Pratfalls

At the same time, the moment-to-moment was always hilarious, artfully flowing from the driest rejoinders to the most over-the-top pratfalls with splendid help from a cast where every single member was or became comedy royalty.

So much of this movie proved instantly iconic, from 's theme music to Closeau's goofy confidence and his plentiful pratfalls.

Ireland welcomed the gigantic distraction that the trailer - featuring Jamie Dornan, Emily Blunt, Jon Hamm and Christopher Walken - offered by going into reaction overdrive to the accents, fashion, accents again, pratfalls and general twee-ness on offer.

Lear mined fraught conversations of the day for pathos and pratfalls, often on spare stages representing his characters’ drab surroundings (give or take a deluxe apartment in the sky).

Similarly, Michael Richards was the focus of a series of advertisements for Vodafone which ran in Australia where he dressed and acted exactly like Kramer, including the trademark bumbling pratfalls.