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What is Slapstick Comedy?
I've been trying to nail the tone of this comedy script I've been working on, and it feels like I'm walking a fine line. I ...
Start with the idea of “physical comedy,” which is humor derived from the motion and manipulation of bodies in space. Then, crank that understanding past 100. Welcome to slapstick!
Slapstick and other avenues of physical comedy give us a no-strings-attached way to enjoy watching people get what they deserve — or don’t deserve — in a world where the laws of physics and your local ...
Physical comedy lands best in YSU’s ‘Playboy ... Crystal Fisher and Natalie Ciccone as the village girls and Ilse Zijlstra as Widow Quin are perfect examples of that.
It was clear skies and zero turbulence when “Baggage Claim” writer-director David E. Talbert and his stars Paula Patton, Taye Diggs, Jill Scott, Adam Brody, Boris Kodjoe and others checked in ...
Why did you want to write this show? I wanted to do a family show that centred on physical comedy. It’s think it's something of a dying art. I took inspiration from people like Peter Sellers, Buster ...