Another Fine Comedy You’ve Gotten me Into…
Don’t you just love slapstick humour? There is just something enormously funny about seeing people doing dumb things and getting ‘hurt'as a result!!! Of course, slapstick has been around for donkey’s years and the pioneers of this genre included; Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, The Keystone Kops and The Marx Brothers. However, for me, the undisputed grand masters of early slapstick humour had to be Laurel and Hardy!
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy had an instant likeability. Their ill-fitting clothes and bumbling manner made them an overnight success and they appealed to cinemagoers of any age. Laurel and Hardy didn’t even have to do anything very much to raise a laugh from their audience because they both had such a wonderful variety of facial expressions! Everything about them is so memorable; the head-scratching, blubbering stupidity of Stan Laurel and the constant exasperation of Oliver Hardy (Humph!).
Besides, who could ever forget that famous scene of them delivering a piano to a house on a hill? If you were ever thinking about hiring removal services of this calibre, then self storage would definitely be a much better idea!
Of course, slapstick humour has never gone away and new acts continue to appear on the scene. But the antics of Laurel and Hardy still hold a particularly special charm; it is probably because their stories were so innocent and childlike. And if a bumbling duo could be so amusing without having to rely on four letter words, then you cannot help but wonder if the crudity and bad language of modern humour is actually necessary….
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