Word: horseplaying
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...horseplay of the corrode stands on its own feet and night have been better handled by a comedian less typed than Benny and more suited to the role. Sans Rochester, sans his usual gags, Benny with much enthusiasm and little natural ability does an acceptable job. But he personally, has been funnier in other pictures; and, funny as "Charley's Aunt" is, it has been more hilariously produced with a less pretentious cast...
...Deering & Alexander Kirkland). In this foolish little item a group of ambitious young theatre people impersonate a group of ambitious young theatre people trying to interest the producer who lives downstairs. By the time they have acted a burlesque crime play for him, there have been more accidents and horseplay than there are at an American Legion convention. There are dozens of laughs for easy laughers. Sample: "An opportunity like that, and he didn't goose her!-he's in love." Sounder chuckles come when the producer (Reynolds Evans), a solemn amateur chef, rapturously breathes out his formula...
...Flying Gerardos (by Kenyon Nicholson & Charles Robinson, produced by Edward Choate) consists of amiable horseplay about -a crisis which strikes a trapeze act while they are quartered in a horse doctor's house during a Brooklyn carnival run. A spindly graduate student of Columbia University falls in love with the troupe's ingenue and she threatens to quit the act for culture and her bookworm, which would deprive the brainless aerialists of their most attractive piece of ignorance...
...West scene like that which marked the peak of "My Little Chickadee." Closest to a really uproarious sequence is the capture of bank bandits Repulsive Grogan and Filthy McSnatch by the paunchy recluse of the Black Pussy Cafe. Thereby W.C. becomes local constable and straight Grade B Mack Sennett horseplay drags on and on. Saloon melees and a frantic automobile pursuit over mountain goat paths give the bulbous-nosed comedian a chance to display all his old along with a very few new tricks...
...radio hour called Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge, wows his audience with a white cap & gown, a bouncing, frenzied jig he performs in front of the orchestra, an irresistible flow of puns, sly glances at his audience to let them know they are in on the horseplay. His slogan, "Yet's dance, chillun, yet's dance," is the signal for his equally rambunctious musicians to don unbecoming hats and wigs, toot their instruments in a spirit of buffoonery. That this form of entertainment would reach the screen was as inevitable as bad weather...