29th June 2007, 1:55 PM
Quote:I've heard that Dr. Strangelove is also a great old comedy, but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.
You should really watch it as soon as possible. Most of the comedy is due to the genius of Peter Sellers, but you've got to give props to Stanley Kubrick too. I mean, a comedy about global nuclear annihilation at the height of the Cold War? That's pure genius.
Quote:I think that comedy, like technology, improves as mankind advances. Everything from the 50's is undeveloped primordial soup of comedy, a template from which today's great works can emerge
And yet, what were some of the funniest shows that were on TV when we grew up? They were the great works of Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, Bob Clampett, and Friz Freleng. Most of which were made from 1930 to 1960.
Sometimes you get the scorpion.