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The rise and fall of comic Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman).
I really enjoy watching the show, but that's probably because I don't have expectations of the show because I've never read the comic books.
The acting is unsurpassed and it is filled with comic scenes such as the one where they make Hellen Sharp (Goldie's character) look a hundred pounds heavier and place her in an apartment cluttered with trash, cats, and frosting containers!
The film is a vehicle for Martin's comic talent and he carries it off beautifully.
Ralph Bellamy is great as the beleaguered as strait-laced Bruce Baldwin who is the perfect comic victim of Grant's devious deals to get Russell back.
Even thought Abbot and Costello are featured as the stars of the movie they seem to be only comic relief for the real plot.
Outstanding exploitation flick with a palpable sense of sleaziness...Feels like an old E.C. comic book story, one that would have been drawn by Graham Ingals...who cares if it's a "Freaks" rip-off: it has its own unique charm, with loads of authentic carney atmosphere (producer/writer David Friedman was a carny himself up until a couple years ago) and great performances from a cast of nobodies.
Richard Pryor is without a doubt the most spellbinding and hilarious stand up comic ever.
Murphy again makes the most of culture shock for comic effect, and the easy rapport between Murphy and Billy (Judge Reinhold), now a cheerfully over the top Rambo-esquire figure, is still the centerpiece of this series.
Craig Hawksley brings comic relief to the film when everyone is about to be massacred in the films final shoot 'em up scene.
There are also some moments where low production values produce moments that might be from a comic strip: the private airport set identified by nothing (such as an aeroplane or runway) that reveals its function but simply by a sign reading "Private Airport", for example; or the box of labelled dynamite.
The script is a comic whirlwind, with too many brilliant scenes to enumerate (I can't resist mentioning the blind date's arrival - the desperate preparations and the pathetic introduction are funny but painful, in that we have all been in that position; his demonstration of authentic Chinese rice-eating technique is another classic).
The so-called comic relief becomes the entire point.
The supporting players become either Sean Penn's comic foils or high-strung straight men.
In this excellent film, directed by Terry Zwigoff (who also directed the excellent, and also comic book related, "Ghost World" and "American Splendor") Crumb starts out by telling that he hates just about all the work he is most famous for.
It's plot isn't entirely realistic and feels like a comic book story yet in some strange way it works.
The plot errs towards the romantic rather than the comic (OK, fair enough, that's what it sets out to do) but I found the end result a little disappointing.
This laugh-filled comic romp follows the adventures of Benji (Mark Linn-Baker), a gopher for COMEDY CALVACADE (this film's version of YOUR SHOW OF SHOWS), who is excited when a swashbuckling actor of the period named Alan Swann (Peter O'Toole) has been booked as a guest on the show turns out to be a skirt-chasing alcoholic who Benji is put in charge of keeping under control until showtime.
A 'Korda Collection' classic film and I shan't part with my videocassette - 'Tiger' comic script and stilted dialogue notwithstanding.
His presence was the best part of this movie and Mr. T did indeed provide some comic relief.
Since I'm a huge fan of comic books as well as "cartoony" or comic book based movies, I decided to review this one.
I have read the comic book after watching the movie.
The use of Griffiths just makes one remember his superb performance as a scary queer uncle in Withnail and I - a far superior film in which there is tension and emotion, and characters you love (Withnail, I and Uncle Monty are all believable, comic and fully rounded) none of which are on display here.
While not nearly as good as Hal Foster's comic strip, this film is not nearly as bad as some reviewers would have you believe.
When I saw Stan Lee, comic book guru and personal idol that he is, would be involved, I knew I had to check out this show!
Stanwyck is befriended by a fellow nurse, played by Joan Blondell, who provides much comic relief throughout the film.
Works better as a comic book.)
What I didn't know is that no one in the cast would have any sense of comic timing, the production values would be close to nil, and that I wouldn't laugh.
The original was one of Simon's laugh a minute (and you can set your watch by it) plays with a big problem: it was written as an ensemble piece but one character-television comic Max Prince, who's based on stories about Sid Caesar-was so overpowering it threw the ensemble off.
Hackett sounds like a Borscht-belt Catskills comic, which is what he is, and Korman sounds like a classically trained stage actor, which is what he is, and neither of them even tries to come close to the way Bud and Lou spoke--Abbott's mile-a-minute carnival barker spiel, Costello's excitable sputtering as he gets more and more confused--which was central to the astonishing verbal byplay between the two and which, although they made it look easy, was actually quite complex, especially in the "Who's On First" routine.
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