Quotes About Slapstick

I'm not really big on slapstick humor. I like gentle humor.

I took a couple of classes in clowning, but that was more like Lucille Ball kind of slapstick, not Ringling Brothers. But we had to do things silently, and the teacher would do this running commentary. 'Does this make Clown sad? Oh, Clown doesn't like that, does Clown?' Always 'Clown.' Never a name.

I've always loved pure, silly slapstick comedy. It always makes me laugh.

I don't feel genres have helped me as an actor. Movies can be of any genre. But if you give me slapstick, I may not do it.

I'm all about the slapstick, generally. If you fell off it, into it, or through it, I'm probably nearby wetting myself.

Slice of life comedy is something which I enjoy more. These moments make you smile when you think about them. And these moments work for a film as well, rather than slapstick comedy.

I want to sit down, and I want to laugh. Nothing works better for me than watching somebody slip on a banana peel.

Reviews were scathing—most criticized its too-fast pacing, and overreliance on slapstick and sight gags, both of which had been intentional on Lucas's part. But Lucas brushed off the criticism. "It came out almost exactly or even better than I hoped it would come out," he told reporters defiantly.149 "I like my movies, and I'm always surprised if they do very well or do terribly. But Radioland Murders was inexpensive and we learned quite a bit.

Comedy is difficult, especially slapstick. The trick is to have fun while you are performing it.

My favorite movies were 'Singin' in the Rain' and stuff that had a more classic comedy type feel, that more slapsticky stuff. It's the comedy I've gravitated towards.

So far I have felt like a very inept slapstick performer." "Inept slapstick? Isn't that a bit redundant?

I love action movies, and I love comedy, and I love writing comedy, but the genre of action-comedy - or, at least, as it currently usually is - is just not something that I feel that compelled by, generally, because I find the action to be silly, or it's too slapstick, or the stakes feel low because people are joking in the middle of it.

the splat of pies would become a regular component of slapstick, and no one was more adept at throwing them than Arbuckle. The ambidextrous actor sometimes accurately hurled two pies in opposite directions simultaneously.

Today's lesson?" I say. "The history of slapstick." "You want me to slap you with a stick?" says Stevie.

I grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.

I loved the 'Three Stooges.' I still do - nyuk, nyuk.

I'm a big fan of American vaudeville and Hollywood silent film-era slapstick and the music halls full of ridiculous, eccentric characters.

People have very specific opinions of comedy. Slapstick was an art form in the '20s and the lowest form of show business in the '50s. Who's right, who's wrong? Who's an idiot, who's not?

Even today, people tell me that the slapstick humour in 'Friends' is the most viewed comedy track on television. Siddique knows the art of mixing slapstick with genuine humour.

For instance, a snob may claim that men dressing in drag and engaging in slapstick humor is beneath them, juvenile, base. Monty Python and the Kids in the Hall is lowbrow humor. But the same phenomena, namely, cross-dressing tomfoolery, is acceptable and high art if it's done by "The Bard.

Slap-stick comedy is really funny, unless you're the one getting slapped with the stick.

I began to think a joke was not truly good unless someone got hit for telling it.