Unofficial Tex Murphy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShMA85pv8M

Get it?

-Fred

Wow, that's old school.

Sometimes old school is the funniest stuff...

Comedy today could probably take a lesson or two from the originals...

Bafitis wrote:Sometimes old school is the funniest stuff...

Comedy today could probably take a lesson or two from the originals...

Lessons:

-- Timing
-- Timing
-- The straight man is very important, and must play it totally straight
-- Material. This is one of the funniest, well-crafted scripts in comedy.
-- You don't have to use four letter words to be funny. It helps sometimes, though.
(actually, the script was changed in later years so, at the end, Lou Costello says
"I don't give a damn" instead of "I don't care.").
-- Did I mention timing?

Defiantly a very famous (and funny) one by Abbott & Costello. Watching it makes me think of how many other comedians borrowed from this piece either on stage or in the movies later on.