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Here's Brad Server, a.k.a. Curly G. To start this journey, we must first go back to Lithuania, this where my great-grandparents, Solomon and Jenny Horwitz, met and married. They later left for America and arrived in Castle Guard, New York, in 1890. Here, they would start their family of five boys, Irving, Benjamin, Samuel, Moses, and and Jerome. Later, the world would know the three youngest boys as Shemp, Moe, and Curly. My name is Brad Server, and I'm the youngest grandson of Curly Howard of The Three Stooges.
This is my American story. When Shemp and Moe were in their teens, they would sneak off to Coney Island to watch the vaudeville acts. They would later join these performers and were then discovered by Ted Healy, a well-known vaudeville actor. In time, they met Lawrence Feinberg, better known as Larry, and they became Ted Healy and the Stooges.
In time, Shemp would leave the act, and baby brother filled in. The rest is comedy history for the ages. Why, you cowards! You're afraid of saying Niagara Falls!
Niagara Falls! Slowly I turn! In step, I step! In spi...
In spi... In 1937, Curly met and married my grandmother, Elaine Ackerman. A year later, they would have a baby girl named Marilyn, my mom. In 1941, my grandparents divorced when my mom was three. My grandmother would remarry a year later to a man named Moses Diamond. My mother lived with them, but would visit Curly on the weekends when he was in town.
As my grandfather's health started to decline, her visits were less frequent, and she remembers visiting him in the hospital often. In 1952, when my mom was 14, Curly Howard passed away at the age of 48. After my grandfather's passing, she would legally be adopted by her stepfather, who really had become her everyday dad. In early 1960, my mom met my father, Haskell H. Server, in Los Angeles, California.
In December, my brother Darren was born. Then, in 1962, my sister Andrea. And then, in 1965, I joined them. My parents, though, would later divorce in 1971. So, after my parents divorced in 1971, it was a typical arrangement where my brother, sister, and I lived with my mother. My dad would then move to Pacific Palisades, because he was doing well in the insurance agency that he was working for. And then later, my brother would wind up moving in with my dad.
A year later, I would move in with my dad. But we really started showing signs that we had something very special in our blood, because we were performing. My brother was a self-taught piano player, I think, at the age of five. We all loved to sing. We would gather around the piano, my sister, my brother, and I, and we could all carry a tune.
So, you know, it was great. So, we would sing songs. Later, it would develop into performing makeshift musicals for my grandparents at the time, or my mom.
If she was to drop us off, we'd say, Mom, come in and see this. And we would do the famous shows of that time in 1971, 1972. We were doing Cabaret, West Side Story, Sounding Music. And to this time, we came home like every other kid. After school, we came home and we wanted to see The Stooges. So, we'd rush home.
We'd watch in L.A. It was Channel 52, UHF. And you had all the great shows that were coming on. You know, you had Kimba, you had The Three Stooges, The Little Rascals, you had Speed Racer.
I mean, all these great shows, but The Stooges is what we came home to watch most. And Curly was our hero. My brother and I both loved Curly the most. But the problem with that was at this age, I was six, my sister was eight, my brother was eleven. We had no idea that we were the grandchildren of Curly. We hadn't been told yet.
But it was this one day that we found out. I believe I was maybe eight at the time, maybe my brother was twelve, somewhere around that time. And my grandmother had taken my brother Darren to see his first Broadway musical, Fiddler on the Roof. And he was at awe when he saw the show. I mean, after the show, when they were driving home, my grandmother and him, he just kept going on and on of how he wanted to be an actor. He wanted to be an actor and he was just persistent and on and on. I think finally my grandmother said, Darren, enough. I get it.
It's probably because show business runs in your blood. Your biological grandfather was Curly from the Three Stooges. What do you mean, grandma?
Yes, yes, yes. Never mind that. You have your grandfather that you have now.
So, just know that your talents come inherently through your bloodline. And just don't carry on with it when you get home, la la la. So it's like, my brother was basically in shock. You know, he can say another word, I think, on the way home and then he comes home and he tells me and we're like, I mean, I was like, you have to be, that's not true. Certainly.
And he's like, Bradley, it's true. Grandmother told me and we were just, you know, we were like, what do you do with that? I mean, your heroes become your family. We're not ordinary people. We're morons.
And then what are you supposed to do with that? I mean, did I really think or did we really think the next day when we went to school, you know, and tell our friends, the the same kids that came home with us every day to watch the Stooges, we were now saying, oh, by the way, Curly is our grandfather. So, you know, we live with it.
We watch the Stooges. We're like, wow, that's our grandfather. And it was like, we didn't talk about it when we were at our dad's once we found out because, of course, that's my mom's father.
So he doesn't want to hear anything about my mom. They're divorced. My mom, she didn't talk about it because one, she was very young when Curly died. She was 14. When she was three years old, she was you know, adopted by her new father.
So that really became her everyday father. She channeled out the Three Stooges. Curly was just not something that she talked about. And then it was something that we were kind of told not to talk about because even though our grandfather Moses Diamond was an amazing man and an amazing grandfather to us, he wasn't Curly Howard from the Three Stooges. So, we basically were in check. So, you know, through high school, did I talk about being Curly's grandson?
No, not really. You know, I was already class clown. I was space case. I was the guy that they wanted. Everyone wanted Brad Server to go to the parties because I was the funny guy. It was probably only later if I was ever, if someone didn't like me or some guy was going to kick my ass or whatever, that they would go, hey, you know, that's, by the way, that's Curly's grandson.
And then the person would say, oh, okay. You know, gave me a little a hall pass. And you've been listening to Brad Server tell a remarkable story. By the way, what a good shock, right? My granddad's Curly. I bought him a lot of hall passes. When we come back, more of the story of Brad Server.
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But what really turned my life around was in 2000 I had my daughter Elizabeth Elaine server and she's named her middle name Elaine is after my grandmother Elaine and I love being a dad and you know had my career but I still hadn't gotten in the Steege thing until I went to my first Steege convention and these conventions were going on for a long time and they were usually in Pennsylvania and Fort Washington Pennsylvania which is about 30 minutes from Philadelphia and I went to my first Steege convention and I bet the fans you know and the fans are so endearing and amazing they love the Steeges to this day they mean everything to them and I would hear the stories of how the Steeges changed their lives and how much the Steeges mean to them. I want a piece of twat! Me too! Oh, so you want a piece of turkey? Yeah, give it to me now!
You got it! And then other Steege family members were at these events so I started building relationships with them and that was great and so I would continue it was about every year we would go to these Steege events I'd go with my brother and then later I would go by myself and then I'd bring my daughter and she got exposed to being part of it and she loved it you know for a while you know as she got older she was like I don't want to go to these things anymore but it really was special and really all the fans out there of the three Steeges are fans in general of comedy if you're in the Philadelphia area there's the largest Stooge museum maybe the only Stooge museum but it is three stories of the largest and greatest Stooge museum in the world it's called the Stoogeum and it's in Ambler, Pennsylvania which there again isn't too far from Philadelphia and I strongly recommend that you go there it's a must for any Stooge fan that can go it's truly amazing and a couple things that come with you know the singing and the other talents and being able to play music was out of the three of us I call us the grand Stooge's was I was able to go up this in my register and talk like this and it was it was like what what is that I'm a victim of circumstance Who are you hitting? Be quiet be quiet but it was like whoa I didn't even know that I could do that all these years later I was like wow I guess that was something that was you know god-given Curly gave me that that I had this kind of high-pitched voice Certainly!
So continue to go to the Stooge events and of course social media was happening big then it was on Facebook and I was reaching out to the fans and going back and forth listening to their stories telling you know commenting them telling you know there again the Stooges brought a lot of these people out of their darkest times and it meant so much for me to be able to give back and tell them thank you and how much I appreciate them and just kind of just building off that but in 2012 you know something that I thought that would never happen was the Stooges were going to be on the big screen the three Stooges movie so what else happened in 2012 I on social media met a friend who now is my business partner who is the gentleman that is extremely talented named Andy Pagana and Andy found me shortly after the Stooges movie came out and he actually tried out for the role of Curly and came in third place and he sent me his audition video so I was like wow I met this guy that tried out for Curly he wound up having he had such a love not only for the three Stooges but had such a background in the comedy trios and duos of that genre he was Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brothers and all of them and we became extremely good friends and he was a writer he was a producer he was producing he wrote screenplays he was a great photographer with filming stuff so it was like he was like Brad you got to make videos I mean he was doing some videos but it was like the fans need to see you I was like I guess I mean I love the camera right I experienced that so we started filming videos and the first video that I think I remember doing it was going to be my grandfather's 113th birthday and I thought that we should do a tribute birthday a tribute for his birthday right so we came up with why not get hit by 113 pies so we spent the day going throughout Hollywood the day and night and we went to different places and some people were celebrities some people were just people off the street most of them were people off the street and for the whole day and night I just got pelted with 113 pies and I was like honored I was beat I was so tired I was I mean it was it was hard but I'm like wait a second the Three Stooges did this for years and took so much punishment and my grandfather took so much punishment the least I could do is take 113 pies in one day and that video can be seen on YouTube on my YouTube channel Curly's Grandson but it came out great and the fans loved it right and so 99% of the comments which is hard to find these days were all very positive they loved it they laughed they enjoyed it so Andy and a couple of my other buddies that are extremely talented we started doing video content so we built the Curly's Grandson channel and Andy Bagana's got his own channel and it's just it's slapstick type comedy and I just am myself I'm Brad server that funny guy but I use my high pitch voice but it's just naturally in my nature that I look a little bit like him which is a blessing because he's a very handsome man we all know that but something else came up and it was a challenge that I didn't think that I would ever encounter and that was a live performance we're going to be putting Three Stooges live and it's going to tour the US and we want you to be the fifth man which is basically a supporting actor in all the little skits and what about it do you want to be in the show and I was like of course because we didn't know were the Stooges still going to be relevant was our show going to be relevant and it was and it was it was really after the shows where the fans stayed for we did Q&A's and they stood in lines for hours to take pictures with us and to say thank you so much for bringing us back in time you know when things were so much simpler and so much better I mean today has so much muck muck and so much stuff going on that going to see a Three Stooges show a matinee or an evening show and they absolutely loved it you know there's some things that happened that I don't have all the answers to that I'm going to work on and I just want to continue to bring laughter to the fans I want to continue to be in front of the camera I want to have people go to my channel Curly's Grandson on YouTube and find me on Instagram and find me on Facebook and interact and I do my best to try to reach out to them and Curly G there again short for Curly's Grandson build that brand you know it represents my grandfather I'm representing his legacy so I want to continue to do that and I just want to thank you for allowing me to be on your show Oh and thank you Brad Curly G for coming on our show and thanks to Greg Hangle for the great production on the piece and my goodness my favorite part of this story is when he went to his first stooge convention and we are heading the show is heading to a stooge convention we promise you and there he met the fans who told him how much the stooges had changed their lives and how much the stooges meant to them and 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