Tag: Physical Comedy in Real Life
Do the Keystone Kops ride again? This “dumbest cops” video has gone viral, initially billed as “actual bank robbery in Detroit.”
Associated Press, Caracas: Mimes gesture as they stand in a crosswalk in Caracas, Venezuela, Friday Oct. 7, 2011. The mayor of the city’s eastern district of Sucre has launched a unique program aimed to encourage civility among reckless drivers and careless pedestrians, putting 120 mimes at intersections to politely and silently scold violators. The campaign kicked off this week as mimes posted at busy intersections mocked people who jaywalked or acted brutish behind the wheel. (AP Photo/Ariana Cubillos)
I was in Tokyo for 3½ days but spent too much of it figuring out how to get home in the middle of a hurricane. So no physical comedy report, but here’s a clever sight gag I think you’ll enjoy.
This looks like a wacky sight gag in some movie out to over-emphasize its exotic locale, but the amazing thing is that it’s not only real, but a regularly scheduled occurrence. If you have 44 seconds to spare, travel with me to Thailand’s Maeklong market….
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My first book (1976)
My book Clowns has long been out of print, but you can borrow it for two weeks at a time from the Internet Archive. More information is available here.
My second book (2015)
Visual and verbal humor for the cognitively and artistically curious! Available here.
“A book to treasure!”
—Bill Irwin