LAUGHING GAS
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Movies to Tickle the Funny Bone
ownbeat endings may be ‘artistically valid’, but there are times when an audience just wants to laugh. On those occasions when only Dr Giggles will do (though not Dr Giggles, the terrible slasher movie), Doctors Kermode
and Mayo prescribe . . .
LAUREL AND HARDY IN THE MUSIC BOX (1932) ‘Get that piano out of that box!’
BUSTER KEATON IN THE GENERAL (1926) Keaton loads a cannon which promptly takes aim at him in one of silent cinema’s most celebrated runaway train gags.
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GENE WILDER’S ‘FRONKENSTEEN’ AND MARTY FELDMAN’S IGOR IN YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN (1974) ‘Tonight we shall ascend into the heavens, we shall mock the earthquake, we shall command the thunders, and penetrate into the very womb of impervious nature herself!’
WOODY ALLEN AND DIANE KEATON IN ANNIE HALL (1977) ‘I think what we got on our hands is a dead shark.’
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