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Another fine mess, a history of American film comedy, Saul Austerlitz

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Saul Austerlitz

a history of American film comedy

Looks at American film comedy from Charlie Chaplin to the work of Judd Apatow, covering such legends as W.C. Fields, Billy Wilder, and the Cohen brothers

Introduction -- Charlie Chaplin: the most famous man on earth -- Buster Keaton: the camera man -- Harold Lloyd: the striver -- Laurel & Hardy: straight man and little boy -- The Marx Brothers: brothers of anarchy -- W.C. Fields: the juggler -- Mae West: :"it's all been done before, but not the way I do it" -- Ernst Lubitsch: the touch -- Preston Sturges: the cockeyed caravan -- Cary Grant: the picture of Archie Leach -- Katherine Hepburn: Spencer's rib -- Billy Wilder: "nobody's perfect!" -- Marilyn Monroe: funny blonde -- Doris Day: battle of the sexless -- Jerry Lewis: they're crazy about him in France -- Peter Sellers: the man behind the masks -- Dustin Hoffman: stardom, revised -- Robert Altman: overlapping dialogue -- Mel Brooks: the 2000-year-old parodist -- Woody Allen: Hope and Bergman -- Richard Pryor: rebel without a pause -- Albert Brooks: the return of Sully Sullivan -- Steve Martin: the jerk and the genius -- Eddie Murphy: incredible shrinking comic -- Bill Murray: just the usual comic inspiration- frustration, loss, and death -- The Coen Brothers: oddball America -- Christopher Guest: the Baron of the Mockumentary -- Ben Stiller: good Jewish boys -- Will Ferrell: "a pretty nice little Saturday" -- Judd Apatow: Peter Pans and the frat brothersShort Entries. -- Abbott & Costello -- Wes Anderson -- Jennifer Aniston -- Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle -- Jean Arthur -- Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers -- Lauren Bacall -- Anne Bancroft -- Drew Barrymore -- Noah Baumbach -- Ralph Bellamy -- John Belushi -- Humphrey Bogart -- Bugs Bunny -- Frank Capra -- Jim Carrey -- Chevy Chase -- Cheech & Chong (Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong) -- Maurice Chevalier -- Claudette Colbert -- Gary Cooper -- Bill Cosby -- Billy Crystal -- George Cukor -- Cameron Diaz -- Marlene Dietrich -- Stanley Donen -- Margaret Dumont -- Blake Edwards -- Nora Ephron -- Bobb & Peter Farrelly -- Tina Fey -- Whoopi Goldberg -- Elliott Gould -- Jean Harlow -- Howard Hawks -- Ben Hecht -- Amy Heckerling -- Audrey Hepburn -- Alfred Hitchcock -- Judy Holliday -- Bob Hope -- Edward Everett Horton -- John Hughes -- Jim Jarmusch -- Chuck Jones -- Garson Kanin & Ruth Gordon -- Charlie Kaufman -- Diane Keaton and Mia Farrow -- Stanley Kubrick -- Harry Langdon -- Spike Lee -- Mitchell Leisen -- Jack Lemmon & Walter Matthau -- Richard Linklater -- Carole Lombard -- Myrna LoyShirley MacLaine -- Jayne Mansfield -- Dean Martin -- Elaine May -- Leo McCarey -- Joel McCrea -- Lorne Michaels -- Mike Myers -- Mike Nichols -- Jack Nicholson -- Alexander Payne -- Tyler Perry -- Pixar -- Harold Ramis -- Tony Randall -- Samson Raphaelson -- Carl Reiner -- Rob Reiner -- Hal Roach -- Julia Roberts -- Will Rogers -- Paul Rudd -- David O. Russell -- Rosalind Russell -- Winona Ryder -- Morrie Ryskind, Bert Kalmar & Harry Ruby, George S. Kaufman, and S.J. Perelman -- Adam Sandler -- Mack Sennett -- Neil Simon -- Kevin Smith -- Steven Soderbergh -- Barbara Stanwyck -- James Stewart -- Whit Stillman -- Meryl Streep -- Barbra Streisand -- Quentin Tarantino -- Frank Tashlin -- The Three Stooges -- Vince Vaughn -- John Waters -- Keenen Ivory Wayans -- John Wayne -- Gene Wilder -- Robin Williams -- Renée Zellweger -- Jerry Zucker, Jim Abrahams, and David Zucker

History of American film comedy