Zanni equivalent: Mindy Simmons from The Simpsons. The site Laugh Button identifies some of humanity’s favorite slapstick as shticks like “the fall, the slip, the trip, the collide and the double take.” Commedia dell’Arte is shortened from a name which means “the comedy of the craft of comedic improvisation.” Our famous performers today are still practicing this art! In the early days of Commedia dell'Arte, the Zanni mask used in the theatre was a full face mask with a long nose. I think Zanni have always pretty much been present in broad comedies, throughout history. June 25, 2018, 9:24 am, Nerdy July 18, 2018, 2:39 am, Nerdy Nerdy The very famous I Love Lucy chocolate factory scene relies on physical comedy, where Lucy and her best friend Ethel can’t keep up with the speed of the conveyor belt producing the chocolates they are tasked with wrapping, and come up with “creative” ways to try and fix their conundrum. Angry OMG Using physicality to sell the joke, however, goes all the way back to Commedia dell’Arte in about 1550, when Italian troupes literally cataloged and numbered the funny “bits” (tropes) that could be used over and over, without fail, to produce a laugh. These masterful performers would have a hundred stock physical joke scenarios memorized so that they could plug them into a scene improvisationally. In your own opinion, does eating of right food affects the performance of the dancers? Often, he is distracted while on a mission, after hearing the name of a fruit--or after falling asleep. LOVE, by Still have questions? OMG In fact, let’s take the characters from Regular Show, as examples. Most people know what slapstick is. Pratfalls fall under the lazzo category “Acrobatics,” and there is a specific ladder lazzo that involves falling” from a ladder or wall after being shaken off, shot, or gravitationally abandoned” which can include “desperate attempts not to fall,” and “pratfalls over furniture.” See Steve Martin doing pratfalls in his Pink Panther movies, The Jerk, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. LOVE, by Plus, the physical comedy of their height different keeps the silliness going. Angry A famous scene is where they attempt to fix a doorbell, but end up pulling Moe through a wall attached to the electrical wires. The comedic actors of Commedia were usually trickster servants called Zanni, from which we get the English word “zany.”  The Zanni over time were broken down and divided into various subtypes, like the famous Harlequin that goes back as far as the 14th Century. Listening to the crowd in the theatre, it worked! Some other predictable lazzi are “The Chair” being pulled out from under someone or breaking under them; The Laughter and Tears Lazzo where hilarious laughing turns into crying mid-scene; and the Lazzo of the Foreign Language, where a character is forced to pretend to know another language and makes up gibberish in the style of that language they don’t know, while another character translates the language. Martin Short All three doing classic Commedia physical humor together in The Three Amigos, like in this trailer: Think about this: even the most recent Captain America: Civil War movie used the entrance of teenage Spider Man in a brand new suit to produce physical comedy, making him awkward in his newfound skills against his more polished team members. TheatreNerds Here you'll find all collections you've created before. He is known for creating the frustration that the Brighella will be feeling. Nerdy Melissa McCarthy is a genius of physical comedy and improvisation in such films as Spy, Tammy, The Heat, Identity Thief and Bridesmaids, as well as her recently wrapped TV series Mike & Molly. :). If you’re a theatre student, a relatively famous resource to learn more is The Physical Comedy Handbook by Davis Robinson, (1999) which breaks down physical comedy into different forms and techniques, and guides readers through “how to” exercises to help anyone develop their sense of comedy and play. Kailey Hansen LOL Popular The Zanni are... Zanni (the name is where we get our word "zany") is a servant character who serves either Pantalone, Dottore, or Capitano. There’s also a scene in Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls where he helps an African woman give birth by simply pushing on her belly as in CPR, “popping” the baby out and across the room into its father’s arms, umbilical cord still attached. 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