed like a good TV show to me.