• Moderators, please send me a PM if you are unable to access mod permissions. Thanks, Habsy.

Leafs' Prospect/Marlies Discussion Thread!

He's widely considered the inventor of modern comedy. Unless you want to count Chaplin and Keaton and silent film stuff that preceded, but I don't because that's missing the key element.

Everyone comes from somewhere and everyone has their influences, but he's sort of a pioneer of spoken word humor in audio visual works.
 
LeafOfFaith said:
He's widely considered the inventor of modern comedy. Unless you want to count Chaplin and Keaton and silent film stuff that preceded, but I don't because that's missing the key element.

Everyone comes from somewhere and everyone has their influences, but he's sort of a pioneer of spoken word humor in audio visual works.
Click to expand...

He was massively influenced by Vaudeville, his mother was a Vaudeville star. The difference is technological. Performance art went from being almost entirely stage performance driven to film. He's the pioneer of a medium for sure, but his comedic style itself is definitely derivative of his vaudeville influences.
 
As a comedy aficionado I tried to get into them a bunch of times but no dice. Maybe it’s their voices I find annoying because I much prefer Chaplin and Keaton.
 
MindzEye said:
He was massively influenced by Vaudeville, his mother was a Vaudeville star. The difference is technological. Performance art went from being almost entirely stage performance driven to film. He's the pioneer of a medium for sure, but his comedic style itself is definitely derivative of his vaudeville influences.
Click to expand...
Groucho was in Vaudeville himself. The brothers toured their act internationally. He was obviously born out of that genre. But as far as film goes, there’s nobody that really predates him or comes close to him as a contemporary, other than his own brothers maybe.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top