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Visual
comedy
,
often
silent
, using the downfall of others to make one
laugh
. Difficult to do well, slapstick relies on timing, suspension of disbelief and timing. Masters of the art:-
Laurel and Hardy
,
Charlie Chaplin
,
Norman Wisdom
. Slapstick comedy can also be intensely
irritating
.
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Mon Oct 20 2003 at 22:53:27
The word slapstick originally comes from a
device
that was made of two
flat pieces of wood
fastened at one end
. This device made
a loud sound
if one struck someone with it, a much louder sound than a single piece would have made. Such a sound and such a
blow
were
the stuff of comedy
,
albeit
the
comedy
of
farce
and
pantomime
in which this device was originally used. This word was first recorded in
1896
. Through its use with other nouns, such as comedy, slapstick developed an
abstract
sense that encompassed far more than its original literal meaning. Slapstick by itself, as first recorded in
1926
, could now refer to the whole
genre of comedy
in which the literal slapstick
played a role
.
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