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what a road, chasing those trees, that snow, that scenery, that sky. get a load of that bread and butter. hope and crosby movies are very important in the history of comedy because they re the first ones really to explore metacomedy. fine thing. first you sell me for 200 bucks, then i m going marry the princess and you cut in on me. now we re going to have our heads chopped off. i know all that. yeah, but the people who came in the middle of the picture who don t. you mean, they missed my song? i love when they break the fourth wall and turn to the camera and say something to the audience. as a kid, i said i never thought you could do that. as far as i m concerned this picture is over right now. when you break the fourth wall, you re basically inviting the audience in. it s like, these people aren t performing for you, you re hanging out with them. ....
Sassy. you wouldn t know what sassy looks like on me. why don t you eat a bowl of wings? when you can nail the chemistry of two comedians together it s bigger than somebody standing there with a microphone. fat guy in a little coat. it s a symbiotic relationship, because without the perfect straight man feeding the so-called funny man or the stooge, one can t exist without the other. it s like a good tennis match, back and forth, back and forth. if you have two really great players, so much the better. i believe global warming is caused by man. and i believe it s just god hugging us closer. the idea of a comedy team predates the idea of a solo standup comedian. comedy teams now, you re considered an alternative act. oh, hello. it was just a broadway show last year with john mulaney and nick kroll called oh, hello . ....
Soup which shows how preposterous the whole idea of war is. if you re a college student in the 60s, what s better than that? general smith reporting a gas attack. he wants to know what to do. take a tea spoon of soda and half a glass of water. yes, sir. the marx brothers are great example of characters that have all this chemistry. groucho represents an authoritarian figure, but not really. he s got a grease paint mustache, for heaven s sakes. captain spalding, it s a wonderful idea. you do? yes. forget about it. harpo, he s like an alien from a different world that chases women and plays the harp. what is that? and an immigrant, who fleeces people, he twists language all the time? i m columbus, sailing along on a vessel. on his what? not on his what, on his vessel. don t you know what a vessel is? sure, i can vessel. ....
jack lemmon and walter matthau, there s a version of a comedy team that wasn t really a comedy team. once you started with temporary teams, that opened a whole new world. if you wanted to have just two stars, put them together, mix and match. yeah. you would just be excited when you hear that they were doing a movie together because you know that their chemistry was explosive. we seemed to know each other, like an old couple. sometimes you can have two very good actors who don t seem to work together very well, you find two other people and i can t pass for black. who you telling? i didn t say i was going to make you black. i said i was going to get you on the train. we ve got to make them cops think you re black. it will never work. what, are you afraid it won t come off? that s a good joke. that s humorous. when you saw richard pryor and gene wilder, you simply believed it, you just believed ....
Half a pack of cigarettes. it s dark and we re wearing sunglasses. hit it. there is something about that dynamic you don t get from a singular comic voice. just like in life. two people can bring it more power than one person acting on their own. i think we ll just stand here until they fade to black. you don t know why chemistry works. you don t know how to manufacture it. it is just there or it s not. it s just beautiful when it works. i think i have to put in another piece of film. this is off track, but for fun why don t you tell me who is on first. who? what are you asking me? i m not asking you, i m telling you. i m asking you who s on first. that s the man s name. go and tell me. who? the first baseman. when you payoff the first ....