In Funny Woman, Gemma Arterton and Barbara Parker – the Blackpool beauty queen that Arterton plays – have a similar problem. They are both funnier and smarter than everyone around them. Barbara wants ...
Although officially top-lined by Cameron Diaz, “The Other Woman” is actually an outrageous instance of highway robbery perpetrated by co-star Leslie Mann. With antic energy that borders on the ...
Men really may be from Mars and women from Venus - at least when it comes to their different senses of humour. Men like visual jokes and slapstick pratfalls, enjoying these more than women, a study ...
IN THE FIRST SEASON of the recently shuttered sitcom 30 Rock, Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon, attractive faux-spinster and noted bossypants-in-charge, finds herself in a standoff with the writing staff. Before ...
Here’s what I’m told: “Diary of a Mad Black Woman,” a drama-comedy about a scorned woman who rebuilds her life then returns unexpectedly to her monstrous husband in his hour of need, was written by ...
In one film, a housemaid is lighting a fire when she spontaneously combusts out of the chimney. Her body parts rain down on the village. When she returns, as a ghost, to her gravestone, the audience ...
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, ...
Katy Perry has defended a controversial scene in her 'Woman's World' music video and insisted it is supposed to be "slapstick" and "sarcastic".