Slapstick films involve aggressive, physical and visual action, including harmless or painless cruelty and violence, horseplay, and often vulgar sight gags.

Slapstick martial arts films became a mainstay of Hong Kong action cinema through the work of Jackie Chan among others.

In 2004, Dan became a member of The Falcon, a supergroup of sorts consisting of The Lawrence Arms ' bassist Brendan Kelly, previously of Slapstick ( alongside Dan ) and The Broadways, and drummer Neil Hennessy.

Slapstick humor often relies more on an action and comical reaction instead of an actual punchline, but a pie in the face or pratfall can still work as a comical conclusion to a premise.

I have called it " Slapstick " because it is grotesque, situational poetry -- like the slapstick film comedies, especially those of Laurel and Hardy, of long ago.

Slapstick film, one-liner joke, observational humor are forms of comedy which have developed since the early days of jesters and traveling minstrels.

Slapstick elements are also frequently present ( such as the numerous pratfalls Henry Fonda takes in The Lady Eve ).

Slapstick films are a type of comedy film that employ slapstick comedy with six main conventions:

It has been established that at some point prior to Justice and Firestar leaving the New Warriors to become Avengers, Slapstick and Ultra Girl are made official members of the Warriors and given communicators, after helping the team stop a Badoon invasion.

Slapstick and other Camp Hammond members are sent out as crowd control when the Hulk and his Warbound crew leads an attack on New York.

Objects stored in these pockets are apparently undetectable by conventional means ; for example, Slapstick carried his New Warriors communicator, left forgotten in a pants pocket, into Camp Hammond without any of the base's security measures detecting it.

Slapstick, one of the earliest forms of comedy, poked fun at physical mishap, usually in practical jokes, accidents and water soakings.

Slapstick ( The Three Stooges is an excellent example of this kind of comedy ) was popular in the earliest silent films, since they didn't need sound to be effective, and they were popular with non-English speaking audiences.

Slapstick often required exquisite timing and well-honed performance skills.

Slapstick is a type of broad, physical comedy involving exaggerated, boisterous actions ( e. g. a pie in the face ), farce, violence and activities which may exceed the boundaries of common sense.

Slapstick is also common inTom and Jerry and Looney TunesMerrie Melodies.

Slapstick continues to maintain a presence in modern comedy that draws upon its lineage, running in film from Buster Keaton and Louis de Funès to Mel Brooks to the Jackass movies to the Farrelly Brothers, and in live performance from Weber & Fields to Jackie Gleason to Rowan Atkinson.

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Other shows included Who is Sylvia ( 1967 ) and Slapstick and Old Lace ( 1971 ), but it was The Worker ( 1965 to 1970 ) that gained most acclaim.

This was followed shortly after by the departure of Rob Doran, after which Dan Andriano, former singer of Asian Man Records band Tuesday and bassist for Slapstick, took his place and they began recording.

Stemming from Andriano's previous bands, Slapstick and Tuesday, other artists in this family tree include: The Broadways, The Lawrence Arms, The Honor System, Smoking Popes ( Rob Kellenberger from Slapstick, Tuesday and Smoking Popes side project Duvall briefly played drums for part of the Popes reunion tour before being replaced due to scheduling differences.

A subsidiary landing, Operation Slapstick, was also made on 9 September at the Italian naval base of Taranto by the British 1st Airborne Division.

A subsidiary landing, Operation Slapstick, was also made on the same day at the Italian naval base of Taranto by the British 1st Airborne Division, landed directly into the port from warships.

Slapstick humor pervaded the afterpiece, including cream pies to the face, inflated bladders, and on-stage fireworks.

During the late 1970s, Akira Kamiya, Tōru Furuya and Toshio Furukawa were the first to unite into a band, Slapstick, and perform live.

Kino International released two Charley Chase DVD volumes in 2004 and 2005 for their Slapstick Symposium series.

In September the 4th, 5th and 6th Battalions ( 2nd Parachute Brigade ) and the 10th, 11th and 156th Battalions ( 4th Parachute Brigade ) took part in Operation Slapstick a landing from the sea near the port of Taranto in Italy.

Slapstick elements include ; the trip, the slip, the double take, the collide, the fall ( faint ) and the roar.

The bulk of the movie consists of a succession of comedy sketches, one liner jokes and visual gags.

The series is noted for its comic-book references and visual " sight gags " relating to the genre.

Once the series was established, the creators quickly dropped the idea and instead turned the show into a surreal sitcom, with humor derived from intentionally incoherent plots and absurd visual gags.

Although the scripts required approval by CBS executives, Kricfalusi insisted that the artists add visual gags as they drew.

He found the presence of an audience distracting, and those in the seats frequently did not understand some of the more elaborate visual gags and special effects, which could only be appreciated by watching studio monitors instead of the stage.

There were also several visual gags that were often repeated.

The Great Race incorporated a great many silent era visual gags, along with slapstick, double entendres, parodies, and absurdities.

Various themes recur ; notably the " Little Squelchy Things " which appear in a wide variety of guises and tend to be visual gags, though they may take part in the story ( for instance, James may trip over one ), and a constant scatter of winning lottery tickets, notes with a large sum of money on them, diamonds, gold bars, and bags with ' Vast Dosh ' written on them which James walks past yet somehow never manages to notice.

In a manner typical of Coen Brothers fare, the movie is replete with symbolism, visual gags, unconventional characters, flamboyant camera work, pathos, and idiosyncratic dialogue.

Many of these " bits " are visual gags that catch people off-guard or somehow surprise them as they go about their daily business.

These few plot devices provide the basic storyline throughout the entire series, on which are hung classic farce set-ups, physical comedy and visual gags, amusingly ridiculous fake accents, a large amount of sexual innuendo, and a fast-paced running string of broad cultural clichés.

The films depicted the members in absurd situations and visual gags.

Typical to Piers Anthony's novels, the game is filled with puns and visual gags, and some knowledge of the Xanth universe is helpful ; for those players who haven't read any of the Xanth novels, an in-game ' Com-Pendium of Xanth ' is provided to the player for the majority of the game.

In the late 1980s a cartoonist, Andrew Fyfe, was added to the team, offering visual gags similar to Blackman and Tregonning's audio contributions.

For the first 20 years of its run, the characters did not age, and the strip was nominally episodic as opposed to a serial, with humor derived from visual gags and the eccentricity of the characters.

The primary traits of the cartoon's main characters were established during the run of the comic strip, even down to such visual gags as the head on Wade's inner tube having the same facial expression as Wade.

Most critics liked the visual style and gags but panned the predictable story.

Although touted as a light-hearted children's film, there are notable adult themes and gags, with elements of black comedy, emotional abuse, mental illness, bizarre visual and make up effects, gross out humor, and some profanity.

Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo is a comedy influenced by Japanese manzai humor that uses puns, double-talk, breaking of the fourth wall, non-sexualized cross-dressing, visual gags, and satirical and pop-culture references, which makes its non sequitur humor very specific to Japanese audiences.

placed a heavy emphasis on visual and physical humor, and what are known as " sight gags ", to tell a story and entertain the viewer.

Even as live-action comedy moved towards a focus on the verbal humor of Abbott and Costello and Groucho Marx, animated cartoons took up the entire range of slapstick gags, frenetic chase scenes, visual puns, and exaggerated facial expressions previously seen in silent comedies.

Throughout the cartoon he runs through a large assortment of visual gags while continuing to play the Hungarian Rhapsody.

Maxtone-Graham later commented, " It turned out that the music and the visual gags fit each other perfectly.