From research notes for a book to be called 'A Century of Slapstick' 2002 >>From: johnsmithwelsh@aol.com >To: pievictim@hotmail.com >Subject: Pie Guy Fantasies >Date: 13/01/02 21:31:13 GMT Standard Time Dear Pievictim, Your web...

From research notes for a book to be called 'A Century of Slapstick' 1989 - Hello. This is John Smith-Welsh. Thank you for calling. I'm sorry I'm not able to answer my phone right now but leave your name and number and I'll get back to you as soo...

From research notes for a book to be called 'A Century of Slapstick' 1963 Of all the unlikely places to get a break but Dudley! I was topping the bill there in the West Midlands at the old Gaiety for a week. Tuesday night before the second house t...

From research notes for a book to be called 'A Century of Slapstick' 1937 Rainer Blaumann Rue du Comediens, 13 Bruxelles Belgium...

From research notes for a book to be called 'A Century of Slapstick' 1911 - That's him, see, the one on the left. With the cap on, smiling. Looks like the sun's in his eyes. Well, it's sunny out there all the time, isn't it? Now the chap to his r...

'Jonty reckons there's a trick to it,' said Ken. 'To what?' snorted Clive, '- emptying the oil box?' 'Emptying the oil box,' Ken confirmed. 'Jonty says he'll do it. Reckons there's a way.' 'Not possible,' Clive retorted. 'How? Whoever does the job...

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He pulls open my costume at my waist while his other hand steadies the brimming bucket. I know what's coming, though my face has to say, 'Whatever's next?' as he looks around for encouragement. 'Dare me?' A wall of laughter cheers him on. Yet he does...

The man and the boy stood before me in their sodden, dirtied garments. Their faces were smeared with rotten foodstuffs, their hair caked with ash. The boy had begun to shiver. My decision would decide the course of their lives. 'If it please you, my...

Greg Armstrong is teaching - and he's completely naked. A group of first year students are gathered round him, watching, while he takes a shower. He's sluicing off the flour and water paste that had been tipped over him almost an hour previously, and...

'No flinching,' Mark, our tutor, says. At arm's length, one of my fellow students is holding a paper plate, overloaded with goo. I'm about to be hit in the face with a pie. Mark gives me more instructions. 'I don't want to see you blink or scrunch...

- Apologies to all you oche fans, but we're interrupting the darts to take you straight over to The Slapstick Olympics where I've been told something extraordinary is happening. Trevor Greenwood is our commentator at the scene. Trevor - - Thanks, Mi...

By the end of the act, Rory is down to his underpants. On some wacky pretext or other, his chef's white hat, check trousers and t-shirt have either fallen, been ripped away or snatched off him, and for the last manic minutes of his performance he's s...