Word: slapstick
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...courting the girls, O’Neill and Erlich are a huge success. Every male audience member relates to their slapstick antics in attempting to nab the older woman. The girls, on the other hand, convey not only frustration with boys but come close to objectifying them in their Sex and the City approach to relationships...
...slapstick run of the show this morning where we played the entire thing for laughs for two hours, and it was wonderful.... I think there are moments in the text that are explicitly funny moments... Even the saddest have a twinge of irony...
...result was Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, a movie in which Toons and humans interact with decidedly PG results. Here, live-action detectives fire cowardly cartoon bullets, and voluptuous cartoon women try to seduce live-action men. Children enjoyed its slapstick, adults enjoyed its more mature humor and all marveled at the smooth blend of actors and Toons. The entire entertainment industry was forced to reassess their ideas about how animation should be done, and for whom...
...Cambridge stopover frequent references to Harvard’s Progressive Student Labor Movement (PSLM) occupation of the President’s office last spring and lighter slapstick comedy entertained approximately 100 marchers...
...even though Roth gets all the credit for being funny, Pynchon is funnier, finding the joke in much harder places than doing an American Pie with a piece of liver. In Mason and Dixon--written entirely in 18th century English, not an easy patois for slapstick--Ben Franklin gives people electric shocks as a bar trick, and George Washington gets high on the hemp from his own farm and speaks Yiddish. In Gravity's Rainbow, Tyrone Slothrop engages in a Malcolm X-assisted dive into a jazz-club toilet bowl that puts Trainspotting to shame...