Try to keep a straight face as we assemble cinema's best scenes involving corpsing
Get your laughing gear around these five examples of characters creasing up at inopportune moments. Which scenes of helpless hilarity would you add to the list?
The Candidate
Robert Redford's presidential hopeful can't help but show his human side. But politics is a serious business, so "grim up" is the advice of spin-meister Peter Boyle. Easier said than done when you've just been tea-bagged by a microphone.
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The Departed
"Don't laugh!" is also very good advice, especially when delivered by Jack Nicholson's fearsome gangster after you've just scuppered his plans. The term "corpsing" could prove all too apt here.
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Kes
State-sanctioned assaults on kids are, of course, no laughing matter, and neither is Bob Bowes' horribly convincing pitbull of a headmaster,...
Get your laughing gear around these five examples of characters creasing up at inopportune moments. Which scenes of helpless hilarity would you add to the list?
The Candidate
Robert Redford's presidential hopeful can't help but show his human side. But politics is a serious business, so "grim up" is the advice of spin-meister Peter Boyle. Easier said than done when you've just been tea-bagged by a microphone.
Reading on mobile? Watch the clip on YouTube
The Departed
"Don't laugh!" is also very good advice, especially when delivered by Jack Nicholson's fearsome gangster after you've just scuppered his plans. The term "corpsing" could prove all too apt here.
Reading on mobile? Watch the clip on YouTube
Kes
State-sanctioned assaults on kids are, of course, no laughing matter, and neither is Bob Bowes' horribly convincing pitbull of a headmaster,...
- 7/17/2013
- The Guardian - Film News
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