Harry and Walter Go to New York Harry and Walter Go to New York Harry and Walter Go to New York is a 1976 American period comedy film written by John Byrum and Robert Kaufman, directed by Mark Rydell, and starring James Caan, Elliott Gould, Michael Caine, Diane Keaton, Charles Durning and Lesley Ann Warren. In the film, two down-on-their-luck con men try to pull off the biggest heist ever seen in late nineteenth century New York. They are opposed by the greatest bank robber of the day, and by a crusading newspaper editor. Harry Dighby (Caan) and Walter Hill (Gould) are struggling vaudevillians who are sent
Inherently funny word a joke." Inherently funny word Certain words have been suggested to be inherently funny. Vaudeville tradition holds that words with the letter "k" are funny. A 2015 study at the University of Alberta suggested that the humor of certain nonsense words can be explained by whether they seem rude, and by the property of entropy – the improbability of certain letters being used together in a word. The philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer posited that humor is a product of one's expectations being violated. (Realisation) Vaudeville words can be found in Neil Simon's 1972 play "The Sunshine Boys", in which an aging