Has old fashionned slapstick died?

It can still be found in pantomime.

We are avid Panto fans as are our AC and GC

But the pie and gunge no longer exists?

We still have cream pies in our local pantomime, but it is an amateur performamce, huge fun, no smutty inuendos!

A HA so it does still exist - I was starting to think it was no longer allowed or a thing in a woke society. Growing up, it was always funny

I liked Tiswas - wasn’t Chris Tarrant on that? Sally something and ofcourse Keith Chegwin, who sadly is no longer with us.
Slapstick has now been replaced by Satire. YouTube has a young woman called Philomena Punk - you will have a good laugh at her interviews with famous people.
As I’ve aged, I don’t find slapstick as entertaining.

I’ve never found slapstick funny. It’s OK in pantomime as an art form but other than that it leaves me cold.

merlotgran

I’ve never found slapstick funny. It’s OK in pantomime as an art form but other than that it leaves me cold.

You and me both. Never tickled my funny bone!

Everyone has a different view of what is funny. Personally, I don't usually like "pie in the face" sort of humour but still think Some Mothers do 'Ave 'Em is funny - though it is of course utterly ridiculous.

I like Chris Tarrant and enjoyed his style of humour, especially when he was on Capital Radio.

crazyH

I liked Tiswas - wasn’t Chris Tarrant on that? Sally something and ofcourse Keith Chegwin, who sadly is no longer with us.
Slapstick has now been replaced by Satire. YouTube has a young woman called Philomena Punk - you will have a good laugh at her interviews with famous people.
As I’ve aged, I don’t find slapstick as entertaining.

Have you seen her in Motherland brilliant 😂

Not a fan but there are plenty of reruns of ‘some mother’s do ave ‘em’ and ‘Mr Bean’, which I think are mainly slap stick humour.
My mum loved slapstick and enjoyed Norman Wisdom films for this reason.

I love humour but slapstick leaves me cold.
I’ve watched this video so many times but it’s still leaves me howling with laughter.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpsXNlarAk8

Just didn’t find it funny….

Never found slapstick funny at all, I thought it was just me but seems a few on here share that view with me. I just don’t find it funny, it’s always predictable.

I am another one who finds slapstick boring.

When i was a child Ds and I used to go to these childrens parties organised for a large group of us. They always ended witth laurel and Hardy, Charlie Chaplin films. Ds and I would sit at the back bored stiff and waiting for our parents to collect us.

I prefer wit to humour.

Slapstick was fine in the Silent Film era - a total lack of dialogue meant that communicating the storyline was done 100% visually, and slapstick was laid on with a trowel.

But it really should stay in the past.

Ooh yes, loved TISWAS, it was very naughty ! It was Sally JAMES you wee trying to think of OP !

I liked some modern day slapstick but had to be done by the right people like Rik Mayall , Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer etc .

Tiswasfan82

But the pie and gunge no longer exists?

Sorry, never found that funny really, even as a kid.

Loved Tiswas andSpit the dog. There was also a guy on Tiswas who would constantly bang his head with a tray whilst singing very badly. It was of it's day and I wouldn't find it funny now.

Nothing at all funny about something that causes humiliation to anyone!

No Petra - haven’t watched Motherland

Astitchintime

Nothing at all funny about something that causes humiliation to anyone!

There used to be a horrendous TV programme that was nothing but home videos of people falling over or out of chairs or into water or whatever and it was accompanied by a laughter soundtrack.

Petra, that little girl singing her heart out made me laugh 😂.

I loved Motherland and Amandaland. Waiting for the new series 👍.

Can’t quote you for some reason, Magenta.

I think that was “You’ve been Framed”.

Awful. They also had videos of kids crying after they hurt themselves, which was sick.

Magenta - I think those videos were sent in by the people themselves and they were also paid, I believe. So, they basically asked to be ‘humiliated’