Slapstick

of the world, laughed at Chaplin and Keaton in the silent era, they were also amused by comic actors of their own, from Fernandel and Noël-Noël in the 1930s to Louis de Funès in the 1950s and 1960s. Cinema has provided comedy of every kind, from slapstick to farce and from black to blue, but has always found a place for the gentler forms of humour. It is immediately accessible in the funny-sad films made by Marcel Pagnol in the 1930s, though the most systematic cinema humorist was Jacques Tati. Between