Saturday Morning Slapstick

This blog has profiled 1920's and 1930's comics Harry Sweet, Lloyd Hamilton, Joe Rock's Three Fat Guys series and such Columbia Shorts Department stalwarts as The Three Stooges, Andy Clyde, Leon Errol and Harry Langdon in search of laughs. Now we travel across the pond and leap several decades later to 1980's and 1990's with French & Saunders and The Vicar Of Dibley.Enjoyed the Comic Relief Special 2015 - The Bishop Of Dibley. Dawn French gets this comedy fan thinking of Melissa McCarthy, another amazing physical comedienne, whose six times hosting Saturday Night Live were invariably hilarious.Among the numerous prominent comedy performers from The Groundlings on Saturday Night Live: Melissa and Kristen Wiig. There was a point when SNL, the late 1970's - early 1980's ABC sketch comedy show Fridays and (later) Mad TV were competing for ex-Groundlings. Surprises me that Melissa was not hired to be in the SNL cast. One of my favorite bits from the past quarter century of SNL is the Lulu…