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I think physical comedy just has a broader audience, which worked well in silent movies and thereafter. The broadness is also why it’s considered cheap and used
by chrisdone 7y ago
I think physical comedy just has a broader audience, which worked well in silent movies and thereafter. The broadness is also why it’s considered cheap and used sparingly. It’s like shouting. As Friends went on and the writing got lazier every character was shouting all the time.
But a recent example of a well done pratfall I saw in a show mostly about dialog and editing was Modern Family (season 2) where Cameron turns to give his husband a kiss who pulls back (due to discomfort with public displays of affection, the theme of the episode) and Cameron overleans and falls head over heels over the back of the sofa quite roughly; he’s a big guy too. I laughed a lot partly in surprise because I basically never see a pratfall in comedy shows I like.
- clucas 7y agoYeah, using it sparingly is key. Tobias in Arrested Development would occasionally have pratfalls that always got me. And just yesterday I saw this video, where the physical comedy caught me off guard and had me laughing harder than I have in a long time: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwVIakdxks https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VzwVIakdxks Of course my wife was only mildly amused, and she loves Oh Hello. No accounting for taste in humor, I suppose.
- LIV2 7y ago"We shan't be telling your mother this, shan't we" I lost it when I saw that https://youtu.be/tt8Iwf_87eY https://youtu.be/tt8Iwf_87eY
- paulific 7y agoThe Monty Python custard pie lecture is also hilarious.
- yencabulator 7y agoPerfect example of great physical comedy with no risk of death.