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"Excess and over the top" - is that a joke?

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In Reply to: Re: Chris Farley et al posted by mikenyc on April 14, 2002 at 01:42:34:

"It seems that Excess and Over The Top Humor is considered funny these days. Why do comedians...even the stand-up variety...feel they have to exert themselves verbally and physically to make a point ?"
Ummm, when WASN'T Excess and Over The Top Humor considered funny? Physical exertion - it's called slapstick and it's as old as comedy itself.
Laurel and Hardy, The Three Stooges, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, etc., etc. . .

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Re: "Excess and over the top" - is that a joke? - mikenyc 07:30:28 04/15/02 (0)
Hardly an accurate comparison of comedic styles to Farley's. There is a subtext to the examples that you give here...good try though.
To me, Farley et al, seem to feel that excessive assaulting ones senses with manic gesturing, coupled with loud vulgar references for their forced humor. I think it's the vulgar references that get me. There is nothing underneath the noises. In other words, is this important to the performance or is the heightened efx, just trying wring out the most something that isnt there ?

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