Stan Laurel
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“I think I may be suffocating him.”
“When hair stands up on it's own, it's not hair.”
Arthur Stanley Jefferson von Strudel, commonly known as Stan Laurel, was a comedic actor and inventor of the spiked hairstyle. He is perhaps most famous for getting Oliver Hardy into a fine mess, and then another, and, in 1941, yet another fine mess. This resulted in the gradual mental breakdown of Hardy, who felt inclined to be friends with the constantly bumbling Laurel, providing many happy viewers with one of the longest lasting double acts in comedy history.
History and Hair[edit]
Arthur von Strudel was born into a family of Bavarian gypsies in 1887. Little is known about his past, except that as an early teenager he mocked a mystic magic madam for having long hair. The insulted mystic cursed Arthur's head, causing his hair to grow completely vertically outwards from his head. His distress at gaining an unwanted afro caused him to desperately search for cures, devoting approximately three days to the search. He eventually managed to flatten most of his hair, but the hair on the very top of his head remained completely rigid. Some scientists postulate that if one was to dig up von Strudel's decomposing torso from his grave, the hair would still be standing.
He changed his name on September 22nd, 1914, after realising that audiences weren't interested in watching movies starring Arthur Stanley Jefferson von Strudel. There are many stories as to how he came up with the name 'Laurel', none of them believable.