Sweet Catastrophe

Ya know, I’m not a huge fan of Bill Cosby, and most of the time, I cringe when the Cosby Show comes on, but last night, I watched an episode while waiting for something else to come on, and all the wholesome junk aside, that’s true comedy. There were constantly all these great interactions going on that would crack you up, without any of the actors speaking. For instance, there was a scene where Claire and Cliff are talking about something, no comedy at all in what they were saying, but Cliff had a large hoagie cut in half and they kept going back and forth with Claire trying to take the sandwich, and even went so far as Cliff getting up to get them sodas and shaking up Claire’s. All the while, their conversation continued, and neither of them referred to what was going on with the sandwich, or the sodas.

Maybe it’s just me, but I can really appreciate that kind of humor. I wish there was more of that these days. Now, all we have is spoken humor, with the occasional physical humor (generally based on someone doesn’t something humiliating, like falling or something…) What’s so hard about that?