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I DO not intend to enter the swamp of abstract debate on the nature of comedy and the comic, for that is a quicksand out of which many never climb. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic climate, anomalous surprise, central clown, sound comedy, ironic tradition, film clowns, clown tradition, comic conception, dialogue tradition, gag sequences, comic object, sound comedies, sauvé des eaux, dialogue comedies, comic life, comic films, comic technique, silent clowns, golden coach, silent comedy, comic sequence, comic ideas, comic performer, comic business Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, City Lights, Easy Street, Mack Sennett, The Gold Rush, The Pilgrim, Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, Bringing Up Baby, Duck Soup, Monsieur Verdoux, Harold Lloyd, Woman of Paris, John Doe, The Great Dictator, Doctor Strangelove, First Nationals, Mon Oncle, Cary Grant, Spite Marriage, The Pawnshop, Buster Keaton, Dog's Life, Monte Carlo, Sullivan's Travels New!
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I DO not intend to enter the swamp of abstract debate on the nature of comedy and the comic, for that is a quicksand out of which many never climb. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
comic climate, anomalous surprise, central clown, sound comedy, ironic tradition, film clowns, clown tradition, comic conception, dialogue tradition, gag sequences, comic object, sound comedies, sauvé des eaux, dialogue comedies, comic life, comic films, comic technique, silent clowns, golden coach, silent comedy, comic sequence, comic ideas, comic performer, comic business Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Marx Brothers, City Lights, Easy Street, Mack Sennett, The Gold Rush, The Pilgrim, Jerry Lewis, Woody Allen, Bringing Up Baby, Duck Soup, Monsieur Verdoux, Harold Lloyd, Woman of Paris, John Doe, The Great Dictator, Doctor Strangelove, First Nationals, Mon Oncle, Cary Grant, Spite Marriage, The Pawnshop, Buster Keaton, Dog's Life, Monte Carlo, Sullivan's Travels New!
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