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Laurel & Hardy
Laurel and Hardy's partnership at the Hal Roach studio began in 1926. Within a year of their first joint appearance, they were being touted as the new comedy team. After collaborating on many silent films, they took the transition to the talking film in stride. As their success spread throughout the world, they began making feature films as well and won an Oscar for their short subject entitled "The Music Box" (1932).
Lucille Ball
Remembered as a dizzy sitcom redhead with show business aspirations, Lucille Ball was, in fact, a show business powerhouse and television pioneer. Under contract to RKO and several small roles, she received starring roles in B-pictures and occasionally, a good role in an A-picture. Lucy met and fell madly in love with a young Cuban actor-musician named Desi Arnaz, with whom she is known for the infamous "I Love Lucy" (1951). Using 3-camera technique, they began the now standard in filming TV sitcoms, and the concept of syndicating television programs. She was also the first woman to own her own film studio.
ASSIGNMENT:
What parallels can you make between The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three-Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Lucille Ball? Make a connection from their comedic genius to those contemporary ones of today. Be sure to use a specific example. Minimum 200 words.
DUE: Friday, 3/6
Between The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three-Stooges, Laurel&Hardy, and Lucille Ball, all of these classics each impact the comedians today. Each of these classics use old-school humor and appropiate actions to convey there point of comedy across. All of these famous classics are known for there humor which influnces our comedians today. For instance, the movie Pineapple Express uses many acts of humor that are some what similar to the classic acts of the The Three Stooges and the Marx Brothers. In the movie Pineapple Express, the main character Red throws Dale over his kitchen counter getting into an argument. This connects with The Three Stooges because they use physical humor. Overall, all of these classics relate to many of the comedians and movies today.
ReplyDeleteWhen looking at the performances of The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, Laurel and Hardy, and Lucille Ball you notice the comedic element of slapstick. Slapstick is basic humor that shows up in almost every comedy nowadays. Slapstick encorporates random acts of overexaggurated and very often unecessary violence. A good example of this is seen throughout Monty Python's Flying Circus. Throughout the series random and bizarre violence is encorporated for essentially no reason. This form of comedy started with these comedians and is now a form of comedy used in almost every modern comedy.
ReplyDeleteThe performances of The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy all have a original and timeless humor that has inspired many of today's or more recent past comedies. I think alot of these performances are timeless just because of the humor incorporated that made me laugh when I did not expect too. To some many of this comedy could have been bland because the same ideas could have been incorporated in the more recent comedies such as a lot of the “dumb” humor in many movies today that was very apparent in The Three Stooges and Laurel and Hardy. A lot of comedy has the slap stick humor or humor involving the hurting or injuring others some movies at the top of my head are Happy Gilmore and how there are scenes where Happy tries to hurt Bob Barker, and a fight with a crocodile are some examples. Most comedies will have some sort of humor involving the hurting of the characters as a joke or to be a joke to the person watching the movie. Again a lot of these performances all had something very familiar in them and a little less exciting than today’s movies but I could still appreciate the humor in that it was the beginnings of today’s humor.
ReplyDeleteComedy is a touchy subject. If you try too hard, your audience loses interest. If you try too hard, your audience loses focuz. The comedians of the early and mid 20th century understood the balance comedy needed; How to make amusement last and appealing to all audiences. The Three Sooges, The Marx Brother, Laurel and Hardy and Lucille Ball were prime examples of these comedians. What made them so funny was the ability to captivate an audience at the turn of the century with slapstick humor and physical comedy. What makes them so funny, to this day is the ability to apply those acts to modern comedy. Be it a mute holding up a wall, tons of falling and slapping, or a lady getting overwhelmed by a chocolaty assembly line, their acts are timless and will captivate audiences in generations to come.
ReplyDeleteThe Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three-Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Lucille Ball a;l were incredible inspirations of comedy for all generations of comedy shows today and are a timeless humor that can still bring many laughs if watched now. The humor incorporated into these shows can be known as "dumb" humor or acts by the characters that are unintelligent that make you laugh at unexpected times. These comedies mostly have the humor of people getting hurt as a joke which is always something that makes people laugh. These films and shows may not be as funny as some of the shows today but can always make me laugh from time to time due to their timeless humor that lead to the comedy today.
ReplyDeleteThe Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three-Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Lucille Ball all have one thing in common. Besides being hilariously witty and being famous for each of their comedic antics, they are all driving forces in world of comedy and have inspired many actors and comedians of today. Their slap-stick comedy and their genuine wittiness to every question or response can be seen today through the work of writers and actors. Two actors who use a similar type of comedy to that of these legends are comedians/writers/actors Tim and Eric of the TV shows "Tom Goes To The Mayor" and "Tim and Eric's Awesome Show Great Job." In each of their two shows, there is never a clean cut story line for every episode, leaving the viewers in a random spew of comedy without needing to know what exactly is going.
ReplyDeleteThey are a modern day version of Laurel & Hardy but instead of a short english man and an obese wise guy, they are a short guy with a goofy haircut and a tall guy with horn-rimmed glasses. Both comedy duos express comedy through the physical and verbal senses without any care for anyone else.
The Marx Brothers, Charlie Chaplin, The Three-Stooges, Laurel & Hardy, and Lucille Ball are some of the best comedians of their time. They are all different from one another, but they are also the same in many ways. Most of the others have followed the Marx Brothers and used slapstick comedy in which over exaggeration is used to make the audience laugh. Be it something very unreal happening (Lucy hanging from the side of a hotel) or just overreacting on physical comedy (The Three-Stooges famous eye poke) these people know how to make us laugh. And if they have one thing in common above all others, each and every one of them will go down in history as the original comedians that inspired the rest.
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