Gracie really is a brilliant 'on another planet' funny woman. Love it.
For some people clowning is only possible with a real audience that really has an effect on the performing clown. I understand this argument but I love television/ film clowning too much to let it count. And then again. Burns and Allen are behaving foolish and they are not making a fool of anybody else, they are funny at their own costs, which is for me the very important difference between clown and other forms of humour. For me that's what counts. Clowns are in fact really tragic figures. They show themselves vulnerable, dumb, foolish, naive, etc. so their audiences can feel better about themselves. Ofcourse that's not always easy. Then why do they do it? Maybe because they are tragic figures either way, then better embrace it. Or maybe it's just a desire that can't be explained in any rational way. "What do you want a meaning for? Life's a desire, not a meaning" as Charlie Chaplin says in his beautiful (late) movie "Limelight". Since I like quotations, here's one of George Burns: "I honestly think it's better to be a failure at something you love than to be a success in something you hate". And maybe for a finish let's quote Gracie too: "O I'm not one, my mother has a photo of me where I'm two."
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