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Classic Film Review: Cleese shows us Classic Comedy can be “Clockwise” (1986)
A person hellbent on maintaining his dignity in the face of everything thrown at him to deny it, and failing, is the essence of comedy. So it was with Keaton, and so it is with Cleese. Somebody said that once. … Continue reading
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