Word: slapstick
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...operas learn to write comedy? Perhaps from his grandfather, Humorist Robert Benchley, or from his father, Novelist Nathaniel, or even from the exasperating Johnson (Lyndon, not Samuel), for whom young Peter once worked as a White House speechwriter. In any case, this Benchley's latest effort contains some memorable slapstick. When Burnham splits his pants on the way to his first audience with the President, he solves the problem with his desktop stapler, leading to some hilariously complicated results. And the novel offers an impudent phrase or two. A pair of White House aides in a hallway ''looked at each...
...think things having to do with comedy just change, and it's so subjective. What makes one person laugh will definitely not make another laugh, and I don't think there's any one universally funny thing. That's why there are so many different veins of comedy. Slapstick has been around forever, gross out humor, stoner humor, drier stuff, romantic comedy, there are all sorts of different kinds of things that appeal to different people, which I think is great. There's a little bit of something for everybody...
...courtesy of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals,” soured the show. Dressed in an outrageous swan tutu, Mueller pranced around, idiotically parodying the “Swan Lake” clichés. It was an entirely pointless moment of slapstick comedy that needlessly cheapened the previous half. “Contra Finem” was the first actual performance of the second half. Set to a live cello Brahms piece, Schreier’s modern choreography was complex, compelling, and absolutely stunning. The dancers lived up to the difficult choreography with a beautiful blend of angularity and fluidity.This...
...anecdote, but that’s just the problem: many of Handey’s jokes would be funnier acted out and audibly articulated, because sometimes his humor becomes a little too dark and a little too bizarre for the page. Without live action, the text’s slapstick aspects tend to fall flat. In addition, the pathetic characters Handey utilizes in his pieces are given no human side, and their transparecy and one-sidedness can make the jokes just a little too cruel. And yet Handey is able to mine everything for humor—even the prospect...
...part of human nature. Violence is a part of us all—except Bosley Crowther,” he said, referring to the New York Times critic who denounced “Bonnie and Clyde” as a “cheap piece of bald-faced slapstick comedy” remarkable only for its pointless violence and lack of taste. Penn reacted against critics such as Crowther who, during America’s military engagement in Vietnam, deemed the brutal undertones of his films irrelevant. He also expressed admiration for the young people who tore up their draft...