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I never really understood his appeal, except as a valued piece of British comedy history; I've always found physical comedy about as funny as being slapped in the face or, indeed, watching someone else being slapped in the face.
Several young companies are in action this week: Simple8 premieres its adaptation of Moby Dick at the Arcola, Little Soldier's physical comedy about old age and dementia, You and Me, is at the Blue Elephant, and Whole Hog's staging of Hayao Miyazaki's animated movie, Princess Mononoke, is at the New Diorama.
David Stubbs What slowly becomes clear in ChuckleVision – a 289-episode physical comedy about two brothers passing things to one another repeatedly – is that Paul and Barry Chuckle aren't alive and corporeal like you and I, but are in fact dead, trapped in a slapstick purgatory of their own making, doomed to get a broomhandle shoved down the sleeves of their shellsuits, for ever.
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I spoke to Eric over the phone about physical comedy, season 2 of his show and accompanying tour, plus his notoriously insane birthday parties.
Check out Tony Zhou's excellent video essay about why Jackie Chan's physical comedy will never get old, even if he does, below.
Mel Brooks gets at the core appeal of physical comedy with his famous dictum about the difference between tragedy and comedy: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
But at his workshop last weekend, the first of the festival, the lessons of physical comedy came in philosophical statements about nonattachment, stillness and staying in the present.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet Mel Brooks gets at the core appeal of physical comedy with his famous dictum about the difference between tragedy and comedy: "Tragedy is when I cut my finger.
Williams thrived in the unpretentious environment, and by the time he ventured north to the Laugh Factory he had learned to use physical comedy (to illustrate a story about sex, he might tip over his stool and ride it like a mechanical bull) and an outlandish persona (he once arrived at a club accompanied by a manservant) to make sure that audiences remembered him.
The show mixes physical comedy, noisy cooking and a story about a race to prepare a wedding banquet.
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