Marcel Marceau

[The F Bomb]

Not sure if this fits better elsewhere, but I love this guy's work, always a joy to watch. People might thinking it's comedy but I don't primarily find him funny, more dramatic. Here's one of his more famous funnier routines, Bip As A Skater:

If you don't like this, I hope there's something good for you to watch on catch up instead.

[madhair60]

thats what you like is it

[kalowski]

It was the only bit of Kenny Everett I found funny.

[badaids]

I prefer Michael Myers later stuff.

[Shaxberd]

Respect to Marceau for being part of the French Resistance and helping rescue hundreds of people from the Holocaust, but I'm not won over by the routine.

The best mime-adjacent artform is bodypopping. Less storytelling, sure, but I could watch these guys go all day:

[touchingcloth]

Did anyone see Resistance (2020)? I saw a trailer for it in the cinema that showed all of this gunrunning derring do, a bit like Bourne meets Private Ryan, and then it splashed up a title about how it was about Marcel Marceau.

So yeah, resistance fighter Marcel Marceau. Tears of a clown? Armed antifa antics of a clown, more like.

[shoulders]

Macaque from Coffee Friends ☕

[The Dog]

Not sure if this fits better elsewhere, but I love this guy's work, always a joy to watch. People might thinking it's comedy but I don't primarily find him funny, more dramatic. Here's one of his more famous funnier routines, Bip As A Skater:

If you don't like this, I hope there's something good for you to watch on catch up instead.

Can't explain why this make me so angry. Absolutely seething with rage watching it.

[PlanktonSideburns]

[jobotic]

Resistance fighter? He was miming!

Remember when the gestapo locked him in a glass box?

[Gradual Decline]

The Mort Sahl of mime.

[Jasha]

Didn't realise white face was still culturally acceptable

[Pranet]

Having seen that video, I'm now voting Reform at the next election.

[Captain Z]

How does he mine sitting on a pillar like that? That's incredible.

[thenoise]

bodypopping

Love how everyone keeps bodypopping away in the background even when the main popper is doing his thing in the centre. Seen enough tracksuited teenagers doing it with a ghetto blaster and an (empty) hat in front of them in the precinct to be that impressed. But it's certainly bizarre.

I remember liking when David Bowie launched into a little mime number between songs in a live video i watched when I was young (prob just a classic invisible wall gag). Can't imagine sitting through a whole gig of it. It's 'variety' innit?

[Butchers Blind]

Imagine sitting your parents down and telling them you're a mime.

[Vodkafone]

Watching Marcel Marceau while your wheelie bin gets washed out.

[Pavlov`s Dog`s Dad`s Dead]

Imagine sitting your parents down and telling them you're a mime.

Oh, it was tragic. Things were never the same again. It was like an invisible barrier had suddenly grown up between us. Of course, nothing was ever actually said, but it was never the same.

[El Unicornio, mang]

I'd like to go on a date with one of these types just so I can crack out: "your place or mime?"

[Jittlebags]

[Blue Jam]

[wrec]

One night in my teens a load of us were hanging out in the town square with French exchange students, one of whom had a guitar, and we were all singing, a bit late to be doing so in a residential area. A Garda car pulled up and the driver said sternly/snidely, "That's enough of the Marcel Marceau impression". Never knew whether he was confused or being deliberately absurd.

[Dex Sawash]

Watching Marcel Marceau while your wheelie bin gets washed out.

Is this New Bosto? I'm getting slower

[Norton Canes]

I feel like he's missed a trick there. He's got those two blocks, so all he needs to do is support himself on them by his arms - as he's doing on the preview - then pretend to skate by moving his feet through the air beneath him. Then he doesn't have to make out the actual floor is ice. I mean I don't want to be giving Marcel Marceau tips on how to do a mime, but... bit obvious.

[poo]

I don't think there has ever been a truly funny Frenchman. Might be wrong.

[Blue Jam]

I don't think there has ever been a truly funny Frenchman. Might be wrong.

[madhair60]

I don't think there has ever been a truly funny Frenchman. Might be wrong.

the raping skunk?

[Shaxberd]

I don't think there has ever been a truly funny Frenchman. Might be wrong.

Obelix.

[Proactive]

Can't explain why this make me so angry. Absolutely seething with rage watching it.

Absolute fucking dog tod isn't it. Bosto's lost the plot, had his mind bent in half from  excessive  Ikaruga and hot and dry noodle exposure.

[gilbertharding]