Slapstick and Screwball Comedy
Slapstick comedy has been around a long time and will probably always remain in some form. Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin and the Keystone Kops were making people laugh in slapstick comedies well before there was even sound in movies. Sometimes referred to as physical comedy slapstick involves characters in silly and often frenetic … Keep Reading → circumstances. Slapstick comedy treats violence in an almost comic book like manner. Violent acts may take place, but we don’t see any kind of suffering. Some other early pioneers of the slapstick form were the Marx Brothers, Laurel and Hardy, and the Three Stooges. Many of the films of Jim Carey represent modern versions of the classic slapstick form. The screwball comedy is a version of slapstick that is often focused on absurd romantic circumstances. An example of this is the movie Noises Off.
