The Rough Guide to Comedy Movies 1 by Rough Guides

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The tough consultant to Comedy videos uncovers cinema''s funniest and so much diverse style, from silent slapstick, to 90s gross-out and the darkish indie humour of this day. The canon of 50 maximum funnies runs from The Gold Rush and Duck Soup to plane and Shaun of the useless, plus double-acts, drag-acts and ensembles from Laurel & Hardy and the Marx Bros, to the Pythons and the Coen Brothers. looking for the flicks that experience amused humans the main - or just amused the main humans - the tough advisor grants the final word lowdown on laughter within the videos from Wes Anderson''s Rushmore to Withnail and that i, and from John Belushi to Billy Wilder.

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Billy Wilder may well have been spinning in his grave. Ten Commandments (1956). Not a lot of laughs there. The comedy equivalent was offered by a new breed of all-star, globe-trotting comedy, including Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) with David Niven heading up a stellar cast that also included Shirley MacLaine, Buster Keaton, FILM COMEDY: THE COMEDY STORY Ava Gardner, John Gielgud, Frank Sinatra, Peter Lorre and Noël Coward. Some directors, meanwhile, were breaking with tradition and pushing their own limits.

Brooding stars such as Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift and, later, James Dean brought a psychological angst to their work, while writers like Paddy Chayefsky – who originally started writing TV 31 FILM COMEDY: THE COMEDY STORY What a drag The notion of men playing women, which dates back to medieval times, reached its apogee on the Elizabethan stage, when all roles were played by men and teenage boys in costume and corsets (a tradition touched on in both John Madden’s 1998 Oscar-winner Shakespeare in Love and Richard Eyre’s Stage Beauty from 2005).

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), with the help of Paul Newman and Robert Redford, injected humour back into the Western, while, over in the UK, the satirical Oh! What A Lovely War (1969), Richard Attenborough’s directorial debut, dished up pacifism with cynicism. In a lighter vein, Barbra Streisand emerged to remind the world that despite the advancements in youth culture, America still liked nothing more than a good old-fashioned Broadway musical, courtesy of her sprightly turn as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968).

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