With its mix of vaudeville slapstick and Kafka-like anxiety, the novel is unlike anything that came before.
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Their shows were a boozy, honky-tonk circus featuring great songwriting, wonderful musical improvisation and, best of all, slapstick comedy.
In the 1980s, acrobatic Jackie Chan restored the fun by adding slapstick and hit-the-rewind-button stunts, performed without a double.
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All of the lessons are delivered with slapstick humor and wacky props, like giant hands made out of foam and silk.
Such a surrealistic notion could have easily swept the novella into further regions of fantasy, to weird situations or slapstick humor.
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No winks, no nudges, no slapstick: Every scene is played for truth.
Actually that case is quite funny and entertaining due to the strutting peacock nature of this guy, Al Armendariz and his slapstick screw-ups.
The occasional touches of slapstick don't work very well, but otherwise it's played straight down the center, ending with a sensational fight scene.
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Meanwhile Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton, the couple behind "Little Miss Sunshine" shot a slow-motion short on slapstick stunts from the silent era.
Chan is credited with creating a new film art form, with his comedic take on martial arts, reminiscent of Buster Keaton's slapstick style.
This is a very enjoyable mish-mash of genres, from space opera to slapstick to adventure story to kung fu story to farce to satire.
Amidst the sight-gags, the slapstick (often literally), the absurd moments and hilarious quips, there is a scene that is transcendently important and deeply affecting.
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The American's slapstick-style YouTube clips see him using wooden clubs to pound pumpkins and eggplants, drawing more than a million hits as of Tuesday.
In contrast to their comedy predecessors, who favored sketches and slapstick, younger comedians in this nation of 200 million are embracing stand-up, as are their audiences.
Only the size of the opening explosive and the number of good actors stuck in nothing parts distinguish this slapstick cop movie from brain-dead episodic television.
In trying to introduce a new generation to the slapstick art of the Three Stooges, directors and co-writers Bobby and Peter Farrelly do it the hard way.
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The US version of The Office is a kinder, gentler thing, with more slapstick laughs and more relief for the audience from the forensic dissection of life amongst the grey partition walls.
She immediately made a name for herself with feisty, witty pieces that marry vibrant choreography with allusions to the everyday, the urban, the familiar: slapstick crossed with pert questions about sexuality.
The classic works of Ernst Lubitsch, Howard Hawks and Preston Sturges married witty verbal banter with lowbrow physical slapstick, finding their focus in the battle of the sexes and making a mockery of the puritanical Production Code.
"We always like to do stuff at Pixar where kids are going to laugh because we have funny shapes and slapstick, and adults are going to appreciate it because it's also playing on their level, " Mr. Gerson said.
Aside from a few attempts to ape silent-slapstick style, the director of this sprawling bio-pic, Richard Attenborough, and the screenwriters (William Boyd, Bryan Forbes, and William Goldman, working from a story by Diana Hawkins), do their job like crammers.
But the director, Randall Miller, and a cadre of screenwriters (John Semper and Cynthia Friedlob did the script from a story by Michael Swerdlck, Wayne Rice, and Richard Breene), come up with little more than brutal slapstick and up-to-the-minute slang.
Ms. SHERMAN: And it was very rewarding to see that even though maybe children under 10 had never seen a performance because of the Taliban, if you do things that are the same kind of slapstick comedy that you would do here, kids will laugh.
The bloated remake, produced for an international market, forsakes subtlety, never mind irony, in favor of consumerist fantasy (Georgia exults in the excesses of her luxury hotel), slapstick action (James Bond meets Mack Sennett as Georgia gets her first snowboarding lesson) and ham-handed social criticism (Georgia gives her company's CEO his comeuppance).
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