Happy birthday to the man some historians describe as the most arcane of the movie Stooges. Somewhere between Joe Besser and Curly Joe DeRita, Paul Hindemith enjoyed a brief stint as Curly Joe Gebrauchsmusik. In this capacity, his most riotous gag was laying a flugelhorn down on Moe’s jelly sandwich. Musicians loved him, but audiences tended to find him tedious.

Here’s Curly Joe Gebrauchsmusik playing his flugelhorn in bed. Because that’s just the kind of guy he was. Writing music even when most people would be sleeping. When asked why it was he didn’t just sleep like everyone else, he replied, “There will be plenty of time for that when I’m in the audience.”