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MAKE 'EM LAUGH: THE FUNNY BUSINESS OF AMERICA - Slip on a Banana Peel: The Knockabouts

Air Date/Released Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Station/Studio PBS / Ghost Light Films
Host/Star Billy Crystal
Featuring Miscellaneous Appearances

Six-part examination of comedy in America, from the earliest part of the 20th Century to today, featuring comments from comedy writers, performers and authors.

In Episode 3, slapstick comedy from Charlie Chaplin to Jim Carrey is examined and discussed. The Three Stooges are among the performers featured and highlighted with clips from THREE LITTLE PIGSKINS (1934), POP GOES THE EASEL (1935), PARDON MY SCOTCH (1935), DISORDER IN THE COURT (1936), SOCK-A-BYE BABY (1943), DIZZY DETECTIVES (1943), MICRO-PHONIES (1945), BRIDELESS GROOM (1947), HEAVENLY DAZE (1948) and MALICE IN THE PALACE (1949).


Cast (archive footage): Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Jerry Howard, Shemp Howard, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Buster Keaton, Chevy Chase, Jerry Lewis, Dean Martin, Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Billy West, Harold Lloyd, Bert Lahr, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Lucille Ball, Red Skelton, Jim Carrey
Cast: Billy Crystal (Host), Amy Sedaris (Narrator), Steve Cox, Robert Thompson, Leonard Maltin, Dick Van Dyke, Robert Klein, Jerry Lewis, Bill Irwin, Richard Belzer, Michael McKean, Joe Adamson, Patricia Eliot Tobias, Bill Marx, Larry Wilmore, Conan O'Brien, Joe Franklin, Jeffrey Vance, Kaye Ballard, Joan Rivers, Buz Kahan, Garry Marshall, Jay Sandrich, Bill Richmond, Tom Smothers, George Schlatter, Hal Kanter, Steve Martin, Judd Apatow, Jonathan Winters, Tommy Davidson

Crew: Michael Kantor, Sally Rosenthal (Producers), Michael Kantor (Director), Michael Kantor, Laurence Maslon (Writers)
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