Soupy Sales, 83, a loose-limbed comedian whose goofy skits, slapstick antics and pie-tossing shenanigans made him one of the country's most popular television stars of the 1950s and '60s, died Oct. 22 ...

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - At its best, from the mid-1950s through the early 1980s, Blake Edwards' career represented an unexpected extension of the spirit of classical Hollywood comedy in the ...

Slapstick comedy is a purposefully exaggerated form of performance that can portray a cartoonish reality. In the world of slapstick, characters are constantly getting hurt, mugging their faces, ...

At one time during the golden era of the Tollywood film industry, Bhanu Banerjee, the erstwhile comedy king, provided light relief from the more serious situations and tickled the funny bones of ...

EXCLUSIVE: The Grizzy & the Lemmings preschool world is about to expand. Paris-based IP firm Hari has put Baby Lemmings, a “gentle slapstick” CGI-animated series running to 78 seven-minute episodes, ...

This newly restored screwball comedy is a buoyant romp. The director revisits and refines the techniques used here in his later work in other genres. By Glenn Kenny When you purchase a ticket for an ...

Magic is afoot at the Marcus Performing Arts Center this weekend, thanks to the Milwaukee Ballet’s delightful production of “Peter Pan.” Some of that magic is contained in the fictional story of Peter ...

French animation group Xilam is presenting an ambitious lineup at the Unifrance Rendez-Vous With French Cinema in Paris, with a strong emphasis on comedy, including its first slapstick CGI comedy for ...

Writing comedy is hard. (Just ask Seth Rogen.) I've been trying to nail the tone of this comedy script I've been working on, ...