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For those who do not know there is a chaplins comedy club in Michigan On Groesbeck connected to a bowling alley named FountainView Lanes where famous comedians like Dave Coulier and Frank Coliendo hav...
Recently found a script from Comedy of Murders and am wondering what it is worth
In the Richard Meryman interview with Charlie in LIFE mag in the 1960s, Charlie talks about a comedy he was working on: an unrealized comedy that I haven't heard about anywhere else. I wonder if ...
... YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN was funny, but the reason why I'd nominate A&C MEET FRANKENSTEIN as the best comedy-horror is becuz YF never really had horror. The monster there was a buffoon and not ser...
You are completely right about Charley Chase here. His comedy shorts were one of the springboards that eventually became television's situation comedy. Had he lived, I am sure that he would have ...
Finally a comedian with respect for classic comedy
Um, the gold rush has a comedy scene in which charlie as the tramp is eating a boot.
you should see it!
laurel and hard comedy big business had sanford as the blubbering cop
In the USA it is on 'When Comedy Was King' a DVD from a 1960 compilation. In Europe it's very hard to get. In my country the Netherlands not for sale.Mmmmhhh........
...the same time I think that's very sad. THE CIRCUS does have some of the best sequences found in film comedy, I agree. Oh, how can I forget, the ending tears me up.
I think CITY LIGHTS is his ...
Hawkes was a great admirer of Chaplin, but I'm not sure why he felt he had to turn _Don Q_ into a comedy. It's generally regarded as a comic masterpiece.
[I tried posting this before, bu...
.... I just bought (but haven't connected yet)
I remember from my childhood a series called "Comedy Keepers". Ever heard of it?...
...states (on page 79) that Zanuck was involved with '...both writing and overseeing the Sydney Chaplin comedy hit 'The Better 'Ole.' Zanuck's production was deemed 'a comed...
I remember back in the 70's, PBS had a series called 'The Silent Comedy Film Festival.' They used this music during EASY STREET and THE IMMIGRANT. I remember Adolph Green was guest for ...
...s thinking that, without being overtly Chaplinesque, Benigni does display many wonderful elements of film comedy that I thought were just gone forever.
(and a warning... for those of you who might...
...s acknowledgement. It's a lot better than Chevy Chase, who admits to disliking 'black and white comedy', dismissing it all as 'another era entirely.' But then Chevy pretty muc...
...yson in one of 'the Boys' features also, but the title escapes at the moment. Ask around at alt.comedy.laurel-hardy.
Lars Gunnar...
...ted with it as a film, though I understand why people like the music. There was a passably good screwball comedy in there somewhere trying to get out, but it didn't quite make it. Cargill (and hi...
...enigni's THE MONSTER?
Actually, I haven't seen the MONSTER, but all I know is that it was a comedy about a killer.
Did anyone here see both?
~ Crooner...
Sandra Rancifer
Actually, Sandra, this is the essense of the Chaplin humor. He would use this type of comedy throughout his films.
It's the Look-Normal-Despite-Your-Embarassment gag.
...
...eem like such a serious bunch.)
I'm waiting for someone to use CC's quote against me: 'Comedy is a serious business.'
~ Crooner...
... two of the others. They pair up quite nicely, too. Dean can drink with Fields, Chaplin and Fields can do comedy, Chaplin and Martin can sing Smile together. Anything else?
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...ived but it contains some nice bits. You can see some of them in Paul Killiam's THE CLOWN PRINCES OF COMEDY or in the Killiam compilation feature, SLAPSTICK ( which is a triple pairing of Killiam...
...Marlon Brando. Haven't seen him yet.'
Not very revealing. Williams was an English character/comedy actor known for his acidic wit and tortured life - he killed himself in 1988. This enco...
...10, 1923, obviously referring to Chaplin and Pola Negri:
'It is rumored the engagement of a film comedy star to a foreign luminary of the cinema drama may soon be off. At a party given in Hol...
...ement of these films better than virtually any other writer.
He also wrote a book called _Tragedy and Comedy_ which is similarly accessible, prepared a wonderful acting version of Aristophanes...
...on of his canon on those inferior plays, be my guest. Rather like describing Shakespeare in terms of _The Comedy of Errors_, don't you think?
But in fact I think you're just another flam...
...accidents, was the discovery of the custard pie. The coming of the custard pie gave an added dimension to comedy and entailed a complete revision of the comic standards of the time. Henceforward whene...
...he theater has been advertising some of the screenings as 'Summertime Kids Matinees from the King of Comedy.'
And it was great to see and hear kids laughing.
If anyone is interested ...
... and is universally recognized.
times in this scene. It does not subvert the scene only heightens the comedy, bringing the audience in to sympathise with Charley.
That's easy, he was Chap...
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