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Example for a visual gag: Laurel and Hardy, in a promotional still from their 1937 feature film Way Out West.
In comedy, a visual gag or sight gag is anything which conveys its humor visually, often without words being used at all.
There are numerous examples in cinema history of directors who based most of the humour in their films on visual gags, even to the point of using no or minimal dialogue. The first known use of a visual gag was in the Lumière brothers' 1895 short, L'Arroseur Arrosé ("The Waterer Watered"), in which a gardener watering his plants becomes the subject of a boy's prank.
such as Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Buster Keaton often used visual humour because the technology used to record voices in film did not yet exist. One of the most famous directors of visual comedies in the sound era was Jacques Tati. His 1967 film Playtime, which eschewed a conventional plot, central characters and close-up shots in favour of countless visual gags happening simultaneously, is perhaps the defining example. A currently-active director who uses primarily visual humour in his films is Sweden's Roy Andersson. The 2003 animated film The Triplets of Belleville is nearly dialogue-less and relies largely on visual humour.
Visual gags are often used in surreal comedy, with many Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches making use of them, such as the "Mrs Gorilla" sketch in which a series of middle-aged women have been shopping and bought piston engines. Likewise, many elements of the "Hell's Grannies" sketch, featuring Keep Left signs attacking passersby, are sight gags.
The 1998 movie BASEketball features several prominent visual gags, such as stadium workers operating a chicken shredder after a game, or the character of Squeak Scolari's head being used as a punching bag.
Another movie which relies heavily on visual gags is 1998's Wrongfully Accused. One visual gag from this movie had a woman's tongue slip into a man's ear and come out the other side of his head.
Visual gags are also exploited in the popular comedy television programme Just for Laughs Gags.
As Rowan Atkinson explains in his lecture Funny Business, an object or a person can become funny in three different ways. They are:
- By being in an unusual place
- By behaving in an unusual way
- By being the wrong size
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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh
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Lumi̬re brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicholas (19 October 1862, Besan̤on, France Р10 April 1954, Lyon) and Louis Jean (5 October 1864, Besan̤on, France Р6 June 1948, Bandol), were among the earliest filmmakers.
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L'Arroseur Arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît
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L'Arroseur Arrosé (also known as The Waterer Watered and The Sprinkler Sprinkled) is an 1895 French short black-and-white silent comedy film directed and produced by Louis Lumière and starring François Clerc and Benoît
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Sir Charles Chaplin
Birth name Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.
Born 16 March 1889
Walworth, London, England
Died 25 November 1977 (aged 88)
Vevey, Switzerland
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Birth name Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr.
Born 16 March 1889
Walworth, London, England
Died 25 November 1977 (aged 88)
Vevey, Switzerland
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Harold Clayton Lloyd
Born March 20 1893
Burchard, Nebraska
Died March 8 1971 (aged 79)
Beverly Hills
Spouse(s) Mildred Davis
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Born March 20 1893
Burchard, Nebraska
Died March 8 1971 (aged 79)
Beverly Hills
Spouse(s) Mildred Davis
Awards
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Buster Keaton
Birth name Joseph Frank Keaton
Born September 4 1895
Piqua, Kansas, U.S.
Died January 1 1966 (aged 72)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
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Birth name Joseph Frank Keaton
Born September 4 1895
Piqua, Kansas, U.S.
Died January 1 1966 (aged 72)
Woodland Hills, California, U.S.
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Jacques Tati (October 9 1907 – November 5 1982) was a noted French comedic filmmaker. He was born Jacques Tatischeff, the son of Russian father Georges-Emmanuel Tatischeff and Dutch mother Marcelle Claire Van Hoof, in Le Pecq, Yvelines, and died in Paris.
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Play Time is French director Jacques Tati's fourth major film, shot in 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967. Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a comic character who appears in several of Tati's films.
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Play Time is French director Jacques Tati's fourth major film, shot in 1964 through 1967 and released in 1967. Tati plays Monsieur Hulot, a comic character who appears in several of Tati's films.
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- For the football player, see Roy Andersson (footballer).
Roy Andersson (born March 31, 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for his films A Swedish Love Story and Songs from the Second Floor.
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Les Triplettes de Belleville is an award-winning 2003 animated feature film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as The Triplets of Belleville in North America, and as Belleville Rendez-vous
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Les Triplettes de Belleville is an award-winning 2003 animated feature film written and directed by Sylvain Chomet. It was released as The Triplets of Belleville in North America, and as Belleville Rendez-vous
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In common, present day usage the word comedy almost always refers to the creation or presentation of humor with the intention of provoking laughter. Most comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations,
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Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or, during the final series, just Monty Python) is a BBC sketch comedy programme from the Monty Python comedy team, and the group’s initial claim to fame.
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A reciprocating engine, also often known as a piston engine, is a heat engine that uses one or more pistons to convert pressure into a rotating motion. This article describes the common features of all types.
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Monty Python’s Flying Circus (also known as Flying Circus, MPFC or, during the final series, just Monty Python) is a BBC sketch comedy programme from the Monty Python comedy team, and the group’s initial claim to fame.
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Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 comedy movie starring Leslie Nielsen as Ryan Harrison, a violinist who's been framed in the murder of Hibbing Goodhue by Sean Leaughrea, a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed man, and his sister, Cass Lake.
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Wrongfully Accused is a 1998 comedy movie starring Leslie Nielsen as Ryan Harrison, a violinist who's been framed in the murder of Hibbing Goodhue by Sean Leaughrea, a one-armed, one-legged, one-eyed man, and his sister, Cass Lake.
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Rowan Atkinson
Rowan Atkinson
Birth name Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Born 6 January 1955
Consett, County Durham, England
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Rowan Atkinson
Birth name Rowan Sebastian Atkinson
Born 6 January 1955
Consett, County Durham, England
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Funny Business may refer to:
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- Funny Business (TV series)
- Funny Business (film), a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Clifton Ko
- Funny Business (musical), a new musical debuting in Toronto, ON.
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Humour or humor (see spelling differences) is the ability or quality of people, objects, or situations to evoke feelings of amusement in other people. The term encompasses a form of entertainment or human communication which evokes such feelings, or which makes people laugh
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A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. It can also be used a slang term for a person who is not taken seriously by others in general or is known as being a failure.
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In common, present day usage the word comedy almost always refers to the creation or presentation of humor with the intention of provoking laughter. Most comedy contains variations on the elements of surprise, incongruity, conflict, repetitiveness, and the effect of opposite expectations,
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