The master of physical comedy?

[Deja Q]

E.g. pratfalls, et al?

[Phillycat]

1. Lucy. nt

[Deja Q]

5. Lucy Lawless?

:9 :wow:

[Phillycat]

6. You know who I mean, and I'm surprised she wasn't in the original poll.

I guess people still think comedy is dominated by men. :shrug:

[SeattleGirl]

11. Lucy, definitely.

[billyskank]

2. I'd heard it was Buster Keaton, but I can't testify to that

[sarge43]

13. Keaton

Check his film The General

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. No Harold Lloyd?

No Charlie Chaplin?

:shrug:

[ohiosmith]

4. Buster Keaton

[trof]

7. Lloyd and Keaton were good, but Chaplin wasn't chopped liver.

[SoyCat]

8. Chaplin gets my vote.

[Broken_Hero]

9. Other...

The Three Stooges....:D

[FedUpWithIt All]

10. Have to go with Harold Lloyd n/t

[6000eliot]

12. John Cleese

Take a look at any episode of Faulty Towers for evidence.

[Mojambo]

17. Seconded! n/t

[begin_within]

14. No Benny Hill or Rowan Atkinson?

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

15. Ritter, Adams, Van Dyke, Chaplin, Keaton...

Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, the Three Stooges, Harpo Marx, Jonathon Winters, the Jackass guys...

[Gato Moteado]

16. robin williams? james carrey?

nt

[Xipe Totec]

18. Chevy Chase n/t

[Kali]

24. that was who jumped to my brain, but there are a lot of good ones

now that I read this thread

[JackBeck]

19. I have a funny John Ritter story.

When we were in London, we went to see a play that Madonna (don't laugh) was in. Right before the play, I literally almost knocked Madonna down to the ground outside the theatre because it was really crowded and I didn't recognize her (huge fan) as I knocked into her as she was trying to get to the theatre for that evening's performance. In the audience that night, the buzz throughout the theatre was that Gwyneth Paltrow, who we also saw since she was seated right below us. What we didn't know was that John Ritter and his son were also in the audience.

After the play, we went to the pub across the street to grab a few beers. As I'm standing at the bar ordering our beers, my guy comes up next to me and whispers through clenched teeth, "Look beside you." Who was I standing next to? John Ritter. Pretty cool, I thought. Even cooler was he and his son ended up sitting right next to us after we got our drinks. We were sitting with two other Americans who we just met as we sat down. We were all smoking and we think it started to bother him so he and his son got up to move to another table. Now, if you've ever been to a pub in London, most have those little tiny stools that are maybe a foot tall.

What happens to John Ritter when he got up to move? He got all tangles up with the stool and tripped over it and almost falls flat on his ass, spilling his beer every where.

I guess some actors are just naturals.

[Lautremont]

20. Buster Keaton by a Secretariat's margin.

[u4ic]

28. That's an interesting turn of phrase

;)

[Rosco T.]

21. Rowan Atkinson.

Mr. Bean

'nuff said

[mopinko]

26. the scene in his first movie, where he is pretending he has

a gun, you know, with his fingers, and is told to put the gun down. so he pulls his hand out of his pocket, and sets it down on the floor. i cried.

[Rosco T.]

33. There is a second Mr Bean movie coming next year..

.. saw a short piece on it on the new Animated Mr Bean disc I just got from the UK.

[bridgit]

37. yep...

:rofl:

[martymar64]

22. Buster Keaton and Rowan Atkinson

Lucille Ball, she's the Queen!

I'll vote Jim Carrey as the Prince.


Rowan's also the King of Snide Comedy.

"You wouldn't get it if 'it' was in a brown paper bag marked 'it'".
God Bless Lord Blackadder!

[Redstone]

23. Spike Jones.

Redstone

[dpbrown]

25. Jerry Lewis

Or Jim Carey.

[GoneOffShore]

27. Harold Lloyd

How could you miss him?

[nytemare]

29. Laurel and Hardy.

Dick van Dyke was great, as is Rowan Atkinson, and I'll add Larry Hagman, who was great in Jeannie, and John Astin for his work in Addams Family.

But, Laurel and Hardy, to answer your question.

[BrotherBuzz]

30. W.C. Fields deserves an honorable mention

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MZWq14uD-A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEIUW5Rslrc&mode=related&search=

[mockmonkey]

31. Oliver Hardy

Poor man took so much abuse.

[peekaloo]

32. another vote for Harold Lloyd.

:-)

[evlbstrd]

34. Just to be obstinate.

I'll also nominate both Lily Tomlin and Steve Martin.

[Ron Green]

35. Jacques Tati. n/t

[Gold Metal Flake]

36. Buster Keaton.

My favorite.

[Hugin]

43. Seconded.

:thumbsup:

[Mobius]

38. Dick Cheney

j/k

[blogslut]

39. All the greats have been mentioned

I will add the best bit of slapstick I've seen in the past 10 years.

The episode of 'Frasier' where Niles tries to iron the crease in his pants and ends up setting fire to his brother's couch. So funny and not a word of dialogue.

[Phillycat]

41. Oh god, I cried laughing at that scene.

I mean it, I haven't laughed that hard in years. Brilliant!

[Chomskyite]

40. For me

Peter Sellers.

And for one who is still alive today . . . Tony Shaloub, who plays Adrian Monk.

[NYCGirl]

42. Harold Lloyd.