Slapstick film


Slapstick films are comedy films using slapstick humor, a physical comedy that includes pratfalls, tripping, falling, practical jokes, and mistakes are highlighted over dialogue, plot and character development. The physical comedy in these films contains a cartoonish style of violence that is predominantly harmless and goofy in tone.
Silent film had slapstick comedies that included the films starring Buster Keaton, Charlie Chaplin, the Keystone Cops and Harold Lloyd. These comedians often laced their slapstick with social commentary while comedians such as Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges did not. Slapstick is about uninhibited action and timing, which may include being made to look foolish or to act with tomfoolery.
There were fewer slapstick comedies produced at the advent of sound film. After World War II, the genre resurfaced in France with films by Jacques Tati and in the United States with films It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World and The Great Race, starring the stoic, aloof and mild mannered Buster Keaton, also known as "The Great Stone Face", as well as the films of comedians like Jerry Lewis.

Slapstick films and television series

Slapstick films and television series include:

1910s

  • ''The Rink''

    1920s

  • The Scarecrow
  • Safety Last!
  • Sherlock Jr.
  • The Gold Rush
  • The General
  • Big Business
  • ''Mickey Mouse''

    1930s

  • Looney Tunes
  • Merrie Melodies
  • City Lights
  • Duck Soup
  • Lightning Strikes Twice
  • A Night at the Opera
  • Modern Times
  • Way Out West
  • Donald Duck
  • ''A Day at the Races''

    1940s

  • The Great Dictator
  • Whistling in the Dark
  • Crazy Knights
  • ''Tom and Jerry''

    1950s

  • Fancy Pants
  • The Good Humor Man
  • The Fuller Brush Girl
  • Mr. Hulot's Holiday
  • The Court Jester
  • Just My Luck
  • Mon Oncle
  • Have Rocket, Will Travel
  • ''The Battle of the Sexes''

    1960s

  • The Bellboy
  • Two-Way Stretch
  • The Absent-Minded Professor
  • One Hundred and One Dalmatians
  • The Ladies Man
  • Everything's Ducky
  • The Errand Boy
  • Invasion Quartet
  • It's Only Money
  • On the Beat
  • The Notorious Landlady
  • Who's Minding the Store?
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • The Nutty Professor
  • It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
  • The Pink Panther
  • Carry On Spying
  • Advance to the Rear
  • A Shot in the Dark
  • Carry On Cleo
  • Man's Favorite Sport?
  • The Disorderly Orderly
  • West and Soda
  • The Great Race
  • Batman
  • Get Smart
  • That Riviera Touch
  • Three on a Couch
  • Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
  • The Glass Bottom Boat
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!
  • Who Wants to Kill Jessie?
  • The Glass Bottom Boat
  • A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
  • Carry On Doctor
  • Carry On Again, Doctor
  • The Reluctant Astronaut
  • The Magnificent Two
  • The Party
  • Inspector Clouseau
  • Blackbeard's Ghost
  • VIP my Brother Superman
  • Take the Money and Run
  • ''Monty Python's Flying Circus''

    1970s

  • The Boatniks
  • Bananas
  • Trafic
  • Evil Roy Slade
  • Carry On Abroad
  • My Name Is Nobody
  • Mr. Hercules Against Karate
  • Sleeper
  • Blazing Saddles
  • Young Frankenstein
  • The Fortune
  • The Return of the Pink Panther
  • Monty Python and the Holy Grail
  • The Pink Panther Strikes Again
  • Allegro Non Troppo
  • Mr. Rossi Looks for Happiness
  • Slap Shot
  • Mr. Rossi's Dreams
  • Revenge of the Pink Panther
  • Mr. Rossi's Vacation
  • Up in Smoke
  • The Jerk
  • 1941
  • ''The Kentucky Fried Movie''

    1980s

  • Caddyshack
  • The Nude Bomb
  • Airplane!
  • Hardly Working, surreal slapstick
  • The Gods Must Be Crazy
  • History of the World, Part I
  • Trail of the Pink Panther
  • Slapstick of Another Kind
  • Police Squad!
  • Airplane II: The Sequel
  • National Lampoon's Vacation
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Curse of the Pink Panther
  • Blackadder
  • Police Academy
  • National Lampoon's European Vacation
  • Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment
  • Dr. Otto and the Riddle of the Gloom Beam
  • Clue
  • Mr. Vampire, horror-comedy
  • Club Paradise
  • Stoogemania
  • Sledge Hammer!
  • Police Academy 3: Back in Training
  • Big Trouble in Little China
  • Spaceballs
  • Munchies, horror-comedy
  • Ernest Goes to Camp
  • Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol
  • Beetlejuice, horror-comedy
  • The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!
  • Caddyshack II
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit
  • Garfield and Friends
  • Police Academy 5: Assignment Miami Beach
  • A Fish Called Wanda
  • Slime City
  • The Wrong Guys
  • Arthur 2
  • Hey Vern, It's Ernest!
  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
  • I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
  • Ernest Saves Christmas
  • See No Evil, Hear No Evil
  • Police Academy 6: City Under Siege
  • UHF
  • Sweet Home
  • Get Smart, Again!
  • Major League
  • The Simpsons
  • ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation''

    1990s

  • Mr. Bean
  • Tiny Toon Adventures
  • Home Alone
  • Ernest Goes to Jail
  • Gremlins 2: The New Batch
  • Problem Child
  • Repossessed
  • Problem Child 2
  • Hudson Hawk
  • Nothing But Trouble
  • The Addams Family
  • The Naked Gun : The Smell of Fear
  • Drop Dead Fred
  • Darkwing Duck
  • The Ren & Stimpy Show
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze
  • Ghoulies III: Ghoulies Go to College
  • Hot Shots!
  • Ernest Scared Stupid
  • Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation
  • Brain Donors
  • Aladdin
  • Wayne's World
  • Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
  • Super Dave: Daredevil for Hire
  • Eek the Cat
  • Addams Family Values
  • Army of Darkness
  • Beverly Hillbillies
  • Son of the Pink Panther
  • Ernest Rides Again
  • Wayne's World 2
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Hocus Pocus
  • Robin Hood: Men in Tights
  • Surf Ninjas
  • Rocko's Modern Life
  • Bonkers
  • So I Married an Axe Murderer
  • Animaniacs
  • 2 Stupid Dogs
  • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III
  • Hot Shots! Part Deux
  • Coneheads
  • Cannibal! The Musical
  • Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
  • Police Academy: Mission to Moscow
  • Baby's Day Out
  • Revenge of the Nerds IV: Nerds in Love
  • The Silence of the Hams
  • Dumb and Dumber
  • The Mask
  • It's Pat
  • Ernest Goes to School
  • Naked Gun : The Final Insult
  • The Santa Clause
  • In the Army Now
  • Major League II
  • The Shnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show
  • Timon & Pumbaa
  • The World of Lee Evans
  • Earthworm Jim
  • What a Cartoon!
  • Slam Dunk Ernest
  • Billy Madison
  • Dracula: Dead and Loving It
  • Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
  • Tommy Boy
  • Casper
  • 3rd Rock from the Sun
  • Happy Gilmore
  • Spy Hard
  • The Spooktacular New Adventures of Casper
  • The Nutty Professor
  • KaBlam!
  • Space Jam
  • Black Sheep
  • 101 Dalmatians
  • Bio-Dome
  • Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood
  • George of the Jungle
  • Flubber
  • Hercules
  • Ernest Goes to Africa
  • The Wacky World of Tex Avery
  • Vegas Vacation
  • South Park
  • Beverly Hills Ninja
  • Home Alone 3
  • Liar Liar
  • The Good Bad Guy
  • Cats Don't Dance
  • Bean
  • MouseHunt
  • Mr. Magoo
  • Cow and Chicken
  • I Am Weasel
  • Austin Powers
  • The Angry Beavers
  • Orgazmo
  • There's Something About Mary
  • Le Dîner de Cons
  • Jane Austen's Mafia!
  • Wrongfully Accused
  • Ernest in the Army
  • Histeria!
  • CatDog
  • Oggy and the Cockroaches
  • Rush Hour
  • The Waterboy
  • Quest for Camelot
  • Inspector Gadget
  • Guest House Paradiso
  • The New Woody Woodpecker Show
  • Family Guy
  • Mickey Mouse Works
  • SpongeBob SquarePants
  • Ed, Edd n Eddy
  • Dudley Do-Right
  • The All New Adventures of Laurel & Hardy in For Love or Mummy
  • Screw Loose
  • South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut
  • Asterix and Obelix vs. Caesar
  • Courage the Cowardly Dog
  • ''Rock N Roll Frankenstein''