After Slapstick broke up, The Broadways came and were so different from Slapstick.
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It just goes back to the Slapstick tree, as it had Rob Kellenberger from Slapstick on drums.
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It's close to slapstick, and very funny, but also pitiable.
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TWO KINGS of slapstick reigned over early classical Hollywood cinema.
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Meanwhile, Browns fans are creating slapstick lowlights of their own.
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I was weathering the slapstick and story padding just fine.
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The novel is really, really hilarious, and often even slapstick.
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Hawn's snaps draw a squiggly line between slapstick and sincerity.
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Performing arts featured slapstick interludes, banter and stock clown roles.
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The confrontation devolved into total mayhem that bordered on slapstick.
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Fallout games always alternated between objectively dire situations and slapstick.
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It's only a quick hop from that to outright slapstick.
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This is more than just a moment of slapstick inelegance.
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The move is dark and slapstick, grittier than other Pixar shorts.
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Like other lighthearted superhero anime, it's sometimes sappy, sometimes slapstick comedy.
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It overflows with bonkers dialogue, extraterrestrial slapstick, and peculiarly dated paranoia.
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The slapstick severity of the accident isn't even the weird part.
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How did you first meet Slapstick and start working with them?
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If a cartoon does it, we laugh at the slapstick humor.
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Their attempts to bring troublesome stockmarkets to heel border on slapstick.
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Slapstick, physical, "stupid" humor can be very entertaining and stress-relieving.
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Instead of twists and tumbles, there are slapstick and high jinks.
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It's silly and surreal, almost a slapstick take on self-obliteration.
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Violence is pervasive in both genuine-looking simulations and cartoonish slapstick.
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The ensuing mayhem offers a fair share of gore and slapstick.
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Of course, sometimes you just want to laugh at some slapstick comedy.
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There's a sense of slapstick here, until you become used to it.
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The off-beat humour coupled with broad slapstick appealed to all ages.
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Obviously, the popularity of it wasn't going to be close to Slapstick.
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He is often humorous to the point of slapstick, but never ironic.
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Which is exactly what Toni Erdmann, a slapstick superhero, exists to affirm.
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Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo began, reviewers have delighted in their slapstick
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"Can't Hardly Wait" was described as "slapstick" and "cliche" by some critics.
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There's a sense of escapism along with a healthy dose of slapstick.
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Is there any particular key to getting that slapstick delivery just right?
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Bong's films are always hilarious and farcical, almost slapstick and then violent.
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Monty Python's Flying Circus is not what I would call a SLAPSTICK troupe.
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A baroque riff turned, tangent, then turned slapstick with an impossibly masterful landing.
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McCarthy plays Lee for laughs, but her performance is by no means slapstick.
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I think it was Jerkwater, they opened, then it was Slapstick, then us.
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The brothers typically undertook a new task in each episode, producing slapstick results.
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There's even some slapstick action involving, first, vastly pregnant women and then babies.
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On air, in the top of the second, it was Slapstick Keith's turn.
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More slapstick gags are assigned to an Aquaman knock-off called The Deep.
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Who knew there could be so much slapstick in a staid church service?
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The show is going to have singing, dancing, onstage musicians, acrobatics, slapstick comedy.
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Luigi's Mansion 3 is pure slapstick, and there just aren't enough games like that.
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Picture a slapstick, slow-mo boxing match, each flailing blow landed by a boomerang.
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Lucille Ball was a comedy icon and businesswoman, but her characters were more slapstick.
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The friends always celebrate Thanksgiving together, and they do so in typical slapstick style.
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Factual(ish) films, cheesy camaraderie in the studio, bit of slapstick also... It's brilliant!
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It runs the gamut of styles, from stand-up to situational; slapstick to cerebral.
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Typically, overweight men on television are allowed to be more slapstick and inherently funny.
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It's a moment of actual tension that is played off like a slapstick bit.
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And Chad's vibe got less slapstick and more threatening as the night went on.
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WASHINGTON — Mel Brooks performed a bit of slapstick near the portrait of George Washington.
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Witness the slapstick panto when Sakho was injured, the day after that show aired.
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At its best, Derry Girls hits the emotional intersection of cringe, earnestness, and slapstick.
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That was just the final slapstick touch to a disastrous address, during which Mrs.
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Played in slow motion, his malfunctions unspool as slapstick with an undertow of dread.
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It's time to binge one of the best slapstick comedy franchises of the 1980s.
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Yet the humor and action seem too slapstick to appeal to most adult readers.
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Clowns in slapstick shoes cross paths with lions waiting in cages for their cues.
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About the slapstick, off-the-cuff one-liners of the wing-tipped Paulie Walnuts.
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In it, McCracken manages to infuse slapstick humor with enough pathos to make you cry.
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The slender plot recedes behind a welter of sight gags, word games and slapstick riffs.
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Her line delivery is multi-layered, seductive, and dangerous, slapstick as well as femme fatale.
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That was classic slapstick comedy and it was so fascinating to watch it all unfold.
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For God's sake, he's a burger-thieving slapstick pirate in the latest SpongeBob SquarePants movie.
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It goes for the easy, kid-friendly laughs — the cute animals and the slapstick humor.
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It's got the Coens' fat men, slapstick and glibness, slathered with Mr. Clooney's moral piety.
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The result was unintentional slapstick gold, and a lot of people saw themselves in it.
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A whimsical, slapstick quality might turn sinister, but what holds your attention is the specificity.
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The slapstick becomes more violent, the stakes more naked, the laughs more terrifying and cruel.
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This cartoonish counterterrorism satire is a slapstick circus that can't decide who is slapping whom.
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Pantos are humorous, slapstick entertainment for the whole family, often featuring men dressed in drag.
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Damon Wayans, who co-created the show, brought slapstick to his role as the dad.
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Friendship, loyalty, adventure, slapstick, nonstop action: After 90 years, these meticulously drawn books still deliver.
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Mr. Guyon can make fabric suggest a flowing river on the body, no slapstick necessary.
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It's a level of animal instinct that's slapstick-hilarious and a degree of vulnerability that's terrifying.
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This novel suggests the contrary, in scenes of slapstick mockery punctuated by tragic and elegiac interludes.
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While not canonically accurate, the video definitely taps into the game's core sense of slapstick weirdness.
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There were so many ska-punk bands at that time so what made Slapstick stand out?
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It's a slapstick storyline, and one of the more absurd moments of the show so far.
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Like, I think it's some of the funniest, total slapstick humor that's been happening [this season].
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Sophie Turner's giving new meaning to the term "slapstick" ... at the expense of Conan O'Brien's face!
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Andriano had previously played bass in the ska-punk band Slapstick, who split up in 1996.
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People still laugh at its slapstick collisions and abusive gags, but the humor has gone stale.
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James launched his channel a week ago in typical James fashion: a heavy dose of slapstick.
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The Three Stooges were a vaudeville and slapstick comedy team whose antics regularly appeared on television.
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The cruel laws of physics that rule here are much like those of silent slapstick movies.
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"Dumb can be fun," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times about Shane Black's slapstick thriller.
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He and his partner David Shiner are remounting their 2013 hit, a slapstick extravaganza with occasional headgear.
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At one point, a performing queen ended a very long number with a slapstick physical comedy gag.
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Terkel: This [slapstick] is connected with something you said earlier: we live in a nuthouse, you said.
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He and his partner David Shiner are remounting their 25279 hit, a slapstick extravaganza with occasional headgear.
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Rampage has a pretty casual, amiable sense of humor, mostly based in banter and some juvenile slapstick.
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And like any good buddy comedy, it reserves plenty of space for some grade-A slapstick fun.
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Silver Streak showed off Wilder's abilities as a leading man, a comic partner and a slapstick comedian.
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On Pump's "Ignorant," featuring friend and collaborator Smokepurrp, producer J Price samples SpongeBob's cutesy, slapstick theme tune.
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We all love sheer slapstick failure, particularly when it's clothed in camp and presented as high art.
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It was a far cry, superficially, from "The Good Fight," but it had a similar slapstick intelligence.
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The other is slapstick comedy "Mubarakan" in which Shah plays the matriarch of a wealthy business family.
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At the same time, it's not a slapstick comedy either, where you're just not taking anything seriously.
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I asked Paige what she thought about the lack of women who share her love of slapstick.
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First, his lack of vanity: expressed by his ability to laugh at himself and his slapstick appearance.
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It's called Hors Piste, and it's just six minutes of wonderfully goofy and perfectly done slapstick comedy.
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The old Bolshoi style of reckless hugeness is replaced here by slapstick cuteness and marionette-type characterizations.
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They laugh at slapstick comedy and funny faces, and they cheer when good people do good things.
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Too often it's airbrushed and idealized, rather than a fumbling, awkward, slapstick process of trial and eros.
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Hemsworth is allowed to be slapstick silly, repeatedly getting knocked out, electrocuted, and dragged by his adversaries.
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Many of his greatest moments play out like slapstick farce, leaving pratfalling defenders littered across the pitch.
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He has chops in slapstick, he delivers hilarious one-liners, and his presence is electric in every scene.
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Subtle comedy sometimes has a difficult time crossing a language barrier, but the slapstick humor here translates easily.
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Call it slapstick feminism: "Broad City" is rife with sexual oversharing, drug-fogged high jinks and toilet humor.
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"Hostiles and Calamities" is a strange combination of slapstick comedy and dark cynicism, lighthearted fun and horrific sadism.
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I had become permanently over excited—a punch-drunk stuntman in the slapstick movie of my own life.
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Reading like a 19th century slapstick comedy, it's not hard to see how it captured so many imaginations.
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It's got blistered beats, slapstick sound collages, and a few exclusive collaborations with some of her close buds.
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After every slapstick debasement, self-inflicted and otherwise, Chris Christie might have found his level, and his calling.
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A lot of great adventures games will give you emotional whiplash as they veered between slapstick and suspense.
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Vine gave way to really snappy, funny, and slapstick comedy snippets that can be digested readily and easily.
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If you've watched old-timey slapstick comedy, you are likely familiar with the soda siphon, or seltzer bottle.
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Defying his father, Owen Jr. brings out a ladder and executes crowd-pleasing feats of daredevil slapstick acrobatics.
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It sometimes seems as if the Democratic Party is engaged in a slapstick performance of ineptitude for laughs.
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While many of this composer's works are run through with humor, this ebullient sonata can seem almost slapstick.
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A slapstick comedy tinged with pathos, "Rooming-House" is set in a London attic hung with metal hooks.
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But the original series (and even season four) mixed that with slapstick and one-liners and unlikely situations.
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Richard Buckley tried to teach me an appreciation of slapstick, but that is something I will never have.
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It doesn't quite work, sounding a note that's more sour and slapstick-y than the show usually is.
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It's full of slapstick comedy, despite gut-clenching depictions of dope sickness, the futility of war and PTSD.
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"It just ended up being some weird slapstick humor that only a 10-year-old would laugh at."
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Then there's McCarthy, who tones her slapstick antics way down and serves as the brains of the team.
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Like the slapstick over Brexit, Edward St. Aubyn's quintet of novels can be scaldingly funny and achingly poignant.
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But the next time you hear it, try this: Envision hammered Brits in the Renaissance doing slapstick comedy.
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Olaf's Frozen Adventure alternates between grating and occasionally charming, with some mildly funny slapstick bits in the middle.
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Laugh Back's first mistake is opening with a work that so efficiently blurs the difference between slapstick and sadism.
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Lewis always had a knack for slapstick comedy, and his directorial debut was the perfect platform to showcase it.
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Perfect failure is also what made my first experience with slapstick museum tragedy game Handle With Care so memorable.
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Private Life refuses to stick to just one mode of storytelling — it has slapstick and melodrama, heartbreak and hope.
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Surely this slapstick adventure will be just as fun as the original Minions movie and the Despicable Me trilogy.
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Creators tap into a smorgasbord of genres from slapstick comedy to political thriller, from murder mystery to family sitcom.
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Once Slapstick had split up, were you adamant that you wanted to keep working with whatever new bands formed?
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There are stoner comedies, family comedies, dark comedies, animated comedies, campy comedies, indie comedies, slapstick comedies, chick flick comedies.
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Like, laugh out loud, slapstick funny — he was as quirky and weird as he was fit and traditionally attractive.
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"There is slapstick that kids love and political and pop culture parodies that only adults can catch and appreciate."
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Dame Shirley's interactions with Ned—portrayed by the sensational young bass-baritone Davóne Tines—have a slapstick, vaudeville character.
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Initially a vaudevillian, he went on to star in dozens of films and specials that highlighted his slapstick humor.
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She careens from slapstick to pathos in mere moments, and she makes us feel every death in our gut.
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"I think the Postal brand is synonymous with our fans as being extremely slapstick and hilarious," Jaret-Schachter says.
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Each page unleashes a fusillade of gags and comic sequences, careening from slapstick to blood bath and back again.
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The videos have a slapstick appeal: When the participants speed up, their legs spin like accident-prone cartoon characters.
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A wordless, entirely comedic performer who engages in slapstick is exactly the sort of thing that travels well overseas.
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I was a paper pusher in a cubicle and a clerk in a convenience store, but it's all slapstick.
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SLAPSTICK, NOT SLASHERS "Don't Breathe" was inspired more by "Home Alone" than any single horror film, Mr. Álvarez said.
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It is dispiriting to watch the wretched excesses of Mr. Trump's slapstick presidency and the rabid audience he commands.
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Although his commute was a slapstick series of events, it also served as a symbol of the Knicks' persistence.
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The hearing may lack the slapstick of his turn on a Kiev restaurant terrace, but it will be unmissable.
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A nice fish-out-of-water story about guys and an elephant with a hearty dose of slapstick comedy.
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Mostly, though, it translates the challenges of a notorious problem play into "oh, why not?" parlor tricks and slapstick.
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Quests that start off like video games can end in a slapstick fight or a bruising lesson in disappointment.
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Both shows combine slapstick comedy, sexist jokes and celebrity guests, a potent mix that Indian TV viewers seem to love.
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There were no bright, flashy, fast-moving cartoons or slapstick humor in his neighborhood; just simple, direct conversation and storytelling.
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And there's some very funny slapstick, hilarious new characters, and a handful of sequences that match any great Pixar film.
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The loving send-ups of arcane detail tickle the cognoscenti, while the perfectly timed slapstick offers belly laughs for all.
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Though Mr Handler's stories are funny, the humour is black and usually in the voice of the narrator, not slapstick.
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Where Buffy was a wildly accurate depiction of growing up with trauma, Big Wolf on Campus was light and slapstick.
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There will be two hearings on Libra, and given the slapstick nature of Libra's introduction to date, I expect farce.
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Luigi's Mansion 3 is part of a rare breed of slapstick comedy games, joining the likes of the ridiculous Octodad.
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Yet its mix of slapstick silliness and gentle satire has given it a successful afterlife on DVD and streaming services.
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Rogers was hoping the new program would be a welcoming alternative to slapstick comedy and other lackluster shows for children.
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It's full of odd slapstick moments and computer-generated effects that look like they were pulled straight from the 1990s.
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Humor development research shows that between the ages of 2 and 7, kids gravitate toward knock-knock jokes and slapstick.
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Clue wasn't so much scary as it was a genuinely sharp slapstick comedy that happened to be about a murder.
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This, along with questions of aging and familial responsibility, balance out the show's tendency to rely too heavily on slapstick.
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This also means the chief laughs in the Hotel Transylvania films typically come from physical gags and moments of slapstick.
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Even those who earlier had found Lewis and his slapstick to be an acquired taste praised his uncharacteristically controlled performance.
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Long a slapstick comedy favorite, the pie-in-the-face routine has also developed as a form of political protest.
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Comedian Jerry Lewis has passed away at 91 The slapstick-loving icon rose to fame in the 1950s and '60s.
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In my experience, horror movies that pit two antagonists against each other are more slapstick than scary — think Freddy vs.
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Dave breaches Miles's Xanadu with a foot in the door, a scene that Mr. Cheadle plays for slapstick-spiked comedy.
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It's like a marriage of "Lost in Translation" and a Chuck Jones Looney Tunes short, haunting, disorienting and ingeniously slapstick.
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Through that lens, Mr. Oshima fashioned a slapstick philosophical treatise that attacked Japanese hypocrisy in general — capital punishment in particular.
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They are hunted by disgruntled police and a vengeful biker gang but manage to best their adversaries via slapstick contrivances.
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He was known for his slapstick routines and became enormously famous when he teamed up with Dean Martin in 1946.
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There was often dancing, an exchange of jokes, singing, speeches and slapstick musical skits or satiric interpretations of popular plays.
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Discussed primarily for its slapstick bent, the film also reveals the broad net of influences that Snow's oeuvre can claim.
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The "Road" movies, his series of slapstick travelogues with Bob Hope, provided goofy escapist fun for the folks back home.
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The running musical commentary gives the games an air of high drama, slapstick comedy and the various gradations in between.
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Collins said he was "not at liberty to discuss" injuries, another twist in the organization's slapstick approach to medical issues.
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If you're the kind of person who can laugh at slapstick murder vignettes, a lot of Spree works very well.
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Tourist numbers have also jumped, helped by the huge success in China of the 2012 slapstick comedy "Lost in Thailand".
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Slapstick. Now, I'm not saying every gumshoe yarn needs physical comedy, but The Nice Guys makes joyous use of the stuff.
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The result — which involves snapping sticks, electric shocks and plenty of swearing — could easily be a scene in a slapstick comedy.
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In these filmmakers' minds, encountering a trans woman is just another slapstick gag, on par with a well-placed banana peel.
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The Sabrina stories were especially fun, because the addition of magical powers added an anything-goes quality, manifesting as loopy slapstick.
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"Max just had a slapstick comedy moment where he caught the frisbee and slapped himself in the balls," Ehrlich says buoyantly.
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The form is closer to slapstick comedy than anything else, a vaudevillian performance that bears uncanny resemblance to that of drag.
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The world needs jesters, or at least hulking beasts with googly eyes who live out extravagant slapstick routines for our pleasure.
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Taken seriously as a director, comic and actor by French audiences, filmmakers and critics, he responded with pratfalls, slapstick, endless schtick.
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AIB hopes the future of Indian comedy will be smarter, surpassing the current slapstick trend for men dressing up as women.
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I don't think I'm alone in falling for "Princess Bride's" combination of winking slapstick, high adventure, enchanting romance and whimsical invention.
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I didn't want to lower the church's august tone by asking if it was possible that Miller watched slapstick comedies there.
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It was an annual tradition put on by the state broadcaster: cheesy skits, patriotic odes, terrible slapstick—the whole country watched.
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And nobody had to fall down a flight of stairs as though it was a cheap slapstick movie from the 40s!
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The warrior might be as sacred as Shihan or as slapstick as Stu, but regardless best viewed from the ground up.
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Before Bradley Cooper was making us cry in "A Star Is Born," he was making audiences laugh in this slapstick comedy.
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A few permanently watchable jewels like "The Golden Girls" and "Frasier" sneaked in a combo platter of slapstick, vinegar and fuzzies.
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Whether that organization is deliberately scammy or just a low-utility gambit executed with slapstick amateurism is, at some point, immaterial.
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Take George of the Jungle (1997), a slapstick adventure movie in which Brendan Frasier plays a guy raised in the jungle.
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These movies were often saturated with populist ideas (class consciousness, anti-authoritarianism, racial prejudice) and incorporated populist forms (vaudeville, slapstick, burlesque).
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I can't just do slapstick, because it could be perceived in a way that I don't want it to be perceived.
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While "Home Alone's" sappy elements are hard to ignore, they blend well with the film's now-iconic brand of slapstick humor.
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No, like some kind of screenwriter of a slapstick comedy, Fisher had the Rams offensive players go through some weird visualization technique.
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With a light joke or a slapstick gag, even god-like figures like Wonder Woman and Thor are brought down to earth.
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Even more than it does today, pro wrestling in its vintage era stood somewhere between bloody slapstick comedy and anarchic ultraviolent catharsis.
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I've seen people compare it to slapstick or silent movies from the '20s and '30s, like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton's work.
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It's reminiscent of Vine's earliest "magic" days, when editing outperformed slapstick humor, and six-second videos with impressive magic tricks went viral.
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It's a good detail — slapstick and unnerving, a brutal, horrifying death with a cartoonish element that reduces the victim to a punchline.
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The text does most of the semantic heavy lifting; the visual component mostly indicates the overall tone, often in a slapstick way.
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"The Milkman" (1950), a slapstick comedy, was banned in Lebanon due to the Jewish origins of Jerry Lewis, the film's American star.
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Any funnier and it would tip over into slapstick absurdity (which seems to be why Lord and Miller were shown the door).
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"Welcome back," beams Abby when her former ally agrees to start ghost hunting again—after a (thankfully brief) period of slapstick enmity.
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Its blue metal body lurches forward, only to be yanked backward again and again—a slapstick war dance for an unwinnable war.
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"He is the last star of slapstick in Europe, if not the world," the director Alain Jomier told The Guardian in 2009.
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Among those pursuing her is a slapstick Javert of a police agent with an old grudge, aided reluctantly by a young pickpocket.
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On Baby on Baby, his words are often witty but never as slapstick and hilarious as he comes across in the videos.
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With Madame Géquil's final speech to her physics students, there's a tension between an almost slapstick physical comedy and a deep despair.
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The series's strongest movie, "A Shot in the Dark" blends character comedy with intricately choreographed slapstick, annotated by Clouseau's hilariously tortured logic.
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And a lot of the techniques that once seemed fresh — the fragments, the slapstick, the madcap sound design — now feel like clichés.
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The crowd was drawn to the combination of smart and slapstick humor, and was also roused by a Boyz II Men cameo.
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But a fine cast (including Bobby Cannavale as Laura's feckless ex-husband) can't compensate for the screenplay's superficial sentimentality and lazy slapstick.
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What follows can only be described as a pileup of screw-ups, a slapstick circus that can't decide who is slapping whom.
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The British comedian BENNY HILL was best known for his long-running sketch show, which featured slapstick, mime, parody and double entendre.
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Gorgeously surreal and almost entirely without dialogue, this tour de force marries "Lost in Translation" with Looney Tunes to haunting, slapstick effect.
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I even tried to be the class clown and brought in slapstick stuff, like whoopee cushions and gum that tasted like fish.
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A lot of Charlie Chaplin's comedy is slapstick humor: falling over animals, getting beat up — and it's like, how is that hilarious?
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She takes her cues from teen users, who often use the app to offer irreverent, even slapstick commentary on public health conversations.
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Slapstick and sap vie for prominence in "Table 19," a comedy so lazy that it actually features someone falling off a log.
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DiDonato was in full, bright voice, turning on a dime from slapstick to pathos; Ailyn Pérez feasted on the role of Bakst.
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So far, it features original cast members like Kel Mitchell teaching new comedians what slapstick humor and spit takes are all about.
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It also features a comic-relief character named Jar Jar Binks whose dumb slapstick and ethnically offensive accent were not so great, frankly.
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First, and most obviously, almost every person in the video, except maybe Kelly himself, has perfected the art of Charlie Chaplin-style slapstick.
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This novelistic homage to "Frankenstein" weaves together the life of its author, Mary Shelley, and a merrily slapstick plot set in the present.
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Alienation, gaming culture in South Korea, the flaws of the criminal justice system, girl power, slapstick gangster comedy, and perseverance against the odds.
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The duo's tongue-in-cheek adaptation calls to mind Pasolini's slapstick reimagination of Geoffrey Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales," but with a more surrealist bent.
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KS: Bergson's definition of the comic — something mechanical encrusted on the living — is definitely mobilized in Zoe's installation, particularly in the slapstick element.
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The mix of slapstick and satire is typical of "Servant of the People", a television show that has gripped Ukrainian audiences since 2015.
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This computer-generated slapstick, set to Bryan Adams' "Run to You," comes courtesy Jon Robson, a filmmaker and motion artist of 15 years.
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This is a low-incident / low-impact adventure, with some light cartoon slapstick, a simple message, and a few catchy Carly Simon songs.
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Others use costumes to say something about their characters, or just take advantage of the party-prone holiday to have some slapstick fun.
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With his nasally voice and bits of slapstick, the humor of his performances came from how he stretched urban common knowledge into absurdities.
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England froze once Iceland had gone ahead in the 18th minute and some of their play was so bad it was almost slapstick.
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And with slapstick routines foisted on their attendants, Kurwenal and Brangäne, much of this high-serious opera hovered on the edge of farce.
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It's striking, for instance, that my more elaborate tale of Maine failed, while my simpler, one-sentence lie about the slapstick accident succeeded.
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With its breezy mix of opera seria and slapstick, Turkish pastiche and Enlightenment denouement, "Abduction" can be a tough piece to pull together.
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Wheatley has a skill for combining disparate genres—from horror to slapstick comedy to murderous gangster drama—while gesturing toward critical political undertones.
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Their newest venture combines the musical Cats, the Kardashians, and cats the animal into a slapstick romp without regard for plot or reality.
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En masse, the injury reports help to demystify the lives of these ancient creatures, which were fraught with danger and, sometimes, slapstick silliness.
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Mr. Burgoyne and Mr. Raymond engaged in slapstick comedic routines with fans and players, helping to turn the Phanatic into a Philadelphia icon.
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Cut Gems Sandler plays Howard Ratner again, only this time it's a comedy, packed to the brim with fart jokes and slapstick gaffes.
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While "Broad City" is often praised for its warm portrait of friendship and sexual frankness, the spine of the show is genius slapstick.
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The "Hakuna Matata" duo and their unique brand of slapstick humor is one of the best kids shows in the entire Disney library.
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Richard Bean adapted the play into "One Man, Two Guvnors," a slapstick hit when James Corden starred in it on Broadway in 2012.
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The latest version, like the unfortunate 2000 live-action film starring Jim Carrey, pads out the parable with slapstick business and character enlargement.
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And they never pander or patronize with the big annotative gestures or frenzied slapstick common to the "Shakespeare is fun" school of acting.
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After decades of nearly slapstick mismanagement — spinning off TV and missing the internet — the studio behind "The Godfather" is fighting for its life.
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"Perhaps we are simply trying vigorously to make sense of things that might only be a slapstick prank," it says in a leaflet.
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It would be easier to buy Jexi's more intentional absurdities if its reality wasn't so elastic, stretching to accommodate poorly staged large-scale slapstick.
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From the moment ring announcer Ron Jeremy—his real name—finished the introductions, Hess versus Anderson revealed its true nature of brutality and slapstick.
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Jensen will bring her frothy slapstick, like an adult version of Scooby-Doo, to three more mysteries next year to round out Season 3.
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It's a slapstick comedy about a bunch of corporate and anti-corporate goofballs that also manages to be a razor-edged satire about globalism.
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Mr. Lesveri, the three-time veteran, used slapstick comedy: mock marching, exaggerated sighs every time a break ended, high-stepping whenever he fell behind.
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He got his big break on the shortform video platform Vine, where he amassed over 230 million followers with his slapstick comedy and pranks.
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The video proves that these cats are not only keen observers of their environment, but that they also have some impressive slapstick comedy chops.
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That leaves him more room for humiliating, hilarious slapstick, like a scene where Healy catches March in a toilet stall with his pants down.
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It's supposed to be slapstick fun, but it comes off as a little dark given the recent onslaught of very real blows to environmentalism.
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The game was similar to greased pig contests at American rodeos and county fairs, but the blindfolds added an extra dimension of slapstick comedy.
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The show is both a slapstick romp and a ruthless tragedy, in which even the Chechen gangsters get pulled into the mess of emotions.
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His Midwestern good looks, slapstick humor, and intricately planned and executed viral videos have earned him millions of dollars and legions of diehard fans.
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For a moment, they're together, cheek to cheek, and, as with all good slapstick, the motion is hard to describe but easy to watch.
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And if the videos of suddenly supine teens are any indication, this challenge is just as hazardous as slapstick cartoons led us to believe.
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Most of those get their humor from slapstick, whereas a game like The Secret of Monkey Island had a more sophisticated humor about it.
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It was a slashing satire of show business, with slapstick mayhem, horned demons, collapsing staircases and fun-house slides that led straight to hell.
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It's impressively slick and easy to get lost in; with pounding techno in your ears, you can slip into a trance of slapstick violence.
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And Americans were treated to yet another portrait of ineptitude so surreal as to qualify as a kind of performance art, or maybe slapstick.
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"Wakey, Wakey" retains a Beckettian sense of human existence as an absurdist vaudeville, a slapstick of failing and falling, despite all aspirations to dignity.
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Framing that centerpiece are two treadmills, which become eerie emblems of control amid eruptions of gory, slapstick chaos and eviscerations of any fourth wall.
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Our film should not have made light of Peter Rabbit's arch nemesis, Mr. McGregor, being allergic to blackberries, even in a cartoonish, slapstick way.
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The lore is goofy as hell, matching the slapstick 1980s direct-to-VHS tone of Doom Eternal and you can also safely ignore it.
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The genre ranges broadly in tone and topic, from dark, foreboding dramas to broad, slapstick comedies; from neo-Confederate romances to futuristic dystopian nightmares.
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Drawing on sources as diverse as Greek drama, Shakespeare, slapstick, camp, and sometimes puppetry, Hartman's performances are richly layered, totally absurd, and wholly original.
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To answer it, Mac arms them with pretty much every tool human beings have at their disposal: slapstick humor, collaboration, revolutionary zeal and poetry.
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Meanwhile, South Asian-American Koshy and South Asian-Canadian Singh also specialize in a brand of slapstick comedy that heavily incorporates Black American aesthetics.
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But for the most part, Fallon has kept things easy breezy, typically pivoting from a more topical opening monologue to the aforementioned slapstick games.
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It's a fizzy mix of coy wit and slapstick physical comedy that says more than words ever could, as Matthau and Lemmon illustrate below.
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Step Brothers would remain, but given how much of its humor draws on bawdiness and slapstick, the viewing experience wouldn't be the same at all.
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The first "season" consists of 18 episodes of varying lengths and animation styles, with stories ranging from a bloody revenge thriller to dark slapstick comedy.
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Songs deal with loss, grief and loneliness; bouts of slapstick-heavy, theatrical bickering give way to lines about an internal pain that tears at flesh.
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But the show's first few episodes felt a little uneven, jerking between the nuanced realities of its characters new, scary normal and near slapstick comedy.
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However, Mr Kurniawan offsets the carnage and lightens the mood with skew-whiff logic and humour that ranges from slapstick to ribald to pitch-black.
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The scandal was devastating to the small Catholic school of 1,450 students, but at times, to hoops fans, it looked more like bad slapstick comedy.
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In my head I see Chris Farley turned into a panda that pulls off a silly slapstick humor routine with whatever else is in frame.
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He wrote more than 21977 plays that were funny, moving and immensely popular - sometimes shifting from slapstick to melodrama with the turn of a phrase.
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Employed to resolve spats within Laurel and Hardy, Blazing Saddles, The Great Race, and countless TV sitcoms, pie fights are the pinnacle of slapstick comedy.
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He says he was very nervous to return but that seems kinda tough when your whole thing is shameless slapstick self-debasement on national television.
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The programme's contradictions—camp and sincere, profound and silly, slapstick and mundane—enable it to transcend differences of geography, income and generation like few others.
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The animated comedy series has become known for its bizarre and often slapstick critiques of current affairs and politicians on both sides of the aisle.
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Happy to tap into my underutilized talent for slapstick, I implemented one of his suggestions for fear around separation: Try becoming hilariously clingy at home.
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Might she, even, be guilty of self-betrayal — her catfishing of Jelly's catfishing ultimately shallower and more exploitative than the blockbuster bait of Carrie's slapstick?
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Short Circuit is a family film, but it takes its sweet time getting to the slapstick bits I remember watching with glee as a child.
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While it doesn't contain any surprises, this update fills in the familiar story of the Grinch with some heartwarming characters, slapstick, and chuckle-worthy jokes.
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He's the show's ostensible romantic hero, but its trickster is Gina Linetti, a Bugs Bunny-level chaos creator, played by the slapstick mastermind Chelsea Peretti.
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The scene is slapstick, gross-out brilliance — and a clever illustration of how applying hypotheticals to real life (or a convincing illusion) becomes, er, messy.
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RUSSONELLO The Spanish electronic musician who calls herself Rrucculla merges digital expertise with wildly eclectic sources and a sense of timing like sped-up slapstick.
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The sequel got into more complicated slapstick adventure, but "Paddington" keeps it simple, following the young bear as he adjusts to his new urban environs.
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Under John Collins's direction, the company takes a slapstick approach to Shakespeare's problem play about a would-be nun and a couple of untrustworthy rulers.
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This was, then, supposed to be one of those wild games that occur ever more frequently in this tournament, all breakneck counterattacking and slapstick defending.
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If you like the combination of violent action, sentimental fantasy, literary pretension and periodic slapstick humor that "Reprisal" offers, you may enjoy it well enough.
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He's got a clever sense of humor that will be difficult for some to appreciate, but I'd rather listen to dry/witty humor than slapstick.
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What's left is a tightly choreographed comedy of manners with coolly precise slapstick and the requisite helping of improvised winks at the New York audience.
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But mainly it was a direct download from the subconscious of Mr. Lynch, who directed every episode: part horror story, part slapstick, all twisted fantasy.
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My own short rambling explained how the night's events had translated to both slapstick and relaxation, a combination of energetic laughter and exhausted, peaceful sleep.
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Marrying slapstick and aching pathos, Simonischek and Huller's performances make the ridiculous look sublime -- landing laughs and tears in one-two punches, liberally and with aplomb.
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The film doesn't currently have a rating, but I would recommend an R for blood-smeared nudity, drug usage, copious swear words, and unrepentant sacrilegious slapstick.
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There have been phases when the Doctor — and the show as a whole — has been grim and tortured, and others when it has embraced slapstick effervescence.
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With one eye on the screen above him, Mr. Porat meticulously timed his playing to the comic mishaps and slapstick falls and knocks of the movie.
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Meanwhile, the actual marathon race — featuring strychnine as a performance enhancing drug and a competitor who traveled miles by car — sounds like a slapstick comedy sketch.
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As the truth trickles out in slapstick fits and starts (as befits sitcom tradition), the show is careful to stay rooted in both compassion and realism.
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Over the decades, Lupin has changed based on whoever was writing each season, shifting the tone of the show from stoic to dark to slapstick comedy.
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Take the wordy slapstick of Hot Fuzz and splice it with the spectacle of Fast & Furious action and then set it in the Star Trek universe.
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"Spicey" has escaped punishment precisely because we've turned him into a slapstick pop culture meme, then absolved his crimes with a no-need-for-forgiveness tour.
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Lego games are usually powered by a sort of cheesy parody that relies as much on averagely-executed slapstick as it does very basic reference humor.
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Several Bollywood films have featured gay characters, but with a few exceptions, their portrayal has largely been caricatured and coloured by slapstick humour and shock value.
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Like the slapstick, expressive brilliance of Mr. Bean, The Little Hours will be funny in 50 years, and it would have been funny 50 years ago.
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Whether the child is parading with elephants or swimming among jellyfish, each failed attempt to fit in exudes a Chaplinesque charm, skillfully blending slapstick and melancholy.
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In sitcoms, there were few alternatives to such Tyler Perry confections as "House of Payne" and "For Better or Worse"—shotgun marriages of slapstick and melodrama.
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It was perfect as slapstick, but also a pity, because taxpayers who spent $127 million in 2014 for the agency's wildlife damage management operations deserve transparency.
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Salt Bae is a Turkish chef with a weird but oddly captivating sense of humor that somewhat resembles the slapstick, one-liner style of Japanese comedians.
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From there, "Value" switches gears when Van wakes up the next day to a phone reminder about an upcoming drug test, essentially going into slapstick territory.
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Cue a hazing scene that straddles the uncomfortable line between slapstick and violence, down to the kind of probing usually encountered in tales of alien abduction.
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And his novels, whether they are kaleidoscopic histories, political thrillers, generational sagas or slapstick comedies, are remarkable for their ability to inhabit a host of perspectives.
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And if you remember the movie as primarily one about goofy cartoons and wacky slapstick, well, it has those elements, but it's about something else, too.
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With a sweetly cherubic face, a deceptively athletic physicality and an utter devotion to foolishness and slapstick, Mr. Conway was among Hollywood's most enduringly popular clowns.
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It is the movie's interpolated slapstick — along with Arthur and the enormous geranium-shaped bathtub in which she and Milland are planted — that give it distinction.
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Right away, the comic drops you into its Tumblr-esque, whimsical, slapstick world that centers on a group of girl scouts and their apocalyptic, supernatural camp.
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Amid rapidly shifting tones — from slapstick light to grimly dire — the bathroom is soon demolished and its white surfaces predictably redecorated with a bold red accent.
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With its minimal vocabulary of syncopated drum taps, nearly nonstop mechanical blipping and silly, sliding tones, the track is like five minutes of sped-up slapstick.
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The opera extracts roughly half of the play, meaning we lose some of the slapstick circularity; what's gained is starkness, each episode standing in harsh isolation.
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Created by Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco (who are, like their characters, married Harvard grads), "Friends From College" has moments of funny slapstick and observational comedy.
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In a 266 interview with the pianist Ben Sidran, conducted for NPR, Mr. Allison grouped his material into three categories: slapstick, social comment and personal crisis.
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Most of the show is playful, between Anthony Mendez's voiceover narration, the pithy pop culture jokes, and sporadic slapstick — but its episodes are an hour long.
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Pringle pounding his own stomach in a show of strength, then Heath takes a shot in the same place and he falls down—classic slapstick comedy.
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While there's a spooky atmosphere — the game takes place in a haunted hotel filled with all kinds of ghosts — the moment-to-moment experience is largely slapstick.
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Their (almost always) wordless routines mixing slapstick and pathos worked beautifully on Broadway in the 1990s in "Fool Moon" and Off Broadway in "Old Hats" in 2013.
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McBride and Hill's humor is dependably ridiculous, and the Vice Principals trailer accordingly promises plenty of filth and slapstick to keep you entertained for half an hour.
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But I didn't want to make it really slapstick-y and broad, because I didn't really feel that was within the tone of the movie we've made.
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They bolt home and into the bathroom, and in an edge-of-your-seat slapstick scene, Ethan drops the glass vial on the tile floor, shattering it.
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There's a big chase scene (rendered in a style similar to the other films' adrenalized setpieces), some funky-looking alien creatures, and even a bit of slapstick.
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Starring a young Tom Hanks and a Dogue de Bordeaux called Beasley, this odd-couple slapstick detective comedy takes full advantage of slow motion and slobbery jowls.
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Top Pick: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Last Week Tonight has become the best place for comprehensive global news that isn't eclipsed by comedy and slapstick.
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He recently seemed to be moving away from his manic, slapstick, tongue-twisty rap for a sound that was a little more influenced by gospel and jazz.
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When Latinx-centered comedies are given air time, they often lean heavily on the slapstick comedy popular in Latinx culture, as well as stereotypes of Latinx people.
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At various times, it is a political, religious, and/or social satire, a domestic drama, broad Looney Tunes-esque slapstick, a philosophical treatise, scriptural exegesis, and more.
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Kendrick is committed to her cheery role, delivering its saccharine and slapstick elements with equal enthusiasm, and pretty much everyone else in the cast is good enough.
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Grunts of tuba and bassoon, scuttlings of strings, a splash of saxophone, and slapstick percussion hint at the vaudeville tradition that informs so much of Beckett's work.
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Synopsis: The slapstick stone-age comedy stars Jack Black and Michael Cera as clueless cavemen in the leading roles, with Rudd playing Abel opposite David Cross' Cain.
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A Czech street hustler turned glam hotelier, Grobglas's Petra glides from Carole Lombard daffiness to Grace Kelly hauteur, noir to slapstick to heartbreak, often within a scene.
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More attuned to the comedic stylings of the late '90s, this remake struggles to hold up today as the latter half devolves into a slapstick-laden mess.
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There's a clown-like silliness to the characters that matches so well with the action, which is all paired with incredibly impressive acrobatics and slapstick physical comedy.
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As widespread and genderless as Vine's appeal seems to be, the number of men engaged in slapstick comedy vastly outweighs the number of women in the game.
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I can't recall the last time I laughed out loud so heartily at a triple-A game's (albeit slightly deadly) slapstick potential realizing itself before my eyes.
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Andrew McConnell Stott, the author of "The Pantomime Life of Joseph Grimaldi," says Grimaldi is credited with adding garish makeup and exaggerated slapstick to the clown's repertoire.
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For "The Nap" is also a comedy of deception, including self-deception, and the sort of willful, hilarious misunderstandings that have always been a basis for slapstick.
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But the comedy, which was rapturously received by critics in 2016 and went on to win two Emmys and two Golden Globes, was also far from slapstick.
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In "Our Lady of Alice Bhatti" (2012), Hanif excoriated violence against women — "a sport older than cricket but just as popular" — but with slapstick instead of sanctimony.
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Based on Mike Myers and Dana Carvey's popular Saturday Night Live sketch, Wayne's World promised slapstick comedy and a barrage of catchphrases to delight Gen X moviegoers.
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The word's three syllables—with a hard, hoarse emphasis on the "do"—are a marvel of facial and tonal slapstick, hacky as text but brilliant as performance.
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One of these, "Hors Piste," an Aardman-inflected slapstick extravaganza directed by Léo Brunel, Camille Jalabert, Loris Cavalier and Oscar Malet, ought to have earned a nomination.
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The misanthropic provocateur Bruno Dumont's "Slack Bay" is a slapstick detective farce set in 1910 in a picturesque seaside fishing village near Calais where everyone is demented.
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But his impossibly fast-moving legs are depicted by an animated film projected on the wall he's standing behind, an image right out of silent-movie slapstick.
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But his impossibly fast-moving legs are depicted by an animated film projected on the wall he's standing behind, an image right out of silent-movie slapstick.
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Sorry, Atlantis: Eden's Achin' Organ Seeks Revenge fuses classical mythology, slapstick comedy, and 1930s cartoons to tell a timely story about war, race, power, and sexual repression.
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"Matthew Sergi, [a professor] at the University of Toronto, has suggested that what that play is actually about is the slapstick of dead baby jokes," Albin explains.
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It's been painful, the silence of Silicon Valley with regards to Saudi Arabia, whose shifting accounts about the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi have nearly veered into slapstick.
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If Team Fortress 2 (and its successor in almost all things, Overwatch) is the multiplayer shooter as cartoon slapstick, Battlegrounds is the multiplayer shooter as a horror movie.
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Not to mention, it's weird to suddenly pivot to slapstick sexual assault humor when last season the show confronted the fact that Kimmy is a sexual abuse survivor.
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Iowa Democrats have found a new villain for their chaotic caucus on Monday (and every other day this week), and surprise: It's not untested technology or slapstick incompetence.
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But with 400 cases, we can at least take heart in knowing, surely, at least one of the heists went wrong and resulted in some slapstick panic. [Reuters]
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And while he's more known for horror than slapstick, he frequently addressed the humor potential of humans running from clumsy pursuers or of zombies behaving like exaggerated humans.
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You kick people, bottles, buttons - anything that looks kickable, you kick, and you do so with a cute little squeak every time, like a tiny mouse doing slapstick.
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Slapstick shows during that timeframe, there were no mods or rude boys or skinheads, it just looked like going to a J Church show or a Jawbreaker show.
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In a country reputedly lacking in humor, German comedy is often viewed as slapstick and crude compared to the more subtle or witty approaches taken by British comics.
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Lynch manages to ground the movie with a serious and poignant throughline and perfect counterbalance to Carol's brash heroics and her sometimes slapstick buddy-cop relationship with Fury.
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Maybe it's the humor: America grew up on vaudeville and slapstick, more youthful and accessible forms, whereas Russian humor is winking and wry, at home between the lines.
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You could even watch it without knowing anything about the show and still be able to appreciate its Looney Tunes–style slapstick by way of melancholy soul-searching.
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It's slapstick, but it's also incredible—Ascolillo's game plan was so well rehearsed that he could do it with his brain ricocheting off the inside of his skull.
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"Drop TROU" is coming up more and more in the crossword, and pretty soon we will have to have the act of making a puzzle reclassified as slapstick.
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And while the live-action Grinch was somewhat off-putting in his menacing slapstick, this version of the character, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, is a little more relatable.
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There's a two-button option that lets you move each player individually, which gives you a modicum more control, at the cost of some of the slapstick appeal.
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Lacroix, meanwhile, gets mugged, spends some time in delirium and, in an almost slapstick scene, comes ashore on a small Scottish island on the back of a cow.
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Delivered by two clownish virtuosos from the troupe the Grand Falloons, this entertainment combines juggling, slapstick, magic, bubble sculpture and live music ranging from Brahms to Irving Berlin.
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Some scenes are speeded-up slapstick; others, like a lengthy sequence of Eddie and his hippie friends high on drugs and dancing in their underwear, are cinéma vérité.
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The hangings, shootings, scalpings and other grim ends awaiting the hapless cowboys, prospectors and wagon-train pioneers in this anthology of western tales are incidents of mortal slapstick.
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The album's momentum springs from the precise timing of discrete sounds, slapstick effects, sudden shock noises, relentless pitter-patter, that together don't conjure much of a rhythmic throughline.
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Read today, the book's intellectually slapstick vision of corporatism run amok embeds it within the early to mid-0003s as firmly and emblematically as "The Simpsons" and grunge music.
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Lewis, a skinny, goofball, slapstick comedian, was immediately taken by the cool, handsome crooner when he first saw him perform at the Glass Hat nightclub in New York City.
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Luke tears up a crooked boxing gym, his invulnerability so overwhelming to the low-level criminals that it plays like a slapstick comedy routine instead of a fight scene.
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Deadpool is only arriving in theaters this week, but Fox is confident enough in its slapstick superhero movie that it's already greenlit a sequel, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
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Thornton and Cox are back, but Zwigoff has been replaced by director Mark Waters, whose films (Vampire Academy, Mr. Popper's Penguins, Freaky Friday) suggest a bent toward oversized slapstick.
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Slapstick violence collides with an air of rot, and for a time the movie feels like a cross between "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" and a vintage Three Stooges short.
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Bulked up for the occasion, Hemsworth remains an enormously appealing lead, capable of pulling off funny lines and slapstick silliness while still inducing swoons when his shirt comes off.
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But BoJack Horseman—a cartoon sitcom whose title character is a melancholic, middle-aged stallion—inhabits a genre of its own, somewhere between slapstick and theater of the absurd.
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But unlike Richman, he's devoid of irony, slapstick, or post-rockist snark—his words and melodies project his innocence so unassumingly you have to assume that's who he is.
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And in a situation verging on slapstick, a desperate Tsiang finally found his work recommended to an important publisher, Richard Walsh, who happened to be married to Pearl Buck.
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Giving a wry twist to the overheated debate around bathroom access, the artist assails borders between genders, and between bodies and their accessories, with a kind of dignified slapstick.
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Every so often, though, they get the kind of moment that calls for a more grounded performance than their usual slapstick; usually, they knock it out of the park.
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Most comedies tend to make gunplay feel slapstick or overly cool, which is last thing we need in the wake of multiple school shootings and marches for gun control.
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Burr noted that the funniest piece of the "Onward" was the slapstick moments that involved Mr. Lightfoot, the mobile pair of trousers, who totters and bobbles around each scene.
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And in an age when drag is a mainstream phenomenon, can the Trocks continue to depend on the silly jokes and visual incongruities, the vaudeville humor and slapstick physicality?
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Sure, they can say "banana" and each others' names, but most of their communication comes from their actions, body language, nonsense babbling, and slapstick comedy, and it's so entertaining.
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The miracle of the show is that it's able to make this stuff funny: that sinkhole was pure slapstick, as was their solution of washing dishes in the shower.
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Many readers said they could relate to the slapstick interruption of Professor Kelly's serious moment, sharing stories of disruptions not only from kids, but pets and naked spouses, too.
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Like Sandler's earlier work, "Jack and Jill" is a broad comedy — slapstick, fart jokes, mockery of difference — a time-tested shtick that endures for more people than you'd think.
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The book's hectic, slapstick invention impresses but also threatens to outstay its welcome, and Waldemar's predicament seems more and more like a madcap parable about the act of writing.
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The bumbling, slapstick antics of Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern as the Wet Bandits, who manage to strike just the right balance of deeply goofy and seriously threatening: stupendous.
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There's very broad slapstick (especially after Chuck's surgery, when he can't see but has to pretend he can, lest his boss catch on to why he took a day off).
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Comedy and slapstick were sidelined in the last few years because the industry thought if films like "Neerja" and "Queen" were doing well, people don't want to watch mass comedies.
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The Disastrous Life of Saiki K. This anime series is a mixture of bizarre psychic powers, slapstick comedy, and the deadpan stares of a pink-haired boy with green glasses.
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These streetwise balletic set pieces have earned Iosseliani comparisons to Buster Keaton and legendary French actor-director Jacques Tati, who reimagined slapstick as a kind of high modernist formal gamesmanship.
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The floor in the studios are functionally grippy, which is useful when you're trying to plank, row, balance in a warrior 3, and not look slapstick while you're doing it.
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Conceived and choreographed by Keith Michael, the hourlong work is set at an imaginary 254th-anniversary celebration of the publication of "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland," complete with slapstick and acrobatics.
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Created by the team behind "Chicken Run" and the "Wallace and Gromit" series, this movie mixes slapstick humor with visual jokes and sound effects to fill in for absent words.
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Pierre Étaix, a French director of seamlessly choreographed slapstick films, including "Happy Anniversary," which won an Oscar for best live-action short subject in 22009, died on Friday in Paris.
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Related: When "Back to School" Means "Back to Clown School" Inside a Photographer's Sexy and Mysterious Rodeo Show Pixar Released a Slapstick Short Film About a Dog and His Bone
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I haven't gone through it myself, so I can't say for sure, but [my impression is] it's more about creating really funny bits and slapstick and that kind of thing.
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The double-LP version is deliberately pockmarked with jarring locked grooves in the middle of the track—just a few more slapstick pitfalls for unprepared listeners to get trapped in.
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But Sid comes out of nowhere to put on a methodically paced slapstick show featuring tea parties and high-stakes ladder-climbing that rightly gets the crowd on its feet.
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Could Liza Minnelli really be so crazy if she was capable of pulling off such a daring, funny, literally unstable slapstick satire of her own unstable persona, on "Arrested Development"?
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While he frames himself as a simple romantic comedy hero — wide-eyed, a bit hapless, prone to slapstick — he wrestles with larger ideas of optimism in the face of cynicism.
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As a soloist, Koma revels freely in qualities that were more concealed in the couple's collaborations, just as Eiko has on her own: a whimsy, slyness and almost slapstick sensibility.
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It slips back and forth from high-octane chase to slow-motion slapstick ballet to noirish, rain-soaked romance, the way an old-fashioned Hollywood musical changes up song styles.
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In "The Demonstration" (1893), he conveys the chaotic motion of Parisians caught in the middle of a political demonstration, a woman's billowing garments act as a cartoonish, slapstick-like element.
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Norton's instinct to play up the noir elements makes for a fun, slapstick twist on the genre at points, and 1950s New York is a lot of fun to explore.
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The humor includes enough slapstick and gross-out gags to keep the kids entertained, but there are clever callbacks and meta-jokes for older audiences to chuckle at as well.
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Using slapstick, magic, puppets and lots of audience participation, he even instills a few values, like being kind to your mates, that might have caused Blackbeard to raise an eyebrow.
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The two-minute clip is full of slapstick humor, with toweled men and women riding rollercoasters and carousels that have been modified so that the seats are one-person bathtubs.
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This song and video on the surface is slapstick and farcical but peel back a few layers and you've got a comment about the rejected, the freakish or marginalized and heroism.
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Badminton is compelling in the same angular sense that tennis is, but its dorky equipment adds an element of visual slapstick; the shuttlecock might as well make a slide-whistle sound.
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And Feige is probably delineating the difference between the cute slapstick of Guardians versus Waititi's humor; Waititi previously co-directed What We Do in the Shadows, a mockumentary about vampire roommates.
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Because you really should be playing Sega's latest entry in its long-running series of gangster histrionics and slapstick hijinks, as Patrick made about as clear as can be over here.
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Pixar's short, Lou, which was originally attached to Cars 3, was adorable and the perfect mixture of story and slapstick comedy — something animated shorts often lean on a bit too hard.
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Each scenario has a different flavor — Kano's is a hardboiled cop thriller, Tama's is slapstick comedy, Osawa's is psychological horror — and Kajiya Productions, the localization team, nailed the voice of each.
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Even though there is enough slapstick comedy in the film, the real humour comes from writer Vinit Vyas' gentle observations of the motley group of characters that make up this film.
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Dunn also relies heavily on dark humor and sarcasm, which don't translate to Thai, a culture in which much of the humor is slapstick and sarcasm often goes over people's heads.
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The Full Frontal host recalled a scene of slapstick confusion, back in the Republican primaries, when the candidates couldn't figure out how to take the stage when their names were called.
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Ryan Gosling and Russell Crowe play slapstick detectives in "The Nice Guys," and self-destruction is the focus of "Weiner," a documentary about the former New York congressman Anthony D. Weiner.
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"What critics said: "As viewers it's hard to be as sanguine about a one-note chucklefest that combines the worst of Lorre's conveyor-belt slapstick with an uncomfortable stab at edginess.
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Everyone will laugh at the sight of an octopus driving a truck, a wild-eyed loon flying with a bucket of angelfish in her beak and the other slapstick set pieces.
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It's a sign of this young company's skill that its orchestra, led on this occasion by Sean Kelly, is as persuasive in the score's subtle moments as in its slapstick ones.
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Dollar Shave Club itself gained attention soon after it was established in 2011, after the founder Michael Dubin's guerrilla YouTube marketing campaign went viral for its schlocky, slapstick brand of humor.
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Mr. Showalter continues to play with comic tone and mood — he folds in some slapstick, enables the mugging and stages several cringing fantasy sequences that encourage you to laugh at Doris.
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"Gone" (season 1063, episode 1053) One of the biggest problems of season six is its attempt to be simultaneously slapstick and silly (the Trio) and unremittingly dark and grim (everything else).
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The part also requires a lot of physical comedy, and Dennison's timing is preternaturally perfect, with slapstick precision for maximum chuckles — though his nonchalant affection for Hec tugs at heartstrings, too.
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De Wilde envisioned the movie as part romantic comedy, part slapstick, and got her actors to watch the Cary Grant-Katharine Hepburn classic "Bringing Up Baby" to set the right mood.
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Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit.
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Yet the various slapstick catastrophes in "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" were a hit with audiences, who laughed over the loud sighs of critics like Janet Maslin: Fatigue is in the air.
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And while GTA's satire is often scathing, dressing its environments with cheap and nasty puns, Undercover's penchant for parody is expressed with a lot more affection, and family-friendly slapstick humor.
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"There are slapstick hijinks and silly scenarios aplenty, but at its heart 'Paddington 2' has something serious to say about making the world a better place through daily acts of kindness."
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Rather than taking the joke-a-minute slapstick approach, Toni Erdmann slow-burns its humor, winding up to the punch with care and pathos that renders the punchline all the more poignant.
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At a glance, the 19803 Chevy Chase comedy—the third movie about Clark Griswold, the unironic idol of suburban dads across America—is an unabashedly stupid and fun series of slapstick gags.
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Selina's press secretary Mike (Matt Walsh), who has always been the dopey one, is mined for even more slapstick material, because now he has a FitBit and is on a juice cleanse.
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Both of them carry the film's frequent melodrama nimbly, as Park's often exhilarating dips into Looney Tunes-style slapstick pop up in everything from an attempted suicide to the numerous sex scenes.
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The slapstick ferocity of Mr. Reiner's family drama is soon apparent when Gordon puts on a Halloween gorilla costume in a feeble attempt at scaring his mother (Ruth Gordon) to death. Mrs.
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In another Hawks-Hecht collaboration, "Twentieth Century" (1934), the warfare passed into sophisticated slapstick: John Barrymore's egotistical theatre producer roars at Carole Lombard's actress, and she fights back with insults and ridicule.
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The obvious reference is to "The Great Dictator"—like Charlie Chaplin , whom he loved, Brecht sought to expose Hitler through ridicule—and directors have often exploited the play's potential for barbarous slapstick.
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Beyond funny, the show — which can hardly explain its own premise yet somehow lasted for two seasons — is superbly pointless, except as a platform for Kovacs's absurdist slapstick and imaginative free associations.
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Through childbirth, a wedding and a funeral, the game continues, and the trailer makes humorous use of MC Hammer's 1990 chestnut "U Can't Touch This" to score its scenes of slapstick mayhem.
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The most dreamlike moments aren't sustained for long, broken up by the kind of slapstick clowning that's familiar from Cirque du Soleil and doesn't entirely embrace Dalí's bizarre, uneasy sense of humor.
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But Curtis is also a master at shifting tones — and so for every nail-biting moment, there's a note of goofy joy or slapstick humor (often about Captain Buck's "ripish" body odor).
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This provides an extra dollop of slapstick chaos, but the kids are peripheral to the movie's main interest, which is in the mismatch and implicit bromance between Ice Cube and Mr. Day.
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The game's composer, Dan Golding, recorded the music and then chopped it up to create phrases that react to gameplay, as a live piano player might have done to Charlie Chaplin's slapstick.
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But it was all, also, a little slapstick, as one after another shooting-gallery Greek popped up after aeons of obscurity, only to die a second time, walloped by Oswald's powerful style.
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The Australian comedy duo the Umbilical Brothers, made up of Shane Dundas and David Collins, fuse mime, slapstick and stand-up for inventive, fast-paced performances that exist in their own universes.
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It was there that he led the project to acquire and restore Chaplin's Mutual shorts, in which Chaplin's Little Tramp character evolved from a purely slapstick figure to a rich, comedic personality.
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"It slips back and forth from high-octane chase to slow-motion slapstick ballet to noirish, rain-soaked romance, the way an old-fashioned Hollywood musical changes up song styles," Hale wrote.
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Well, it turns out that "dis" is many things: slapstick, juggling, magic, bubble sculptures, audience participation, and saxophone and concertina renditions of works by such disparate composers as Brahms and Irving Berlin.
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On the other hand, the Gerhard Richter painting "Skull" (1983) penetrates any such lightweight social masks and turns the world upside down, into a slapstick spectacle of pompous posturing and neurotic defensiveness.
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She's an effortlessly funny performer when she's in her wheelhouse — which seems to be expressing genuine concern for those she cares about while balancing the more emotional moments with ridiculousness and slapstick.
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An author who, for example, lacks a sense of irony is always bound to remain mediocre, and irony-less writers have a squeaky voice that achieves either slapstick or sentimentalism or just reportage.
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Rating Rather than taking the joke-a-minute slapstick approach, Toni Erdmann slow-burns its humor, winding up to the punch with care and pathos that renders the punchline all the more poignant.
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What follows is a solid hour and a half of comedy, slapstick and homages to the old road movies Bob Hope did so well and Family Guyresurrects once a season with mixed results.
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Related: Carry a Tiny World on Your Smartphone with These Microcosmic GIFs Pixar Released a Slapstick Short Film About a Dog and His Bone Pixar-esque Short Shows How Society Saps Your Creativity
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And, as was the case with many of Lewis' over-the-top displays of brash, noisy, run-amok slapstick as a performer, the jokes at his own expense threatened to overstay their welcome.
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To sit through this — and there's a lot to sit through (Senate hearings, newsroom slapstick, Scoot McNairy doing Lieutenant Dan from "Forrest Gump") — is to see both rage and piety hit a wall.
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It seems like even Aziz knows how ridiculous this sounds, so he peppers "Happy Bhag Jayegi" with one-liners and slapstick comedy to distract us from the lack of depth in the story.
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His "Pie Fight" paintings, for example, draw on Hollywood slapstick even as they depict menacing Nazi figures; the smeared faces might have begun to deteriorate or simply been covered in layers of cream.
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It reminds me of another situation: The very first time I took an Uber, I needed a ride to the airport, and in a now-familiar slapstick situation, the driver couldn't find me.
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Despite numerous reports confirming the news, Netflix took to Twitter to confirm the beloved slapstick sitcom wouldn't be going anywhere, at least not in 2019, and fans everywhere breathed a sigh of relief.
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They're part of the ensemble in the new film, but their easy slapstick chemistry ultimately takes center stage in the trailer, pushing aside even their co-star, the veteran scenery chewer Jack Black.
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I would pop the kernels in oil, slather them in butter and salt, and gobble them while watching old slapstick comedies on the couch, battling husband and child for that last craggy crumb.
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It opens as if it were a kid's film, then applies a light slapstick touch to a "let's take out the railroad bridge" scenario that gets harder to maintain as the casualties mount.
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As a personality and a performer, Mr. Henry had a mild and unassuming aspect that was usually in contrast with the pungently satirical or broadly slapstick material he appeared in — and often wrote.
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While most German comedies tend toward cabaret-style slapstick humor, "Toni Erdmann," which is 162 minutes long, makes use of repetition and time, drawing out awkward moments to the point of comic discomfort.
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His disappearance, along with Ivanka Trump and the family, at critical (or embarrassing) moments at the outset of Trump's presidency also helped replace the ideal of the couple with a kind of slapstick.
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The episode culminates in the relaunch of Leslie's floundering campaign as she, her friends, and a three-legged dog fall all over one another to the music of Gloria Estefan — peak TV slapstick.
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Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit next month.
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The eighth Republican presidential debate of the 2016 campaign — and the last one before the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday — began with a slapstick offstage candidate pile-up and generally devolved from there.
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The slapstick and parody are here, sure, but so is a voice cast that seems utterly committed to the tone of the game, as well as a script that is unusually quick and clever.
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It isn't the only company to treat release notes as performance art — Tumblr, Trello, Slack, and Yelp are among the companies that routinely infuse their updates with short stories, topical humor, and assorted slapstick.
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Mr. Waititi likes to play with types of comedy, but he's partial to modest exaggeration, whether he's putting the joke across with slapstick, songs, caricature, lovingly deployed insults or a flurry of tableaulike images.
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That slapstick is hardly stinted: The production, running through Saturday at the packed-to-the-gills Muse warehouse in Bushwick, Brooklyn, makes much hilarity, for one thing, of men scrambling for pink nun habits.
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"It does seem a shame" that Stephen Chow's "exhilarating, bizarre, good-hearted, blatantly obvious sci-fi-fantasy-slapstick eco-fable isn't getting wider fanfare," Glenn Kenny wrote in The Times about this Asian blockbuster.
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JOE COSCARELLI Lizzo — like her labelmate and fellow blink-and-you'll-miss-it "Hustlers" cameo-maker Cardi B — definitely loves a little Lucille Ball slapstick, especially on social media and in between songs onstage.
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Despite the Mariners' slapstick play and a 6-1 lead after one inning, Girardi did not remain content: In the third inning, he ended up being ejected for the second time in four games.
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So instead of creating more slapstick comedies, such as "The Flinstones" and "Tom and Jerry," studios doubled down on shows about world domination, spies thanks to the James Bond craze, superheroes and space exploration.
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Some of these are obvious: A triangle "freezes" the action, forcing the players to sit still; a kick drum and a slapstick, cracking like a torture device, cut the action to a different scene.
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The spirit of the cartoon's slapstick is still alive and well (there's an ice cream–toting turtle servant), but the comic's overarching story might make it the most emotionally moving book of the year.
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Sing is less a movie and more a relentless slapstick-y and occasionally sentimental music video aimed at kids, who will beg to watch it on loop until parents beg for a return to Frozen.
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James' performance has a tinge of slapstick to it: Jack can and will kill someone with his bare hands, but he'll top it all off with a silly trick to impress his charge. Ta-da!
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In the case of The Body, Davis and Fisher deliver some of the key elements of an exploitation film — namely, a handful of gory murders — between scenes that balance gruesome slapstick with high-minded philosophizing.
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Billed as "the world's foremost authority" and nicknamed "professor," Corey was known for delivering quirky one-liners and slapstick routines as a wild-haired, faux professor dressed in a beat-up tuxedo and spaghetti tie.
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She's peddling empowerment of a kind, as is this movie, gleefully silly froth that Ms. McCarthy sells with slapstick, you-go-girl uplift and a Kewpie doll smile that's one twitch short of pure madness.
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It has a kind of slapstick charm to it: There's the newly escaped and bechipped Spike trying to bite Willow, only to suffer from some performance issues; there's Xander and Harmony's slow-motion slap fight.
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Parents on Common Sense Media have written about the slapstick humor being borderline content for their kids, argued episodes have mildly sexually suggestive content, and the language might not be appropriate for anyone under 10.
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Here, in the midst of mile-a-minute verbal acrobatics and slow-burn slapstick, those eyes register a dimension of sadness — of hunger, of hurt and defiant pride — that the film itself doesn't really explore.
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Theater Will Eno's two-character mélange of mordant philosophy, slapstick comedy and ample tear-jerking, which Ben Brantley described as a "glowingly dark, profoundly moving new play," will make its final exit on April 2.
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More than any of his Korean contemporaries, however, Bong has consistently defied categorization, with seven films that snake across the borders that normally separate creature features from family tragedies from grim procedurals from slapstick comedies.
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" The synchronization with music and narrative is evident in "Something Wild" (21987), a "really screwball" comedy, as Pauline Kael of The New Yorker described it, that "breaks conventions and turns into a scary slapstick thriller.
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The slapstick humor, the punchlines, and the recurring bits (like the way "Heil Hitler" is used ad nauseam and becomes a nonsensical greeting) are constantly jolting the audience awake, underlining the absurdity of what's onscreen.
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A truck driver grumping about permissiveness appears like a humorous aside, and an archive clip of a protester smashing a pie into the face of the anti-gay activist Anita Bryant transforms intolerance into slapstick.
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With Angie Tribeca, TBS is betting big on the combined star power of Rashida Jones and co-creators Steve Carell and Nancy Walls, as well as nostalgia for the broader, slapstick-ier comedies of yore.
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But the other reason is because no two artists were as skilled at making music that was really fucking fun to play at a party, that leaned so far into dumb jokes and slapstick humor.
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The scene showcases the bright tone and slapstick humor of the much-anticipated animated feature, and though it has absolutely nothing to do with Venom, it's totally fun and worth sitting through the credits to see.
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The show, which debuted on Comedy Central in 2014 after years as a cult web series, ushered in a brand of humor that was slapstick and bawdy while also being deeply compassionate toward its two stars.
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The show's most distinctive, slapstick running joke imagines the border battle as a Looney Tunes cartoon, where the roadrunner is a coyote: El Coyote, a wily immigrant smuggler who frustrates Bud's elaborate attempts to capture him.
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Hellboy, starring Stranger Things daddy David Harbour, looks like it's going to contain a hell of a lot of monsters for Hellboy and friends to fight against as well as a decent helping of slapstick comedy.
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When he clowned around, hiding his skill at pratfalls and slapstick behind wide-eyed alarm, his audience seemed to open up to God, releasing pent-up emotions and becoming like children in faith, hope and love.
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Carrera was recently featured in "Vampirella: A XXX Parody," a Brazzers Halloween offering about a vampire who'd rather suck cock than blood, a perfect example of the often slapstick, bizarre nature of some holiday porn storylines.
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Income: $11 million Smosh, started by comedy duo Ian Hecox and Anthony Padilla, was one of the first YouTube sensations, becoming well known for the duo's slapstick comedy videos that parodied video games and pop culture.
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"The Good Place," whose finale airs Thursday night on NBC, is a slapstick survey of moral philosophy that places its faith not in a higher power (or a lower one) but in human culture and creation.
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One of the highlights of House House's Untitled Goose Game, the "slapstick-stealth-sandbox" game in which you play a terrible goose wreaking havoc in a lovely English village, is the adaptive soundtrack of Debussy's Preludes.
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Almost slapstick mismanagement by Viacom — cleaving off a lucrative TV business, firing the horror maestro Jason Blum, missing the opportunity to buy Marvel Entertainment, describing Steven Spielberg as "completely immaterial" — has left Paramount on life support.
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Dipping into Tribeca's Technicolor world of slapstick for a quick shot of absurdism can be a whole lot of fun, but being enveloped by it just feels like you're drowning in a comedian's wacky fever dream.
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He was at his best with characters that were a little naive, clumsy or slow-witted, and especially when teamed with straight man Harvey Korman and given the chance to show off his improvisational and slapstick skills.
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Ford emphasizes that both Kavanaugh and Judge seemed to have no inkling of the seriousness of what they were doing, and the story ends with the slapstick note of Judge knocking them all into an ungainly heap.
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And once the moment finally arrives, it's accompanied by a wonderful little moment of slapstick, as the long-awaited tumble into bed is accompanied by an accidental head bonk that makes Claire fear Jamie's broken her nose.
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The art of clowning The whole point of events like SECA is to help aspiring clowns hone their slapstick skills, refine their characters and most importantly, develop the ability to modulate their act based on crowd response.
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"It's going to be like that movie 'Planes,Trains & Automobiles' and we're preparing for what we call a 'Summer of Hell,'" Cuomo said, referring to the 225 movie about a simple trip home becoming a slapstick ordeal.
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" After their much-publicized split in 1956, Lewis made a name for himself as a director and star of broad slapstick comedies -- movies like "The Nutty Professor" (remade starring Eddie Murphy in the 1990s) and "The Bellboy.
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Elevator Repair Service, best known for "Gatz," its six-hour take on "The Great Gatsby," returns to the Public with "Measure for Measure," infusing Shakespeare's jaundiced parable with—of all things—Marx Brothers-style slapstick (Sept. 18).
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Nick's wife, Elizabeth, played in a livid slapstick by Mare Winningham, has settled into a half-awake state of dementia: she shouts nonsense or shares ecstatic snatches from a quickly fading past, then dispenses eerily lucid judgments.
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I hope that people will use this, we've seen people go from a toy, where they make characters punch each other, to slapstick humor and then to more sophisticated humor where they're poking fun at the Oscars.
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Slapstick, farce, satire — all these involve laughing at people who are slipping on a banana peel, or knocking their teeth in, or sitting down on a chair that isn't there to find themselves splayed on the floor.
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Sometimes "Venom," directed by Ruben Fleischer, feels like a David Cronenberg body-horror movie (like "Rabid" or "The Fly") played for slapstick, as when Venom compels Eddie to climb into a lobster tank at a chic restaurant.
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There are tear-splashed melodramas like Alice Guy Blaché's "The Ocean Waif" (219), but also slapstick comedies like Mabel Normand's "Caught in a Cabaret," starring Charlie Chaplin (21920), and Lois Weber and Phillips Smalley's thriller "Suspense" (1913).
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The film turns a hockey goon into an everyman golf superstar, turns a top golfer into an insecure villain of the highest order and manages to be touching among all the teenage-boy humor and slapstick gags.
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Comprising Afro-Caribbean stilt dancing, European slapstick, Peking Opera acrobatics and more, the performance takes place on board a Brooklyn site that used to travel, too: the Lehigh Valley Railroad Barge No. 79, a converted 1914 vessel.
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Not only is 30 Rock's fake film a sly parody of Carrey's particular brand of feel-good slapstick, it's also silly, hyperbolic, and a pitch-perfect parody of the treacly holiday movies that leap day never gets.
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Reilly isn't given much to work with here either, and is left trying to get additional mileage from listless scenes that subject Dr. Watson to all sorts of comedic torment (be it emotional neglect or mean-spirited slapstick).
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For those who had not played Jazzpunk previously, and shame on you, the game is a colourful slapstick story of spycraft and espionage, brimmed with visual gags and nonsense highly inspired by films like Naked Gun, Hot Shots!
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But if Grand Theft Auto always had a good sense of humor, Saints Row is straight up slapstick, with vehicles that spray poop out of a hose and a dubstep gun that makes enemies dance before they die.
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This sort of humor, usually based around slapstick, derives itself from the unusual or unexpected results of mechanical interactions, and as such is usually driven by the game's systems, rather than directly by the hand of its designers.
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There are echoes, also, of Death Becomes Her, and the anarchic slapstick that transpires between a group of characters—like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, or Laurel and Hardy—that can be wounded but never killed.
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A MINUS Swet Shop Boys: Sufi La (Customs) Starting with the consciously rowdy joking around on his 16 of the album- and we hope show-opening "Anthem," this EP's slapstick vibe loosens up meaning and matures Riz's rapping.
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"Puppet" is a word that can conjure pure silliness and slapstick, but the work of the Czech filmmaker Jiri Trnka (pronounced YIR-zhee TURN-kah), a pioneer in puppet animation, is sophisticated, elegant, intricately beautiful and occasionally dark.
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"Stan & Ollie" has plenty of both — the classic slapstick, the sweetly zany song-and-dance routines — as it follows the legendary duo through variety halls in 1953 Britain while the men try to jump-start their stalled careers.
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Despite its minimal trappings, Mr. Lensing's production is resolutely traditional in the sharp focus it places on the highly disciplined cast, whose emotionally and physically raw performances careen from wild slapstick humor to downright cruelty to genuine pathos.
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Liam Neeson, Zoe Kazan, Tom Waits, James Franco, Tyne Daly and Tim Blake Nelson (among others) play an assortment of archetypal Old West characters in an omnibus film that runs the gamut from romance to thriller to slapstick.
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A credible version may emphasize the otherworldly charm of its fairyland, the pomp and politics of its nobles, the romantic melee of its lovers or the slapstick antics of its "mechanicals" rehearsing their play — or some combination thereof.
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It's a more polished take on the slapstick demolition-derby energy of his debut, "The Creator," one of last year's most preposterously engaging albums, full of quasi-nonsensical, punk space-rap redolent of the early, rowdy Beastie Boys.
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Mack Sennett, the pioneer of slapstick comedy, would have appreciated the movie's clumsy cops, frantic car chases and baroque crashes — not least the spectacle of Pedro forgetting to put his car in reverse and ramming a parked truck.
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The second trailer for the new animated film from Laika, the studio behind the Oscar-nominated 2016 "Kubo and the Two Strings," can't seem to decide if it's selling a slapstick farce or a more high-minded adventure.
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But the film is overstuffed with unfunny self-parodying gore slapstick, half-felt sentimentality and semi-meta sci-fi — characters mention "Inception" and "Back to the Future," just to let you know that they know that we know.
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But the screenplay also feels like it's been smoothed out into a happy ending to please a broad audience, instead of something that matches the biting comedy of Snatched's first half hour, which promised satire instead of slapstick.
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Hitman 2 is a game about killing, and IO has mastered the tone required to turn the game industry's most transparent murder simulator into something simultaneously grizzly and silly, like a cross between a slapstick comedy and Final Destination.
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Midler (who at the time had two Oscar noms and three Grammys to her name) is clearly having a blast in the role, sinking her fake teeth into every line and veering effortlessly between wicked humor and slapstick rage.
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While the game is usually about heroes and villains, slapstick performances and narrative fairytales, the threat of docked points suddenly adds an overblown emotional resonance to proceedings and makes the theatre of any given situation that much more profound.
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Elsewhere their fragments remain fragments, with no loss of humor: "I Need Help Immediately" is a disjointed compilation of studio comedy sound effects, pasting together snippets of canned applause, slapstick boings, junk saxophone, snare drums, flute, and triangle clicks.
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There's an inherent slapstick to Half-Life 2; Gordon Freeman is this mute Jacques Tati of video games whose only interactions with the world involve hitting things with a crowbar, firing his gun, and solving seesaw-based physics puzzles.
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In the 17 years I've known him, Aaron's always been a stoic viewer—unless he's sighing in exasperation at children who have been placed in convoluted peril or giggling uncontrollably at someone taking a slapstick shot to the crotch.
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The laughs come in jolts and waves in "The Death of Stalin," delivered in a brilliantly arranged mix of savage one-liners, lacerating dialogue and perfectly timed slapstick that wouldn't be out of place in a Three Stooges bit.
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Past the inevitable meet-cute, the scene builds to a sight-gag in which all the dispensing machines open at once precipitating a free food riot worthy of slapstick masters like Mack Sennett or Blake Edwards: Something for nothing!
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Many of them look less like old curiosities than lost classics, and their range — from the surreal slapstick of "The Drunken Mattress," to the domestic melodrama of "Falling Leaves," to the social satire of "Consequences of Feminism" — is astonishing.
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The critics loved both her and the show — Brooks Atkinson of The New York Times praised her as "an agile and humorous actress who is not afraid of slapstick and who can sing enchantingly" — and so did the public.
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But when the game enters its final act, you'll be treated with that rarest of gaming moments: a sincere "what the f*ck?" spectacle, a jaw-dropping hybrid of body horror and slapstick that you'll feel, fittingly enough, inside.
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It's refreshing as well that she's portrayed by Bloom, who has a regular, untoned body—not fat but "British nanny" busty, to quote Heather—which she uses for slapstick humiliation and also for being sexy, with no apparent contradiction.
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The gags that felt right to us were typically very low-stakes and elemental, like any good slapstick bit—we never really wanted to get much more ambitious than pulling a chair away from someone as they're sitting down.
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There are moments of out-and-out slapstick, as the two investigators try various off-the-book methods to crack the case, and there are moments when the film considers this deepening tragedy with the full weight it deserves.
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While second-guessing the marketing strategies of movie conglomerates is happily not the concern of this reviewer, it does seem a shame that this exhilarating, bizarre, good-hearted, blatantly obvious sci-fi-fantasy-slapstick eco-fable isn't getting wider fanfare.
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Drawing inspiration from The Simpsons, Mad magazine, and Wes Anderson movies, Arrested Development in the early going was a visual and aural marvel, with sight gags, puns, double-entendres, callbacks, and slapstick shtick filling nearly every second of screen time.
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In the new comedy What Men Want, Taraji P. Henson plays a high-stakes sports agent who, after a slapstick-y mishap, gains the power to hear the inner thoughts of the men (and only the men) in her immediate vicinity.
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I can see why you don't like John falling down three flights of stairs and then walking it off… but the scene where he falls down three flights of stairs is directed like a slapstick comedy, and it's a hoot.
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During a scene in which Kenney overhears his father lamenting his son's path in life, his friend Chevy Chase (Joel McHale) gets up to pour himself a drink and immediately collapses on the sideboard, breaking everything in true slapstick fashion.
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Not only was the cast given the freedom to work on their characters and do improvisations to make them their own, but "Revenge of the Nerds" became a cult classic with legions of fans still watching the slapstick comedy today.
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The original comic book series and '90s animated show poked fun at classic superhero stories, and going by the trailer, it looks like Amazon's version is going to rely on slapstick and Serafinowicz's goofy superhero baritone for most of its laughs.
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I realize saying that something in a movie about talking fish is "unbelievable" is stupid, but the scene—played for broader slapstick than you'll like—is indicative of the willingness of this sequel to cut more corners than the original.
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Mr. Black, a veteran screenwriter who also directed "Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang" and "Iron Man 3," has a knack for slapstick anarchy, and the best bits of "The Nice Guys" arrive when someone tries to do something cool and fails miserably.
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" According to her bio on the gallery's website, the London-based artist is focused on comedy and "stages interventions, stunts, experiments, and games within the landscape to create slapstick scenarios that the artist feels to have emotional and political potential.
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While the sex scandal grabbed the attention of the nation, so, too, did Ms. Schaaf's slapstick succession of leadership changes — she announced the departure of three chiefs in less than two weeks — that culminated with an empty seat at the top.
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The actor she reminded me of most was Robert Downey, Jr., another black-humored clown with a special gift for combining slapstick with sexiness, and also someone who, like Lyonne, pours all of his characters into himself, instead of vice versa.
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Whether luchadors are literally slapping each other on the chest, or poking each other in the eyes, or acting cartoonishly shell-shocked from a hit, there's a level of silly slapstick to the event that reassures everyone of its unseriousness.
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Brian Truitt, USA Today: It's zany to a fault, though: The adventure leans hard into the campy Flash Gordon vibe and slapstick humor, so much so that when the third act save-the-world stuff comes, it doesn't feel completely earned.
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It separates the first half—which hews closer to the first film's horror-comedy formula—from the borderline self-parodic second half, in which the Gremlins' antics take on a slapstick quality that was far less present the first time around.
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The two one-hour offerings presented by Theater for a New Audience posit and then set out to prove — the first in slapstick form, the second in a kind of TED Talk — that laughter is a predictable, reproducible, inescapable reflex.
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It spawned an ovular, turquoise creature with the word "LOW" written on its back, and a red "carpet monster" with a long, pink tongue and bulging eyes sticking out from under its fringe; both can be found lurking in Slapstick.
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Penny Marshall, the nasal-voiced co-star of the slapstick sitcom "Laverne & Shirley" and later the chronically self-deprecating director of hit films like "Big" and "A League of Their Own," died on Monday at her home in Los Angeles.
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That film was, he said, a series of Looney Tunes shorts about the character Jack Sparrow, as though he were Bugs Bunny transplanted into our reality, made to look like Johnny Depp, but subjected to the same old slapstick shit.
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One of 2019's unlikeliest underground-music breakthroughs has been 100 gecs, the duo of Dylan Brady and Laura Les, who make high-energy, quasi-slapstick, genre-jumbling electro-pop with shards of screamo, dubstep, glitch and big-room club music.
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That being said, as a cast, we watched [Howard Hawks's 1938 comedy classic] Bringing Up Baby, and that was really important for us to be able to understand the level of slapstick that Autumn [de Wilde] wanted in our film.
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The beasts give him a reason for being — while the story's turns give him a nice workout — but he doesn't come across as meaningfully burdened; mostly he engages in slapstick nonsense and goes doe-eyed at an ally (Katherine Waterston).
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By using recognizable landmarks like high-spouting Mecom Fountain and ostentatious River Oaks, by drawing upon the social conditions of the metro area, by bringing slapstick to Houston's six historic wards, McMurtry has bestowed lasting honor on the flood-prone city.
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When "Sweet Charity" opened on Broadway, in 1966, it was a sensation, both because of Verdon—she was subtle even in her slapstick, like the great early screen comediennes, such as ZaSu Pitts—and because of Fosse's choreography and staging.
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Just watch: From the look of it, the movie is a CG-crazed version of The African Queen, with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson playing Bogart and Emily Blunt doing some kind of Buster Keaton-level slapstick gags with a ladder.
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Set it what looks like the early 20th century, Jungle Cruise sees Blunt the explorer employing the help of Johnson the river cruise operator to delve into the Amazon rainforest with all the Disney charm, adventure, and slapstick you'd expect.
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A lot of longtime "Twin Peaks" fans seem frustrated that one of the series's most beloved characters has had his personality wiped clean; and they're finding his slapstick fumbling through the Las Vegas suburbs and office parks tedious and unfunny.
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Neither lasted beyond its first season, but Mr. Henry more successfully plumbed the television veins of satire and slapstick on "Saturday Night Live," on which he was a guest host 10 times during the show's early years, from 1976 to 1980.
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In Britain, pantos are beloved Christmas staples delighting children and adults alike thanks to a cartoonish mix of slapstick, drag, clowning, recycled pop songs, groan-inducing puns and active audience participation; suggestive double entendres are also included for the parents' benefit.
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One of my favorite sections of the book is where he talks about violence and slapstick comedy on the show—and about what a big fan he was of, say, Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy.
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Refinery29 was able to steal the actress from set to catch up over the phone and hear more about The Mick, going from The Night Of to near-slapstick comedy, and how proud she is of her former co-star, Riz Ahmed.
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Woody's signature rag doll slapstick comedy is in full swing, from the cowboy flailing atop an angry cat running in circles, to getting his face stepped on by Bonnie's dad, to flinging his limbs every which way to keep Forky in check.
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The Simpsons After a streak of bad luck with cats of several different colors, Lisa found a cat companion in Snowball V. Perhaps the least troublesome member of the Simpsons family, Snowball V isn't a showboat, but a master of subtle slapstick humor.
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In 19940, after forming his ska-punk band Skankin' Pickle, he started Dill Records as a means to release the band's music and, within a few years, he'd do the same for like-minded acts such as Less Than Jake and Slapstick.
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David Edelstein, Vulture: I won't spoil any of the setpieces but will note the existence of one showstopper: a slapstick sequence in which baby Jack-Jack is provoked by a raccoon (they are provocative creatures) into exercising his powers for the first time.
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The primary architects of the Convergence, a pair of siblings Jeff calls the Stenmark twins, hold a kind of slapstick seminar on their project; it plays like the Marx Brothers doing a TED talk with the mind-body philosophers Paul and Patricia Churchland.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads In a pitch perfect moment of slapstick, Scarlet, the protagonist of Carol Leigh's 1980 play "The Adventures of Scarlet Harlot," gathers the courage to inform her mother of her occupation — to come out, as it were.
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His videos flirted not only with the exaggerated telenovela style but also with classic LatAm comedies, like the frenetic variety show Sabado Gigante and the 303s Mexican sitcom El Chavo del Ocho, a slapstick series about a group of kids in housing projects.
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Her plots for increasingly escalating levels of cacophony while sipping "martimmys" were constantly comically foiled, but there was always a new caper just around the corner with just the right combination of sinister and slapstick to keep the audience on their toes.
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A video game gun can facilitate any kind of narrative, from the slapstick gore of DOOM, Hitman, or Gears of War to the ostensibly realistic grit of a Ghost Recon Wildlands, PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, or any number of Call of Duty and Battlefield games.
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Tarantino was manifestly miffed at the temerity some black writers displayed in questioning his aptitude and ability to address the trauma of African-American slavery in Django Unchained (2012), a gaudy, oft-surreal mélange of intense, baroquely-conceived violence and slapstick comedy.
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Recut clip of "The MacBook Accident" featuring another of Herscher's machines The slapstick disasters Jiwi unwittingly creates in the series aren't always far off from Herscher's real experiences, which include a time where boiling acetone almost set fire to his last apartment.
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The slapstick comedy, in which a company of hapless actors makes a disastrous attempt to stage a 1920s murder mystery, is coming to Broadway next year, beginning previews March 9 and opening on April 2 at the Lyceum Theater, the producers said Monday.
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Taylor-Joy is a great match for the role, which required her to perform with almost slapstick comic timing as well as pull off romantic scenes with The Crown actor Johnny Flynn, who plays Emma's best frenemy and main love interest, Mr. Knightley.
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The film is part blood-spattered horror flick, part slapstick comedy, part rom-com, part ode to Lupita Nyong'o, and part viral clip of Kids Say the Darndest Things — Little Monsters has a bit of everything and a whole lot of heart.
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On the way to the finale, Cats requires audiences to sit through slapstick numbers by Rebel Wilson and James Cordon (both playing cats whose main traits are their weight and laziness) and deeply serious dirge-like songs sung by Dench and McKellen.
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The show rarely let crimes spiral out of control, opting instead to tell slapstick stories about Jake saving the day or bored precinct receptionist Gina (Chelsea Peretti) pulling a solution out of thin air as Captain Holt (Braugher) nodded with taciturn approval.
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The Justice League was reimagined as a slapstick comedy title, Green Arrow became a dark mature readers title where the hero never even used his codename, and Animal Man went on a metaphysical journey that culminates in him literally discovering he's a comic character.
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For a man who wanted little else but to blend in, his credits reveal a lifetime of exploitation to greater or lesser extents—as a brute, a faceless villain, or worst of all, as the butt of slapstick jokes mocking him for his size.
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The mix of slapstick, situational humor, and heartfelt affection (or sometimes winking homoeroticism) that usually powers the buddy comedy is best suited for lighthearted ruminations on the nature of friendship, often between men; it isn't typically deployed in the service of broader social commentary.
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From the irreverent, slapstick humor and gorgeous, jaw-dropping visuals (Vice Admiral Holdo's sacrifice, I'm looking at you) to the thoughtful rethink of the Jedi mythos Star Wars fans have taken for granted, Last Jedi boldly steps away from the rest of the franchise.
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And yet British talk show host Alison Hammond managed to do just that in spectacular fashion, making the two laugh so hard that the morning show segment they were filming become a series of slapstick outtakes instead of a collection of the usual soundbites.
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Even the kids in attendance during an advance screening seemed notably antsy, perhaps because of the semi-arid stretches between the big slapstick and vaguely naughty sight gags that the gibberish-spouting Minions in particular provide, including a peculiar foray that lands them in prison.
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Unlike in "Bird," the main white character here is not a savior but a source of slapstick humor, less the filter through which we are supposed to understand Miles's genius and more a character who ultimately misreads Miles's silence as failure rather than creative process.
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Directed by Holly Kristina Goldstein, it is a would-be slapstick comedy about laughing at pain — a favorite pastime of Morley (Goldie Flavelle), a nasty 15-year-old whose father sends a sad clown named Tad (Harrison Scott) to amuse her in her convalescence.
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While the Monty Python-esque organisational slapstick of the tour might have been avoided, the appalling weather conditions are part and parcel of the Chinese summer, and could have been predicted by anyone with access to an iPhone weather app, or indeed the internet.
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A comic genius, Lucy used slapstick and crocodile tears to combat her husband's machismo — and when you look at how Latina actors in her position are still forced to play stereotypes of the docile wife or the sexy spitfire, that still looks radical today.
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It's tough being a hitmaker who isn't weighed down by corporate expectations, but for a while, Mr. Gunn does a pretty good job of keeping the whole thing reasonably fizzy, starting with an opener that winks at the audience with big bangs and slapstick.
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"The violence inside swerves from slapstick to bloodshed and back, producing a volatile blend of humor and horror that pays tribute to the source material while coloring its themes with the director's distinctively perverse and humane sensibility," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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With its acoustic guitar licks, its reclined beat, and a slapstick music video (in which he robs Halsey's house?) that looks like something a 22019s pop-punk band would have done, "Phone Numbers" is a satisfying jam about getting famous and cutting people out.
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The mockumentary-cum-comedy, which follows Cohen's hapless Kazakhstani reporter alter ego Borat Sagdiyev on a caustic and absurd odyssey through the US, produced some objectively stupid gross-out jokes and slapstick and birthed a thousand oft-repeated (and occasionally problematic) copycat attempts and memes.
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For Charles (who briefly put on eyeglasses to read his program) and Camilla, who are great lovers of musical hall-style and slapstick humor, there was also a lot of laughter to the comedy sketches from the graduates of the Welsh College of Music and Drama.
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Sure, they did a few SLAPSTICK things, like pies in the face, being knocked into a canal during the Fish-Slapping Dance and maybe the Ministry of Silly Walks if you really want to count that, but their genre is really satire and surreal sketch comedy.
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The misadventures of Paddington 2 range from silly and slapstick-y (Paddington accidentally shaves off a guy's hair) to whimsical and Wes Anderson-y (there's a sequence involving a makeshift hot-air balloon) to laugh-out-loud funny (we'll leave those surprises for you to discover).
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The sights, the sounds, the smells, the colors, the tastes, you have to embrace the alien; listen to the crazy Thai music on FM radio, laugh at the slapstick humor in Thai TV shows and read old Thai novels (my favorite is "Many Lives" by Kukrit Pramoj).
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SpotMini, first unveiled in June 2016, started out as a giraffe-looking chore bot that was pretty terrible at performing tasks around the house, and, in one short clip, hilariously ate it on a cluster of banana peels like a character straight out of a slapstick cartoon.
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Despite the films' marketing, which emphasizes the title character's outrageousness, the series leans far more heavily on pop culture references, superhero genre in-jokes, and Looney-Tunes-with-gore slapstick for humor, rather than anything overtly "edgy" or "un-PC" — uncomfortably mean-spirited jokes are relatively rare.
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In my interview with him, on top of discussing the future of his Trump mimicry, Stone talked about why slapstick adult humor is necessary at a time like this, and even took a guess at what type of porn he imagines our new president likes to watch.
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Beauty and the Beast's affection for oddness allows for more humor, too, changing some of the original's earnest laughs into something a little more cringe-adjacent, while enhancing moments of slapstick comedy, like a snowball fight between the diminutive Watson and Stevens's hulking, CGI-enhanced Beast.
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Fights can be funny—like when a fight in a hotel room devolves into bottle-smashing slapstick set to "Baby Got Back, " or when the foreign object matchup is a fishing rod versus a sledgehammer —or frustrating to the point of being funny, but never fun.
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Her performance has an element of slapstick, and Taibi Magar, the play's director, makes smart comic use of her, as she does of the rest of the strong ensemble cast, playing up the quick, humorous volleys of Rosebrock's script without letting us lose sight of Alison's pain.
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But there were enough of these mishaps to seize the imagination, fixing in popular consciousness the image of a bed that could snap you up in its jaws as you slept, a dark Freudian joke that silent-movie comedians turned into a staple of slapstick farce.
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It has gone from being a variety of ways to tickle a person — real life, funny because it's true, ironic funny, deadpan funny, parody funny, no-duh funny, slapstick, farce, absurdity, pratfalls, a real variety — to merely, glumly reflecting what a terrible world this has become.
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His grasp of low comedy is equally impressive — with the playwright Richard Bean, Hytner reconceptualized Goldoni's 1746 comedy, "The Servant of Two Masters," as "One Man, Two Guvnors," a star vehicle for a dazzling James Corden set in 1960s Brighton, incorporating slapstick, farce and a skiffle band.
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The movie fits an old trope of children's shows in which two nemeses (like Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny, or Tom and Jerry) face off, often with slapstick violence in the form of explosions, high-speed crashes or falling anvils.
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The Dick Van Dyke Show's strange dual structure — half set at Rob Petrie's workplace, half at home — wouldn't have worked without a strong personality to bounce off of at home, and Moore could more than hold her own against her slapstick legend of a co-star.
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While Canadian Bacon hasn't aged amazingly—there's a lot of bad slapstick comedy and zany sound effects—Brooklyn-based comedian Slade Sohmer pointed out on Twitter that the film's plot is remarkably similar to what's happening with Trump's recent targeting of Canada for a trade war.
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Teams of two play increasingly elaborate versions of the hit mobile game from developer King — trading smartphones for touchscreens the size of sports club bouldering walls — in the hopes that slapstick antics and goofy personalities can somehow make a match-3 game feel competitive and interesting to watch.
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Their first moment of solidarity is slapstick — they belt out Wicked's "Defying Gravity" while a dead rapist decomposes in the trunk of Ophelia's car — but pointed: These are not superheroines, they're flawed young women navigating a brutal, entrenched system of expectations and assumptions perpetuated by men and women alike.
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Such a group no doubt includes the creators and writers of the smartly stupid TBS show Angie Tribeca, which in its first season has proved to be a slapstick-crammed, happily groan-provoking cop-comedy with a high BPM (buffoonery-per-minute) ratio and a low-key sweetness.
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Related: 'Toy Story 4' cashes in on the ageless aspect of animation It's almost a cliché to talk about Disney/Pixar movies operating on parallel planes, delighting kids with their bright visuals and broad slapstick and moving adults with the depth and emotion they bring to these characters.
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A quintessentially Aardman-esque stew of slapstick, homage, and wordplay so wry it barely (but always) misses being groan-worthy, Early Man is a gentle and modest reflection on how we have, from the very beginning, always needed to treat one another with kindness in order to survive.
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Gone was the slapstick silliness of most children's cartoons, in were sprawling sagas full of drama, character development, and overblown fight scenes in which planets were destroyed by colorful heroes; and villains were as dedicated to hurting each other as they were to excruciatingly long pre-fight dialogue.
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Mr. Kapadia's "Amy" uses extensive amateur video footage culled from a range of sources to create a painfully candid account of the British singer Amy Winehouse's rise and fall; Mr. Baker's "Tangerine" is a blithely sordid, ultimately touching slapstick comedy shot with three iPhones and a Steadicam rig.
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And implication is recognized near the end of the book as a diminished strategy of self-awareness in one of several pieces titled "Ad Copy": The mantra of The Happy End / All Welcome might be that slapstick speaks louder than words, the work imploding with what it implies.
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The seven minutes of bloopers feature your typical (but always amusing, if not downright hysterical) forgotten and flubbed lines (complete with expletive-induced reactions), as well as slapstick antics, Messing dropping cake and really enjoying smashing her face in another one, and actors making their costars laugh — a lot.
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You might be tapping on your phone's screen or yelling at a virtual assistant or swinging your arms in VR. But even though the tried-and-true keyboard may not be as important as it once was, it's still beloved — and there's a new slapstick game to prove it.
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In a year that saw some of the music world's biggest celebrities decline to attend—as Frank Ocean, Drake, Kanye West, and Justin Bieber all did—it would have been tempting to read host James Corden's slapstick pratfall as a metaphor for the state of the award show.
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He also gets slapstick-y on the line "Uh, I'm a love machine / and I won't work for nobody but you," but then he flips the idea on its head by rattling off the response—"It's only me and her cause the Bugatti a coupe"—with unflappable self-assurance.
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There's some martial arts in here, some monsters (mostly the cat), some slapstick and joking around, and some adventuring, all of which is entirely serviceable for entertaining a room full of young Lego Ninjago fans who have enjoyed the show's six seasons while not actively boring their indulgent parents.
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There are some upbeat rhythms on the album that are reminiscent of Kelly and Andriano's time together in the ska band Slapstick, some balls-out rock bangers, and even a few diss tracks aimed at fellow musicians, because what would a good collaboration be without some shit-talk?
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On paper, this creation from Nicholas Stoller and Francesca Delbanco (spouses and Harvard grads) has great potential — "at least if the paper in question is the call sheet, crammed with sharp comedy actors" — and "moments of funny slapstick and observational comedy," James Poniewozik wrote in The New York Times.
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The Host then focuses on the efforts of the Park family to recover Hyun-seo, through bickering and mishaps that recall some of the slapstick chase sequences in Bong's 2017 film Okja, which also dealt with the deleterious effects of unethical science on the animal and human kingdoms.
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That's also why President Trump's incorrect tweet warning of hurricane risk to Alabama — and the apparently hand-altered map he later displayed to justify it, and his administration's ham-handed attempt to undermine correct weather forecasts by government scientists — cannot be written off as mere Twitter slapstick gone haywire.
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Yet the characters began and ended the performance on plinths inscribed with their names: This was a staging antique and modern at once, with surreal touches of synchronized choreography, bits of slapstick and a central golden staircase rising to a golden throne, the prize everyone is climbing toward.
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Chaplin mocks plastic surgery, rock and roll, and the mercantile coarsening of daily life, but he reserves his greatest fury for McCarthyism, with a plotline about Shahdov's subpoena to testify as a suspected Communist before a government committee—which he savages by way of outrageous slapstick chaos. ♦
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Not only are the flashbacks to slapstick disasters and burgeoning affection lovely and funny in the way Fresh off the Boat does best, but they also give Jessica's final step a personal touch that shows how meaningful this moment is for her beyond the necessary fact of it.
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The agents also get to fire all kinds of weapons, including one planet-shattering gun that derives its power from a star, and at one point, they come into contact with Pawny (Kumail Nanjiani) a tiny alien with a tiny hat who serves as the movie's CGI slapstick relief.
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The slapstick is incredible, but that's only one aspect of the movie's spectacular humor: The relentlessly absurdist scene in which Liu Xuan tries to convince two police officers that he was kidnapped by a mermaid is probably the funniest thing that'll play on a screen this year, and maybe next.
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Director Ruben Fleischer and the writers elaborate on this theft, then play it straight into an impressively choreographed single-take (or, more likely, simulated single-take) slapstick zombie fight, with Eisenberg, Stone, Harrelson, and newcomer Rosario Dawson shooting and dodging through multiple rooms of a garishly decorated Elvis-themed motel.
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Sort of an environmental love story about a business tycoon who falls for a mermaid, who's just trying to infiltrate his company and murder him, it's stuck midway between a sweet Splash-style romantic comedy, a bloody slapstick murder-comedy, and the kind of gory dolphin massacre seen in The Cove.
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Canadian kids growing up in the nineties probably watched YTV, and if they did, they'll remember Short Circutz, a series of CGI cartoons that ran repeatedly from 1994 to 1996, often wedged between shows like the Wolf Larson-starring Tarzan and Bob Einstein's exhausted slapstick on The Super Dave Osborne Show.
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In Ashbery's brief piece, here republished as a preface, he notes that, sometime in the nineteen-sixties, a box containing Murray's manuscripts was lost by the men moving the poet's and her mother's papers to the Smith College archives, a nearly slapstick extension of whatever curse doomed Murray from the start.
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As Pan tells of being born to a human-seeming mother and her husband, Hermes, the messenger god, the slapstick comedy begins: The midwife is horrified by the baby's appearance and flees the premises, but Hermes is "so excited he flew right through the roof" to tell Papa Zeus the news.
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The episode, almost slapstick in its clumsiness, evoked the persistent, if mostly marginal, murmurings of some reactionaries that Benedict remains the true Pope, having been manipulated into resigning by a corrupt—and, in the most conspiratorial accounts, largely gay—Vatican bureaucracy that was fed up with his fealty to doctrine.
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The movie was directed by Showalter, whose film career has included slapstick cult classics ("Wet Hot American Summer") as well as offbeat romantic comedies ("Hello, My Name Is Doris"), and produced by Judd Apatow, who has specialized, recently, in helping almost famous comedians adapt their formative experiences into memoiristic meta-comedies.
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She wasn't afraid to get down and dirty to deliver slapstick humor as she does in She's the Man, nor did she recoil from playing the bitchy Christian antagonist in Easy A. She even tackled an iconic movie musical turned Broadway hit turned movie again, Hairspray, which is no easy feat.
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But as someone who's struggled with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) partially resulting from multiple sexual assaults (with some run-of-the-mill anxiety and depression in there, too), I am drawn to Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt probably more than the average viewer just there for the slapstick and Peeno Noir.
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An extension of trio Alex Smith, Chris Trott, and Ross Hornby's weekly GTA V output as part of the YOGSCAST network, the idea came from a collective interest in light-hearted, slapstick fare and an inability to perform stunts to the same standard as some of the online scene's dedicated crews.
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"This Unruly Mess" is neatly split between pensive moments, like "White Privilege II," and cartoonish ones, like "Brad Pitt's Cousin," in which Macklemore claims that even his cat has more Instagram followers than you, a reminder of his penchant for writing vivid, slapstick lyrics that lend themselves to music videos.
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The Host never quite reaches the highs promised by that set piece — and its seemingly random forays into slapstick humor may be jarring to viewers unaccustomed to that aspect of Korean cinema — but it remains throughout a grand, sometimes gory adventure that strikes just the right balance of creepy, startling, and totally weird.
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Looking back, those earliest episodes were uniquely special, a confirmation that Hillenburg managed to pull off that eternally enviable feat in children's programming: early SpongeBob was silly enough that children adored the animated slapstick comedy that flashed across the screen, and adults could relate to the more mundane plights of its characters.
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Under Hamilton Clancy's direction, the production lags in more slapstick moments, largely in the first half, but not for want of vigor: The presence of David Sitler, as the blustery Dogberry, and the wiry "Shrew" alumnus Jarrod Bates (covering for Joe Clancy on Thursday as the Boy and the Messenger) were especially welcome.
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The Maitlands' awkward fight to come to terms with their own deaths in Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands' alien-doll attempts to become a real boy, Ed Wood striving to create art in spite of his complete lack of talent — they all had real pathos to go with the wacky humor and frantic slapstick.
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"Sarah Lucas: Au Naturel," the first U.S. retrospective of the British artist, takes its title from a sculpture she made in 1994: two oranges and a cucumber placed on a mattress next to a pair of melons and a water bucket for a slapstick-Surrealist take on a male and a female nude.
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Somewhere between a playmate, an affable uncle or grandpa, and a fairy godfather, Rogers's slow and compassionate approach to children's television ran counter to what we typically expect of TV shows for kids; there are no bright, flashy, fast-moving cartoons or slapstick humor in his neighborhood, just simple, direct conversation and storytelling.
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Ethical questions aside, "Bewitched" is a marvel of tonal balancing: The Xander A-plot is slapstick and funny with a core of heartbreak, and the subplot of Angel musing on the perfect Valentine's Day gift for Buffy keeps the menace and subtle horror of the season's central plot running through the background.
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Others involved with the movie have over the years given different explanations for the changed ending, but in any case the airborne pies were replaced with the now familiar montage of nuclear explosions (set to Vera Lynn's rendition of the song "We'll Meet Again"), an unsettling ending instead of a slapstick one.
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What was billed as a "techno set" at the Carolina Theater gave the Berlin-based electronic duo Mouse on Mars (with a guest rapper, Spank Rock) the opportunity to stack up frenetic beats and riffs, then gleefully knock them around with aural slapstick: wobbling pitches, goofy sound effects, sudden swerves and skids.
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