# Who Was Colonel Stoopnagel? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767 "2012-08-17T11:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/1 "2012-08-17T11:53:16Z")
I picked up an old playbill from 1934…and there was an ad from 1934-advertising somebody called 'Colonel Stoopnagel"-on the NBC radio network. I gather he was the host of a radio show-was he funny? ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/2 "2012-08-17T12:18:56Z")
No knowledge aside from what I just Googled. > **[Create a Website | Tripod Web Hosting](https://stoopnagle.tripod.com/)** > > Easy to use website building tool for your professional or personal website and blog, web hosting, domain registration, email and more at Tripod.com! ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/3 "2012-08-17T12:20:21Z")
He was part of a radio comedy team of [Stoopnagle and Budd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoopnagle_and_Budd), which had a radio show in the 1930s. I’ve heard of them, but not any of their comedy; either it didn’t hold up, or – since they leaned toward satire – the references that made it funny are too obscure today. ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 12:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/4 "2012-08-17T12:58:16Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > He was part of a radio comedy team of [Stoopnagle and Budd](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoopnagle_and_Budd), which had a radio show in the 1930s. I’ve heard of them, but not any of their comedy; either it didn’t hold up, or – since they leaned toward satire – the references that made it funny are too obscure today. Thanks for the link-if you click the audio link, the comedy is pretty weird-it is almost incomprehensible today. The recording is pretty bad-I wonder if it was recorded originally on 78 RPM disc? It really is an example of something long past its time. ---
**Author:** ![Sudden\_Kestrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecd19e/32.png) [@Sudden\_Kestrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sudden_Kestrel)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/5 "2012-08-17T19:11:08Z")
Oh, so _that’s_ where my mother got that. It was one of her pet names for me and my siblings when we were small. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/6 "2012-08-17T20:20:11Z")
Searching for 'Stoopnocracy" on Youtube yields a lot of videos either wholly about, or featuring Colonel Stoopnagel, including a Max Fleischer cartoon I can’t wait to see. ---
**Author:** ![Labdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/439d5e/32.png) [@Labdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labdad)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/7 "2012-08-17T20:33:32Z")
> [@Sudden\_Kestrel](#): > > Oh, so _that’s_ where my mother got that. It was one of her pet names for me and my siblings when we were small. Mine, too. At least it was something my father called us. The context seemed to be a better way of calling me “dumb ass!” ---
**Author:** ![norvalnormal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f19dbf/32.png) [@norvalnormal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norvalnormal)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/8 "2012-08-18T17:49:49Z")
They were in the hilarious movie International House, which was a Paramount showcase feature for stars incl. W.C. Fields and Burns and Allen. Also Baby Rose Marie, who grew up to be t.v. writer Sally Rogers … Talk about dated/obscure–Peggy Hopkins Joyce (the 1930s equivalent of a Kardashian) plays herself. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/9 "2012-08-18T18:05:01Z")
If ever there was a topic that called out **Eve**. . … ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2012, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/10 "2012-08-18T18:35:50Z")
> [@ralph124c](#): > > I picked up an old playbill from 1934..and there was an ad from 1934-advertising somebody called 'Colonel Stoopnagel"-on the NBC radio network. I gather he was the host of a radio show-was he funny? > [@DrFidelius](#): > > No knowledge aside from what I just Googled. > [http://stoopnagle.tripod.com/](http://stoopnagle.tripod.com/) When, oh when are people going to stop giving this guy head? ---
**Author:** ![ralph124c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@ralph124c](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ralph124c)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/11 "2012-08-19T21:37:34Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > When, oh when are people going to stop giving this guy head? ???😃 ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [August 19, 2012, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-was-colonel-stoopnagel/631767/12 "2012-08-19T22:22:17Z")
> [@hrhomer](#): > > When, oh when are people going to stop giving this guy head? Is that a line from a Stoopnagel routine? Seems rather ahead of its time…