Laurel and Hardy "nutty burglar" or as a Charlie Chaplin imitator. Oliver Hardy (January 18, 1892 – August 7, 1957) was born Norvell Hardy in Harlem, Georgia. By his late teens, Hardy was a popular stage singer and he operated a movie house in Milledgeville, Georgia, the Palace Theater, financed in part by his mother. For his stage name, he took his father's first name calling himself "Oliver Norvell Hardy" while offscreen his nicknames were "Ollie" and "Babe". The nickname "Babe" originated from an Italian barber near the Lubin Studios in Jacksonville, Florida who would rub Hardy's face with talcum powder and say
Oliver Welke been the host of the satirical "heute-show" on German public broadcaster ZDF, which is commonly viewed as a German adaptation of "The Daily Show". Welke is married and has two sons. He is involved in several charities such as Terre des hommes. Oliver Welke Oliver Welke (born 19 April 1966 in Bielefeld) is a German television presenter, actor, comedian, voice actor and sports journalist. Welke studied journalism at the University of Münster, graduating in 1993. He then worked in a number of fields and eventually became a rather well-known sport journalist and presenter. Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met