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“It’s just apartment house rules
So all you ‘partment house fools
Remember: one man’s ceiling
Is another man’s floor.”

Splitting the seam on your pants, slipping on a banana peel, and taking a pie in the face — all classic staples of slapstick comedy. Even in the hands of such consummate dialogue comedians as the Marx Brothers or Monty Python, the broad and physical actions prove a powerful additional tool to elicit laughs. Nonetheless, it is not everyone’s cup of tea. The aversion many women have for The Three Stooges may not always be true, but it is accurate often enough that it has become a comedic trope on its own.
There are a lot of different shows popping up in one of the multitudes of delivery systems we have today. This new crop represents not only the differing tastes we all have, but more than ever before, the works reflect the faces and tastes of the complex weave of people who make up this nation. The transition may be awkward — for instance some casting decisions may feel arbitrary (and, indeed, some are), and the subjects may be unlike anything to which you’ve been previously exposed — but in the long run we are all better for it — and if the new fare is not your cup of tea, track down some Laurel and Hardy classics.