The Farrelly brothers, who directed, take physical comedy to levels of intricacy not seen since silent movies.

NEWYORKER: Funny and Funnier

The physical comedy is vibrant but focused, and every part is sharply etched.

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Many of the scenes are brief vignettes punctuated with intentionally awkward physical comedy.

NEWYORKER: Napoleon Dynamite

In 2006, Kane played this material too broadly, overexploiting a natural gift for grotesque physical comedy: his father was a hulking deformed monster, the Guardianistas fey fools, skipping across the stage.

NEWYORKER: Dead Man Laughing

"The Door in the Floor" is not so much moving as it is stirring and commanding, and it's somewhat tentative in several spasms of physical comedy meant to relieve the seriousness.

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Critics have been slow to warm up to the show, because the pilot isn't as funny as it should be, but by the second or third episode they've been won over by the dysfunctional family's antics, which benefit from Gad's sense of musical and physical comedy.

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Krasinski is winning as the straight, clean-cut young athlete -- he's the only one who doesn't seem to be acting in quotation marks, and he's got a talent for physical comedy -- but when it comes to the crunch, when he should be wrestling with his conscience or fighting for his woman, the Bullet's simply not there.

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His show features classic physical clowning comedy and absurd visual humour and was described as "breathtakingly brilliant".

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