Laurel and Hardy

We put a Laurel and Hardy thing together. With ordinary actors I've tried this, and it's like playing music without an instrument, but these guys could do anything.

2000, Patrick McGilligan, Film Crazy: Interviews with Hollywood Legends, page 89

Then about a hundred yards ahead, two men, one rotund the other thin and spare, leaped over a gate onto the road. They had the appearance of a Laurel and Hardy duo.

2012, Patrick C. Reidy, A Cocktail of Tales, page 14

The session quickly devolved into a Laurel-and-Hardy skit, as an NRC bureaucrat named Lawrence Kokajko was grilled by the commissioners, particularly Hamilton, a man used to having bureaucrats tremble before him.

2012, Richard Martin, SuperFuel: Thorium, the Green Energy Source for the Future, page 180

She was heavy: not fat, but solid, and it looked good on her; still, we must have seemed a Laurel and Hardy match, the two times we would have been observed together in public, me being whichever comedy star was the lanky one.

2013, David Hale Smith, Dallas Noir, page 211

When he got up to answer, I noticed the boy at the other end of the desk was partially standing. This happened every time. So I quietly walked around and noticed that the long bench they were sitting ^([sic]) had a leg missing at the end. Sensing a Laurel-and-Hardy situation, I could not resist the temptation.

2014, Paul "Monty" Choy, The Flying Dragon, page 45