Knockabout Comedy

The funny man as Victim - of the bully, of the unexpected, of his own overreaching, of Fate. He Who Will Be Put Upon, to the audience's delight. A whiff of cruelty here, in the enjoyment of another's misfortune.

Tony Staveacre, Slapstick: The Illustratred Story of Knockabout Comedy

Waiting for my Chaplin and Keaton DVD collections to arrive. Sometime down the road I'll have to get some Marx Brothers, too. Thinking about seeing this movie soon, about a workaholic architect who finds a universal remote created by that evil genius Christopher Walkin.