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They focus on slapstick humour, with Schneider saying he wanted to be "a human cartoon".

This sinister development is described alongside a good deal of slapstick humour.

Slapstick humour doesn't have to be stupid and tacky, though.

The stories were notable for puns and slapstick humour, which often broke the fourth wall.

Movies still included slapstick humour and other physical comedy, but these were now frequently supplemental to the verbal interaction.

The stories feature slapstick humour, offset by dashes of sophisticated satire and political or cultural commentary.

They employ slapstick humour, alternate identities and a combination of comedy and melodrama.

No blood, no gore, just loads of slapstick humour and a little bit of looking at life from a different, playful perspective.

The strip featured slapstick humour most of all (spankings are frequent) but emphasizes the tender and conspiratorial relationship between the two.

In the play, Shaw uses slapstick humour, verbal wit and physical humour to portray his themes.

A generally nonsensical genre of play, farces are often overacted and often involve slapstick humour.

His work was whimsical and engaging and relied heavily upon themes of Americana and slapstick humour.

Being children's programming, the explanations used humour to convey information and frequently involved demonstrations which degenerated into slapstick humour.

Their style tended towards the humorous, often irreverent or slapstick humour, with the exceptions of Loom and The Dig.

The stories within the Tintin series always feature slapstick humour, accompanied in later albums by sophisticated satire, and political and cultural commentary.

His slapstick humour has led to comparisons with Norman Wisdom, though Evans does not regard Wisdom as an influence.

The Fools' Guild is a trading and training organisation for clowns, jesters and other practitioners of slapstick humour.

There were no books at all in his parents' home, but there were always comics, his formative literature, and their slapstick humour has been a lasting influence.

We are all in the business of making people laugh - and in Carry On films there is only one way to do that - good old slapstick humour.'

Jackie Chan reinvented the martial arts film genre with a new emphasis on elaborate dangerous stunts and slapstick humour, beginning with Project A (1983).

Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand describes how jumping to conclusions, along with the technique slapstick humour, can be used to create comedy.

Minnitt drew a beaming and bouncy Bunter, which at first followed Chapman's style, then later branched into a style of his own, concentrating on slapstick humour.

Familiar concepts from anarchic children's programmes were present, such as slapstick humour featuring custard pies and gunge as visual punchlines, and a healthy disrespect towards authority.

However, Kang's brilliant music was overshadowed by his obnoxious TV image as a comedian who used foul language, impersonation and slapstick humour as a means to win the audience's heart.

He is known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio.

Though it never sold, their slapstick humor was in great demand on television programs looking to fill air space.

So what makes the show amusing, apart from the unintended slapstick humor?

Her stories also involved a considerable amount of slapstick humor and domestic comedy.

He laughs at the gentle slapstick humor of the puppets.

He may be after blues seriousness or slapstick humor.

They focus on slapstick humour, with Schneider saying he wanted to be "a human cartoon".

This sinister development is described alongside a good deal of slapstick humour.

If the work has a lightness and a quiet slapstick humor, it lacks gravity.

Slapstick humour doesn't have to be stupid and tacky, though.

Moyer soon wrote many other scenes involving similar slapstick humor and developed them into a story.

The show featured slapstick humor and pop culture references.

All this is handled with almost slapstick humor.

Even advertisers - and agencies - known for slapstick humor or powerful surprises are likely to avoid images of death.

In the earlier version of the play, this interplay became the source of some slapstick humor.

He is often a source of slapstick humor and often accidentally injures himself.

The stories were notable for puns and slapstick humour, which often broke the fourth wall.

Chaplin improvised the scripts that were given to him by adding slapstick humor.

His adventures were known for their quirky, offbeat structure and surreal slapstick humor.

It features less horror and more frivolity than the first film, often resorting to slapstick humor.

He is particularly wary of the idiosyncratic Japanese television scene, with its emphasis on slapstick humor and embarrassment.

The scene has the slapstick humor of a cartoon, with an important difference that distinguishes black comedy from its harmless relatives.

Aside of its obvious slapstick humor, the show sometimes tried to address common social situations present in Puerto Rico.