JACK HULBERT AND DONALD DUCK
"■We can't compete with Donald Duck for iknockabout effects," Jack Hulbert, united iu a film again with Cicely Courtneidge for • ' Take My Tip," new G.B. comedy, gave his views on bumour. ' ' What was funny yesterday is not so to-day," says Jack. "The film cartoon3 are making things harder for us comcdians. In the past, I could walk down the street on the screen, slip on a banana skin and crash down on the pavement. That would make people laugh. Nowadays Donald Duck can slip on a banana skin, shoot a 100 feet in the air, ricochet against a chimney pot, explode into pieces, plunge down to earth, gather himself together again and fctroll off without a murmur. How can I compete against that? "Nowadays the greatest humour of all is in life itself. Comic situations don't have to be manufactured in tho old slapstick style to get laughs. All our material is waiting for us in every day affairs. In our " new comedy Cicely and I progress towards this new style of humour. The story, which tells of a butler who gives his ex-master and mistress the job of running a hotel for him, is not so improbable as some of my other films. We shall make our humour out of the things that could happen to anyone in everyday life."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 65, 3 April 1937, Page 13
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