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Updike's contrast between the labored humor of the British "comic novel" (as exemplified by Kingsley Amis) with the natural comedy of Catcher in Rye is sharp on this point.
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Updike: "Compared with...Salinger’s Catcher in the Rye, it lacked not only private psychological intensity but, oddly enough, true comic edge. For there is no need to write 'funny novels,' when life’s actual juxtapositions & convolutions, set down attentively, are comedy enough"
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I loved the scene in the Irishman when Joe Pesci and DeNiro are on the road and have breakfast in the HoJos, discussing which cereal to eat. It's so human and a natural conversation two old buddies might have -- and funny!
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And the humor of that famous Pesci scene is purposeful and destabilizing. Tommy really is a funny guy! And his busting of Henry's balls is both incredibly tense and hilarious!
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But then the rug is pulled as Tommy goes directly to savage violence when the club owner interrupts to cringingly ask about his tab. It's horrifying, and to Henry and the other wiseguys it's the funniest thing they've seen yet!
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"Take the cannoli. Leave the gun." - The Godfather
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David Sedaris is a master of the later though it sometimes feels like the former just based on the number of laughs.
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Same with the Coen brothers. Their overt comedies are cornball slapstick, the really funny stuff is in the incidental comedy of the dramas. It grows out of the characters and who they are, not some goofball situation.
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Even Silence has the Grand Councilor, a guy who is a compelling antagonist played by an actor with impeccable timing and comic subtlety. His constant fussing is mesmerizing to watch.
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Lots of humor in Spielberg's movies, but very few in his one (I think) comedy, 1941.
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