Howard Hawks on Bringing Up Baby & Comedy | AFI Movie Club 

The visualisation of humor does double, triple, quadruple, quintuple, quantum quantifies the comedy effect! It trumps up the dialogues and lyrics! The comedy much be visual!

Watching this in anticipation of the Criterion Collection release.

In my understanding it is a very correct notion: the moment of comedy is first of all the visual one. Quite recently I had a good affirmation to that maxim. I attended a comedy play in a theater and it was staging the humorous monologues, sketches. But, alas, without mimics, visual jokouse, pantomiming effects it was good, but not as good as it could have been. Through some episodes I kept on wondering, how would it look, if Mister Bean would perform it, or Danny Boon... On stage humour must be visual! Thank You very much for presenting these thoughts!

With all my reserved attitude towards Japan, I must be admitting, that quite a few of themonologues and stand ups by Shimura Ken, for example, without his mimics would be just the bland text, a piece of printed matter, nothing more than that. And the Shimura Ken's pantomime and voice intonations did create the comedy humor effect on the TV screen.