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Hulton Archive/Getty ImagesBY LUKE HOLDEN/APRIL 26, 2022 4:44 PM EDTComedy’s most prized trio of neurotic numbskulls managed to make a career out of ruthlessly hurting each other. For 48 years strong, “The Three Stooges” reigned supreme over the grand domain of slapstick insanity and marvelous stupidity, in short films, features and, later, television. That’s an astoundingly long time for any show business act to stay together, but the trio’s popularity never wavered and it remains one of the most monumental entities of comedic entertainment in modern history (via IMDb). However, unlike the unprecedented “Jackass” phenomenon where guys like Johnny Knoxville and Steve-O resort to actually hurting themselves (and one another), Larry, Moe, and Curly kept their painful ploys within the realm of artificiality.

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All the same, pain does hold a place deep in the Stooges’ history. Long before they were major…