Slapstick is making something of a comeback, with two film seasons already this year celebrating silent comedy and a BBC series about the genre scheduled for the Spring. So why is no one making new ...

Slapstick has long remained a staple of the comedy genre, harking back to the early days of silent cinema stars like Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and a host of other expressive comedy ...

Cameron Olsen has a boundless passion for the art of cinema, and loves nothing more than to closely examine the great works thereof. He has a bachelor’s degree in film from the University of Utah, and ...

But after being zapped by weird and mysterious extradimensional energy, Steve became Slapstick, a living, breathing cartoon! Now, after joining, and then quitting, Deadpool's Mercs for Money, ...

Watching a comedy from the silent film era is, as the Museum of Modern Art’s website suggests, to stare directly into the “vast subconscious that is American slapstick.” And, based on the title that ...

Slapstick comedy has entertained audiences for over a century. Built on absurd chaos, voluntary accidents, and physical gags, the genre traces its roots to vaudeville and silent films, where pioneers ...

On Oct. 11, the Museum of Modern Art held a screening of Jackass 3D, which opened in theaters on Friday. It’s safe to say that when Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Wee-Man and the rest of ...