Some of the gagmen who fashioned their material were also cartoonists.
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I have noticed on TV that the same handful of gagmen and women are everywhere.
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We greet ministers who can't think of a moral, gagmen who can't think of a joke.
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Over the past few weeks, the Democratic senators, their jesters and gagmen, have said just how sorry he is.
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It's hard to see why Stan and the gagmen were so determined to do it because the results are pretty standard slapstick.
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Efforts to pin down the exact nature of jibe and jest have challenged pundits, professional fools, antic clowns, studious gagmen, comedians of every kind and medium.
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Don't be surprised if not long from now another group of gagmen finds success by poking affectionate fun at spiky hair, nasal vocals and high-speed songs about breaking up.
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Determining to be funny at all times on screen, Lloyd surrounded himself with a crack team of gagmen, who came up with endless comic bits of business for his new character.
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Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law, friends, room-mates and gagmen without fame. But one day, one of the most famous television comics, Gaëtan, who has just laid off two his gagmen considered too old and not original enough, finds himself in the little theater where Paul and François where they produce themselves under the name of "Gagsters". Having come to meet Georges Khorseri, a mate of Paul and François, he assists for the first part at their duet. Seduced by their style, he hires them.
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Lobby card This was the last of Lloyd's features to star Jobyna Ralston, who starred as leading lady in five of his previous films. She would go on to play a supporting part in Wings. Lloyd wanted the film to have more gags than any of his previous features, so around eight writers and gagmen worked on the script. Many of these bits were cut from the finished film, and some were incorporated into Lloyd's subsequent films.
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The > Keystone Cops rode in their police patrol wagon skidding on the soaped > streets. Dressed in ill-fitting New York policemen's uniforms, they hit > fruit stands, popcorn wagons, telephone poles and chicken coops. They took > pratfalls and lifted their knees high as they ran and took corners on one > foot, waving their billy clubs over their heads. They were always called to > restore law and order to some impossible, funny scene hurriedly created by > the wit of Hollywood's comedy gagmen.
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Fellini eventually found work as a cub reporter on the dailies Il Piccolo and Il Popolo di Roma, but quit after a short stint, bored by the local court news assignments. Four months after publishing his first article in Marc’Aurelio, the highly influential biweekly humour magazine, he joined the editorial board, achieving success with a regular column titled But Are You Listening? Described as “the determining moment in Fellini’s life”, the magazine gave him steady employment between 1939 and 1942, when he interacted with writers, gagmen, and scriptwriters. These encounters eventually led to opportunities in show business and cinema.
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