Word: slapstickers
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...NBCTV) undertakes the strenuous job of parodying the antics of daytime TV. Wearing a pitch helmet and waving a cigar, Funnyman Ernie Kovacs does a take-off on a weather reporter, plugs a nonexistent beer called Lost (for the sake of the slogan: "Get Lost!"). More slapstick than satire, the show, unsponsored for obvious reasons, winds up sounding dangerously close to the real thing...
Classical comedy is light, dry, and witty. Pi Eta's "Doctor" is lusty, raw, slapstick, and a tremendous lot of fun sometimes. There are those, of course, who prefer Moliere...
Happily for the audience, the low comedy scenes are far and away the most successful phase of the current production. In this play they are more than a mere concession to the groundlings; they are the height of Shakespeare's achievement in slapstick comedy. There is much room left for comic interpretation, and the H. D. C. makes the most of its freedom. At least the Pit at Fogg Court thought...
...doing so, however, the classical players tend occasionally to slip into some pretty low slapstick, For example a slave shows he is annoyed at his master by blowing his nose in his hand and snapping his wrist towards...
...script sacrifices them all to Hope's aggressive pursuit of anything for a laugh, from trip-hammer wisecracks to all-out slapstick. Since almost anything he does gets a laugh, none but the most stubborn Runyon fans should mind. Best scene: Hope trying to sneak the clothes off a department-store manikin without attracting attention from the crowd outside the window...