Film Year is hosting a Slapstick Blog-a-Thon between Sept. 7-10, 2007.
"Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton! Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and Mabel Normand [right]! Hal Roach and Mack Sennett! Laurel and Hardy and The Three Stooges! Daffy and Donald! Slip-and-fall and the ol' pie-in-the-face! The Cook (1918), The General (1927), The Gold Rush (1925), Safety Last (1923)…Possibly no other genre gives us more reasons to bust a gut or split our sides with laughter than slipping, tripping, and gripping slapstick. Recent discussions convinced me that there's a huge pile of slap-films that I need to see. Then I thought, why keep 'em all to myself? So, I'm inviting the entire blogosphere to join together September 7-10 and let the world know why slapstick is so flippin' funny!"
Mr. Contrarian — that's yours truly — probably wouldn't be the best contributor to a Slapstick Blog-a-Thon discussion, as I usually find most dramas much funnier than the vast majority of slapstick (and/or silent) comedies. But it's certainly a pretty good idea for fans of the genre.
More on the Slapstick Blog-a-Thon here.
Fatty Arbuckle-Virginia Rappe Trial Q&A
San Francisco Silent Film Festival 2007
Colleen Moore and HER WILD OAT
Lou Costello Mini-Film Festival at Fort Lee
Thank you for spreading the word about the Slapstick Blog-a-Thon, Andre. If you really are Mr. Contrarian, I invite you to share your anti-slapstick opinons with us during the blog-a-thon because we're as interested to read why you dismiss slapstick as much as why many others favor it.
Thanks again for sharing the blog-a-thon with your readers.
Thom