Word: slapstickers
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...Waltz, Funnyman Sellers has put his talent on a turkey that, on closer examination, proves to be a plucked peacock. As a play-written by France's Jean Anouilh and played on Broadway by Sir Ralph Richardson and Mildred Natwick-it was a brilliantly dressy slapstick satire: a show most wise and cruel when it seemed most raucous and extravagant. As a screenplay-written by Wolf Mankowitz and directed by John Guillermin-Anouilh's fine-feathered strutter has been saponified, caponified, shorn of its more splendid plumes of wit and stuffed with a mighty chunk of supererogatory...
...original that they are hilarious. With the visual aspect of motion pictures offering so much, one wonders why writers try so hard to work clever lines into modern day comedy. When the silent picture comedies - obviously built around the visual aspect - gave way to the talkies, the devices of slapstick, film speed-up and character expression still lent the most to the humor that was involved...
Clitandre's servant Lubin is played by Robin Ramsay quite legitimately as a Harlequin, complete with the customary white-face and diamond-patch costume. Making frequent use of a real slapstick in hand, he cavorts about with unflagging athleticism, and also functions as the troupe's impresario. With matching costume, Susan Baldwin makes his opposite number, Angelique's servant Claudine, into a sort of Colombine: she needs to convey more of the character's cleverness...
...comedy series starring slapstick artists, notably the Wiere Brothers...
...comedy team of Olsen & Johnson, a rollicksome, rubber-faced wag who in 47 years in vaudeville never let a custard pie go unthrown and grew rich, together with Straight Man "Ole" Olsen (currently touring in Europe), by endlessly repeating their zany show, Hellzapoppin, a unique blend of slapstick and what O & J christened "gonk," which they defined as "hokum with raisins in it"; of a kidney ailment; in Las Vegas...