Tumbling, however, was no such primary-school farce.
A success with the teen crowd was the broad US high-school farce Private School (1983), in which Kristel plays a sex education teacher called Ms Regina Copoletta, an example of the level of its humour.
The film, directed by Kay Cannon (it's her first feature), has a premise of classic simplicity that relies on the themes of old-school farce and the narrowly conventional moralism that traditional comedy lampoons.
They contained tales of popular heroes, legend and folklore, jests, reports of notorious crimes, ballads, almanacs, nursery rhymes, school lessons, farces, biblical tales, dream lore, and other popular matter.
I look forward to his next play, by which time, I hope, he'll have gone to farce school and learned its golden rule: when you're skating on thin ice, safety lies in speed.
Sharon Horgan and Graham Linehan's school run-based farce Motherland (pictured above), which piloted on BBC2 in September, returns for a series, while more middle-aged mayhem comes courtesy of Mitchell and Webb, who are rookie pub owners in new C4 sitcom Back.
He labeled Hepburn's performance "breathless, senseless, and terribly, terribly fatiguing", and added, "If you've never been to the movies, Bringing Up Baby will be new to you - a zany-ridden product of the goofy-farce school.
In February 1894 the pair appeared together in a school production of the farce Sent to the Tower.
The big joke, repeated endlessly (and sometimes wittily) in Adam Sandler vehicles, school-of-Apatow farces and up-from-mumblecore slackfests is that guys can reject all the traditional trappings of maturity — jobs, manners, hygiene — and that girls will sleep with them anyway.
