Editing Slapstick (section)

==In film and television==
Building on its later popularity in the 19th and early 20th-century routines of music hall in Britain and the American [[vaudeville]] house, the style was explored extensively during the "golden era" of black and white movies directed by Hal Roach and [[Mack Sennett]] that featured such notables as Charlie Chaplin, [[Mabel Normand]], [[Abbott and Costello]], [[Laurel and Hardy]], the [[Three Stooges]], and [[Larry Semon]]. The pie in the face gag was used extensively in this era.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=King |first=Rob |date=December 2007 |title=SLAPSTICK AND MIS-REMEMBRANCE |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17400300701670659 |journal=New Review of Film and Television Studies |volume=5 |issue=3 |pages=333–351 |doi=10.1080/17400300701670659 |issn=1740-0309}}</ref> Chaplin's 1915 film ''[[A Night in the Show]]'', which includes the pie in the face gag, brings one of the classic music hall comedy sketches, ''Mumming Birds'', known as ''A Night in an English Music Hall'' when Chaplin performed it on tour, into his film work.<ref name="Louvish"/> Silent slapstick comedy was also popular in early French films and included films by [[Max Linder]], [[Charles Prince (actor)|Charles Prince]], and [[Sarah Duhamel]].<ref>Maggie Hennefeld [https://www.amazon.com/Specters-Slapstick-Silent-Comediennes-Culture/dp/0231179472/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1534618571&sr=8-1&keywords=hennefeld "Specters of Slapstick and Silent Film Comediennes"], Columbia UP, 2018.</ref> 
[[File:Pie in the face.jpg|thumb|The "pie in the face" is a staple of slapstick comedy.]]
Slapstick also became a common element in animated cartoons starting in the 1930s and 1940s; examples include Disney's [[Mickey Mouse (film series)|Mickey Mouse]] and [[Donald Duck]] shorts, [[Walter Lantz]]'s [[Woody Woodpecker]], [[the Beary Family]], MGM's ''[[Tom and Jerry]]'', the unrelated [[Tom and Jerry (Van Beuren)|Tom and Jerry]] cartoons of [[Van Beuren Studios]], Warner Bros. ''[[Looney Tunes]]/[[Merrie Melodies]]'', MGM's ''[[Barney Bear]]'', and Tex Avery's ''[[Screwy Squirrel]]''. Slapstick was later used in Japanese [[Tokusatsu]] TV ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O|Kamen Rider Den O]], [[Kamen Rider Gaim]],'' ''[[Kamen Rider Drive]]'', by [[Benny Hill]] in ''[[The Benny Hill Show]]'' in the UK, and in the US used in the three 1960s TV series, ''[[Gilligan's Island]]'', ''[[Batman (TV series)|Batman]]'', ''[[The Flying Nun]]'' and ''[[I Love Lucy]]''. Hill, whose comedy sketches first appeared on British television in the early 1950s, was described by writer [[Anthony Burgess]] as "a comic genius steeped in the British music hall tradition".<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622509/Way-of-the-world.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/personal-view/3622509/Way-of-the-world.html |archive-date=12 January 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Way of the world|author=Craig Brown|date=21 January 2006|work=The Daily Telegraph|location=London|access-date=5 July 2015}}{{cbignore}}</ref> In the 1970s, the sitcom ''[[Three's Company]]'' featured slapstick infused scenes in most episodes. In 1990, ''[[Mr. Bean]]'', starring [[Rowan Atkinson]], debuted on British television, and, like Benny Hill, cartoons and other comedians whose "visual humour transcended language barriers" (description of Hill by the [[BFI]]), the show would be exported around the world.<ref>{{cite news |first=John |last=Oliver |title=Hill, Benny (1924-1992)|url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/473323/index.html |access-date=20 February 2025 |publisher=BFI|quote=One of the most popular comedians Britain has ever produced - not only in this country, but also worldwide, with his television shows having been sold to at least 109 countries (Hill's emphasis on visual humour transcending language barriers).}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Rowan Atkinson Says He'll Never Retire Mr Bean |url=https://uk.movies.yahoo.com/rowan-atkinson-says-hell-never-retire-mr-bean-120136466.html |access-date=20 February 2025 |work=Yahoo movies|quote=The buffoon-ish Bean is Atkinson’s most famous export, broadcast all around the world to 245 territories, making him an international star.}}</ref>