# Ollie a parody of the films by Stanley Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957). Ollie (nickname of Hardy) and Stan were a team of film comedians in the early twentieth century who almost always played their movie roles under their own names, wearing derby hats and neckties. Laurel appeared as a thin, dimwitted Englishman and Hardy as an overweight American, often irritable and pompous. In their films, they constantly got in each other's way and were usually involved in hopeless business undertakings or doomed personal adventures.