Slapstick humour

Bog Butter

I just thought I would list my favourite comedy titles, which are of the slapstick kind; the ones I like the most! And also my favourite comedy actors. Maybe you have a few more to add?

Blues Brothers
Planes Trains…
The Police Academy films
The Hot Shots films
The Naked Gun films
Wayne’s World 1,2
Life of Brian
National Lampoons...
Airplane
Cadyshack
Dumb and Dumber
Liar Liar
Groundhog Day
Faulty Towers
The Man Who Knew Too Little.

My favourite comdey actors:

Bill Murray, Lesley Neilson, Chevy Chase, Jim Carrey, John Cleese

Ann22

Life of Brian
The Holy Grail
Anchorman
Talledega Nights
Elf
Multiplicity
Scary Movies 1,3 and 4
The Hot Chick
Uncle Buck
Planes, trains..
The Man With Two Brains
Anything with Laurel and Hardy
Liar Liar
Ace Ventura films have grown on me too.

I like Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin, the Monty Python crew and many more I can't think of.

Galvasean

If you're a fan of the Naked Gun try Police squad (TV series that Naked Gun is based on) and Loaded Weapon One.

I also like Mel Brook's stuff particularly Robin Hood: Men In Tights and Dracula: Dead and Loving It

ronnie3585

I love The Producers. Gene Wilder's 'blue blanket' scene is superb;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfMgUkuftLI

Some of my favourite slapstick films are Dumb and Dumber, Caddyshack, A Fish Called Wanda and Blazing Saddles to name but a few.

User45701

Blues brothers?

what does slapstick mean?

i would have thought old style comedy like someone slipping on a bananna - actually that never gets old.

But would blues brothers be slapstick? i thought the likes of dumb and dumber was slapstick?

That_Guy

I'm not sure how you would define slapstick to be honest. I would've said that some of Chaplin's movies would be of the slapstick nature. Some of the new toss they call "comedy" is atrocious.

Bog Butter

It probably is open to interpretation. Maybe Blues Bro's is not slapstick I don't know.

Ann22

I don't think the films the op and myself listed really come under the category of 'slapstick'. Wikipedia says Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated extreme physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a brick wall. These hyperbolic depictions are often found in children's cartoons and light film comedies aimed at younger audiences. Though the term is often used pejoratively, the performance of slapstick comedy requires exquisite timing and skillful execution

That_Guy

Ann22 wrote: »

the performance of slapstick comedy requires exquisite timing and skillful execution

Chaplin FTW!!

Ann22

And Harold Lloyd, you never see him on now at all. Years ago they ran a season of his old silents in the evenings, they were deadly.

That_Guy

Ann22 wrote: »

And Harold Lloyd, you never see him on now at all. Years ago they ran a season of his old silents in the evenings, they were deadly.

Harold Lloyd is a legend.

This is my favourite from him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulMQzB-_9yw

Ann22

Aw that was cool. There was another one I remember where he was on a barge on a canal I think and there was an escaped convict chasing him. He took his boots off and put them on a little monkey who marched around upstairs. This distracted the convict so Harold could hide downstairs. It was dead funny - the wee size of the monkey with the big boots on him:D. There was another one where he got his feet wet. He thought he was going to catch pneumonia. All I remember is all these dead bodies lying around and him trying to find a pair of shoes among them that'd fit him. It was funny to watch 'cos he was fitting them on, walking off and the shoes would be left behind as they were too big, funny when it's all speeded up.

That_Guy

Ann22 wrote: »

Aw that was cool. There was another one I remember where he was on a barge on a canal I think and there was an escaped convict chasing him. He took his boots off and put them on a little monkey who marched around upstairs. This distracted the convict so Harold could hide downstairs. It was dead funny - the wee size of the monkey with the big boots on him:D. There was another one where he got his feet wet. He thought he was going to catch pneumonia. All I remember is all these dead bodies lying around and him trying to find a pair of shoes among them that'd fit him. It was funny to watch 'cos he was fitting them on, walking off and the shoes would be left behind as they were too big, funny when it's all speeded up.

Sounds pretty good. Gonna have a look and see if I can find them on youtube.

JP Liz

I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks

That_Guy

JP Liz wrote: »

I'm a big fan of Mel Brooks

Who isn't?

BlitzKrieg

Ann22 wrote: »

I don't think the films the op and myself listed really come under the category of 'slapstick'. Wikipedia says Slapstick is a type of comedy involving exaggerated extreme physical violence or activities which exceed the boundaries of common sense, such as a character being hit in the face with a heavy frying pan or running into a brick wall. These hyperbolic depictions are often found in children's cartoons and light film comedies aimed at younger audiences. Though the term is often used pejoratively, the performance of slapstick comedy requires exquisite timing and skillful execution

I always assumed slapstick is comedy where they dont ground the comedy in any sense of reality. Much like the crap that gets shovelled with scary movie/epic movie etc etc.