Good physical comedy - no words, all body language. Well done, kid!

1. My online moniker is the first 8 letters of my high school nickname. The whole thing wouldn't fit on the scoreboard of a late 80s pinball high score board.
2. I was mute for a week with strep throat, and still managed to seduce someone using only physical comedy and facial expressions.
3. I've logged 79 of the 110 Messier Objects.
4. I once killed a groundhog because he was a legitimate threat to my food supply.
5. I can do amazing things with a map and compass.
6. I can do something with my tongue that I've never seen another human do. (This is in no way related to #2)
7. Al Gore once beat me in a foot race.
8. I can sing the theme to Land of the Lost.
9. I live closer to a trailhead than a gorcery store.
10. I am the only member of my family to live more than 25 miles away from where I was born.
11. I owe #10 to my time in the US Marines.
12. When someone asks "are there any questions" I almost always ask "What's the atomic weight of beryllium?"
13. When someone tells me the title of a book they're reading, I almost always ask, "did you get to the part where he dies yet?"
14. I can tell time and navigate by looking at the sky.
15. I love fast, upside down, looping rollercoasters, but the merry go round makes me sick.
16. I once filtered and drank mosquito infested muck as an alternative to dehydrating.
17. I bought my first couch at age 41.
18. I've never purchased a car, although I have bartered for many.
19. I once saw a medical professional use a frozen hotdog to insert a condom into a drunk guy's rectum.
20. I owe #19 to my time in the US Marines.
21. To this very day, I still have dreams about the Leonids Meteor Storm I saw in 2001.
22. I can prove the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus.
23. My favorite number is 23.
24. I brew damn fine apple cider.
25. I have seen many amazing things.

I really liked that clip, anything with Tom Hanks is fun. Like when he got hit by a meteor on Conan, he seems to be doing more physical comedy as he gets older.

>> ^ponceleon:
Why is it that British comedians/actors know a lot of stuff, but we have Jeff Foxworthy, Jim Cary, and Elizabeth Hassellback?


Jeff Foxworthy is a not funny idiot, but do you know for a fact that he is not of at least average intelligence? I think Jim CARREY could do fine on a show like this, he's funny enough, although he typically relies on physical comedy a lot.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck is neither an actress nor a comedian.

Just give it time, I'm sure 1 or all of the big US networks are working on a show like this and the other brit clones. If they do though, they will probably get unfunny minor celebrity comedians over actual funny lesser known folks.

Thanks for recommending Shot in the dark, just saw it and liked it A lot of physical comedy of course, but there were a few really well written jokes as well. One could definatly see that this film has inspired later generations of comedy writers.

physical comedy?

"I hate to say it, but The Simpsons writers aren't smart enough anymore to tackle political humour."

They probably just lost the writers that were doing it. I've been boycotting the Simpson's movie ever since it came to my attention that there would be nothing but physical comedy.

There was a time when the Simpson's were railing everyone and everything. It was fucking awesome! That was some of the best television I've ever seen, other than those similarly timed episodes of the Daily Show, whose producers lately must've thought that hiring writers from the Letterman show was a better idea.

Not that this wasn't funny, and not to suggest Atkinson can't be a master of physical comedy, but Victor Borge would have actually played the piece while making all those faces.

@blankfist & gluonium

I've got a bunch of non-American friends, and they didn't think it was that funny. They've chuckled at first and then stopped laughing, same exact reaction I had. To be fair, they were girls.

And you're right about physical comedy being a global thing (i.e. Japanese game shows). But like I said, there's a difference when you're looking at someone who is actually suffering. Not many find it all that humorous, even the Japanese.

Finding humor in someone who is 'suffering' from pain (with tears, etc), is pretty unique to our culture me thinks, unless alcohol is involved.

A god of physical comedy!

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Love it. Japan has the best variety/physical comedy shows.

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I too love this one Joe. Good call. I'm not sure why I love it. It's just a masterpiece of accidental physical comedy.

I've never voted against anything before... thought I'd give that feature a try on this... cartoony physical comedy creeps me out sometimes