Word: comical
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...play each other?CM: If it were a sitcom no one would watch it!JW: She would get Hugh Laurie to play me.CM: He’s right. Hugh Laurie is best known now for doing “House”, but he used to be a comic actor. One thing that people don’t know about James is that he literally falls up stairs. So a British comic actor with a sense of physical comedy would work well.JW: This is tough. Maybe Julia Davis, 20 years ago?15. FM: Obviously, you two are absurdly talented individuals...
...Artist of the Year, Aykroyd acted as afternoon emcee and infused humor into the show through comic commentary...
...shout "Mel-vin!"? Would he, bearing in mind how he's been scorned by mainstream U.S. critics but revered in the pages of Cahiers du Cinema, give his acceptance speech entirely in French? Would he lecture the Academy because it cited him for his humanitarian efforts and not his comic genius...
...They worked literally nose to nose: Jerry would snuggle into Dean's shoulder; Dean would flick his cigarette ashes in Jerry's mouth (and lick Jer's face). It was primal therapy on the 12-inch screen, stripping bare a volatile marriage in all its grotesque intimacy - a bizarre comic display of love and resentment. No way it could last. In 1956, 10 years to the day after they had first paid, Martin and Lewis split, In a decade of famous divorces, this was the most seismic...
...director, Lewis put on film some of the most complex comic constructions - The Ladies' Man's open, multi-story set, The Bellboy's plot-ignoring series of sight gags (with Jer as the unspeaking hotel employee) - since the early masterpieces of Buster Keaton. Where Lewis went wrong was in also trying to be Charlie Chaplin: laying on the ennobling sentiment, but with a trowel. What the movies lacked was an audience interlocutor; without a figure like Dean Martin, viewers could laugh at Jerry but not always root...