when i be only six and my mother and father send my older brother totake me to watch the olson and johnson routine at a new yorkcity nightclub call the carnival . i have be aware of theantics of the three stooge and laurel and hardy and abbott andcostello and but now i could see first hand the live slapstick ofinvolved comedy . the film crazy house be a perfect example of keep the wild artof update slapstick alive on film . it be an update of the piethrowing of early silents and the progression from charlie chaplinto charlie chase . this film even have small role for all the lesserknown comic of that era . their role in this movie be much thesame a the bit insert into it a mad and mad and mad and mad world . for those a little bit young than myself and this film would be calledthe progenitor of rowan and martin laugh in and a tv series that ranfrom 1968 1973. all i can say be and if you want to see the visualization of one liner aspresented in the 1940 try and get to see this film . in the shortwhile and watch laugh in rerun and prep yourself for a look backinto comedy history .