While writing comedy requires a lot of creative and intuitive thought, it is also very difficult for performers to act out the screenplay, especially if physical action is required and even more so when it comes to physical comedy. The above video is again 'Duck Soup' (1993) which shows the famous mirror scene. If the Marx brothers hadn't repeated this sketch over and over again in there vaudeville days, then this sketch would have taken months of training to perfect. This scene truly shows how so much physical training is required to make people laugh. And the Marx Brothers act out this scene so well, that it is one of the greatest scenes of comedy history.
"Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die."
Mel Brooks
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